Tech

Even in the metaverse, you can’t escape the taxman

Enlarge / OK, open your eyes. Surprise! Now you have to pay local sales taxes on your virtual land purchase! (credit: Linden Labs) Second Life, the long-lived online metaverse that still attracts nearly a million monthly active users, has announced it will start charging US users local sales tax on many in-game purchases for the […]

Entertainment

Squid Game IRL?? South Dakota Teachers Compete For $1 Bills In ‘Dystopian’ Challenge

For fans of Squid Game, we bring you… real life. Twitter became outraged over the weekend when an intermission challenge from a South Dakota hockey game went viral. After the game’s first period, the Sioux Falls Stampede junior ice hockey team hosted a “Dash for Cash” game in which local teachers scrambled to collect $1 […]

Sport

South Dakota’s Gov. Kristi Noem wants an anti-trans bill that’s even more anti-trans

It’s not worth pretending, even for a minute, that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem had a sudden change of heart and developed a sense of humanity that led her to reject the state’s anti-trans sports act, House Bill 1217, one of many such initiatives being pushed in Republican-run states. Read more…

COVID 19 Entertainment

What’s This Rumor Going Around About Clare Crawley & Dale Moss Supposedly Breaking Up?!

Wait, so, what’s this we’re all hearing about Clare Crawley and Dale Moss supposedly already breaking up after only just getting together a few months ago on The Bachelorette?! Is this real life?? It couldn’t be true, could it?! Related: Dale Turned Down ‘The Bachelorette’ Multiple Times Before Saying Yes For Clare! As it turns out, the rumors you’ve been […]

Business

A Vital COVID metric has reversed Route

A vital step of COVID-19’s propagate from the U.S. was {} for over a week. Day later, the countries using the highest disease rates–fresh cases per 100,000 inhabitants –are North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana, one of the least densely populated countries in the united states. With social distancing crucial to battling COVID-19, how is […]