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UN agency warns of Afghans dying in harsh winter if there’s no proper shelter after leaving Pakistan

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.N. refugee agency has warned that Afghans could die in harsh winter conditions if they don’t get adequate shelter once they cross the border from Pakistan. Almost half a million Afghans have left Pakistan since early October, when the Islamabad government announced it would arrest and deport foreigners it said were … Read more

I’m Dying Laughing At These Scammers Who Tried To Rip People Off And Got Totally And Completely Destroyed In The Process In 2023

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Honestly, it feels like part of just being alive in 2023 is getting about 15 scammer or spam texts every single day. It can be enough to drive one absolutely cuckoo. Join me, if you will, as we look at some people who absolutely dunked on some sorry scammers. Take for example… 1.The person who … Read more

Tumblr Is Always Dying | WIRED

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Some internet culture commentators have kept pace with Tumblr’s continually evolving ecosystem, but the mainstream narrative in recent years is that Tumblr is dead. Journalists will cite keeping a blog there in the early years—when it felt like a cooler, more indie option than WordPress or Blogger—and rarely mention any social-network elements in their decade-plus-old … Read more

Sir Mick Jagger on losing Charlie Watts and people his age ‘dying all the time’

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Sir Mick Jagger says time hasn’t made it easier when it comes to losing Charlie Watts Sir Mick Jagger is still grieving the loss of his The Rolling Stones bandmate Charlie Watts and he says it “doesn’t get easier” with time. The Rolling Stones lost their drummer in August 2021 to complications after heart surgery. … Read more

‘Dear David’ Is the Final Gasp of a Dying Internet

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One of the most remarkable achievements in cinema is when a film successfully transports its audience to another time and place. Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain immerses viewers in the world of cowboys in 1960s Wyoming. Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War brings us to bleak, gorgeous 1950s Poland. Spike Lee’s The 25th Hour could take place nowhere … Read more

California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease

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Inside the row of workshops in an industrial stretch of Pacoima, men labored over hefty slabs of speckled stone, saws whining over the sounds of Spanish-language rock. Pale dust rose around them as they worked. Many went without masks. Some had water spurting from their machines, but others had nothing to tamp down the powder … Read more

Kristin Harila, record-setting K2 climber, defends ascent as porter lay dying

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Touch upon this storyComment Within the drone footage, a grisly scene unfolds. On the sheer higher slopes of one of many world’s most unforgiving peaks, mountaineers, decided to succeed in the world’s second-highest summit in a record-breaking string of ascents, seem to step over the prostrate physique of Muhammad Hassan — a Pakistani porter who … Read more