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The targeted egg cartons were sold in 25 Costco stores in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee beginning Nov. 22.

Even if he doesn’t serve time, I’d like to think he’ll never hold an elected office ever again now at least

The committee said it did not find sufficient evidence Gaetz violated the federal sex trafficking statute because although he transported women across state lines for the purpose of sex, those women were all 18 or older at the time.

What exactly is the purpose of that federal sex trafficking law if it doesn’t apply in this case!?

Phil looking fly in that fez and jacket combo

The horrors of working class people being paid a slightly less unlivable wage would be unimaginable

I worked retail at a discount clothing store and my experience was that the type of customers who needed to save money on clothes were often very stressed out by their financial situation and took it out on the staff (at least that’s my most charitable interpretation)

I actually just had this happen to me irl. My old office was colloquially referred to as “The Dungeon” bc it was in the basement of an old dark campus building and to get there you had to take a somewhat circuitous path. I pleaded with my boss to move us to a new space with windows.

A few years later, we were able to move into a new suite in a different building with the rest of my department. Our new office even has windows! Except they’re interior windows that face out into other surrounding rooms, instead of exterior windows bringing in natural light which unfortunately I didn’t specifically mention in my wish. 😂

So they fall into a water-logged end portal (negating the fall damage) but why do they immediately teleport back to the overworld instead of onto the end platform? Mods?

And then they released Stage Manager to assist with this 🤣 it is horrible, don’t get why anyone would use it

As a former elementary school teacher, I fully agree. IXL is decent for skill reinforcement but falls short when it comes to teaching new content and principles. It turns out most students benefit from learning in a group where another student might not get the content initially and ask clarifying questions and have the teacher repeat, rephrase, and reteach. Or classmates work in pairs or small groups and teach each other, for example. IXL was great for practice and did allow the teacher additional flexibility to work with students who needed more help or a more personalized approach, but I would not want my students to exclusively use it.

Took me 30 years but I finally learned this lesson

Not only is Spotify padding their library with AI-generated crap, they’re cashing out now before people find out and take action. According to the article and its sources, Daniel Ek sold shares worth ~$348.3 Million dollars in just this year alone. Remember he’s the CEO who caused a backlash earlier this year for saying the cost of producing music as an artist was almost zero. Now we know why - because he truly thinks using generative AI to make music produces just as good music as that of real artists - when it comes to lining his pocketbook, that is.

Daniel Craig’s Casino Royale was so good because it did something new; it flipped the series on its head and that was a refreshing change of pace. Realistically gritty action thrillers have dominated the genre ever since. Diluting that with Marvel-esque writing or generic spin-offs would be such a letdown.

I’m not sure what I want next from the Bond franchise, but a Marvel influence is definitely not it.

Have you played B4B? I just learned about it from your comment but it looks good!

Earned an IT cert and went on a first date (haven’t gone on a date in 7 years). Registered as a wedding officiant so I can officiate my sister’s wedding next summer. Earned platinum trophies for Dark Souls: Remastered and Vampire Survivors on my Steam Deck OLED.

Nice to finally officially confirm what we all already knew to be true!

Lmao that chair is hanging on for dear life 😂

As bad as SNL seems to have gotten, there was a funny throwaway line from Michael Longfellow in a sketch last Saturday. The sketch starts with him as a waiter and he says “I’ll be back with some menus when I feel like it.”

BDE-209, aka decabromodiphenyl ether or deca-BDE, was a dominant component of TV and computer housings before it was banned by the European Union in 2006 and some US states in 2007. China only began restricting BDE-209 in 2023. The flame retardant is linked to carcinogenicity, endocrine disruption, neurotoxicity, and reproductive harm.

So BDE-209 can cause reproductive harm; might exposure to it be one partial cause of the dropping global fertility rates?