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Science says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later?
schools are largely daycare facilities for the low/middle income brackets.
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Minneapolis mayor calls remote workers ‘losers’ who sit at home with a ‘nasty cat blanket, diddling on their laptop’
minneapolis mayor can foresee the coming commercial real-estate bubble collapsing - they must get a lot of tax dollars from businesses
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‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
it's not really difficult to recycle plastics (depolymerisation) - but it's not cheap to do it at scale and there really isnt any way to profit from it, so it's just not done.
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Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border in Texas Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’
the major downside of increased access to communications technology is the nutters and crazy people more easily congregate...
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Orcas Pummel Boat After Crew Tries To Deter Them With Heavy Metal Music
boat not designed to moshpit with whales....
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As price of olive oil soars, chainsaw-wielding thieves target Mediterranean’s century-old trees
that's not how you make olive oil
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'Retirement isn't that easy': 3 people on working into their 90s and 100s
if you're working, you havent really "retired"
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Renting alone is too expensive for Gen Z
gen x here - I had roommates for 15 years or thereabouts after college, and when I finally made it out on my own it was in really shit apartment after ghetto af apartment.
it's not just a gen z issue
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This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. If You Fight Your Ticket, the Mayor Is Your Judge.
the most expedient solution would be to drive nowhere near Fenton, LA
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Will Linux on Itanium be saved? Absolutely not
hoohoo! Linus pulled a scream test and then forced the naysayers to maintain the crap they want. rofl
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‘Astounding’: Alabama woman with two uteruses is pregnant in both wombs
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her father and brother should be able to handle it...
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After searing inflation, "American workers are getting ahead," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says
must be weird to be so divorced from reality....
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COVID-19 now increasing again, especially in Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, CDC says
it's the new flu. the old flu is still a thing, of course. covid is here to stay & it'll be a yearly thing for a long time to come.
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Drug lords hunt corrupt police officers who stole shipment in Tijuana
stealing from the cartel? that's a paddlin
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‘Stop the price-gouging’: Biden hits corporations over high consumer costs
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that was basically it. short of siccing the irs on them there's not a lot the executive branch can do about it... of course that'd kill the golden goose named "campaign contributions", so it wont happen
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Italy bans lab-grown meat in nod to farmers
it just means that Italy will be woefully behind and will have to import quite a bit in a few decades when someone cracks the vat grown meat problem & its crazy cheap everywhere else.
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Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity
is it still an abortion if the fetus died?
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Teen Rape Survivor Chased, Hacked To Death By Accused, His Brother in front of crowd.
please dont be UP, please dont be UP - checks article. it's UP.
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China is merging hundreds of small banks to fend off financial stress
more evergrande fallout or something else?
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Spam calls and texts are driving me fing crazy anyone have suggestions?
so, your mileage may vary but here's what I do:
- people I want to talk to are in my contacts list
- I ignore all other incoming calls
- voicemail is a filter. use it.