There’s a surfeit of empty commercial real estate around Croydon, so happy to see people doing something with it.
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The great baseballist Miguel Cabrera gives his pro softball-playing mother all credit, saying she taught him everything he knows.
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The strangely star-crossed baseballist Yoenis Céspedes has said the same of his own pro softball-playing mother.
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The bill, which was passed in 2023, specifically states that children under the age of 16 should receive 15% of an influencer’s gross earnings if they appear in at least 30% of monetized content online. The parents or caregivers must put the earnings into a trust account.
This will be supervised by requiring the parents to report to the Illinois Department of Labor how much money they made, what hours the child worked to produce the content, and how much they deposited into the child’s trust account.
The money is required to be held in the child’s name until they become 18 years old.
This law also states that the child is allowed to request the deletion of content featuring themselves, and should the adult not comply, the minor has the ability to sue for damages.
Illinois is the first state in the country to enact such a law, different versions of which other states, including Washington, Maryland, and California, are considering as the influencing industry, specifically for parents, continues to grow.
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The one-box showing here doesn’t explain why this story is also over in The Kids are Alright thread: it was a 15yo who spearheaded this change!
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I don’t know if I would have turned the money in if I was homeless.
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Thursday evening Peanut Butter, a Shiba Inu Good Boy, played (and won!) Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball, a Super Nintendo video game, at Summer Games Done Quick 2024.
Eat your heart out, Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch!
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Glyphosate is probably not much of a carcinogen, the studies are pretty consistent in classifying it as “low risk,” but that is a long way from saying it’s good for you. I avoid it as much as possible, but given modern agricultural practices, that’s a tough go.
Toxic Effects of Glyphosate on the Nervous System: A Systematic Review - PMC (nih.gov)
But this is not good, nor encouraging, and as such, we will return to our regularly scheduled good things.
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Important info:
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Good to see this in a church…
Also, props to the preacher for the committment to the bit!
from:
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The Internet Archive saves the day, yet again:
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There were times the congregation sounded like they weren’t all in agreement with him, making it all the more courageous and vital.
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(Newsweek) Kansas Supreme Court Strikes Down GOP-Backed Abortion Regulations
On Friday, the Kansas Supreme Court struck down a Republican-backed abortion second-trimester ban and affirmed that the state’s constitution protects abortion access, with one justice dissenting.
In two separate decisions released on Friday, the court ruled, “The Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights protects a fundamental right to personal autonomy, which includes a pregnant person’s right to terminate a pregnancy.” The Court also ruled against several state licensing requirements for abortion providers.
The decisions blocked enforcement of a 2015 law supported by Republican legislators that banned the common second-trimester abortion procedure of dilation and evacuation. The Court found that S.B. 95, known as Unborn Protection from Dismemberment Act, violates the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights and “impairs the right to abortion.”
Kansas, a reliably conservative state for decades, has been at the center of national abortion debates in the past few years. In August 2022, just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision which eliminated the federal right to abortion, Kansans overwhelmingly rejected an amendment that sought to remove abortion protections from the state constitution. It was the first vote in the nation of its kind since Dobbs. The majority referenced the 2022 vote in their opinion, stating, “The people spoke with their votes.”
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And even in general, having a wide range of ages on a trip makes it more interesting and meaningful. My most recent trip had ages 15 to 69, and that infused the activities with more stories, more interconnectedness, and more appreciation.
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