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    Tesla’s new cut-price EVs: A $39,990 Model Y and $36,990 Model 3

    "discontented" or "discounted" ?
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    Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

    The Udvar-Hazy annex is an incredible museum. When you walk in, you can pose in front of an SR71 with a shuttle in the background!! Get up off your rear and visit this incredible museum.
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    The long-planned return of two astronauts from space is now a political issue

    folderol Kudos to whomever helped you build your vocabulary, I had to look that one up!
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    Trump targets Mexico and Canada with tariffs, plus an extra 10% for China

    “whatever tariffs are required—100 percent, 200 percent, 1,000 percent” to stop Chinese cars from crossing the southern border. I'm having a hard time finding a Trump quote about Chinese cars crossing into the US from Mexico?
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    How foreign influence campaigns manipulate your social media feeds

    "We haven't measured the effect, we didn't attempt to measure the effect, and it's probably impossible to ethically/legally test the effect. But the influencing is definitely, probably happening! Probably." One would think that marketing agencies have explored this extensively, and continue to...
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    If you plan to eat an undercooked bear, watch out for brain worms

    Pfffff! I'm a survival expert from hours spent playing The Long Dark. Even a novice knows you don't eat bear meat until cooking level five! /s
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    New research shows gas stove emissions contribute to 19,000 deaths annually

    I am not a scientist. Is there a meaningful difference at an academic level between "contribute" and "directly cause" in the 19,000 deaths number?
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    A crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad ad

    Everything being destroyed in the ad are objects with deep personal meaning to the people who train for years to operate them. These analog objects harness the rules of the physical world into hard earned creativity. To ask people to watch those objects get slowly crushed to create something...
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    Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study finds

    What's crazy is how consistently Cost of Living in a region has no relationship to pricing either. It would have been nice to track that as well to demonstrate to prove it wasn't the underlying factor in variation of prices.
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    Report: Amazon made $1B with secret algorithm for spiking prices Internet-wide

    I feel like the core of the story is missing: How exactly Amazon's algorithm altered pricing of competitor's "weaker" algorithms. I'd love for that to be explained.
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    I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months—in Manhattan

    As someone who has managed a large public computer lab, this is not appreciated.
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    UN chief asks wealthy nations to impose windfall taxes on fossil fuel industry

    My kneejerk reaction is "how will this not end up being passed on to me as a consumer?" "Other people criticize the work as oversimplified and naïve. David Victor, a political scientist and energy policy specialist at UC San Diego and a co-author of the 2015 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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    Hospital beds full, National Guard deployed amid crushing delta wave

    "One of Pennsylvania's largest health systems, Geisinger, announced Wednesday that it was overwhelmed by COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated patients and running at 110 percent" Could we clean up the byline so it's clear that the entire state of Pennsylvania's hostpitals are *not actually*...
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    Over-driven: why our cars guzzle gas, what to do about it

    When mentioning the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, you failed to mention that the "higher" MPG requirements are actually voluntary, and that if US manufacturers fail to meet these standards by the 2011 deadline, they can (and would) request a continuance of those MPG requirements...