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15 Siblings Who Don’t Deserve Forgiveness

Some transgressions can be forgiven because we’re family – but some things are just unforgivable horror shows. Frankly, these people below should be shamed for the rest of their lives (preferably on the internet). That’s how bad they are.

Let’s be real: these 15 siblings clearly are gonna get what’s coming to them.

15. You’re living with a monster.

What my older sister does to toothpaste tubes from mildlyinfuriating

14. How can you even be mad?

My mum asked my brother to share his Easter egg with me. from mildlyinfuriating

13. That’s a pretty epic level of lazy.

my little brother was too lazy to clean up monopoly so he threw it in the trash from mildlyinfuriating

12. What kind of person could do this?

How my sister eats her pizza…. from mildlyinfuriating

11. I love how there are no other texts in between.

My brother has a habit from mildlyinfuriating

10. She’s clearly trying to kill you.

About three weeks ago my sister knocked my lamp over and broke its glass cover. Today I saw that she had placed it next to my curtain, burning a hole in it and almost starting a fire. from mildlyinfuriating

9. Cheese and crackers, anyone?

I shit you not my brother ate the ham out of all 5 Lunchables and put them back in the refrigerator from mildlyinfuriating

8. It had to be a rainy day, too.

My brother backing out of my driveway… from mildlyinfuriating

7. But the middle is the best part?

My sister, everybody. from mildlyinfuriating

6. Okay but in her defense that could happen to anyone.

What my sister did to my earbuds… from mildlyinfuriating

5. Just shove it behind the couch, it will be like it doesn’t exist.

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4. She’s just taking one for the team.

My sister only eats the chocolate from the top container on the YoCrunch yogurts, leaving the rest of us with plain vanilla yogurt. from mildlyinfuriating

3. Who thinks keeping a lollipop clean is more important than a phone screen?

My sister is a god damn savage. from mildlyinfuriating

2. But it wasn’t empty!

My brother thinks that, by leaving half a sheet on the roll, he won’t have to change it. from mildlyinfuriating

1. This makes me twitch.

My sister, everybody. from mildlyinfuriating

 

May I never do something like this to my poor, long-suffering sister.

Has one of your siblings ever let you down on this scale? Tell us the story in the comments!

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Kansas City Is the First U.S. City to Offer Free Public Transit

Imagine being able to ride your city’s bus or train and go anywhere for free. That’s the reality in just one groundbreaking U.S. city.

In Kansas City, Missouri, people will soon be able to ride on any bus or light rail without paying a fare of any kind. The city is the first in the country to approve a plan for free public transportation.

Kansas City’s streetcar has been free for some time, and a plan to eliminate bus fares for 2020 was approved by the city council in December 2019.

City officials estimate that the new plan will cost $8 million, which is about how much the transit system makes off of bus fares and monthly passes each year.

However, it will also likely make residents’ lives a whole lot easier, especially low-income residents.

“When we’re talking about improving people’s lives who are our most vulnerable citizens, I don’t think there’s any question that we need to find that money,” City Councilman Eric Bunch told KSHB.

By making it easier for folks to get around, officials also hope that the plan will ultimately boost economic activity to make up for the lost money.

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Accessible public transit is a hot-button issue in many cities in the U.S. Many young activists praise mass transit as a possible way to fight the effects of climate change, and many large fossil fuel interests spend liberally to try and prevent the expansion of public transit systems.

However, no city has successfully enacted a plan for free public transit — until Kansas City. On the contrary, larger cities like New York City are famously cracking down on folks who ride the subway without paying (though New York has decades of mismanagement to thank for their current funding woes).

The success or failure of Kansas City’s plan will impact whether other cities follow suit, but it’s impossible to know how it’ll turn out without first trying — so hats off to you, KC!

Hopefully you’re the first of many.

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Here Are the 100 Most Popular Baby Names of the Decade

Baby names come and go, and it’s always interesting to see what sticks and what’s ultimately a flash in the pan. Have you wondered what the most popular names for kids have been the past ten years or so?

The numbers have been crunched from information from the Social Security Administration from 2010 to 2018 to give us the most popular baby names of the past decade.

Did you have any new kiddos in the past ten years? If so, did any of these names make the cut for you?

Tell us all about it in the comments!

1. Emma

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2. Sophia
3. Olivia
4. Noah
5. Isabella

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6. Liam
7. Jacob
8. Mason
9. William
10. Ava

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11. Ethan
12. Michael
13. Alexander
14. James
15. Elijah

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16. Daniel
17. Benjamin
18. Aiden
19. Jayden
20. Mia

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21. Logan
22. Matthew
23. Abigail
24. Emily
25. David

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26. Joseph
27. Lucas
28. Jackson
29. Anthony
30. Joshua

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31. Samuel
32. Andrew
33. Gabriel
34. Christopher
35. John

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36. Madison
37. Charlotte
38. Dylan
39. Carter
40. Isaac

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41. Elizabeth
42. Ryan
43. Luke
44. Oliver
45. Nathan

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46. Henry
47. Owen
48. Amelia
49. Caleb
50. Wyatt
51. Chloe

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52. Christian
53. Ella
54. Sebastian
55. Evelyn
56. Jack

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57. Avery
58. Sofia
59. Harper
60. Jonathan
61. Landon

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62. Julian
63. Isaiah
64. Hunter
65. Levi
66. Grace

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67. Addison
68. Aaron
69. Victoria
70. Eli
71. Charles
72. Natalie

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73. Thomas
74. Connor
75. Lily
76. Brayden
77. Nicholas

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78. Jaxon
79. Jeremiah
80. Aubrey
81. Cameron
82. Evan
83. Adrian
84. Jordan

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85. Lillian
86. Gavin
87. Zoey
88. Hannah
89. Grayson
90. Angel
91. Robert

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92. Layla
93. Tyler
94. Josiah
95. Brooklyn
96. Austin
97. Samantha

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98. Zoe
99. Colton
100. Brandon

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Dollar Stores Really Do Make Money

It may seem impossible that a store that offers pretty much everything cheaper than anywhere else (if not for an actual $1) could be a profitable business.

Dollar stores (to be clear, we’re talking about the category of stores “dollar stores,” not the chain of dollar stores called “Dollar Store”) have been around for decades, but after the recession in 2008, more and more people across all income levels began to patronize them.

“In general, dollar stores provide great value,” explained Meaghan Brophy, a retail analyst for FitSmallBusiness.com. “But as many items are custom-made in smaller sizes by manufacturers for dollar stores, shoppers need to compare the price against weight, length, and size,

Given that you can find them in pretty much every town, though – there are 15,000-of them across the U.S. –  they’re obviously turning a profit.

But how?

Darya Minovi, a policy associate at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, can tell us at least part of the story.

“Dollar stores are able to profit on slim margins, in part because operating costs are kept low by employing only a handful of people to stock aisles, and by limiting the amount of cold chain storage in their stores (which is necessary for fresh foods like produce).”

Basically, they take care when deciding what to stock and how much in order to cut down on operating costs in their stores –  which explains why you’re pretty much always on your own when it comes to finding something in their jumbled aisles of canned vegetables and paper goods.

There’s more to the equation, though, says Minovi.

“Dollar stores in the United States typically seek to open locations in economically disadvantaged communities that lack a full-service grocery store. It’s worth noting that consumable goods were nearly 78% of Dollar General’s total sales in 2018. Unfortunately, the food on offer is largely calorie-dense and nutrient-poor, so this model depends on selling nutritionally poor food and beverages to mostly low-income customers.”

Which is all to say that dollar stores, though they serve the needs of certain communities, are not without their issues.

One of those issues, though, isn’t turning a profit.

Just so you know.

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It Took 20 Years for This Woman to Recover Her Lost Luggage

Losing your luggage sucks. I mean sure, you can pack the things you really need in your carry-on, but there’s just something about not having your things that can make you feel so much more lost, and stressed, especially if you’re away from home.

Most of the time, though, the airline is quick to recover and return your things.

That wasn’t the case for Tuscon resident Maria Dellos, whose bags went missing more than two decades ago, never to be seen again.

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At least, that’s what she thought…

Until she got a call from TSA.

Because she apparently has terrible luck, she assumed they were ringing about the luggage they lost 4 months ago, but no – it was about her bag that had disappeared twenty years earlier.

She told KVOA news about her reaction to the call.

“Well I actually almost ignored the call because of telemarketing. All day long I get calls.”

We feel you, Maria.

The bag was returned, and inside it she found art supplies she’d purchased from a trade show, as well as a handwritten note that was chock full of nostalgia for her.

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“When I looked at this note, it was dated, it dated me as 20 years ago! And I was just absolutely blown away. I’m absolutely thankful to the TSA for calling me today and giving me great faith back into the airline industry.”

I don’t know if I’d have “great faith” if I was her, but it’s also amazing to me that they actually called and got her the bag instead of trashing it in order to never have to discuss their mistake.

TSA says the bag was likely left unattended for so long that someone dumped it in lost and found without researching who it might belong to or where it should properly have been sent.

 

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Oh, and her more recently lost bags? Those’ve been returned, too, so maybe her faith isn’t totally misplaced.

Time will tell. I’ll be ready for updates the next time she flies.

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This Is Why Black Clothes Seem so Slimming

If you’re anything like me, a quick scan of your closet will show you one thing: you wear a lot of black. For me, it’s not because I’m satanic or allergic to the rest of the color palette. Rather, it has to do with the fact that black clothes are unquestionably slimming, especially for a guy of my size who needs all the help he can get. And for the rest of my black-wearing brethren, science backs up our undying loyalty to the slimming magic of black clothing.

The reason black clothes make us look sleek and slim is due to the way our visual system processes light. It all comes down to an irradiation illusion— a concept written about by 19th-century German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz. Author of the foundational  Handbook of Physiological Optics, Helmholtz discussed the interaction of physics, physiology and psychology in how we perceive certain colors and spaces.

But the obsession with illusions dates back even farther – to the 1500s, with Galileo Galilei’s curiosity about why some planets appeared closer to the naked eye than with a telescope. Turn the clock far ahead to 2014 and an answer finally appeared.

Researchers at the State University of New York College of Optometry studied the electric signals from neurons in the visual areas of human, cat and monkey brains. The test subjects looked at a mix of light shapes on dark backgrounds, dark shapes on light backgrounds, light shapes on gray backgrounds and dark shapes on gray backgrounds.

Based on their findings, the researchers discovered that the two sets of neurons respond differently to light and darkness. The dark (off) neurons responded more strongly to dark shapes on light backgrounds. On the other hand, the light (on) neurons, even with the same amount of contrast, had a significantly greater response.

Whether you believe in the science or you think your eyes are playing tricks on you, black is not only fashionable but makes you look more fit. A black blazer or pair of jeans will make you look slim and sleek the next time you’re out on the town.

It’s science.

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This Is What Happens to Your Student Loan Debt After You Die

A few decades ago, this isn’t a question that would have been on many people’s minds. Student loans were typically small and paid off shortly after graduation, leaving the students who needed them free to start their adult lives, debt-free and degree in hand.

Now, things are very different, with the majority of students exiting four years of college (or more) with debt that could literally take them the rest of their lives to erase.

But what happens to the loan if the person who signed for it does pass away before it’s paid?

If you have no idea, you’re not alone – a recent survey done by Haven Life revealed that almost 75% of borrowers aren’t sure what effect their death would have on their lines.

“The reason is because it is a scary thing to think about…losing a parent, most often the co-signer, or a parent losing a child. Most people don’t think about it until something happens,” says Barbara Ginty, a certified financial planner.

The answer is that it depends on what type of loan you have, along with a few other factors.

If you have a federal student loan in your name when you pass, the outstanding balance will be wiped out through a “death discharge.” All that needs to happen is a friend or family member remitting proof of your death (a death certificate, etc) to the servicer, and it will be cleared.

The same protections are in place for Parent PLUS loans, and recent changes to tax law through the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act (2018) mean those discharged loans are not taxed as income, which is significant.

If you have private loans, though, your situation could be a bit trickier. Discharges, even due to death, are considered on a “case-by-case basis,” says Elaine Griffin Rubin, a senior contributor for the financial aid site Edvisors.

That said, most lenders do have it in the fine print that death is a valid reason for forgiving the loan.

If your parent was a co-signer, and they pass away, though, the lender might not be as forgiving, says Ginty.

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“Often times, private lenders have a clause stating that the loan goes into automatic default if the co-signer passes away.”

That means that even if you have a payment plan and are current on your payments, a company could expect you to repay the loan in full immediately if your co-signer dies.

If you live in Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington, or Wisconsin, you could also be liable for your spouse’s loan balance, since those are community property states.

I mean, you’re young and healthy and you’ll probably never have to worry about any of this. That said, bad luck can strike anyone, so if you want to protect your loved ones, talk to them about your loans and your plans for paying your debts if something should ever happen.

Life insurance is a good idea for everyone, to be honest.

That’s your free tip for the day. You’re welcome.

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5 Interesting Christmas Traditions From Around the World

If you’re an American like yours truly, you have Christmas down pat here in the good old USA. We know the Christmas traditions, the songs, the pop culture surrounding it, and we know all about the good food we eat every December 25.

But what do folks do in other countries to celebrate this holiday?

Here are five interesting and unusual Christmas traditions from around the globe that you might not know about.

1. Japan

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This one is very unusual, but who are we to judge? In Japan, people enjoy eating Kentucky Friend Chicken on Christmas Eve. Only one percent of the Japanese population is actually Christian, but KFC’s “Christmas Chicken” bucket is a huge hit in the country.

In 2016, an estimated 3.6 million families celebrated Christmas Eve this way in Japan. The tradition dates back to 1974 when a group of foreigners in Japan couldn’t find a turkey and decided to go to KFC instead. KFC saw it as a good marketing opportunity, and the rest is history. Today’s version consists of chicken, cake, and champagne.

2. Ukraine

Ukrainian Christmas Tree at the Museum of Science and Industry, 2008

In Ukraine, people decorate their trees with fake spiders and webs. Why, you ask? According to that country’s folklore, there was a poor, single mother who couldn’t afford to put any decorations on her family’s Christmas tree. One night while the family was sleeping, a spider spun a beautiful web and decorated the tree. The sun turned the web silver and gold and the poor family never needed anything ever again.

A nice story, I think.

3. Guatemala

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On December 7 at 6 o’clock in the evening, Guatemalans build bonfires to “burn the devil.” This tradition kicks off the Christmas season in Guatemala every year, and it especially popular in Guatemala City as a way to honor the city’s patron saint during the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.

The tradition started with a simple fire during colonial times, then over the years devil figures and even devil piñatas have been added to the mix. It’s estimated that 500,000 bonfires now burn in Guatemala every December 7.

4. Greenland

The coders way of cutting mattak

Greenland doesn’t get a lot of mentions in the history books, but they do have an interesting Christmas tradition that’s worth noting. In that country of only 55,000 people (that’s half the size of Boulder, Colorado), the men serve the women their meals at Christmas. What’s the meal? Strips of whale blubber known as “mattak.” Dessert usually consists of porridge with butter, cinnamon, and sugar.

5. Venezuela

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This might be the best Christmas tradition I’ve ever heard! In Caracas, Venezuela, people strap on roller skates to head to church on Christmas Eve. The story goes that kids are supposed to go to bed with a piece of string tied to their toes and their foot dangling out of a window. People skating by the windows tug on the toe strings letting kids know it’s time to roller skate to mass. Despite the fact that people probably don’t sleep with their feet hanging out of the window, Venezuelans still roller skate to mass to this day.

When mass is over, people get together for food, music, and dance. I like this idea!

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People Are Telling Dads That They Put Olive Oil in Their Cars, and Dads Are Very Upset

There have some innocent and funny Internet challenges that have involved intentionally riling up one’s parents. And I mean…it’s really their fault for having goats that are so easily gotten, right?

Like how easy it is to freak out your dad (or husband for that matter) by pretending to have done something totally ignorant and potentially harmful to your vehicle.

Enter the latest challenge: texting your father that you’ve put olive oil into your car engine thinking it was the same as motor oil.

And guys. Dads are not disappointing us.

Though they may be disappointed in us.

15. He’s going to call CPS.

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14. Always so helpful.

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13. Duh!

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12. Are you sure his was, though?

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11. Okay, Boomer.

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10. Talk about taking it in stride!

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9. He’s going to request a paternity test now.

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8. Wow he even managed to slip in a Dad joke.

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7. Always the pragmatists.

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6. The “I suspect you are not” has to sting!

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5. Think of the FARMERS.

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4. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.

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3. He really wishes you had an excuse.

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2. This is a man who knows how things work.

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1. He’s *pretty* sure he didn’t marry a moron.

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I’m too old to try this on my dad so I guess I’ll have to wait for the next one.

Boo.

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Here Are 7 Ways You Can Reduce Your Waste During the Holidays

Have you thought about what Mother Earth wants to find under her (hopefully not dwindling) trees year after year?

I’ll give you a hint: it’s less of everything (except love).

And this is a perfect time of year to turn over a new leaf because according to Washington University in St. Louis, MO, Americans throw away 25% more trash between Thanksgiving and New Year’s than at any other time of year. This amounts to 25 million tons of trash in just a few months.

If you’re feeling inspired, here are 7 ways you can help bring that number down – and keep it going all year long.

7. Make a list and stick to it.

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Surprises are a nice idea, but unless you know the person really well (or vice versa) there’s a good chance that thing you wondered whether they’ll like will end up as waste.

Ask people what they want and like, then buy it for them, and be straightforward with the people asking you for ideas too.

6. Bring reusable bags.

You should be doing this every time you run to Target or the grocery store (I keep mine in my car), but don’t forget to bring them along for holiday gifts, too.

5. Try gifting experiences instead of things.

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Tickets to a concert, season tickets to a sporting event, passes to the zoo, cooking classes – the opportunities are endless, and people just might get to enjoy that gift for months at a time.

4. Only send Christmas cards to the people closest to you (or choose virtual cards instead!).

Wash U says that the “2.65 billion Christmas cards sold each year in the U.S. could fill a football field 10 [stories] high.”

Most people are going to toss your card in the trash, so think hard before you send them to everyone you know.

3. Don’t bother wrapping your gifts.

Hide them instead, or just pull them out of a reusable bag at the party. Scavenger hunts are fun, too – at least, for the person who makes them, they are.

2. Or at least use recyclable paper.

Make sure to double check that the paper you buy can end up in the recycling bin – just make sure to remove the tape first or use reused ribbon to tie it up nice and tight.

1. Buy light strands that run on parallel circuits.

You don’t want to throw out your entire strand because of one faulty light – and a simple parallel circuit means you won’t have to.

Also, use a timer for energy savings, too!

 

I’m off to do some last minute gifting to the planet – how about you?

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