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Women and their pets

2 years 3 months ago
This is from an article Derek Thompson wrote for the Atlantic last month: 3) In 2003, the typical female pet owner spent much more time socializing with ppl than pets. By 2022, this flipped. Today, the avg woman w/ a pet now spends more time “actively engaged” with her pet than she spends hanging out ...continue reading "Women and their pets"
Kevin Drum

Utah Lawmakers Just Adopted Porn Filtering Again

2 years 3 months ago
The Utah state legislature recently adopted a new bill that now requires the pre-installed pornography filters found on mobile devices to be turned on at the point of sale. If a device sold doesn’t have these filters enabled, liability for device manufacturers and retailers is quite severe. I wrote about this bill earlier this month […]
Mike Masnick

Missouri bill would expand death penalty to certain sex crimes against children

2 years 3 months ago

A bill that would add child sex trafficking and statutory rape to the crimes eligible for the death penalty was debated Monday in a Missouri Senate committee β€” despite conflicting with U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The legislation is sponsored by state Sen. Mike Moon, an Ash Grove Republican who said Monday that one of the […]

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Clara Bates

Lunchtime Photo

2 years 3 months ago
Sometime in the next few months a star called T Corona Borealis is going to explode. How do we know this? Because T CrB isn't going to be a supernova—which would be unpredictable and destroy the star for good. In fact, T CrB isn't even a single star. It's a binary star: a white dwarf ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
Kevin Drum