Oct 21
Drinks with classic fall flavors and creepy colors from the best bars and restaurants around the world.
Oct 21
Social support can have a meaningful impact on a person navigating a new mental health issue. Here’s how to do it right.
Oct 21
Apple has yet to issue a mandate similar to Google’s that would require all employees to be vaccinated, but it’s tightening its COVID-19 protocols nonetheless. According to Bloomberg, the tech giant will start requiring all unvaccinated corporate employees to be tested for COVID-19 every time they have to work in the office instead of working from home. Back in September, Bloombergreported that Apple asked employees to share their vaccination status voluntarily. Those who refuse to share their vaccine status will also have to undergo daily testing, while vaccinated office workers will only have to do rapid testing once a week.
The company’s retail store employees, however, won’t be subjected to daily tests despite having consumer-facing jobs. Unvaccinated staff members are required to be tested twice a week. Like Apple’s office workers, vaccinated staff will only have to undergo weekly rapid testing. It’s unclear if the tech giant will ever issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, but the Biden administration previously gave all federal contractors a December 8th deadline to require all their employees to be inoculated against the virus. As Bloomberg notes, Apple sells products to the US government.
For now, Apple has reportedly given employees an October 24th deadline to report and show proof of their vaccination status, so it could implement the new rules starting on November 1st. Unvaccinated employees will have to pick-up at-home rapid tests from Apple offices and stores, do the test themselves and then report their results through an internal app.
Oct 21
Fresh onions sold in at least 37 states have been linked to a salmonella outbreak that’s sickened at least 652 people and led to the hospitalization of 129, according to a new report from the Centers For Disease Control. The onions were imported from Chihuahua, Mexico and distributed by ProSource Inc., but the onions…
Oct 21
Stephen Colbert Bestows Steve Bannon With A Horrifying Description You’ll Never Forget
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe “Late Show” host celebrates the Jan. 6 committee’s vote to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress.
Oct 21
Harvard Law Professor Explains Why Trump’s Jan. 6 Lawsuit Is ‘Truly Laughable’
Posted in: Today's ChiliLaurence Tribe rejected Trump’s arguments against the release of archived documents relating to the insurrection.
Oct 21
Trevor Noah Baffled By ‘Brave’ Cops And Firefighters’ Refusal To Get COVID-19 Vaccine
Posted in: Today's Chili“I mean, like, these are the same people who sign up to swarm hostage situations or run into burning buildings.”
Oct 21
Twitter users said they reported the lawmaker’s post about the first U.S. transgender four-star officer as harassment.
Oct 21
Getting Blocked By Country Singer Travis Tritt Is Twitter’s Newest Status Symbol
Posted in: Today's ChiliMany Twitter users bragged about being blocked by Tritt. Others regretted being ignored by him.
Oct 21
Former President Donald Trump has officially revealed that he’s launching his own social media in 2022, a few months after his aide toldFox News about his plans. He’s calling it TRUTH Social, and the platform is apparently part of his camp’s efforts to fight back against “the Big Tech companies of Silicon Valley, which have used their unilateral power to silence opposing voices in America.”
Some of Trump’s supporters believe that social networks are biased against conservative voices — in 2018, a group even sued Twitter, Facebook and Google, accusing them of breaking antitrust laws and violating their First Amendment rights by conspiring to suppress conservative viewpoints. The case was tossed out of court a few times. According to a New York University research published earlier this year, there’s no evidence of conservative bias on the world’s most popular social networks. There was even an Instagram bug in the months leading to the US Presidential Elections that favored Trump content over Biden’s.
It is true, however, that Facebook and Twitter banned Trump from their platforms following the January 6th US Capitol riots. Twitter determined that his tweets at that time violated its policies. According to the website, his tweets (which you can view in an archive) “must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence…”
Earlier this month, Trump sued to get his Twitter account back, arguing that the ban violates his First Amendment rights. Indeed, his ban on the website gets a special mention in TRUTH Social’s announcement. He said in a statement: “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced.”
TRUTH Social will have a beta launch in November for invited guests. Trump and his team are expecting to roll it out nationwide in the first quarter of 2022.
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