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July 28, 2021
Label:
Boysnoize Records – BNR021, Boysnoize Records – BNR21
Format:
Vinyl, 12", Mini-Album, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country:
Germany
Released:
25 Feb 2008
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
House, Electro
Siriusmo - Mein Neues Fahrrad (Boys Noize Edit)
Label:
Boysnoize Records – BNR021, Boysnoize Records – BNR21
Format:
Vinyl, 12", Mini-Album, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country:
Germany
Released:
25 Feb 2008
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
House, Electro
July 28, 2021
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-ice-cream-shops-in-america
It’s quite possible that we are living in the golden age of ice cream innovation, one where old-school creameries are churning out vanilla bean masterpieces honed over generations while creameries are tossing the term “chef” into the mix to challenge the very notion of what ice cream is. It’s a win-win for everyone, especially when temps outside begin to spike. These ice cream shops represent everything that is well and good: new-wave artisan shops challenging the very notion of what should be placed on a cone (or stick, or between cookies), old-school parlours learning new tricks, new-school parlour trying to remind you of old-school ones, plant-based creameries, and much more. Booze and asparagus are both represented along with rocky road and salted caramel. Grab a napkin. It’s going to be a glorious mess.
See the top ice cream shops in all of Austin.
See the top ice cream shops in all of San Francisco.
See the top ice cream shops in all of Dallas.
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The 40 American Ice Cream Shops You Need To Try Right Now
Few things are better than an ice cream cone on a hot day.https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/best-ice-cream-shops-in-america
It’s quite possible that we are living in the golden age of ice cream innovation, one where old-school creameries are churning out vanilla bean masterpieces honed over generations while creameries are tossing the term “chef” into the mix to challenge the very notion of what ice cream is. It’s a win-win for everyone, especially when temps outside begin to spike. These ice cream shops represent everything that is well and good: new-wave artisan shops challenging the very notion of what should be placed on a cone (or stick, or between cookies), old-school parlours learning new tricks, new-school parlour trying to remind you of old-school ones, plant-based creameries, and much more. Booze and asparagus are both represented along with rocky road and salted caramel. Grab a napkin. It’s going to be a glorious mess.
See the top ice cream shops in all of Austin.
See the top ice cream shops in all of San Francisco.
See the top ice cream shops in all of Dallas.
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July 28, 2021
https://thebanter.substack.com/p/its-time-to-make-vaccines-mandatory
Last week, a maintenance worker came to my apartment to take a look at our HVAC. This was not unusual since my building is old and things break down somewhat regularly. What was unusual was that he wasn’t wearing a mask. My eyebrow went up, Spock-fashion. I asked him if he was vaccinated. He responded that he didn’t have to tell me that, which meant “No”. Since I was standing in the doorway and his chances of getting past me were somewhere between zero and “watch the pretty snowball melt in the fiery pits of Hell”, I just stared at him for a few seconds, waiting. “I can get a mask from my car. Would you like me to do that?” I was wearing my mask so he could not see my deep frown of disapproval but presumably my narrowed eyes and continued silence were enough. “I’ll go get a mask.” Six weeks ago, I would not have done that. But that was before Delta. Now? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Delta Is Just Getting Started
Everyone in my family has both shots so I am not particularly concerned about one of us casually picking up Covid from a random passer-by on the streets. But having an unmasked and unvaccinated person in the apartment for twenty to thirty minutes, huffing and puffing? Yeah, we are not doing that. Even before Delta that would not have been a great idea. With the far more contagious variant that can also get past vaccination immunity? No thank you. This new reality is, quite literally, what I was writing about back at the beginning of May. I had heard anecdotal evidence that Delta (still called the Indian Variant at the time) was extremely infectious compared to previous variants. Specifically, I was told that it was hitting younger people much harder than previous versions of Covid had. This, in part, is why I had my 11-year-old daughter vaccinated 6 months before she was actually eligible. The difference between 11 and a half and 12 is non-existent but the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated is everything. To be clear, there is no evidence that children, specifically, are more susceptible to Delta. But because this variant is so much more contagious and virulent, it is infecting and harming far more children than previous strains of the virus. Now that children (and teens and early 20s) are no longer kind of, sort of, protected, the number of infections is rapidly rising as is the number of severe cases.
NBC News reports:
Once schools are reopened, two things are going to happen. First, a very large number of children, tens, if not hundreds, of thousands, are going to get sick in very short order. Second, there will be a new wave of Covid panic. The first is entirely predictable. Before Covid really got going last year the nation wisely yanked the kids out of school. It was a tough year but it kept most kids safe. At the same time, the original Covid and its initial variants were not virulent enough to present a serious threat to kids. The result? We let ourselves believe that Covid was only a danger to the elderly and minorities, i.e. people America does not care about. Now we are going to let about 56 million kids go back to school, at least 30 million of them unvaccinated, right when a variant that is a threat has become the dominant strain in the United States. In high schools where most of the kids are vaccinated, there may be some breakthrough infections. Where Republican parents have chosen to put their teens in harm’s way? It will run rampant. In middle schools, 6th grade has a lot of kids who are still under 12 and therefore can’t get the shot (unless, of course, their parents do what we did and just lie about their child’s age). Delta will spread if the larger community is not well-vaccinated. And possibly even if it is.
Elementary school is a disaster waiting to happen. At least middle and high schoolers can make an attempt at social distancing, washing their hands, and wearing masks. It will be impossible to do this with Pre-K through first grade. Even second and third grade is pushing it. If you are rolling your eyes at this or plan on blaming teachers, you have clearly never tried to keep a single 5-year-old clean, much less a roomful of them. Once the headlines start rolling in, “100,000 Children Infected With Delta In 4 Weeks!” (and that is wildly optimistic), that’s when the second wave of panic will set in. People, naturally, get really freaked out when their kids are in danger. Some are already anticipating this. There are a lot of solid theories about why the Republican Party and parts of Fox News are suddenly discovering their belief in science and vaccines but I do not think it’s that much of a mystery. Previously, Covid was killing a lot more Black, Latino, and Native Americans than White people. And it was hardly touching kids at all. As far as Republicans were concerned, this was awesome.
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It's Time To Make Vaccines Mandatory
Here's the argument we need to make to those refusing to take the Covid-19 vaccine.https://thebanter.substack.com/p/its-time-to-make-vaccines-mandatory
Last week, a maintenance worker came to my apartment to take a look at our HVAC. This was not unusual since my building is old and things break down somewhat regularly. What was unusual was that he wasn’t wearing a mask. My eyebrow went up, Spock-fashion. I asked him if he was vaccinated. He responded that he didn’t have to tell me that, which meant “No”. Since I was standing in the doorway and his chances of getting past me were somewhere between zero and “watch the pretty snowball melt in the fiery pits of Hell”, I just stared at him for a few seconds, waiting. “I can get a mask from my car. Would you like me to do that?” I was wearing my mask so he could not see my deep frown of disapproval but presumably my narrowed eyes and continued silence were enough. “I’ll go get a mask.” Six weeks ago, I would not have done that. But that was before Delta. Now? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Delta Is Just Getting Started
Everyone in my family has both shots so I am not particularly concerned about one of us casually picking up Covid from a random passer-by on the streets. But having an unmasked and unvaccinated person in the apartment for twenty to thirty minutes, huffing and puffing? Yeah, we are not doing that. Even before Delta that would not have been a great idea. With the far more contagious variant that can also get past vaccination immunity? No thank you. This new reality is, quite literally, what I was writing about back at the beginning of May. I had heard anecdotal evidence that Delta (still called the Indian Variant at the time) was extremely infectious compared to previous variants. Specifically, I was told that it was hitting younger people much harder than previous versions of Covid had. This, in part, is why I had my 11-year-old daughter vaccinated 6 months before she was actually eligible. The difference between 11 and a half and 12 is non-existent but the difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated is everything. To be clear, there is no evidence that children, specifically, are more susceptible to Delta. But because this variant is so much more contagious and virulent, it is infecting and harming far more children than previous strains of the virus. Now that children (and teens and early 20s) are no longer kind of, sort of, protected, the number of infections is rapidly rising as is the number of severe cases.
NBC News reports:
Once schools are reopened, two things are going to happen. First, a very large number of children, tens, if not hundreds, of thousands, are going to get sick in very short order. Second, there will be a new wave of Covid panic. The first is entirely predictable. Before Covid really got going last year the nation wisely yanked the kids out of school. It was a tough year but it kept most kids safe. At the same time, the original Covid and its initial variants were not virulent enough to present a serious threat to kids. The result? We let ourselves believe that Covid was only a danger to the elderly and minorities, i.e. people America does not care about. Now we are going to let about 56 million kids go back to school, at least 30 million of them unvaccinated, right when a variant that is a threat has become the dominant strain in the United States. In high schools where most of the kids are vaccinated, there may be some breakthrough infections. Where Republican parents have chosen to put their teens in harm’s way? It will run rampant. In middle schools, 6th grade has a lot of kids who are still under 12 and therefore can’t get the shot (unless, of course, their parents do what we did and just lie about their child’s age). Delta will spread if the larger community is not well-vaccinated. And possibly even if it is.
Elementary school is a disaster waiting to happen. At least middle and high schoolers can make an attempt at social distancing, washing their hands, and wearing masks. It will be impossible to do this with Pre-K through first grade. Even second and third grade is pushing it. If you are rolling your eyes at this or plan on blaming teachers, you have clearly never tried to keep a single 5-year-old clean, much less a roomful of them. Once the headlines start rolling in, “100,000 Children Infected With Delta In 4 Weeks!” (and that is wildly optimistic), that’s when the second wave of panic will set in. People, naturally, get really freaked out when their kids are in danger. Some are already anticipating this. There are a lot of solid theories about why the Republican Party and parts of Fox News are suddenly discovering their belief in science and vaccines but I do not think it’s that much of a mystery. Previously, Covid was killing a lot more Black, Latino, and Native Americans than White people. And it was hardly touching kids at all. As far as Republicans were concerned, this was awesome.
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July 27, 2021
By Jamelle Bouie
It is old hat to note that Americans have deified their “founding fathers” as saints — secular or otherwise. What is a little less obvious is how that deification has frozen them in time. We hail the Thomas Jefferson of 1776, not the one of 1806; the James Madison of 1787 rather than the one of 1827. We remember George Washington the triumphant military leader of 1783 more than George Washington the reluctant president of 1793. The extent to which the founders are frozen in time is most apparent in how they’re used for present-day political purposes. Truth of the matter aside, when speakers say, “This is what the founders intended,” they tend to mean, “This is what the founders intended at the Philadelphia Convention.”
The problem is that the men we call the founders did not stop thinking or writing or acting in politics with ratification of the Constitution. Nor did they stop after serving in office. Even when retired from public life, they continued to comment on current affairs, to express their highest hopes and aspirations as well as their deepest fears and apprehensions. Those fears and apprehensions are the subject of a recent book by Dennis C. Rasmussen, a political scientist at Syracuse University. In “Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders,” Rasmussen walks readers through the later-in-life correspondence of Jefferson, Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, each of whom feared for the fate of the American republic following their service in the government they created. And for good reason.
“There were few precedents or fixed poles to guide the nation’s lawmakers,” Rasmussen writes, “and the very fate of republican liberty seemed to them to hinge on their every decision.” A “sense of crisis pervaded the era” and the founders’ correspondence was “littered with predictions of imminent collapse.” Washington, Rasmussen notes, was consumed with fear of “faction” — political parties and their consequences for the future of the republic. “Until within the last year or two,” he told Jefferson in a July 1796 letter, “I had no conception that Parties Would, or even could go, the length I have been Witness to.” Over the previous year, Washington had been embroiled in a swirling political storm over the Jay Treaty. Negotiated by John Jay, then the chief justice of the United States, the treaty attempted to resolve a number of issues still outstanding after the end of the Revolutionary War. Attacked as a brazen giveaway to Britain, the treaty inspired furious reaction from Washington’s Republican opposition, which emerged in his second term under the leadership of Jefferson and Madison. “The backlash against the treaty,” Rasmussen writes, “was like nothing” Washington “had experienced before.”
The Republican press turned its sights squarely on the once-untouchable president, using every term of abuse it could muster and levelling every charge it could concoct, no matter how implausible. Washington was senile; he was a blasphemer; he was a womanizer; he had embezzled public funds; he was a tool of the British crown or desired a crown of his own; Hamilton not only controlled him behind the scenes but was somehow also his illegitimate son; Washington had been a secret British agent during the Revolutionary War, and his efforts to betray the patriotic cause were foiled by Benedict Arnold beating him to the punch. Washington’s famous farewell address — in which he warned against faction — was as much about the circumstances of his own administration as it was a warning to future Americans. In his final year, however, Washington seemed to surrender to the reality of parties and factionalism. Asked to consider a third term for president, he told the governor of Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull, that he was “thoroughly convinced I should not draw a single vote from the Anti-federal side” and that character was irrelevant to the outcomes of elections. “Let that party set up a broomstick, and call it a true son of Liberty, a Democrat, or give it any other epithet that will suit their purpose, and it will command their votes in toto!”
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The 'Founding Fathers' Were Surprisingly Pessimistic
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/opinion/us-founding-fathers-constitution.htmlBy Jamelle Bouie
It is old hat to note that Americans have deified their “founding fathers” as saints — secular or otherwise. What is a little less obvious is how that deification has frozen them in time. We hail the Thomas Jefferson of 1776, not the one of 1806; the James Madison of 1787 rather than the one of 1827. We remember George Washington the triumphant military leader of 1783 more than George Washington the reluctant president of 1793. The extent to which the founders are frozen in time is most apparent in how they’re used for present-day political purposes. Truth of the matter aside, when speakers say, “This is what the founders intended,” they tend to mean, “This is what the founders intended at the Philadelphia Convention.”
The problem is that the men we call the founders did not stop thinking or writing or acting in politics with ratification of the Constitution. Nor did they stop after serving in office. Even when retired from public life, they continued to comment on current affairs, to express their highest hopes and aspirations as well as their deepest fears and apprehensions. Those fears and apprehensions are the subject of a recent book by Dennis C. Rasmussen, a political scientist at Syracuse University. In “Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders,” Rasmussen walks readers through the later-in-life correspondence of Jefferson, Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, each of whom feared for the fate of the American republic following their service in the government they created. And for good reason.
“There were few precedents or fixed poles to guide the nation’s lawmakers,” Rasmussen writes, “and the very fate of republican liberty seemed to them to hinge on their every decision.” A “sense of crisis pervaded the era” and the founders’ correspondence was “littered with predictions of imminent collapse.” Washington, Rasmussen notes, was consumed with fear of “faction” — political parties and their consequences for the future of the republic. “Until within the last year or two,” he told Jefferson in a July 1796 letter, “I had no conception that Parties Would, or even could go, the length I have been Witness to.” Over the previous year, Washington had been embroiled in a swirling political storm over the Jay Treaty. Negotiated by John Jay, then the chief justice of the United States, the treaty attempted to resolve a number of issues still outstanding after the end of the Revolutionary War. Attacked as a brazen giveaway to Britain, the treaty inspired furious reaction from Washington’s Republican opposition, which emerged in his second term under the leadership of Jefferson and Madison. “The backlash against the treaty,” Rasmussen writes, “was like nothing” Washington “had experienced before.”
The Republican press turned its sights squarely on the once-untouchable president, using every term of abuse it could muster and levelling every charge it could concoct, no matter how implausible. Washington was senile; he was a blasphemer; he was a womanizer; he had embezzled public funds; he was a tool of the British crown or desired a crown of his own; Hamilton not only controlled him behind the scenes but was somehow also his illegitimate son; Washington had been a secret British agent during the Revolutionary War, and his efforts to betray the patriotic cause were foiled by Benedict Arnold beating him to the punch. Washington’s famous farewell address — in which he warned against faction — was as much about the circumstances of his own administration as it was a warning to future Americans. In his final year, however, Washington seemed to surrender to the reality of parties and factionalism. Asked to consider a third term for president, he told the governor of Connecticut, Jonathan Trumbull, that he was “thoroughly convinced I should not draw a single vote from the Anti-federal side” and that character was irrelevant to the outcomes of elections. “Let that party set up a broomstick, and call it a true son of Liberty, a Democrat, or give it any other epithet that will suit their purpose, and it will command their votes in toto!”
snip
July 27, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/politics/senator-mike-enzi-dies.html
Michael B. Enzi, a long-serving United States senator from Wyoming who had a reputation as a low-key, consensus-seeking conservative and who led the Senate Budget Committee for several years before he retired in January, died on Monday, days after a bicycle accident. He was 77.
A former spokesman, Max D’Onofrio, confirmed Mr. Enzi’s death to The Associated Press. He had been airlifted to the UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies, in Loveland, Colo., after an accident in Gillette, Wyo., on Friday.
Mr. Enzi was consistently conservative. He voted against marriage equality and abortion rights, and he regularly defended the energy industry, supporting off-shore drilling and opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other public lands to private oil companies. But he also sought compromise at times, and he occasionally opposed members of his own party — as when he supported efforts to impose a uniform tax on interstate commerce online.
He served four terms in office, overwhelmingly winning re-elections. He easily fended off a primary challenge in 2014 from Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, despite her national name recognition and greater fund-raising ability.
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Michael Enzi, Long-Serving U.S. Senator From Wyoming, Dies at 77
A four-term senator, Mr. Enzi was a consistent conservative with a consensus-seeking style. He died after a bicycle accident in Gillette, Wyo., the city where he began his political career.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/politics/senator-mike-enzi-dies.html
Michael B. Enzi, a long-serving United States senator from Wyoming who had a reputation as a low-key, consensus-seeking conservative and who led the Senate Budget Committee for several years before he retired in January, died on Monday, days after a bicycle accident. He was 77.
A former spokesman, Max D’Onofrio, confirmed Mr. Enzi’s death to The Associated Press. He had been airlifted to the UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies, in Loveland, Colo., after an accident in Gillette, Wyo., on Friday.
Mr. Enzi was consistently conservative. He voted against marriage equality and abortion rights, and he regularly defended the energy industry, supporting off-shore drilling and opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other public lands to private oil companies. But he also sought compromise at times, and he occasionally opposed members of his own party — as when he supported efforts to impose a uniform tax on interstate commerce online.
He served four terms in office, overwhelmingly winning re-elections. He easily fended off a primary challenge in 2014 from Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, despite her national name recognition and greater fund-raising ability.
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July 27, 2021
Simone Biles faltered badly on her vault, putting the Americans behind against Russia. Then she left the floor briefly before pulling out of the team final.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/27/sports/gymnastics-olympics-results
Breaking Olympic gymnastics spoiler
Simone Biles Out of Team Final for U.S.Simone Biles faltered badly on her vault, putting the Americans behind against Russia. Then she left the floor briefly before pulling out of the team final.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/27/sports/gymnastics-olympics-results
July 26, 2021
Truth matters. We look like fools if we go off on things that never happened.
I am NOT defending Vance!
At all!
His idea is equally insane.
This whole 'OMG they want to BAN the childless from voting' misinformation was kicked off by a mislabelled Raw Story article.
Fox News hosts discuss how to ban 'childless' liberals from voting
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-childless-liberals/
Then Salon picked it up
New idea gaining steam in right-wing circles: Only parents should be able to vote
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/25/new-idea-gaining-steam-in-right-wing-circles-only-parents-should-be-able-to-vote_partner/
and again here
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/26/gops-race-to-the-bottom-who-can-be-the-most-obnoxious-troll/
the Fox Video many are using confirms that I am right
and, finally here is original RW Vance article
Senate Candidate Blasts ‘Childless Left’ Who Have ‘No Physical Commitment To The Future Of This Country’
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/24/senate-candidate-blasts-childless-left-who-have-no-physical-commitment-to-the-future-of-this-country/
I am sorry if this upsets people, but ffs, I am always going to present truth, not make shit up because it may help my side. That is what Rethugs and QMAGAts do, not us Dems.
If this is the hill I die on here, then so be it. JD Vance did NOT call for banning the childless
from voting.Truth matters. We look like fools if we go off on things that never happened.
I am NOT defending Vance!
At all!
His idea is equally insane.
JD Vance wants to give votes to all children from birth until they turn 18, and LET THE PARENTS control those votes.
So a QMAGAt family with 7 kids (all under 18) would have NINE votes that the parents (likely the father as that is how most of those fuckers so often roll) decide how to allocate.
Of course, many non Rethugs have big families too, BUT I would very much wager that a higher percentage of non Rethug big fams do not vote versus Rethug big fams. That means a HUGE net boost for the Rethugs.
Also, a further NIGHTMARE.
IF this did happen, just think of the forced breeding that would likely occur when big big daddy QMAGAt forces his 'holy vessel' aka wife to spit out an extra 3,4,5 little 'votes'.
So a QMAGAt family with 7 kids (all under 18) would have NINE votes that the parents (likely the father as that is how most of those fuckers so often roll) decide how to allocate.
Of course, many non Rethugs have big families too, BUT I would very much wager that a higher percentage of non Rethug big fams do not vote versus Rethug big fams. That means a HUGE net boost for the Rethugs.
Also, a further NIGHTMARE.
IF this did happen, just think of the forced breeding that would likely occur when big big daddy QMAGAt forces his 'holy vessel' aka wife to spit out an extra 3,4,5 little 'votes'.
This whole 'OMG they want to BAN the childless from voting' misinformation was kicked off by a mislabelled Raw Story article.
Fox News hosts discuss how to ban 'childless' liberals from voting
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-childless-liberals/
Then Salon picked it up
New idea gaining steam in right-wing circles: Only parents should be able to vote
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/25/new-idea-gaining-steam-in-right-wing-circles-only-parents-should-be-able-to-vote_partner/
and again here
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/26/gops-race-to-the-bottom-who-can-be-the-most-obnoxious-troll/
the Fox Video many are using confirms that I am right
and, finally here is original RW Vance article
Senate Candidate Blasts ‘Childless Left’ Who Have ‘No Physical Commitment To The Future Of This Country’
https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/24/senate-candidate-blasts-childless-left-who-have-no-physical-commitment-to-the-future-of-this-country/
I am sorry if this upsets people, but ffs, I am always going to present truth, not make shit up because it may help my side. That is what Rethugs and QMAGAts do, not us Dems.
July 26, 2021
The Israeli study said 39% efficacy for Pfizer, 33% for J&J, against Delta, the 88% was from the UK
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine only 39% effective against Delta variant, claims Israel study
https://www.cnbctv18.com/healthcare/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-only-39-effective-against-delta-variant-claims-israel-study-10096861.htm
Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are only 39 percent effective in preventing infection and symptomatic illness caused by the Delta variant of coronavirus, Israeli officials said on July 22. The percentage was scaled down from the estimated 64 percent two weeks ago to 39 percent by Israel’s Health Ministry.
Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson vaccine was found to be 33 percent effective against the Delta variant.
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July 26, 2021
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/summer-drinks-non-alcoholic-brands
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Refreshing Non-Alcoholic Beverages That Aren't La Croix
https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/summer-drinks-non-alcoholic-brands
Yes, summer is about enjoying longer days, pleasant hikes, and salty bodies of water. It can also be about finding reprieve from the damning heat, whether it be posted in front of your A/C unit, sitting under a particularly bushy tree with blankets of shade, or sipping on something thirst-quenching and refreshing. This is where this list of refreshing non-alcoholic beverages comes in. Don’t get me wrong: I love a frosty margarita or pitcher of fruit sangria in the summer, but alcohol doesn’t really lend itself to hydration. If you’re feeling an afternoon slump and want to sip on something bright and bubbly, or are looking for bottled elixirs to bring to your next outdoor picnic, try out one of these canned or bottled beverages instead. We’ve got leisure sodas, sparkling tea, and kombucha in the mix, so there’s something sippable for everyone.
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July 26, 2021
Amazon doesn't allow you to pay for orders using cryptocurrency. There are ways around that, but they won't be necessary for much longer as the company has confirmed it is gearing up to start accepting cryptocurrency as a valid form of payment.
As Tom's Hardware reports, the first sign this shift is happening was spotted via a new job listing. Amazon is looking to hire a Digital Currency and Blockchain Product Lead who will be tasked with using their "domain expertise in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger, Central Bank Digital Currencies and Cryptocurrency to develop the case for the capabilities which should be developed, drive overall vision and product strategy, and gain leadership buy-in and investment for new capabilities."
It sounds like Amazon is thinking about adding a "Pay with Bitcoin" option to its shopping cart, and Business Insider confirmed Amazon is preparing to introduce cryptocurrency support, with a spokesperson saying:
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https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1644513/digital-currency-and-blockchain-product-lead
Amazon Is Preparing to Accept Cryptocurrency
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-is-preparing-to-accept-cryptocurrencyAmazon doesn't allow you to pay for orders using cryptocurrency. There are ways around that, but they won't be necessary for much longer as the company has confirmed it is gearing up to start accepting cryptocurrency as a valid form of payment.
As Tom's Hardware reports, the first sign this shift is happening was spotted via a new job listing. Amazon is looking to hire a Digital Currency and Blockchain Product Lead who will be tasked with using their "domain expertise in Blockchain, Distributed Ledger, Central Bank Digital Currencies and Cryptocurrency to develop the case for the capabilities which should be developed, drive overall vision and product strategy, and gain leadership buy-in and investment for new capabilities."
It sounds like Amazon is thinking about adding a "Pay with Bitcoin" option to its shopping cart, and Business Insider confirmed Amazon is preparing to introduce cryptocurrency support, with a spokesperson saying:
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https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1644513/digital-currency-and-blockchain-product-lead
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