Casual friendships are dying out — and we're all worse off for it

Tech Insider : Economy
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Casual friendships are key to our emotional lives, but these "fringe friends" are slowly disappearing.

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Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.

America's Zoomtowns are suffering from some nasty growing pains

Tech Insider : Economy
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America's midsize cities exploded over the past few years. Now residents, new and old, are fighting over housing, traffic, and local culture.

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America's new gender war

Tech Insider : Politics
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Young women are becoming more liberal while young men are turning to the right. It all started with #MeToo.

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They're getting ready for the downfall of America. Just don't call them preppers.

Tech Insider : Economy, Politics
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Residents of Riverbed Ranch are building their own small town from scratch. The goal? Survive if America collapses.

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Gen Z and millennials should be thanking boomers, not bashing them

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For all the flak the older generation gets, baby boomers have left millennials and Gen Z with a better and richer America.

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The year of the revenge profit

Tech Insider : Economy
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Taylor Rue turned a public shaming into a paycheck.

Remote work stifles innovation, a massive new study finds

Tech Insider : Economy, Technology
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Before the pandemic, most managers assumed that working from home was a productivity killer. Without the discipline of an office, they thought, employees would lounge around in their pajamas, binge Netflix, and get nothing done.

Transforming Business

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Women were promised thousands of dollars to cancel their abortions. The group they trusted didn't always pay up.

Tech Insider : Politics
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Tara couldn't afford to keep the baby.

It was fall 2021, and she and her husband were "totally broke and really struggling," she said.

Generative AI is transforming businesses everywhere. Big Tech will still be crowned the winner.

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