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20 hours ago
Expression funhonestdudeHow the Idea of Hell Has Shaped the Way We Think
For centuries, we’ve given lavish attention to the specifics of punishment, and left Heaven woefully under-sketched. When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I started accompanying my mother to a church in Harlem, in a shallow, sunlit upper room just south of 125th Street. Every Sunday, service began with a procession. The Hammond organ would start up, and the ministers, carrying their Bibles, trailed by the pastor, would file...
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3 days ago
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Costco is opening a $440 million chicken farm to escape America's chicken monopoly
Costco is opening a chicken farming operation in eastern Nebraska so it can (partially) escape America's chicken monopoly.
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4 days ago
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More than anything else, CEOs fear a recession for 2019
It’s not Brexit, terrorism, or even climate change that keeps CEOs awake at night. Instead, recession is the primary concern for 1,400 global business leaders surveyed about their biggest fears for 2019. It’s not clear they have grounds to worry. The Conference Board, the think tank behind the survey, noted that, outside of the UK, “our economic indicators do not point to imminent recession risks.” Instead, the fear seems to be that “traditional levers of power—public policy and poli...
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5 days ago
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Britain No Longer Permitting Rape Scenes, Sexual Violence in Films Rated for Under 15 Year Olds
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has announced a major change to the way it assigns ratings to films featuring scenes of rape and other forms of sexual violence. According to The Guardian, films with scenes of sexual violence will no longer be assigned a rating less than 15s, which means only films suitable for moviegoers 15 years and older will contain rape scenes. The BBFC said the change was a result of a shift in public opinion over the last five years.
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5 days ago
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Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?
If you use social media, you've probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year.
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6 days ago
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Lil Peep & XXXTENTACION - Falling Down
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8 days ago
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Americans see themselves in debt forever, even as they continue to borrow
Although shoppers kept credit card machines busy this holiday season, growing evidence indicates that Americans are starting to feel uneasy about the pile of debt to which we continue to add. A new survey from CreditCards.com finds that more than two in five Americans currently carrying debt don’t know when they’ll pay off those balances — and one in four say they expect their debts to outlive them. “It’s definitely a depressing statistic,” said Ted Rossman, industry analyst for the ...
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9 days ago
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Lax state gun laws linked to more child, teen gun deaths
States with strict gun laws have lower rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers, and laws to keep guns away from minors are linked with fewer gun suicides in this age group, a Stanford study found. Compared with U.S. states with the strictest gun control legislation, gun deaths among children and teenagers are twice as common in states with the most lax gun laws, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.
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12 days ago
I ain't eating any of that, thats for sure
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12 days ago
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BP just discovered a billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico
BP's investment in next-generation technology just paid off to the tune of a billion barrels of oil. The British energy company has discovered 1 billion barrels of crude at an existing oilfield in the Gulf of Mexico. BP also announced two new offshore oil discoveries and a major new investment in a nearby field. BP is the Gulf of Mexico's biggest producer, and it's making strides to hold that title.
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13 days ago
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Chinese Analysts Say Bear Market for Bitcoin Likely to Persist in 2019, Calls Crypto 'A Zero-Sum Game'
“Bitcoin became an investment black hole,” in 2018, says Beijing Times reporter Pan Yichun, and according to several Chinese analysts, the prospect of significant Bitcoin price gains in 2019 are small, though there may still be opportunities brought by “small bulls” in the market, Beijing News reports.
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2 weeks ago
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The French Burglar Who Pulled Off His Generation’s Biggest Art Heist
The skilled climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as Spider-Man, has described robbery as an act of imagination.
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2 weeks ago
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Saudi Arabia Will Now Notify Women by Text If They've Been Divorced
Women in Saudi Arabia—who have long been subjected to a litany of misogynistic restrictions on their behavior, including totalitarian male guardianship laws—will soon receive text messages to inform them of changes to their marital status as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s “reforms” of the country’s monarchic government, CNN reported on Sunday.
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2 weeks ago
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xkcd: Earth Temperature Timeline
When people say "the climate has changed before" these are the kinds of changes they are talking about.
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2 weeks ago
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Why exercise alone won’t save us
The long read: Sedentary lifestyles are killing us – we need to build activity into our everyday lives, not just leave it for the gym
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2 weeks ago
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Hackers seize control of more than 70,000 Chromecasts, promote YouTuber PewDiePie
A pair of hackers have hijacked Google Chromecasts and called on their owners to follow YouTubers PewDiePie. The hackers, known as HackerGiraffe and j3ws3r, are estimated to have accessed more than 70,000 devices so far with the exploit, according to the CastHack website the hackers launched (via The Verge). Affected Chromecasts cast a message stating their device is exposing sensitive information about them and advising owners to visit the CastHack page for more information.
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2 weeks ago
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2019 Porsche Cayenne Review: SUV, Thy Name Is (Finally) Porsche
A Porsche is a Porsche, of course of course, unless the Porsche is an SUV. So goes the lament of the unappeasable purist, who sees every stilted hotcake built by an exotic automaker as an affront to history. Time for a reality check: Today's performance car market mostly rides on the subsidies provided by booming SUV sales. If you're a 911 fan, that means you, by definition, also better be a fan of the company's crossovers if you know what's best for the fabled sports car...
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3 weeks ago
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Apple shared Wallpapers on Their Instagram Story
Today on Apple’s Instagram page they shared ten wallpapers from the #shotoniphone campaign. Now is your chance to download them if you missed it earlier. I enjoy getting Apple “official” wallpapers so I hope they keep this up in the future. Follow their Instagram @apple.
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3 weeks ago
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Fitness YouTuber Dies After Being Tased By Police As He Stabbed His Tinder Date
A sleepy town in Massachusetts is in the headlines after a 25-year-old man died while being arrested for viciously attacking his Tinder date. Erich Stelzer, 25, a bodybuilder who shared fitness videos on YouTube, died in custody after he was tased by police in Cohasset, Mass. The incident took place Thursday evening after Cohasset police received a call about a disturbance and arrived to find Stelzer assaulting a 24-year-old woman with weapons, including a knife.
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3 weeks ago
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Mom Busts Son Using Alexa to Solve His Math Homework
If you got an Amazon Alexa device for Christmas, you might want to keep a closer eye on the wily kids in your house. Last week, a New Jersey mom caught her son red-handed using the virtual assistant to cheat on his math homework.
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3 weeks ago
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States make climate policies a 2019 priority
Despite federal climate policy rollbacks, governors and cities have decided to take up the mantel on climate leadership. Nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic governors and the mayor of Washington, D.C. announced that they will move forward with a plan that prioritizes clean transportation and ambitious climate goals.