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2 weeks agoCurrent Event roxxy
Skrillex Reflects on ‘Toughest Year of My Life’ as He Rings in 35th Birthday
Skrillex marked his 35th birthday on Monday by posting a vulnerable series of tweets about the difficulties he’s faced in the past few years. “Had the toughest year of my life in ’22, as did so many others. I literally found myself with no drive and purpose for the first time in my life,” he began.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event roxxy
Dr Dre successfully blocks Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his music
Dr Dre has successfully blocked Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his music in any context to do with her political career after she used his 1999 hit Still Dre to soundtrack a promotional video. In the nearly two-minute video, posted on 9 January with the caption, “It’s time to begin … and they can’t stop what’s coming”, the far-right Georgia lawmaker walks out of her office in slow motion to the familiar first notes of the song, which features Snoop Dogg.
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1 month agoCurrent Event roxxy
How our perception of time shapes our approach to climate change
Most people are focused on the present: today, tomorrow, maybe next year. Fixing your flat tire is more pressing than figuring out if you should use an electric car. Living by the beach is a lot more fun than figuring out when your house will be underwater because of sea level rise.
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1 month agoCurrent Event roxxy
Ukrainians move up their traditional Christmas celebration in break with Russia
Ukrainians usually celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, as do the Russians. But not this year, or at least not all of them. Some Orthodox Ukrainians have decided to observe Christmas on Dec. 25, like many Christians around the world. Yes, this has to do with the war, and yes, they have the blessing of their local church.
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1 month agoCurrent Event roxxy
Former White House Chef Says Coffee Will Be 'Scarce' Soon
Former White House chef Sam Kass shared in an interview that he believes coffee and other crops will be "quite scarce" in the next 30 years. And there's plenty of science to back him up.
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1 month agoCurrent Event roxxy
Why Bitcoin Is The Ultimate Wealth Preservation Technology
Evolutionary psychologists believe that the ability to "preserve wealth" gave modern humans the decisive edge in evolutionary competition with other humans. Nick Szabo wrote an interesting anecdote about how in his essay “Shelling Out: The Origins of Money.” When homosapiens displaced homo neanderthalensis in Europe circa 40,000 to 35,000 B.C., population explosions followed.
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1 month agoCurrent Event roxxy
Fukushima gets ready to discharge treated water into the sea
Eleven years after the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe, the region's inhabitants are preparing for a new step. Japan will soon start discharging treated water into the sea. Water that touched the fuel has become radioactive. Filtered in a plant within the power plant, it's kept in tanks that will reach their maximum capacity in 2023.
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2 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
DuPont loses challenge over cancer victim's $40 mln verdict in PFAS case
A federal appeals court has upheld a $40 million verdict for a cancer survivor who sued E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co after years of exposure to a toxic chemical that it manufactured. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Monday DuPont could not challenge the verdict, which relied on a finding in related cases that PFOA, a chemical discharged by DuPont into public waterways, was linked to the man's cancer.
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2 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Iran Shutting Down Morality Police,Official Says, After Months of Protests
The move appeared to be a concession to the protest movement that erupted after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who was being held by the morality police for supposedly violating Islamic dress rules.
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2 months agoLevel Up roxxy
Level 29
roxxy is now level 29 with 1,890,005 XP.
View Unlocks- Following The maximum amount of users you can follow has been raised by 30 to a total of 420.
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2 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Millions of documents disappear from WikiLeaks as site completely breaks down
WikiLeaks’ website appears to be coming apart at the seams, with more and more of the organization’s content unavailable without explanation. WikiLeaks technical issues, which have been ongoing for months, have gotten worse in recent weeks as increasingly larger portions of its website no longer function. Even attempting to visit wikileaks.org is a gamble in itself, often producing a 502 message that indicates an error was detected on the website’s server.
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2 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Future chips may be 10 times faster, all thanks to graphene
The chips found in the best CPUs and GPUs on the market currently are all made out of silicon, but scientists are aware of their limitations. In order to keep scaling up the performance without damaging power efficiency, a lot of research goes into finding a replacement for silicon.
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2 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Paris Hilton Is Ready to Share Her Journey to Icon Status and a Billion-Dollar Empire in 'Paris: The Memoir'
PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover for the Paris Hilton's upcoming book, which chronicles her rebellious youth, the abuse she claims to have endured and her rise to global superstardom.
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2 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
General Motors says it will stop burning cash on electric vehicles by 2025
General Motors wants to be the biggest seller of electric vehicles in North America (maybe the planet, too?) and so far, it’s burning a lot of cash to get there. But by 2025, the cash burning will officially cease, as the company projects its EV program will be “solidly profitable” by then.
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2 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Kevin Conroy, Longtime Voice of Batman, Dies at 66
Kevin Conroy, the prolific voice actor who defined Batman for generations of audiences, has died. He was 66. The actor died Thursday, Warner Bros. announced.
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3 months agoCurrent Event roxxy
Apple Is Now Valued More Than Alphabet, Amazon and Meta Combined
Apple is now worth more than fellow tech giants Alphabet, Amazon and Meta combined, after it ended trading Wednesday with a market value of $2.307 trillion. At the same time, the market caps of its three tech giant peers added up to $2.306 trillion at the close of trading Wednesday. Google parent Alphabet's market cap stood at $1.126 trillion, Amazon's at $939.78 billion and Facebook parent Meta's at $240.07 billion, Yahoo Finance data showed.