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📈 first Derivative [126]
"If 'you can just do things', the dark corollary to that is that 'you can just shoot people'."
 • Teddy Kim
📈 first Derivative [125]
"the United Kingdom is planning to lower the voting age to 16."
 • Teddy Kim
📈 first Derivative [124]
"If the Islamic regime does fall at some point, then we shouldn’t expect a liberal pro-western government to emerge"
 • Teddy Kim
📈 first Derivative [123]
"Waymo rides are over 25% of all rideshares in San Francisco, surpassing Lyft."
 • Teddy Kim
📈 first Derivative [122]
People bet $30 million on Polymarket trying to predict the next pope and almost everyone got it wrong
 • Teddy Kim
📈 first Derivative [121]
"this time, India 'has crossed two significant thresholds in its military action' by hitting a large number of sites in Pakistan and striking the…
 • Teddy Kim
14:03
📈 first Derivative [120]
"Nearly one in 10 adults in the United States identifies as L.G.B.T.Q"
 • Teddy Kim
18:06
📈 first Derivative [119]
“Christianity’s decline in U.S. appears to have halted”
 • Teddy Kim
📈 first Derivative [118]
"I won’t be surprised if future historians consider our times as the early phases of the next global war"
 • Teddy Kim
📈 first Derivative [117]
"After decades of rising, the US obesity rate may have peaked in 2023 thanks to Ozempic"
 • Teddy Kim
9:02
📈 first Derivative [116]
Wegovy users were 33% less likely to die from COVID... "the protective effect occurred immediately"
 • Teddy Kim
5:56
📈 first Derivative [115]
“destroying Hamas in Gaza is unachievable”
 • Teddy Kim
11:59
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