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Published February 28, 2023 11:44PM Updated 11:49PM Facebook did nothing to help woman whose special needs nephew was bullied online An entire Facebook page was created just to make fun of, and bully a 21-year-old Metro Detroit man with autism. HIs family had to get creative to have the page taken down after the social media giant provided zero help. FOX 2 (WJBK) - An entire Facebook page was created just to make fun of, and bully a 21-year-old Metro Detroit young man with autism. His family had to get creative to have the page taken down after the social media giant provided zero help. "It’s very heartbreaking to watch them and to get made fun of, and as a family member it just breaks your heart to see it," said Jill Vandenabeele. Vandenabeele’s 21-year-old nephew Gabe Franz was mocked on social media for nearly two months.Gabe Franz has autism, is hearing impaired, and has other cognitive disabilities. It was that and a deep love of trains that made him the butt of jokes online.  » Read More

IKEA has been designing and selling ready-to-assemble furniture for decades. The company operates 460 stores in 62 markets and aims to, as it says, "offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home ... products at prices so low, that as many people as possible will be able to afford them."And it's succeeding. Every year, IKEA welcomes more than 680 million customers in its stores and around 3.8 billion on its website, amounting to sales of 39.5 billion EUR (or 41.8 billion USD) in the fiscal year 2022. However, with around 10,000 products, some clients are having doubts if they can make the most out of the retailer's supply.This is where the internet comes in. There's a Facebook group, called 'IKEA tips, hacks and more!' and as the name suggests, it invites people to share their proudest shopping discoveries. Whether you are already planning a complete makeover for your place or are simply looking for some DIY project inspiration, this online community might have exactly what you need.  » Read More

Nate Koppikar never thought he’d be talking to the investors in his hedge fund about Kim Kardashian. Or, to put it in financial jargon, there was a “low but non-zero probability” that her name would come up in a letter. But then, he notes, Kardashian “is not just a reality TV star anymore. Now she’s a private equity titan.”And Koppikar’s fund, Orso Partners, has a big short on private equity.Last fall, Kardashian launched private equity fund SKKY Partners with former Carlyle Group executive Jay Sammons. Less than a month later, Kardashian settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission for promoting a crypto token without disclosing that she’d been paid to do so.To Koppikar’s mind, Kardashian’s move into private equity was a red flag, a “sure sign that the top is in for the illiquid private asset class.” The easy-money environment of recent years had made investing seem almost effortless, leading private investors to forsake due diligence for hanging out with celebrities — and using them to pitch their wares,  » Read More

The New York Times has launched its new campaign “All In” focusing on all of The Times, all together. This campaign celebrates the uniquely compelling breadth of the All Access subscription and the value of the ultimate New York Times experience. This is the first time The Times’s marketing team has created a marketing campaign that focuses on our essential subscription strategy and All Access bundle. The Times’s 2023 marketing work will continue to highlight the breadth of our report and our suite of products from Games to Cooking to Wirecutter and The Athletic. Created by The New York Times in-house creative team, and set to the rhythm of Parliament’s “Together,” The Times’s new campaign centers on the word “All” and emphasizes and illustrates the value of subscribing to the ultimate New York Times experience. Amy Weisenbach, senior vice president and head of marketing, The New York Times Company, said, “Building off The Times’s strong enterprise strategy, our All Access campaign brings this clear vision to life by demonstrating the value of the full New York Times subscription.  » Read More

Russia’s relations with the West are broken and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Few Western leaders advocate engaging Russia anymore. And the collective West is united in its opposition to the war as it increases sanctions on Russia and severs economic ties. Russian officials are sanctioned, no longer welcome in many international fora. And Russian oligarchs have lost access to their homes and yachts in Europe. Putin may have believed a year ago that Europeans were so dependent on Russian hydrocarbons that they would not jeopardize their access to them by opposing the war. But Europe has managed to wean itself from Russian oil and gas in a remarkably short time, jettisoning 50 years of energy interdependence. Russia will no longer have the geopolitical influence that had qualified it as an energy superpower even as it sets its sights on the Asian market. Putin has closed the window on the West which his much-invoked favorite Tsar Peter the Great opened three centuries ago. But Russia’s ties with China remain strong. China repeats the Russian narrative about the West being responsible for the war,  » Read More

The latest polls place Ron DeSantis and Joe Biden in a footrace for 2024. Florida’s 44-year-old Republican governor leads the octogenarian president by a whisker. More Americans like DeSantis than otherwise. Whether he can capture the Republican nomination, however, remains an open question. He has not yet declared his candidacy and trails Donald Trump in hypothetical matchups. Then again, no one else comes close.Said differently, Trump and his legacy remain forces for any Republican to reckon with. Nikki Haley, an announced candidate for the GOP nomination, can barely mention his name. She wants to supplant her ex-boss by eliding him. A bold strategy.DeSantis is patient. He will probably wait to announce until late spring, when the Florida legislature adjourns. For the moment, he expects us to be content with The Courage to Be Free, a memoir-cum-288-page-exercise in sycophancy and ambition tethered to a whole lot of owning the libs.It is a mirthless read, lacking even the gleeful invective of Never Give an Inch,  » Read More

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/AxiosAmericans are increasingly forgoing or delaying marriage — a dramatic shift from societal norms a generation ago.By the numbers: Over the last 50 years, the marriage rate in the U.S. has dropped by nearly 60%.What's happening: Taxes and some other legal structures still give an advantage to married couples, but the formal benefits of marriage are diminishing, said Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins. And the societal pressure to marry has eroded dramatically."Life is still a bit easier if you're married," he said. But many of the life events we link to marriage, such as cohabitating or having kids, are increasingly occurring outside of marriage.Reality check: Even as the marriage rate is falling, the institution still holds value in the U.S., said Susan Brown, co-director of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research.Case in point: High school seniors' attitudes toward marriage have remained relatively stable over the past several decades.  » Read More

Thor was "just chilling" on an Iceland dock when fishermen spotted the blubbery beast. Elis Petur / SWNS He’s not a multi-tusker. A meandering — and masturbating — walrus named Thor has popped up in Iceland, two months after eagle-eyed Brits spotted him visiting the UK. Elís Pétur Elísson, who was supervising a fishing boat in the Breiddalsvik harbor, noticed Thor lounging on one of the floating docks Friday. Approaching him with caution, the group of fishermen realized he was “just chilling there.” “He was there all day resting, and we’ve been over a few times, and he hasn’t moved at all,” Elísson, 41, told SWNS after snapping a few photos of the marine mammal. “The weather has been really good, so we thought he has traveled a long way, and now he is sunbathing.” After a local news outlet ran Elísson’s pictures, fans immediately recognized the walrus as Thor. The fishermen who spotted Thor believed he had come up for some sunbathing as the region experienced nice weather.Elis Petur / SWNS The director of welfare and conservation at the British Divers Marine Life Rescue compared patches on his flippers to that of the walrus that beached in the UK just

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Published February 24, 2023 6:44PM Groups of strangers show up at Marysville family home looking for couch they bought in fake ad Nearly twenty groups of strangers knocked on a Marysville family’s door this week looking for a couch they bought on Facebook Marketplace. However, the family isn't selling any type of couch. MARYSVILLE, Wash. - Nearly twenty groups of strangers knocked on a Marysville family’s door this week looking for a couch they bought on Facebook Marketplace. However, the family isn't even selling any type of couch.  Sunday morning, Danica Sieber said she checked her phone and realized she was locked out of her Facebook. She then received strange notifications from the money transfer app, Venmo.   A few moments later, there was a knock at the Sieber's door.  "When I answered the door, there is a group of people at the door asking about a couch. And I’ve never seen these people before, talked to them or anything like that," said Danica’s husband Joshua Sieber.  » Read More