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The ridiculed, 37-year-old Calif. law that’s changing business across the globe
It’s one of California’s most controversial propositions
“Prop. 65 called for requiring businesses to warn consumers that a product could cause cancer or reproductive harm if it included certain chemicals. It also prohibited companies from discharging those same chemicals into water. The water element had the A-listers particularly up in arms, with actress Morgan Fairchild telling the LA Times, ‘Stars drink water too. I have as good a chance of having a deformed child in Beverly Hills as a woman drinking polluted water in Eureka.’”
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United States spending on Israel’s military operations, $17.9 billion
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Understanding FSIS Food Recalls
“A food recall is a voluntary action by a manufacturer or distributor to protect the public from products that may cause health problems or possible death. A recall is intended to remove food products from commerce when there is reason to believe the products may be adulterated or misbranded.”
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“The middle class is being systematically eviscerated… But the large part of the population is suffering from things that have nothing to do with the ‘middle class’.”
— Noam Chomsky
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The School Year Is Getting Hotter. How Does Heat Affect Student Learning and Well-Being?
“Does heat affect student learning?
Yes, heat makes it harder for students to learn. Students perform worse on tests when they’re hot, according to multiple studies by economists R. Jisung Park and Joshua Goodman, among others.
One study tracked 10 million secondary students who took the PSAT, a standardized exam used to identify students for college scholarships, multiple years between 2001 and 2014. The researchers found that cumulative heat exposure decreases the productivity of instructional time—without school air conditioning, a 1 degree hotter school year reduced that year’s learning by 1 percent.
The effect was three times more damaging for Black and Hispanic students than for white students, that study found. A similar discrepancy was found for students from low-income households compared to their affluent peers.”
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“It’s not about dividing the country. It’s about bringing together the middle class, the working families of this country, the low-income people who have been ignored for far too long.”
— Bernie Sanders
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Now, We Crush Trump: 100 Days to a Better World
Here’s the truth about who our fellow Americans really are (and here’s the list nobody has bothered to show you because, well, we need to keep perpetuating our own belief that we are stuck living in a white, Christian Nationalist, conservative, red-neck, deep-fried-Oreo-loving country — when, in fact, the vast bulk of the United States is not like that anymore):
69% of Americans support legal abortion.
72% of Americans don’t own a gun.
90% of the country wants more gun control laws.
72% of us believe the Climate Crisis is real.
71% of all Americans approve of labor unions.
79% of us insist the rich must pay more in taxes.
76% of us want a much higher minimum wage.
70% of all voters believe marijuana should be legal.
73% of the country want student loan debt relief.
74% of Americans want more affordable homes.
65% support term limits on all Supreme Court justices.
84% of Americans want free Pre-k and 3-k.
69% of Americans support same-sex marriage.
65% of Americans want to end the electoral college.
89% of Americans oppose gerrymandering.
70% of us are demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza NOW!
72% of all Americans want money removed from politics!
70% of Millennials say they would likely vote for a Socialist candidate.
THAT is who we are.
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Cryptocurrencies are often described as decentralized because the core infrastructure—such as blockchain technology—operates without a central authority. This means that transactions and the creation of new units of currency are managed by a distributed network of computers rather than a central entity like a government or bank.
However, when it comes to converting cryptocurrencies into traditional cash (fiat money) and transferring that money to a bank account, centralized entities typically become involved. These entities, such as cryptocurrency exchanges, facilitate the conversion process and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. The involvement of these centralized exchanges can add points of centralization to the otherwise decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies.
Key points of centralization include:
1. Exchanges: Platforms like Coinbase, Binance, and Kraken act as intermediaries for buying and selling cryptocurrencies for fiat money.
2. Regulations: Banks and governments impose regulations (such as KYC—Know Your Customer—and AML—Anti-Money Laundering laws) that centralized exchanges must comply with, further adding layers of control and centralization.
3. Banking System: The traditional banking system is centralized, and when fiat money is involved, transactions must go through this system.
These factors create a hybrid situation where the core technology of cryptocurrencies remains decentralized, but practical use cases often necessitate interactions with centralized systems.
— Chat GPT
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Tobacco, alcohol, processed foods and fossil fuels ‘kill 2.7m a year in Europe’
“In a groundbreaking report, the WHO said powerful industries were driving ill-health and premature death by using ‘misleading’ marketing and interfering in governments’ efforts to prevent killer diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes.”
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Brazil’s Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use
“The Supreme Court’s ruling has long been sought by activists and legal scholars in a country where the prison population has become the third largest in the world. Critics of current legislation say users caught with even small amounts of drugs are regularly convicted on trafficking charges and locked up in overcrowded jails, where they are forced to join prison gangs.”
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California reaped $270M from marijuana tax last quarter. Where does $ go?
“So where does all this cannabis tax money go?
As Dallal said, it’s targeted for ‘good things’: State-funded projects like transportation initiatives, libraries, environmental cleanups, drug prevention, schools and universities.”
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Marijuana was supposed to help Thailand. Why is the country planning to ban it again?
“Given the problems and the politics, even the former health minister who led the drive to decriminalize pot has grudgingly pledged his support for undoing that decision. ‘We can’t take a personal attitude towards this,’ Anutin, who has since joined the current government as interior minister, recently told local media. But making cannabis illegal again is unlikely to go down easily.”
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New overseas income rules proposed
“The adoption of the principle of worldwide income would bring Thailand in line with international practice, said Ms Kulaya. It would also make tax planning more challenging for individuals and businesses.”
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