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gig economy

Lime Has Slashed Pay Rates for Scooter Chargers So Much People Have Stopped Doing It

“At $3.30 you're basically paying Lime for the privilege of charging their scooters for them,” one juicer commented on Reddit. “Fuck that.”
Aaron Gordon
2.19.20
housing

Canada’s New Mortgage Rules Could Actually Make Housing More Expensive

Best-case scenario, housing is a little more affordable. Worst-case, you're paying more.
Anne Gaviola
2.19.20
food news

Bone Thugs Is Now 'Boneless Thugs-N-Harmony' Because We Have All Lost Our Way

Boneless wings are trash but that's neither here nor there.
Bettina Makalintal
2.19.20
Politics

From 2021, You Won't Be Able to Move to the UK to Work These Jobs

Are we human... or are we 70 points?
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
2.19.20
Bernie Sanders

America Loves Bernie. Socialism, Not So Much.

Polls out Wednesday show Sanders surging but only 28% of Americans saying they had a favorable view of his ideology.
Alex Lubben
2.19.20
Bloomberg

Trans Activists Want Bloomberg to Apologize for His ‘Guy Wearing a Dress’ Slur

Now the Bloomberg campaign is selling campaign shirts reading "Protect trans rights."
Emma Ockerman
2.19.20
privacy

Leaked Document Shows How Big Companies Buy Credit Card Data on Millions of Americans

Yodlee, America’s largest financial data broker, says the data it sells it is anonymous. A confidential document obtained by Motherboard shows people could be unmasked in the data.
Joseph Cox
2.19.20
Trump

Trump Just Declared Himself the Sheriff of America

“I’m actually, I guess, the chief law enforcement officer of the country,” he said.
Greg Walters
2.19.20
facial-recognition

This Senate Bill Would Ban Federal Use of Facial Recognition

Jeff Merkley and Cory Booker have introduced a Senate bill to place a moratorium until regulations are passed by Congress.
Edward Ongweso Jr
2.19.20
News

Rapper Pop Smoke Shot Dead in Los Angeles

The rising Brooklyn rapper was killed in a home invasion Wednesday morning.
Leslie Horn
2.19.20
Coronavirus

The Coronavirus Cruise Ship Was a Disease-Spreading Hellscape

Crew members weren't quarantined, and passengers have reportedly been spotted talking to each other without masks across neighboring balconies.
Tim Hume
2.19.20
relationships

Everything I’ve Learnt From Sleeping With Married Men as a Gay Man

"“I have a son your age,” one said, taking my calling him ‘Daddy’ to a meta level."
Navin Noronha
2.19.20
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