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Mercedes-Benz has drawn backlash in China over claims that it used models in an advert whose appearance perpetuated harmful stereotypes about Asians.
The German automaker was savaged on Chinese social media site Weibo for using models with ‘slanted eyes’ in the commercial for its new CLS luxury sedan.
The Communist Party’s Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday that there was fury because the models’ ‘makeup reflects Western stereotypes about Asian people.’
Babies can be transphobic now. Unhinged pic.twitter.com/H77aoKCHSR
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2021
Here’s the full video. https://t.co/cmfsHGVLyV
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 29, 2021
On Twitter in particular, there’s no faster way to start a fire than by mentioning Rose Hanbury, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, former close friend of Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, and — unfortunately — the rumored mistress of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate’s (by all appearances) loving husband. Rumors of an affair between William and Hanbury first set Twitter ablaze in 2019, with claims that William had cheated on Kate during her pregnancy with their third child Prince Louis.
You know what they say about smoke?
The ability of men to erase women has now expanded to game shows.
On Friday, Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider became, according to NBC News, “the highest-earning female contestant in the game show’s nearly 57-year run.”
Roaming pet cats on borrowed time, as councils consider curfews to protect native animals
They’re playful and gentle companions. Clean, independent and smart. For many people, cats are the perfect pet.
But they are also known to be killing machines.
Just ask wildlife veterinarian, Maren Beeston.
Almost every day she witnesses the devastating fallout from free-ranging cats.
One of her recent patients was a majestic boobook owl.
I am uncertain about the circumstances behind this video, one commenter suggests the girl is from North Africa so she may be Muslim herself.
La fille est maghrébine
— Alessia (@Alessialafarge) December 29, 2021
We have a mental health crisis in this country pic.twitter.com/Li7bPWVSBk
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) December 28, 2021
Amazon has updated its Alexa voice assistant after it “challenged” a 10-year-old girl to touch a coin to the prongs of a half-inserted plug.
The suggestion came after the girl asked Alexa for a “challenge to do”.
“Plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs,” the smart speaker said.
Amazon said it fixed the error as soon as the company became aware of it.
Elon Musk is facing a social media backlash after China complained that its space station was forced to avoid collisions with satellites launched by his Starlink Internet Services project.
The country’s space station had two “close encounters” with Starlink satellites this year, Beijing claimed.
The incidents behind the complaints, lodged with the UN’s space agency, have not yet been independently verified.
A Texas doctor said his practice has seen a nearly 15% increase in vasectomies as men try to push back against the state’s abortion law, The Washington Post (WaP0) reported Sunday.
Koushik Shaw, a doctor who practices at the Austin Urology Institute, told WaPo his practice saw a roughly 15% increase in scheduled vasectomies following the state’s Sept. 1 abortion ban.
Since its birth during the Cold War, Canada’s spy agency has occupied itself with three primary threats: terrorism, espionage and foreign interference in domestic politics and business.
Now, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is pointing to a disruptive new player on the field: climate change.
CSIS says it’s trying to get a handle on how climate change will disrupt national security. It has even acknowledged that effort publicly — something intelligence agencies rarely do.
Another budget ask.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman has been charged with killing her boyfriend with a sword on Christmas Eve.
… Wilson told police that she and Foster had taken methamphetamine earlier in the day. She also told investigators that she believed Foster had several other entities living in his body, and she was setting him free by stabbing him.
As the year comes to a close, the news is getting grimmer, folks — at least according to the prophecies of long-dead, divining daddy Nostradamus. The French-plague doctor, astrologer and seer published his famed and widely quoted book “Les Prophéties” in 1555. Chock full of poetic predictions, the book foretells the coming of wars, natural disasters, assassinations, nuclear attacks and revolutions.
