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What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?

Americans in their 30s have never looked less like grown-ups.

Amid steep declines in homeownership, marriage and birth rates, economists have long been warning that young people are struggling to meet the milestones of adulthood. Although some 30-somethings are consciously choosing a less traditional path, many say these goals are simply out of reach.

“It feels like the instructions for how to live a good life don’t apply anymore,” says 38-year-old Cody Harding, who is single and lives with three roommates in Brooklyn. “And nobody has updated them.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA, Yikes!

Fluoride

For almost 80 years, some American cities have been adding the chemical fluoride to the drinking water for healthy teeth. Since the start, some have claimed it’s an unsafe practice while others cried that’s a conspiracy theory. Lisa Fletcher finds a growing number of communities are trying to get the flouride out and are pointing to sound science.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inYikes!

The microchip implants that let you pay with your hand

A microchip was first implanted into a human back in 1998, but it is only during the past decade that the technology has been available commercially.

And when it comes to implantable payment chips, British-Polish firm, Walletmor, says that last year it became the first company to offer them for sale.

“The implant can be used to pay for a drink on the beach in Rio, a coffee in New York, a haircut in Paris – or at your local grocery store,” says founder and chief executive Wojtek Paprota. “It can be used wherever contactless payments are accepted.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Surveillance Society", technology, Yikes!

UNBELIEVABLE video of a pileup in Schuylkill County as snow squalls brought visibility on Interstate 81 down to near zero.

Coroner called to massive pileup on I-81 in Schuylkill County

As you can see from another view of the Charger in the video, things got A LOT worse. Those vehicles had to break through the log jam.

At least three people have died in the massive pileup on northbound Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County Monday, according to reports.

Although authorities originally said 40 vehicles were involved, state police now say 50-60 vehicles crashed near mile marker 116 in Foster Township due to a snow squall.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inweather, Yikes!

Monkey Business, Pennsylvania Crash Resulting in Research Monkey Escape Ends with CDC Monitoring Residents

There was a vehicle crash in rural Pennsylvania last week involving a truck transporting 100 monkeys to a CDC quarantine facility. Three of the monkeys escaped in the crash and a search was conducted to locate them.  According to the update all of the missing monkeys have now been accounted for. The three escapees were euthanized.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCDC, Yikes!

FAA’s Statement On Mysterious Air Traffic Halt Leaves More Questions Than Answers

The Federal Aviation Administration has finally put out an official statement regarding a still very mysterious ground stop order that it issued to all aircraft in the western U.S. and Hawaii yesterday around 2:30 PM PST. While the incident is now confirmed, there are still a significant number of unanswered questions, including the most important one: what triggered this decision in the first place? You can get up to speed first on what The War Zone had been able to determine in our initial reporting here.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inNorth Korea, Yikes!