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A replacement battery costs more than an electric car
A family in Florida drove into a major problem after buying a used electric vehicle: the replacement battery for their dead car wound up costing more than the used car was purchased for.
A replacement battery costs more than an electric car
Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars
California needs to charge electric vehicles only during the day
Siblings had to stop 6 times in 1 day to charge their rented Tesla
New law that will require electric car owners to pay $200 every year
Parents speak out about the ‘rush’ to reassign the gender of their kids
Bri, who asked The Post to publish only her nickname for fear of being branded a bigot and doxxed by transgender-rights activists, was horrified — not only by the insinuation her teen would commit suicide if she didn’t transition, but also the fact that the general practitioner issued the warning in front of them both.
But some experts now question the threat that they say is commonly used by medical professionals. They believe many doctors are so scared of the label “transphobe” that they automatically present skeptical parents with a doomsday scenario: “Would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?” or vice versa.
By contrast, a 2011 study spanning three decades by the respected Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that people who underwent sex reassignment were 19 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population. In the US, a yearlong survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality concluded that those who had transitioned were more likely to have attempted suicide than trans people who had not had medical or surgical treatments.
Parents speak out about the ‘rush’ to reassign the gender of their kids
Elementary school promotes transgender 'top surgery' book for Pride Month. Then complaints come rolling in.
Proud gay dad who wrote kids’ book about families like his sent horrific homophobic abuse
Brazilian teen gives up on becoming a real life KEN DOLL
16 is dangerously young to change your gender
There is no ‘trans community’
I Am Not Anti-Trans
Judge rejects trans lawmaker
Don’t let kids transition at 15, says trans woman
Care for Trans Youth ‘a Sad and Dangerous Fad’
'I had a choice between food and lights'
I have kids," said Hughey. "My bills are backed up and I had a choice between food and lights, and I had to get my lights back on."
'I had a choice between food and lights'
Consumer sentiment continues to drop as inflation drives up prices
Go meat-free and fly less
Here's how to save money on cooling bills as prices rise
Record high electricity rates are hitting Massachusetts residents
Utility rate increase announced for New Bothwell
'I feel cheated'
Residents in Palm Springs mobile home park deal with power outage
PS mobile home park seek answers after a month of power outages
California braces for rolling blackouts amid 'extraordinary heat event
Santa Ana provides new data that Orange County is ‘dumping’ homeless
Much of Orange County is transporting homeless people into Santa Ana, placing an unfair burden on that city to address the county’s homelessness crisis, city officials allege in court documents filed Monday.
The filing marks the city’s latest effort seeking legal relief over this issue. And this time, officials have some numbers and additional data that they hope will prove their point that many other cities in the county are “dumping” their homeless in Santa Ana.
“We now have better evidence that the county did not stop this practice. It’s just being done in other ways,” Santa Ana City Manager Kristine Ridge said.
Santa Ana officials and residents have long complained that they’ve become a dumping ground for the homeless.
Santa Ana officials said transfers from other communities have led to to a disproportionate number of homeless people in their city. From 2017 to 2019, homelessness in Orange County increased by 43 %; but in Santa Ana, homelessness increased by 77 %, according to the lawsuit. As of April 2019, more than 25 % of the county’s homeless lived in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana provides new data that Orange County is ‘dumping’ homeless
KKK Flag Displayed on White House Barn Outrages Tennessee Residents
Urinating woman is seen 'performing sex act on a man
Bar promoted a betting pool on whether Chicago or NYC would have more shootings on Labor Day weekend
Businesses fed up with city's 'hands-off' approach as crime, homelessness worsen
NJ students’ learning declined during pandemic
Specifically, it found that 37% of all students are learning below their grade level, in both English and math classes. In english language classes, a breakdown of the information for kindergarten through 10th grade shows that students for whom English is not their first language, 65% are below grade level. For economically disadvantaged students, the number is 54% below grade level. It’s 52% for Hispanics, and 51% for African Americans.
NJ students’ learning declined during pandemic: report
Oregon Governor signs new law allowing students to graduate without proving they can read, write, or do math
Minnesota middle school removes F from its grading system
Professor sues UCLA after refusing to grade Black students more leniently than peers
NYC cancels gifted and talented schools program because it 'discriminates against black and Hispanic students'
Fortnite exits China as government cracks down on ‘spiritual opium’
Turns out, Harvard students are stupid
Black Friday sounds RACIST
California's new educational guidelines say math is racist
Woke California school boards BAN teachers from giving D and F grades
Does the "I" stand for idiot? 01-Oct-2021
Bizarre moment man puffs from hookah while reclining on a pool float in a flooded NYC alley as Ida pummels the city
As it poured and ground-level apartments filled with water this New Yorker was not phased by the rain as he casually inhaled from the device and exhaled large plumes of smoke.
Bizarre moment...
People aren’t drowning because of global warming...
State of emergency declared in Hawaii
American Airlines urges pilots to conserve fuel amid shortage that could lead to more stops and fewer seats on flights
American Airlines is asking pilots to conserve fuel whenever possible as the US sees a surge in summer travel.
The air carrier released a memo to pilots Monday warning about a nationwide supply crunch and urging them to do everything possible to save fuel.
'Use all available fuel savings strategies when possible,' Managing Director of Flight Operations John Dudley said in the memo. 'Every gallon of jet fuel saved is helpful.'
American Airlines urges pilots to conserve fuel
Moment a Spirit Airlines passenger punches and kicks another woman
Spirit Airlines cancels more than 200 flights in a single day
Moment Frontier passenger is DUCT TAPED to a seat after 'groping two female flight attendants and punching male staff member in face'
A Florida woman exposed herself on a flight and had to be removed from the plane by officers
Woman slams American Airlines for losing her two CATS
Spirit Airlines customers rant at beleaguered carrier after hundreds of cancelations for the SIXTH day in a row
Biden administration wants airport bars to 'police' drink sales and ban 'to go' alcohol on flights
Disturbing moment Christian pilot gives American Airlines passengers a three-minute ‘sermon’ revealing his abuse as a child and sex addiction
Bedlam on US airlines and more vaccine and mask mandates
Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team
Google has fired one of its top artificial intelligence researchers, Margaret Mitchell, escalating internal turmoil at the company following the departure of Timnit Gebru, another leading figure on Google’s AI ethics team.
In a statement to Reuters, Google said the firing followed a weeks-long investigation that found she moved electronic files outside the company. Google said Mitchell violated the company’s code of conduct and security policies.
Gebru said Google fired her after she questioned an order not to publish a paper claiming AI that mimics language could hurt marginalized populations.
Google fires Margaret Mitchell, another top researcher on its AI ethics team
Tens of millions in California under stay-at-home order starting Sunday night
Southern California and San Joaquin Valley residents will be under a stay-at-home order after the intensive care unit capacity in the two regions fell below 15%, triggering a mandate issued by the governor earlier this week that aims to bring down the soaring number of Covid-19 hospitalizations.
The order goes into effect Sunday at 11:59 p.m. PT for the some 27 million people in the regions, which includes Los Angeles and San Diego.
That follows a proactive order issued by six San Francisco Bay Area jurisdictions on Friday for its almost 6 million residents. It also goes into effect Sunday.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced that any region that fell below the 15% ICU capacity threshold would be placed under stay-at-home orders.
Tens of millions in California under stay-at-home order starting Sunday night
'Not enough to go around': US states struggle to decide who should get Covid vaccine first
Colorado public health experts planning for an imminent Covid-19 vaccine recommended a vulnerable population living in crowded housing for early vaccination – the state’s prison and jail inmates.
It is a population living in tight quarters where it’s almost impossible to social distance, and these institutions have seen some of the largest outbreaks of Covid-19 in the nation. For all those reasons, they were part of an early phase of the state’s vaccination plan.
But inmates are not, as a rule, a politically popular constituency.
'Not enough to go around': US states struggle to decide who should get Covid vaccine first
The 50 Richest Americans Are Worth as Much as the Poorest 165 Million
The 50 richest Americans now hold almost as much wealth as half of the U.S., as Covid-19 transforms the economy in ways that have disproportionately rewarded a small class of billionaires.
New data from the U.S. Federal Reserve, a comprehensive look at U.S. wealth through the first half of 2020, show stark disparities by race, age and class. While the top 1% of Americans have a combined net worth of $34.2 trillion, the poorest 50% — about 165 million people — hold just $2.08 trillion, or 1.9% of all household wealth.
The 50 richest people in the country, meanwhile, are worth almost $2 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, up $339 billion from the beginning of 2020.
Covid-19 has exacerbated inequality in the U.S., with job losses falling heavily on low-wage service workers and the virus disproportionately infecting and killing people of color. Meanwhile, many upper-middle class professionals are working from home, watching their retirement accounts rise in value after the U.S. Treasury and Fed pumped stimulus into the economy and markets.
The 50 Richest Americans Are Worth as Much as the Poorest 165 Million
Governor Ron DeSantis Calls Florida ‘God’s Waiting Room’ For Retirees
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Sunday characterized his state as “God’s waiting room” for seniors during an update on COVID-19.
“Florida is ground zero for the nursing home; I mean we’re God’s waiting room,” DeSantis said at a news briefing in Orlando. “We have a huge number of facilities, a huge number of residents.”
“God’s waiting room” is a decades-old derogatory phrase about the large number of retirees in the state, noted WPLG Local 10 TV.
DeSantis commented on Florida’s vulnerable nursing home population while discussing plans to reopen the state for business. As of Sunday, Florida had recorded 31,500 cases of COVID-19 and 1,074 deaths. However, DeSantis said that parts of the state were now on “the other side” of the coronavirus outbreak.
The number of daily new cases in Florida in the last week peaked last week at 1,232, but the tally appeared to be climbing again Saturday with 823 cases, up significantly from the previous day.
Huffpost
Japanese mayor says men should grocery shop during pandemic as women 'take a longer time'
The mayor of Japan's third-largest city is facing a public backlash after he suggested men are better suited to grocery shopping during the coronavirus pandemic, because women take too long and contribute to overcrowding at supermarkets.
The number of confirmed cases of the virus in Japan has spiked in recent weeks -- dashing hopes that the government's initial virus response had succeeded in controlling its spread. As of Thursday, Japan had 11,950 confirmed cases, including 299 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. On March 1, the country had 243 cases.
That spike has seen a raft of new restrictions put in place nationwide. On Thursday, Osaka mayor Ichiro Matsui implied male grocery shoppers would reduce the potential spread of the virus as they would spend less time in stores.
"Women take a longer time grocery shopping because they browse through different products and weigh out which option is best," Matsui told reporters at a coronavirus press conference in Osaka on Thursday.
CNN
Indonesian official says sperm can impregnate women in pools
An Indonesian official has been ridiculed after she warned women that they could get pregnant from swimming in the same pool where men with “very strong” sperm ejaculate, according to reports.
Sitti Hikmawatty, a senior child protection official, made the unscientific claim in an interview last week with the local Tribunnews.com, according to Agence France-Presse.
“In a swimming pool, there’s a certain kind of sperm that is very strong,” Sitti told the news outlet during a video interview about teen pregnancies.
“If a person is aroused and ejaculates (in the pool) a pregnancy can happen even though there is no sexual penetration,” she said.
NY Post
Women today are more likely than their mothers to die in childbirth
A few weekends ago, like many Americans, we thought about the mothers in our lives. We reflected on the milestones and the sacrifices. And with some measure of guilt, we thought about how it can be so easy to take our mothers for granted. Perhaps this is why experts are just beginning to notice that motherhood in the United States has become riskier and costlier today than it was a generation ago.
American women today are 50 percent more likely to die in childbirth than their mothers — risks that are three to four times higher for black women than white women. For every death, hundreds of women experience childbirth complications that bring them to the brink, and tens of thousands more suffer from preventable and under-treated chronic illnesses. Despite advances in modern medicine, the wellbeing of our nations mothers has been steadily getting worse as access to reproductive health care services has eroded.
The Hill