Fom a story about Kendall Jenner (why???) in Sports Freaking Illustrated.
Her makeup was minimal yet radiant, enhancing her natural beauty. A luminous, dewy base let her natural skin shine, while a peachy-mauve blush added a soft flush to her cheeks. Her signature feathered brows framed her face, with wispy lashes accentuating her brown eyes. A balmy highlighter added a delicate glow to the tip of her nose, and a glossy taupe-brown lip completed the sultry look.
We are lost.
"Other political foes" include former Biden officials Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Lisa Monaco, Republicans Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
America's fertility rate is now projected to average 1.6 births per woman over the next three decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest forecast released this year. This is well below the replacement level of 2.1 births per woman required to maintain a stable population without immigration.Which fascinating fact gave rise to to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's exhorting his minions to favor "communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average" in doling out transportation services — with this masterpiece of beaurcratic obfuscation.
"To the maximum extent permitted by law, DOT-supported or -assisted programs and activities, including without limitation, all DOT grants, loans, contracts, and DOT-supported or -assisted State contracts, shall prioritize projects and goals that ... to the extent practicable, relevant, appropriate, and consistent with law, mitigate the unique impacts of DOT programs, policies, and activities on families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average."
And if that doesn't kill your buzz, nothing will.
At most, [it could be] called a World Self-Reported Life Satisfaction Report—and it’s easy to see why such an honest title wouldn’t entice many journalists to write about it.
…yesterday was the International Day of Happiness.
Sorry if you missed it. The rest of the days aren't.
[ADD]
A recent NBC News poll says just seven percent of voters who are registered as Democrats feel "very" positive about the party.
See what I mean?
Tesla is recalling the cars because of the risk of a stainless-steel exterior trim panel detaching from the vehicle, causing a potential road hazard and raising the chances of a crash, it said.This is the eighth recall for the cybertruck — classified as an SUV — in the last 14 months.
Trump’s proposal during a phone call Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a new twist in peace efforts, which included a still-unsigned deal that would give the U.S. rights to hundreds of billions of dollars of rare-earth minerals.
We're only here to keep you safe.
While the river stays bright for several hours, some trace of color can remain for days.
It's an annual thing. (And St. Patrick's Day was yesterday, of course.)
The U.S. is paying [El Salvador strongman Nayib] Bukele $6 million to handle the 300 gang members, and Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have praised him as if he’s an American hero. “We will not forget!” Mr. Trump declared.
Or, well, we're paying El Salvador to be on our side.
I rarely read editorials in newspapers. I look for straight reporting (here's a starting point) and have opinions of my own.
Here's one: No one needs to shed a tear over violent criminals who have entered the country illegally getting kicked out again. But it is imperative that even they be treated according to the law. Because it's that same law that keeps us safe.
That, to me, is a simple proposition. It does not take a great deal of intelligence to understand.
This latest work focuses less on the chemical changes that occur during the brewing process and more on the mechanical and physical processes. "To a physicist, brewing coffee is a reactive flow through a complex porous medium that undergoes dynamic reconfiguration—a fascinatingly complex phenomenon," Maciej Lisicki, a physicist at the University of Warsaw in Poland, told Ars.
Just drinking a regular old cup of joe, is where we'd be.
The bad news is that Trump still has not won over a majority of Americans, and 54% said they disapprove of his handling of the economy — the first time he’s lost a majority on that issue in NBC’s poll.
Hard times at the New York Post.
"The second thing we're going to say to the Americans is: 'if you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the world's leading power, then we're going to welcome them,'" continued Glucksmann.
In 2023 China produced roughly half of the world’s crude steel. China is the world’s largest automobile maker, accounting for a third of the global total. China’s state-backed aerospace company, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), threatens to take global market share from America’s Boeing and Europe’s Airbus. China is also the world’s largest commercial shipbuilder, responsible for more than half of all shipbuilding. America’s share of the global shipbuilding market is 0.10 percent. …During the Covid pandemic, Americans were shocked to learn how dependent the U.S. is on medical supplies from China, which provides around 30 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients used in drugs by value and 78 percent of the vitamins in the U.S. A single Chinese company, DJI, controls 90 percent of the American drone market, including 90 percent of the drones used by American police departments and first responders.
Reuters also viewed three back-to-work memos sent to staff, informing some of them that they won't have a workspace or internet access when they return. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration told staff this week it cannot guarantee desks or parking spots for the roughly 18,000 employees expected to report to offices on Monday.
OK, I confess I didn't see the movie. Not the whole thing. I quit after about 20 minutes. But I take the comment (from the linked Reuters article) to mean pretty messed up.
If that's not what it means, it should.
Teenager Ben Thornbury designed a putt-putt golf course around the potholes in his hometown of Malmesbury, with a sign that read “High Street Crazy Potholes Golf: Now Open.” A month after a British tabloid did a story on the “cheeky” teen, the road was fixed. When more appeared, he set up roadside pothole fishing.
Also there'll always be a teenager, but that's a whole different thing.
“If they take away my access to Pornhub, I’m moving out of the US,” one concerned Manhattan user told The Post.
Fog harvesting is the practice of capturing tiny water droplets from fog with specialized mesh nets.
First-time offenders get a $300 fine—equivalent to roughly 50 dozen U.S. eggs (or 150 in Mexico).
Meanwhile, U.S. is importing eggs from Turkey. But they're not (this is confusing) turkey eggs.
