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Our most important news organizations operate according to a business model that singularly values affluent customers. And that affects everything they do.Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)
Attached: 1 image When I disparage Culture War politics people ask what is the alternative? Does it mean “throwing under the bus” women and racial and sexual minorities? No.kolektiva.social
Far from an ideologue, Luigi Mangione seems more akin to an average swing voter: holding a hodgepodge of political views yet resolutely enraged by the barbarities of a for-profit health care system.jacobin.com
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The rate increased 0.3% from the previous month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.Just the News staff (Just The News)
The East Coast is experiencing a whiplash-inducing stretch of winter weather. That's due in part to an atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone.PATRICK WHITTLE (AP News)
Many bodies have been found in Syrian detention centers and prisons since President Bashar al-Assad's government fell.HUSSEIN MALLA (AP News)
National defense would see a 1% increase in spending this fiscal year under a Pentagon policy bill that provides for a double-digit pay raise for about half of the enlisted service members in the military.KEVIN FREKING (AP News)
Google on Wednesday unleashed another wave of artificial intelligence designed to tackle more of the work and thinking done by humans as it tries to stay on technology’s cutting edge while also trying to fend off regulatory threats to it internet emp…MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP News)
The Wellness Co.
Is Disease X the Deep State's Contingency Plan?
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, in an area known to lack access to basic healthcare, a mysterious illness has already claimed 143 lives, mostly children, and made over 400 people sick(1). Officials are fumbling in the dark, unsure if it’s a single disease or a cocktail of deadly pathogens like malaria, dengue, or pneumonia.
Sound familiar?
Let’s not kid ourselves. If this escalates, governments and global health bureaucracies will be as slow, incompetent, and self-serving as they’ve been in every other crisis. When Disease X (or whatever they decide to call it) hits, they’ll tell us to stay calm and trust them. Meanwhile, supply chains will collapse, hospitals will overflow, and panic will rule the day.
Remember: chaos is the goal.
If you want to glimpse into a world without modern medicine, just pick up a Victorian book. In the first half of the 19th century, between 40% and 50% of children in the U.S. didn't live past the age of five. Kids were dying of diseases that are now preventable by vaccination, treatable with antibiotics, or out of the picture thanks to better sanitation, as well as from consuming unpasteurized milk or contaminated foods. @TheConversationUS looks at how this shows up in classic fiction, periodicals and personal writing. "These Victorian stories commemorate a profound, culturally shared grief. To dismiss them as old-fashioned is to assume they are outdated because of the passage of time. But the collective pain of a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort," writes Andrea Kaston Tange, a professor of English.
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Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.The Conversation
And the cheating goes on and on....
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Code Red in Orange County, California where RAMPANT CHEATING has been uncovered!!! Believe it or not razor-thin races in CA’s 45th, 47th, and 49th districts are STILL being counted, and could flip RED!
Snitch ain't getting shitUnsurprising that police tip rewards are in fact a scam that require jumping through all manner of hoops to collect. All the more reason to not snitch.
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Bizarre reason why McDonald's worker might not receive $60,000 reward for identifying Luigi Mangione
Luigi Mangione was arrested at the fast-food restaurant in Pennsylvania after a tip-off from an employeeOlivia Bridge (UNILAD)
we're so used to the right to _not_ buy things that we've missed the point where capitalism has learned a clever way to bypass it.
«free» services.
we _are_ paying for «free» youtube, google search, facebook, tiktok, etc., etc., etc. we just can't be bothered to learn about how, when, how much, and so we opt to not care about it.
by accepting this, we've effectively ceded our right to not buy. especially since formally we can still opt out, or miss out.
A fiery but mostly peaceful ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.Daniel Greenfield (Frontpage Mag)
After trying Barefoot style shoes (which usually have much wider than normal toeboxes) I can never go back.
Vivobarefoot shoes are expensive, but pretty high quality and have a great toebox.
Freet are more affordable and often made of recycled material, but some of their designs can be slightly odd looking. They hold up well though, very nice quality from the reviews I've seen. They're made in the UK, I believe.
Splay shoes offer what is essentially wide toebox vans.
There's tons more though. I'd recommend Anya's Reviews to narrow down what suits you best, she's pretty legit in her info from what I've seen.
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Anya's ReviewsTrue, forgot about them! Only issue with Lems (or at least their boots) is their construction doesn't lend itself super well to resole-ing (though neither do Vivo's, really), though I have heard of cobblers doing it by grinding down the existing sole and gluing on a replacement.
The Jim Green Barefoot African Ranger is constructed like a traditional boot, so is easily resoled by any cobbler, but I had to send mine back since they weren't wide enough for me (they seem to be on the more narrow end of 'barefoot' style boots).
But for how affordable lems are, they're a solid choice.
I have haix, but have to get their boots in extra wide since they run more narrow.
I love their sneaker style composite toe though. Huge toe box that never feels tight.