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Current Event aj0690Goya Foods boycott takes off after its CEO praises Trump
The hashtag #Goyaway was trending on social media Friday after Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods, appeared in the White House Rose Garden Thursday afternoon and praised President Donald Trump. "We are all truly blessed ... to have a leader like President Trump who is a builder," Unanue said during the Rose Garden speech. "We have an incredible builder, and we pray. We pray for our leadership, our president."
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Norway has switched to electric cars. And in their cities you can breathe cleaner air than ever
Norway is the only country on the planet where the electric car is more realistic. About 40% of new vehicles registered last year were electric, and the percentage could soon exceed 60%. Its success stems from various factors, ranging from tax exemptions to the unique economic buoyancy of its citizens. In any case, its consequences are palpable: breathing in Norway is today healthier than ever.
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Alabama man arrives in Minneapolis after walking 1,000+ miles in honor of George Floyd
An Alabama man's journey to Minneapolis is nearly complete. Terry Willis has been walking from Alabama to 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, the spot where George Floyd died in police custody. "This has been a long long long journey," said Willis Saturday afternoon as he arrived at the Clientele Barbershop in north Minneapolis.
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3 days ago
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The U.S. Army Twitch Channel Is Banning People for Asking About War Crimes
During the stream, the Green Beret on camera characterized viewers asking about U.S. atrocities as "internet keyboard monsters" and said, "I'm bigger than you." The American military is getting big into esports. The U.S. Army has launched its own Twitch channel where members of its team stream Call of Duty: Warzone and interact with users on the site. The channel has videos going back two months, but things got spicy in the chat on Wednesday night when viewers started as...
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Everyone wearing face masks could save America from a $1 trillion GDP loss
Wearing a mask doesn't just save lives, it can also help people save money. If the United States were to mandate that all Americans wear masks, it would save the country from deleterious economic lockdowns that would reduce the gross domestic product by 5%, or about $1 trillion, according to an analysis by Goldman Sachs.
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Kuo: New Apple Silicon Macs will include redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro in 2021
Ming-Chi Kuo previously said that the first ARM Mac would be a 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and ship before the end of the year, notably before Apple announced the two year transition timeline on the WWDC stage. Today, he follows up with a deeper outlook for the MacBook line as Apple moves from Intel CPUs to custom chips of its own design.
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6 days ago
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Fuck Ajit Pai
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8 days ago
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A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls
In 1996 John Perry Barlow, cofounder of internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote “A declaration of the independence of cyberspace.” It begins: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the…
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Record jobs gain of 4.8 million in June smashes expectations; unemployment rate falls to 11.1%
Nonfarm payrolls soared by 4.8 million in June and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1% as the U.S. continued its reopening from the coronavirus pandemic, the Labor Department said Thursday. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting a 2.9 million increase and a jobless rate of 12.4%. The report was released a day earlier than usual due to the July Fourth holiday.
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11 days ago
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‘It’s a success’: Pangolins return to a region where they were once extinct
Pangolins have been locally extinct in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province for the last 30 or 40 years, experts say. But now, local conservationists are working to slowly reintroduce these shy, sensitive animals in a world-first effort to reinstate wild populations.
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12 days ago
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House Democrats just put out the most detailed climate plan in US political history
In 2007, shortly after Democrats took back the House of Representatives in the 2006 midterm elections, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, meant to gather expert testimony and develop policy plans to address climate change. Until Republicans killed it in 2011, the select committee amassed an enormous body of knowledge, which it contributed to the 2007 energy bill, the 2009 Obama stimulus bill, and the ill-fated Waxman-Markey cl...
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Companies joining the Facebook ad boycott risk their bottom lines to take a stand
Facebook is a massively efficient channel for many businesses, and experts say cutting out the platform can be a major sacrifice, especially those that rely on it to bring in new customers. That makes joining the boycott a difficult question for some businesses.
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2 weeks ago
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The World Destroyer in Your Shampoo
Palm oil is an environmental scourge. Plant biology has a solution.
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2 weeks ago
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Mark Zuckerberg has $7 billion wiped off his fortune as Coca-Cola halts all social media advertising for 30 days
A boycott of Facebook by major advertisers is hammering the social media giant's stock price and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's personal fortune. Zuckerberg's net wealth is down by $7.21 billion as of Saturday, while Facebook's share price dropped more than 8% at the close of Friday trading, as the ad boycott snowballs.
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2 weeks ago
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Segway will stop making its iconic self-balancing scooter
Segway is ending production of its definitive PT transporter on July 15th.
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3 weeks ago
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Northern Ireland records no new coronavirus cases for first time since lockdown
Northern Ireland has reported no new confirmed cases of coronavirus for the first time since lockdown. The department of health said there were no positive results out of the 995 tests analysed in their laboratories on Friday, meaning the total remains unchanged at 4,866.
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3 weeks ago
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A 9-year-old and her friends have raised nearly $100,000 selling bracelets to help black-owned businesses
A group of friends with big dreams and even bigger hearts started a summer business that is helping black-owned businesses and neighborhoods in Minneapolis affected by the coronavirus pandemic and protests following the death of George Floyd.
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3 weeks ago
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What Might Be Speeding Up the Universe’s Expansion?
The discrepancy between how fast the universe seems to be expanding and how fast we expect it to expand is one of cosmology’s most stubbornly persistent anomalies. Cosmologists base their expectation of the expansion rate — a rate known as the Hubble constant — on measurements of radiation emitted shortly after the Big Bang. This radiation reveals the precise ingredients of the early universe. Cosmologists plug the ingredients into their model of cosmic evolution and run the model forward ...
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1 month ago
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What Is the Best Antidepressant?
Do antidepressants work? If so, which antidepressants are most effective? These two questions have been posed again and again over the last few decades, but the answer has remained elusive. The latest answer to the question of which antidepressants are most effective and well-tolerated comes from a 2018 paper. Published in The Lancet, the paper reported the results of the largest meta-analysis conducted to date on the acceptability and efficacy of 21 antidepressant treatments
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Believers Who Overestimate Their Religious Knowledge Like Violence the Most
A fascinating question, and an intriguing study, come to us via University of Nevada Reno psychologist Daniel Jones and four co-authors. The team looked into the tension between the Golden Rule that is considered to be at the heart of most religions, and the savagery that millions of believers are so clearly capable of.