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Submitted at 09-14-2023, 01:55 AM by sleeppoor | |
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Researchers say the animal, which was found in Brazil, looked like the two species, but behaved in a strange way akin to both | |
Submitted at 09-14-2023, 01:50 AM by sleeppoor | |
Sean Penn is speaking out over Will Smith’s Oscars slap and Hollywood’s response to it.
“I don’t know Will Smith. I met him once. He seemed very nice when I met him. He was so fucking good in ‘King Richard,'” Penn said in a recent Variety cover story. “So why the fuck did you just spit on yourself and everybody else with this stupid fucking thing? Why did I go to fucking jail for what you just did? And you’re still sitting there? Why are you guys standing and applauding his worst moment as a person?” (Penn spent 33 days in jail in 1987 for punching a man.) | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 11:00 PM by Grief Bacon | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 07:39 PM by Qfwfq | |
Who or what is to blame for Elon Musk? Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search of an answer. | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 05:38 PM by a murder of lawyers | |
Coffee City (pop. 250) leaders voted unanimously to fire Chief of Police JohnJay Portillo and to deactivate the entire department (50 officers) until a new chief could be hired. | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 05:00 PM by Disruptive Emotional-Support Pig | |
As child poverty increases and child-care funding expires, the status of children says much about our political priorities.
When the U.S. Census Bureau released its updated Supplemental Poverty Measure on Tuesday, it showed that child poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. Record inflation was a major reason but perhaps not the largest. When Congress allowed the expanded Child Tax Credit to expire, that was “particularly damaging to child poverty,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
More damage is coming. On September 30, expanded funding for child care provided by the American Rescue Plan Act will expire. Without swift intervention, 3.2 million children “could lose their child-care spots,” the Century Foundation reported in June. Some 70,000 child-care programs will probably close, leaving parents and children with fewer options for quality care. Parents will have to reduce their work hours or leave the workforce altogether, which will cost them about $9 billion in lost earnings, the report added.
The people we have elected could make different choices, and sometimes they have. Amid the death and grief inflicted by COVID, we glimpsed more humane possibilities. Stimulus payments helped keep families afloat, and the expanded Child Tax Credit drove a sharp reduction in child poverty. Child-care funding propped up a vital sector, keeping workers employed and children in care. But these measures were temporary, which might have prevented the formation of a constituency for them. Perhaps more meaningfully, they had powerful enemies. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, reportedly believed parents would use Child Tax Credit payments on drugs. He later killed an attempt to extend the program, and children are suffering for it. Republicans, meanwhile, have nothing better to offer. They too oppose a permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit. | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 04:24 PM by sleeppoor | |
It took two public “trials,” faked documents, and plenty of embarrassment, but it seems American neo-Nazis are done with the“Boneface hype.”
With his face covered in tattoos that give him the look of Marvel comic book character Red Skull, Kent “Boneface” McLellan is a hard man to miss, and was recently heavily featured in the national U.S. media as he became the face of a neo-Nazi rally in Florida. McLellan has been active for years in the American far-right scene but over the last year, he vaulted to the forefront of the U.S. neo-Nazi movement as his fellow racists swooned over his wild stories about fighting with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, an infamous fighting group with neo-Nazi ties.
But when he was asked to speak Ukrainian things fell apart. The neo-Nazi said he knew how to speak it and attempted to get some sentances out but, according to a person listening who knows Ukrainian, he was just saying random words and making vaguely Slavic noises. | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 04:18 PM by sleeppoor | |
Is the Mario Tennis Star an athletic genius or the most annoying character on Earth? | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 10:49 AM by Mordant | |
The universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 10:43 AM by DamnHead | |
Unity's new "Runtime Fee" will kick in after developers cross specific revenue and install thresholds. | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 02:28 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 09-13-2023, 02:26 AM by Mordant | |
To staff their agricultural properties, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and other tycoons are using a controversial visa program linked to labor abuses and human trafficking. | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 08:59 PM by sleeppoor | |
If the FDA follows through on the panel’s recommendations, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer and other drugmakers could be required to pull their oral medications containing phenylephrine from store shelves. | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 07:56 PM by sleeppoor | |
Authorities confirmed that 69 adult crocodiles and 6 juveniles had gone missing from a commercial farm in the southern province of Guangdong after a rainstorm. | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 07:42 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 06:29 PM by nocash | |
The author explains how the concept of the doppelgänger can help us understand our uncanny political moment, where “millions of people have given themselves over to fantasy.” | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 06:28 PM by nocash | |
Like the spies themselves, the image we have of something is often what gets us in trouble. | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 06:27 PM by nocash | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 05:32 PM by SCarterE | |
Submitted at 09-12-2023, 04:59 PM by sleeppoor | |

Researchers say the animal, which was found in Brazil, looked like the two species, but behaved in a strange way akin to both
Sean Penn is speaking out over Will Smith’s Oscars slap and Hollywood’s response to it.
“I don’t know Will Smith. I met him once. He seemed very nice when I met him. He was so fucking good in ‘King Richard,'” Penn said in a recent Variety cover story. “So why the fuck did you just spit on yourself and everybody else with this stupid fucking thing? Why did I go to fucking jail for what you just did? And you’re still sitting there? Why are you guys standing and applauding his worst moment as a person?” (Penn spent 33 days in jail in 1987 for punching a man.)
Who or what is to blame for Elon Musk? Famed biographer of intellectually muscular men Walter Isaacson’s dull, insight-free doorstop of a book casts a wide but porous net in search of an answer.
Coffee City (pop. 250) leaders voted unanimously to fire Chief of Police JohnJay Portillo and to deactivate the entire department (50 officers) until a new chief could be hired.
As child poverty increases and child-care funding expires, the status of children says much about our political priorities.
When the U.S. Census Bureau released its updated Supplemental Poverty Measure on Tuesday, it showed that child poverty more than doubled from 2021 to 2022. Record inflation was a major reason but perhaps not the largest. When Congress allowed the expanded Child Tax Credit to expire, that was “particularly damaging to child poverty,” according to the Economic Policy Institute.
More damage is coming. On September 30, expanded funding for child care provided by the American Rescue Plan Act will expire. Without swift intervention, 3.2 million children “could lose their child-care spots,” the Century Foundation reported in June. Some 70,000 child-care programs will probably close, leaving parents and children with fewer options for quality care. Parents will have to reduce their work hours or leave the workforce altogether, which will cost them about $9 billion in lost earnings, the report added.
The people we have elected could make different choices, and sometimes they have. Amid the death and grief inflicted by COVID, we glimpsed more humane possibilities. Stimulus payments helped keep families afloat, and the expanded Child Tax Credit drove a sharp reduction in child poverty. Child-care funding propped up a vital sector, keeping workers employed and children in care. But these measures were temporary, which might have prevented the formation of a constituency for them. Perhaps more meaningfully, they had powerful enemies. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, reportedly believed parents would use Child Tax Credit payments on drugs. He later killed an attempt to extend the program, and children are suffering for it. Republicans, meanwhile, have nothing better to offer. They too oppose a permanent expansion of the Child Tax Credit.
It took two public “trials,” faked documents, and plenty of embarrassment, but it seems American neo-Nazis are done with the“Boneface hype.”
With his face covered in tattoos that give him the look of Marvel comic book character Red Skull, Kent “Boneface” McLellan is a hard man to miss, and was recently heavily featured in the national U.S. media as he became the face of a neo-Nazi rally in Florida. McLellan has been active for years in the American far-right scene but over the last year, he vaulted to the forefront of the U.S. neo-Nazi movement as his fellow racists swooned over his wild stories about fighting with the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, an infamous fighting group with neo-Nazi ties.
But when he was asked to speak Ukrainian things fell apart. The neo-Nazi said he knew how to speak it and attempted to get some sentances out but, according to a person listening who knows Ukrainian, he was just saying random words and making vaguely Slavic noises.
Is the Mario Tennis Star an athletic genius or the most annoying character on Earth?
The universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say.
Unity's new "Runtime Fee" will kick in after developers cross specific revenue and install thresholds.
To staff their agricultural properties, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and other tycoons are using a controversial visa program linked to labor abuses and human trafficking.
If the FDA follows through on the panel’s recommendations, Johnson & Johnson, Bayer and other drugmakers could be required to pull their oral medications containing phenylephrine from store shelves.
Authorities confirmed that 69 adult crocodiles and 6 juveniles had gone missing from a commercial farm in the southern province of Guangdong after a rainstorm.
The author explains how the concept of the doppelgänger can help us understand our uncanny political moment, where “millions of people have given themselves over to fantasy.”
Like the spies themselves, the image we have of something is often what gets us in trouble.