Why Americans just keep spending
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 Why are Americans spending so much? Vox · Nicole Narea They say the economy is bad, but they’re spending like it’s booming.  |
 Students who protested and those who didn’t share disappointment in schools NBC News · Daniella Silva and Alicia Victoria Lozano “We had no idea that we were going to be met with this much violence.”  Photos show Mount St. Helens, the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history 44 years ago Business Insider · Jenny McGrath The mountain’s explosion on May 18, 1980, caused enormous devastation and the deaths of 57 people.  Column: Meet the comedians telling hilarious jokes about climate change Los Angeles Times · Sammy Roth These comics keep making us laugh, fight the good fight, and ask oil executives if they’d like some hugs. |
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 First Neuralink patient alarmed as device starts losing functionality futurism.com · Victor Tangermann The 29-year-old Texas native who was paralyzed in a diving accident recalls the terrible experience of losing abilities he’d only just regained.  Other countries have better sunscreens NPR · Michael Scaturro Here’s why we can’t get them in the U.S.  I went undercover as a secret OnlyFans chatter. It wasn’t pretty. WIRED · Brendan I. Koerner Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.  ‘Should I hide my wild past from my parents?’ bigthink.com · Jonny Thomson How heavy is the mask that you wear?  Nicolas Cage goes full Cage in trippy, slapdash, comic nightmare Variety · Owen Gleiberman The actor plays a desperate dad who squares off against Aussie surf jocks in “The Surfer,” a midnight movie that grows increasingly surreal.  A man was ordered to build a fence to hide his boat artnet.com · Brian Boucher He asked an artist to paint the boat on the fence. Hilarity — and virality — ensued. |
