You’re watching a friend play a game or even simply just chatting with them about a game and you ask the simple question, “Is the game fun?” and instead of a simple yes or no, they say, “You’d have to play it yourself,” and for some people, that answer is ...
You are sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office when you hear a mother yelling at the doctor that she’s not allowing her 8 month old to have a flu vaccine. The doctor clearly looks distressed, and you think to yourself, “How can a mother refuse a vaccine ...
So you are watching TV, and a breaking news reporter starts talking about some famous athlete that had been accused of some vicious crime and is awaiting trial and is not allowed to compete in the next big game, and if you are a sports fan, I imagine you ...
My grandma loves watching videos of people getting arrested by the police and acting violent, or just plain foolish, and most of the time it’s a police officer who uploaded it. To me, I think it invades people’s privacy, and it probably is seen by friends, family, and maybe even ...
A video posted on TikTok on Friday showed three people in overall, wearing what appeared to be headlamps, emerging from a manhole at 32nd St and 7th Avenue, near Penn Station and Madison square. The incident happened after 4 a.m. on Aug 18th. New York police are investigating the men ...
On Monday state officials proposed eliminating credit-based diploma requirements at a Board of Regents meeting. They announced that high school graduates in New York could soon start receiving a new type of diploma, one that reflects their skills and knowledge rather than the number of credits they’ve earned. The New ...
On Thursday, State Senators introduced a bill that would ban New York school districts from using humanoid robots in classroom instruction. This is a first-of-its-kind proposal that came in response to a New York Focus report about a Western New York school district’s plan to use one as a teaching ...
So you are sitting at home scrolling Facebook and you see a clip of an athlete that you recognize, jumping in the air to catch a football and it slips out of their hands. Curious, you check the comments and there is so much hate because they missed the ball ...
If a child is under 18 and they commit a serious crime, I think that the parent is obligated to get into trouble, maybe not jail time, just maybe something like parenting classes, because if that child is getting into trouble and the parent doesn’t realize it, that is usually ...
After more than a decade, Amtrak is celebrating the halfway point of the East River tunnel restoration project, after it was badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy. East River Tunnel Line 2 is one of the busiest rail links in the Northern corridor and Amtrak is marking the milestone with a ...
In 10 years a lot of jobs that students are going to college and university for are going to be obsolete. It’s not that they won’t exist exactly, it’s more like the positions won’t be filled by humans and that’s the problem. The future is supposed to be bright and ...
A New York City chef is turning heads after he turned his tiny two-seater Smart Car’s trunk into a curbside pizzeria, and serving customers on the go. CNN’s Jeremy Roth reported that Bradley Avelo makes pizzas in the trunk and uses portable generators for power, which draws attention to his ...
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