US regulators on Thursday said they plan to develop rules to address the safety risks linked to the hidden electric car door handles popularized by Tesla.
Suddenly, the wordenshittification has become literal. Before this month, Americans already had more than enough problems to worry about, fromfood and fuel costs to a heinous and seemingly never-endingwar with Iran. But now, we’ve got a Biblical plague ofdiarrhea to contend with too. It’s not the first of its kind, but it’s hitting the national bowels especially hard, aided by the dismantling of regulations and public health networks across the country in the 2020s. Meanwhile, our politicians are too busy with their own reckless profit-making schemes to field much of a response. So as the shit-storm spreads across the map, it’s revealing some critical fault lines in the American state itself.
India’s government will likely quell the student-led Cockroach protests, but it will have a harder time suppressing the underlying frustration fueling them, prominent Indian commentators argued.
Letter carriers and other people who work outdoors, especially in the upper Midwest and East, are experiencing hazardous levels of smoke from Canadian wildfires. Some areas have been experiencing AQI (Air Quality Index) measurements of over 300, even over 500, with local authorities advising residents to stay indoors.
As temperatures continue to rise from climate change and vegetation dries out and catches fire from lightning, this situation will get worse.