Learned what lifestyle creep was and can’t stop seeing it everywhere Context: Employed, Late-twenties Female here. I always catch myself before I try to upgrade my lifestyle via small changes, like taking expensive meal or choosing more expensive clothes. It was easier with those things. But the problem is I can’t bring myself to spend large amounts of money for good use, like say buying a bicycle without feeling…

China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere, Help Us Catch Them As Beijing tries to enlist the “whole of society” to guard against foreign enemies, the line between vigilance and paranoia fades.

Please help me, my card is being declined everywhere I’ve been traveling for 7 weeks. I already called my bank a month ago (had to wait on the phone for almost 2 hours AND my phone bill was over $100 due to the call being long distance) but I informed them I’m traveling so they made a note. I had no more issues until today. I was successfully able to pay for my hotel as I was checking out. But my …

Mark Meadows Is Everywhere and Nowhere Across hundreds of pages of indictments filed in recent months, his name appears about a dozen times.

‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere. What Are They Doing to Us? PFAS lurk in so much of what we eat, drink and use. Scientists are only beginning to understand how they’re impacting our health — and what to do about them.

Toyota Is Doing Great Everywhere Except In North America Good morning! It’s Tuesday, August 1, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Read more…

Oklahoma’s Religious Public Charter School Would Be an Affront to Taxpayers Everywhere Christian nationalists right see charter schools as fertile ground for a full-on assault on the separation of church and state in public education.

Reminder to not swim everywhere The beaches in Rosignano Solvay (Toscana in Italy) are extremely polluted but filled with oblivious tourists anyway. The company Solvay dumps poisonous chemicals straight into the ocean and has been doing so for 110 years. It kills plants and animals. It also bleached the grey sand into a pretty white. For us humans it causes cardiovascular dise…

Soft Landing Optimism Is Everywhere. That’s Happened Before. People are often sure that the economy is going to settle down gently right before it plunges into recession, a reason for caution and humility.

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