Tag: cultural norms

Family of Cincinnati brawler makes shocking race allegations as suspect faces new charges over viral beatdown

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‘That person ought to go to jail for a very long time – and frankly, he’s lucky there weren’t some better people around because they would’ve handled it themselves.

‘I don’t know the full context, but the one part that I saw that was really gruesome is you had a grown man who sucker punched a middle-age woman’. — JD Vance on the sucker punch incident.

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It’s good Vance said something. Black-on-white crime is huge and everybody knows it.

We have to focus on it.

It was not long ago that sucker punches were considered an act of cowardice, universally condemned in USA, at least within white American society.

Hitting a woman for any reason was also universally condemned.

Sucker punching a woman was completely and entirely unheard of for most of my life. ABN

‘The era of human programmers is coming to an end’ — Masayoshi Son, Softbank founder

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“The era when humans program is nearing its end within our group”, says Softbank founder Masayoshi Son. “Our aim is to have AI agents completely take over coding and programming. (…) we are currently initiating the process for that.”

Son made this statement on Wednesday at an event for customers organized by the Japanese corporation, as reported by Light Reading. According to the report, the Softbank CEO estimates that approximately 1,000 AI agents would be needed to replace each employee because “employees have complex thought processes.”

AI agents are software programs that use algorithms to respond automatically to external signals. They then carry out tasks as necessary and can also make decisions without human intervention. The spectrum ranges from simple bots to self-driving cars.

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How Jimmy Swaggart Changed American Christianity

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The disgraced televangelist built his career on an undeniable talent. His downfall contributed to a major shift in how Americans viewed religious leaders.

THE DEATH THIS WEEK OF JIMMY SWAGGART at the age of 90 brings to an end one of the most controversial and remarkable careers in recent American religious life. For younger Americans, Swaggart’s name might not mean anything; others might recall blurry footage of a weeping preacher confessing, “I have sinned.” And sin he did, but in a time when Americans have become accustomed to seeing headlines about sex scandals involving religious leaders, it’s hard to convey just how consequential his indiscretions seemed when they were first reported.

The story broke in 1988 and caused an immediate media earthquake. The ground shook because Swaggart had fallen from a great height: He was, for a time, one of the most powerful religious voices in America, commanding a global television ministry, shaping conservative politics, and presenting himself as a moral compass to millions.

One of the challenges when it comes to properly evaluating Swaggart as a public figure is that nowadays we are not inclined to imagine a televangelist as a figure inherently worthy of any real respect. But the man’s own scandals are one of the reasons for that. When Swaggart’s resonant voice first started being heard in living rooms across the country, TV preachers occupied a very different place in the American imagination than they do today.

Swaggart emerged from the rural Pentecostal world of midcentury Louisiana, where fervent faith and musical flair often went hand in hand. His family background offered intimations of his later path: His cousins, rock-and-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis and country singer Mickey Gilley, both had the signature family blend of raw talent and unruly impulse. But while they chased fame across beer-soaked honky-tonk stages, Swaggart was drawn to a different kind of spectacle: revivals.

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UPS cuts 20,000 jobs while reducing Amazon deliveries

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The Atlanta-based company will be providing its laid off employees with various benefits, including pensions and healthcare.

The layoffs are part of UPS’s network configuration plan, which also confirms the upcoming closures of over 90 more facilities in the future.

The changes are part of the company’s $3.5 billion cost reduction target for 2025, aiming to reach a 12 percent US operational margin by next year.

UPS, which is one of the largest parcel delivery companies in the US, currently has 490,000 employees, around 330,000 of which are represented by the Teamsters union.

The union was the first to announce the buyout, calling it an ‘illegal violation’ of the national contract in which UPS committed to create 22,500 jobs.

‘Our members cannot be bought off and we will not allow them to be sold out. UPS needs to live up to the existing contract. They must honor their commitments,’ said Sean O’Brien, general president of the union.

The company concluded that its profit margins from Amazon deliveries profit were too small, and it wanted to focus on other markets like healthcare and international deliveries.

‘The world has not been faced with such enormous potential impacts to trade in more than 100 years,’ said CEO Carol Tomé. Deliveries for Amazon make up around 12 percent of UPS’s revenue.

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Meet Mr and Mrs Bezos! Billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez exchange vows in $20million ‘wedding of the century’… but Kardashians bail early and bride’s shameless gift is revealed

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Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos‘ lavish wedding reception came to a close in the early hours of Saturday as A-listers slipped away from the glittering celebration under the cover of darkness and through narrow Venetian canals.

Described as the ‘wedding of the century,’ the 61-year-old Amazon founder and 55-year-old former journalist exchanged vows in front of almost 200 VIP guests on San Giorgio Maggiore island on Friday.

Following the ultra-exclusive ceremony, the billionaire couple threw a star-studded reception attended by high-profile guests, including the Kardashian sisters, Oprah Winfrey, Ivanka Trump, Usher, and Orlando Bloom.

The extravagant affair – reportedly costing $20million and drawing ire from locals – was capped off with an eyebrow-raising gift from the bride.

While Bezos chose stylish ViBi Venezia blue velvet slippers for the gentleman guests, Sanchez gave the ladies black open-toe slippers from Amazon – seizing the opportunity to promote her billionaire husband’s e-commerce empire.

Late last night as the party wrapped, photographers captured Kim and Khloe Kardashian making a speedy getaway in a waiting water taxi.

The bleary-eyed sisters, true to form, posed for the cameras as the boat set sail – throwing up peace signs and making duck faces at the awaiting lenses.

A little while later, their supermodel sister Kendall Jenner made her own escape, weaving through the city’s canals and posing against the breathtaking backdrop of Italy’s finest architecture.

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Says a lot about our times. In Buddhism, money is good when it is well-spent. ABN

Karmelo Anthony formally charged with MURDER for stabbing Austin Metcalf in high school crime that stunned the country

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 Karmelo Anthony, the teen who has admitted to stabbing and killing a fellow high school athlete at a track meet in Texas, has been indicted by a grand jury with first-degree murder.

Austin Metcalf, 17, bled out in his brother’s arms after the attack by Anthony.

Fricso, Texas police have said the incident stemmed from Metcalf asking Anthony to leave his team tent since he didn’t go to the same school. 

Anthony, 17 at the time of the killing and now 18, was arrested shortly after and charged by police with first degree murder in a case that has drawn national attention over race and privilege. 

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