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Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation (www.theguardian.com)
Rishi Sunak is considering introducing some of the world’s toughest anti-smoking measures that would in effect ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, the Guardian has learned....
Have you ever had to retake a major course you already passed in order to understand the subject better?
So essentially I took a class last semester, passed it, but didn’t learn shit because I rarely attended the lectures (worked evenings, class was in AM, used the hour to catch up on sleep). I didn’t realize how important the class was to my major, and now I’m seriously struggling in my current classes....
What was the church's view of hangmen?
Going to hell or not?
UAW strike Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs (www.npr.org)
UAW strike Day 4: GM threatens to send 2,000 workers home, Ford cuts 600 jobs::undefined
She would kill it in this role (startrek.website)
What's the difference between asking someone title or someone's pronouns ?
I never got why conservative got crazy if you specify a pronoun, but at the same time expect you to specify whether its, it’s Mr/Ms/Miss (and often don’t take Dr as an answer), looks like the same question
A Black student was suspended for his hairstyle. The school says it wasn’t discrimination (apnews.com)
The same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles, a Black high school student in Texas was suspended because school officials said his locs violated the district’s dress code....
Lauren Boebert says she "fell short of values" after Beetlejuice groping video. (www.theguardian.com)
Family of man killed by police responding to wrong house in New Mexico files lawsuit (www.cbsnews.com)
The family of a man fatally shot in New Mexico by police officers responding to the wrong house sued the department for wrongful death and other claims in federal court, according to a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico....
Ashton Kutcher Resigns From His Anti-Child Sex Abuse Organization Amid Danny Masterson Support Backlash (www.etonline.com)
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless" (futurism.com)
Return-to-office policies are driving people to sell their homes - even at a loss (finance.yahoo.com)
Why are batteries in phones always measured in mAh instead of Wh like for example notebooks?
Unity Software Inc's President and CEO John Riccitiello Sells 2,000 Shares (finance.yahoo.com)
Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses?
Brazil’s Lula backtracks on Putin arrest safety at Rio G20 (www.aljazeera.com)
Lula says Putin will not be arrested at Brazil G20 meeting (www.aljazeera.com)
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not be arrested in Brazil if he attends the Group of 20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro next year....
China claims ownership of the Taiwan Strait. Canada just sailed a warship through it (www.cbc.ca)
After months of secretive planning, and preparing the crew to defend their ship if necessary, the Royal Canadian Navy has transited the Taiwan Strait....
Mexico supreme court decriminalizes abortion across country (www.theguardian.com)
Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state....
Houston police leave felony standoff after crowd defending man becomes unruly (www.fox26houston.com)
Elektrek: "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night" (electrek.co)
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Driverless taxis blocked ambulance response to fatal accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. says (www.nytimes.com)
Driverless taxis blocked ambulance response to fatal accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. says::Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said. The company said it was not at fault.
San Francisco Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance (sfstandard.com)
A stalled Cruise robotaxi blocked a San Francisco ambulance from getting a pedestrian hit by a vehicle to the hospital in an Aug. 14 incident, according to first responder accounts. The patient later died of their injuries....
Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?
Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding...
Fauci on masks: people should take risks into account (www.cnn.com)
“The CDC does not mandate anything,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci. But if a Covid surge leads to a recommendation that people wear masks, “I hope they would abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families. We are not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.”
Tens of thousands at Burning Man told to conserve water and food after heavy rains leave attendees unable to leave Nevada desert (www.cnn.com)
Tens of thousands of people attending the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert are being told to conserve food, water and fuel as they shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert after a heavy rainstorm pummeled the area, festival organizers said....
Ban dihydrogen monoxide (sh.itjust.works)
Three found dead at remote Rocky Mountain campsite were trying to escape society, stepsister says (apnews.com)
The stepsister of a Colorado woman who was found dead along with her sister and teenage son at a remote Rocky Mountain campsite says the women fled into the wilderness after struggling to cope with societal changes in recent years, but they were unequipped to survive off the grid....
Sen. Mitch McConnell appears to freeze again at a Kentucky event (www.nbcnews.com)
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to freeze again Wednesday, this time during a gaggle with reporters in Covington, Kentucky, stopping for more than 30 seconds after he was asked if he would run for re-election....
Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack (apnews.com)
Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election, capping one of the most significant prosecutions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol....
iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)
Hasn't happened yet (lemmy.sdf.org)
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The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video) (www.youtube.com)
Tenth bus of migrants from Texas arrives in LA (www.nbclosangeles.com)
Another bus from Texas carrying migrants from south of the border arrived in Los Angeles Saturday, the 10th such arrival since June 14, Mayor Karen Bass’ office announced.
Brazil high court rules homophobia punishable by prison (www.batimes.com.ar)