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Walking Away Is Simple, Staying Away Is The Hard Part

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Holly Riordan Updated February 5, 2020 By Seven Roadtrips You might decide to walk away in the heat of the moment. You might get fired up about the way your person has been treating you, pack your bags, and decide to leave. You might be 100% positive that getting the hell away from them is the right thing to do. But that certainty isn’t going to last. Your doubts might start a few days later. Or they might start before your hand even touches the doorknob. You might not even…

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Stop sharing the ‘I’m in a mental hospital’ Facebook post. It’s not funnyit’s harmful

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People love Facebook posts that invite them to create silly lists of their friends and family members, and most of the time, it’s all in good fun. But a “mental hospital” post that keeps circulating is nowhere near good fun, and it needs to go away, now. The post begins, “This is Hilarious!” before telling people to follow the directions to fill the following list with Facebook friends’ names: “I’m in a mental hospital My roommate: Licks the glass: Helps me escape: My psychiatrist: Asleep in the corner: Shouts at…

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Illinois suspects enter Walmart with ‘Caution I have the Coronavirus’ sign and spray substance on $7K worth of produce

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The individual who spray the substance, which was later identified as Lysol, wore a yellow medical mask and was seen with a handmade sign fashioned to his back that read “Caution I have the Coronavirus.”  (Joliet Police Department) Walmart employees told police that an estimated $7,300 worth of produce was lost as a result and the cleanup will cost over $2,400. The suspects, believed to be in their 20s, were last seen leaving in a white 2003 GMC Yukon registered in Oswego. Police did not say what charges, if any,…

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What Trump’s reality show speech revealed

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(CNN)CNN asked commentators for views on President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. The opinions expressed are solely those of the authors. View more opinion articles on CNN. Let’s be clear, as fact-checker Daniel Dale was busy pointing out on Twitter, it was full of half-truths and total distortions. But the broad themes Trump hit on are likely to be very popular with wide swaths of American voters. The economy is good, unemployment is down, and his administration passed key pieces of legislation like paid family leave for…

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NHS orders ‘coronavirus pods’ in England hospitals

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The new measure means that A&E departments will be able to direct people who think they have symptoms of the coronavirus to a pod away from other patients, where they can call specialist NHS 111 teams on a dedicated phone. An NHS spokeswoman said: “Anyone with a cough, fever, or shortness of breath who attends hospital and has recently returned from China will be advised to follow signs to NHS 111 pods and call for advice, so they stay isolated from other patients and avoid causing unnecessary pressure in A&E.”…

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Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile

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The last three and a half years haven’t been so great for social media platforms. They’ve been accused of breaking Western democracies, and Ryan Roslansky, a senior vice president of product at the company who was the first person Weiner hired. confused with Tinder. Throughout, the company’s origins shaped its tone and its culture. People’s identities were tied to their résumés, which meant that they acted like their bosses were always looking. This decreases racist shitposting and increases the colloquial use of PowerPoint clichés. The company went public in 2011…

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Heres All The Creepy Stuff Youll Learn From Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer On Prime

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Emily Madriga Updated February 3, 2020 Emily Madriga Updated February 3, 2020 Like most true crime fans I still don’t have Ted Bundy fatigue. Even though we’ve seen a deluge of Bundy content, I’m still waiting for the thing that’s going to explain how convinced so many people he was just an ordinary person, and what made him so sick in the first place. At least two of the recent additions have been a turn down a new direction for fans of the genre — telling his story through the…

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