People Who've Lived In Blue And Red States Are Sharing The Major Differences Between Them, And My Californian Mind Is Blown Away

"We hide, and we don't talk to any neighbors. No one knows our 'real' selves because our farm would be burned to the ground — and that is no joke."

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43 Things That’ll Help You Squash Some Infuriating Body Issues *Before* The New Year Arrives

Now's the time to conquer sweaty pits, pesky zits, and other annoyances that made 2024 a drag.

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28 Skincare Products For Anyone Who Loves When Things Exceed Their Expectations

These fan faves will deliver on everything they promise...and *more*.

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27 Products That'll Entertain Your Pets Indoors When It's Too Cold To Play Outside

Bad weather can be ~ruff~ on our four-legged friends but these entertainment solutions can help.

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I Befriended A Man On Death Row. Here's What He Taught Me Before He Was Put To Death.

"A few days before his execution, Brandon’s family visited him for the last time. After the visit, Brandon told me there was a hole in the pane of glass. I naively said, 'Oh, so you were able to hold hands?' He explained it was an air hole to speak through, not large enough for hands, 'But,' he said, 'I could smell my mom.'"

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28 Products For All The Problems You Gotta Solve Because You’re An Adult Now, Baby

When your body hurts and things in your house break, you'll be glad you can count on these products to help.

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Toledo beats Pittsburgh in bowl-record six OTs

Thursday's GameAbove Sports Bowl surpassed the previous mark set 48 hours earlier when South Florida beat San Jose State in five overtimes in the Hawaii Bowl.

Follow live: Seahawks try to stay in NFC West hunt vs. Bears

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25 People Who Didn't Realize They Failed Until It Was Already Too Late

It's giving "Graphic design is my passion!!!" energy.

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41 Beauty Impulse Buys You’ll Forever Be Glad You Purchased

There's nothing wrong with an impulse buy, in fact, if you get these nose pore patches and this teeth whitening pen, you will NOT regret it.

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Just So You Know, Reviewers Really, *Really* Think You Should Buy These 37 Items

When every reviewer says, "You need this," about *every* product on this list, you know you've hit the jackpot. ????

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Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently

Some EVs in stock on the Hertz Car Sales site. | Screenshot: The Verge

Hertz has contacted multiple electric vehicle renters recently with interesting low-cost offers for cars like Teslas, offering them the option to buy their rental EVs instead of returning them. One 2023 Model 3 renter shared on Reddit that they were offered a price of $17,913, which is similar to deals currently showing on the Hertz Car Sales site. However, the rental they were in had about 30,000 miles on it —...

Here’s how many people tuned into Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL games

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Netflix says it had a big audience for its live NFL games on Christmas Day, with Nielsen ratings designating them “the most-streamed NFL games in US history.” The Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers notched a 24.1M AMA (average minute audience), while the Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens hit 24.3M AMA, totaling nearly 65 million total viewers.

Though Netflix buckled under the weight of the more than 60 million households that tuned...

Throw A Birthday Bash To Unveil The City That Perfectly Captures Your Vibe

SPOILER ALERT: It won't be accurate.

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No CGI in new Alien: Earth xenomorph teaser

The upcoming FX series Alien: Earth from TV maestro Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion) remains mostly shrouded in mystery, but an interesting tidbit just came into focus. Rebecca and Kevin Joelson, the producers behind the show's teaser trailer, recently shared images and video of how the clip came together.

The biggest surprise is that the trailer's deadly xenomorph was made via practical effects, not computer-generated images (CGI). In the clip on the Joelsons' website, an actor is festooned with...

28 Inexpensive Alternatives If You’re Frugal And Can’t Bring Yourself To Spend Big Bucks On Name Brand Products

From Baccarat Rouge 540 to Skims to Cartier — whatever pricey thing you want, we've got a more affordable option for ya.

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Sources: DeSean Jackson near deal to coach DSU

Former Philadelphia Eagles star wide receiver DeSean Jackson and Delaware State are finalizing an agreement for him to become the program's next head coach, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Thursday.

4 radio emissions Earth received from space in 2024

If the thought of receiving radio signals from space conjures an image of Jodie Foster in the movie Contact, hunched over a computer console and listening for spaceship schematics beamed to Earth by intelligent beings from Vega, that’s, um, a decent first step toward understanding what scientists have in mind when they tune in to space’s radio signals. The reality is less cinematic, but that doesn’t make it boring. 

Radio telescopes — most famously the ill-fated Arecibo Observatory...

Apple explains why it will never build a search engine

Apple has no plans whatsoever in making its own version of Google.

It's not clear if anyone even really wanted such a thing, but if they did, they got bad news this week. Reuters spotted a federal court declaration filed by Apple in D.C. on Monday, and MacRumors honed in on some interesting nuggets. In particular, Apple senior VP of services Eddy Cue laid out in clear terms why Apple isn't interested in creating its own search engine:

It would be very expensive

The recent and growing injection...

ChatGPT has gone down the day after Christmas

No, it wasn't just you. On the day after Christmas, ChatGPT stopped working for many.

OpenAI's flagship chatbot experienced major outages around 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, right as some of its users were theoretically wanting something to do after getting over the Christmas rush. According to Down Detector, tons of users reported that the site wasn't working for them in the early afternoon, though the reports started receding after half an hour or so. That said, at the time of writing, ChatGPT...