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English-Speaking Nations Are Sadder Than Ever & USPS is Running Out of Cash

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Good morning Brew Daily Show, I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, why are English-speaking countries so unhappy? Then the US Postal Service is running out of cash. It's Friday, March 20th. Let's ride. Good morning, happy Friday and welcome to the first day of spring. Get out there and go for a jog. Well, unless you're on an aircraft carrier trying to stay out of sight.

Yesterday, LeMond reported that a French naval officer exposed the location of the Charles de Gaulle when he logged a 36-minute workout on Strava, alerting the public of the ship's whereabouts in the Mediterranean. Toby, this is not the first time someone's revealed the location of a sensitive location on Strava, but they never seem to learn. The allure of posting your workout on Strava is just too strong. I, for one, am just happy he's getting a run in, especially when you're cooped up on an aircraft carrier. Let's dive into these Strava stats.

Distance run, 4.49 miles. So this wasn't just a quick jaunt. Moving time, 35 minutes, 58 seconds. That is good for an eight-minute-per-mile pace. Elevation gain, 6.6 feet. Must have been a calm day on the seas. And he burnt 535 calories. I do empathize with him, though. If you don't post it on Strava, if you don't get those kudos, then the run never happened.

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Too much scrolling time appears to be taking a sledgehammer to young people's well-being in English-speaking countries and in Western Europe. The Happiness Report, conducted each year by Oxford's Wellbeing Center, Gallup, and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, said that among under-25s in English-speaking and Western European countries, life evaluation scores have dropped by almost one point over the last decade on a scale of 1 to 10. They also found that teenage girls are most at risk from social media fueled unhappiness.

15-year-old girls who use social media for five hours or more a day reported a drop in life satisfaction compared to those who use it less. It's contributed to a p...

English-Speaking Nations Are Sadder Than Ever & USPS is Running Out of Cash

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