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Why'd you have to go after Elmo?

Will the decade end in our destruction? These sci-fi authors weigh in.

Was this Pilates instructor racist or just oblivious? Despite its origins as an exercise for injured and disabled soldiers and dancers, Pilates has become a wellness-world staple. This is especially true among a predominantly white, affluent crowd. 

This is literally the bad place

These days, it seems you can’t outright own anything anymore. Everything is rented or requires a subscription to work. Even when you think you’ve bought something, like a digital movie or game, those are subject to licensing agreements. This means they can be deleted from your library if the hosting…

Losing a job—especially when you didn’t see it coming—can hit hard.

“Some heroes don’t wear capes.” That’s the modern idiom a woman bestowed on a Target employee after the worker swooped in and saved the day during a shopping trip. While the interaction may have been solid proof of the kindness of strangers, viewers didn’t see it as wholesome. 

In the summer of 2000, a big-budget superhero movie was about as far from a sure thing as Hollywood could imagine. The state of the genre was dire: Batman’s popularity was on the decline after fans rejected director Joel Schumacher’s campy take on the caped crusader. Additionally, Superman was too…

A woman’s experience with a cashier has people questioning whether people’s basic math skills are in a steep decline. Canada-based Viktoriya (@viktoriyaonline) revealed in a TikTok how a cashier’s mistake led her to be $15 richer. 

Was a woman making Starbucks workers’ lives harder, or was she being “gaslit?” According to TikTok viewers, it’s the latter for a customer who went to pick up her mobile order only to be chastised for doing so. 

A Fort Lauderdale woman sparks safety concerns after sharing her experience with an Uber driver who locked his doors and asked to kiss her.