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The threat, made by the Greek justice minister and reported in the daily Kathimerini newspaper, has been supported by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who told the Greek parliament he would pursue the “very technical and sensitive” matter. Justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos has reportedly called for “war reparations, the repayment of a forced loan and the…
When Hotline Miami came out in 2012, I cut it a lot of slack—maybe too much slack. Spec Ops: The Line and Far Cry 3 came out that same year, both capitalizing on a similar theme: a hyper-violent game that took the protagonist (and, by extension, the player) to task for enjoying themselves a bit…
cache hit 185:single/related:3a5449b86601aec7e9aac3e20cf38559 empty On Wednesday evening, Twitter changed its rules to state that it would forbid users from posting revenge porn and non-consensual nudes on the service. In the private information section of the site’s policy list, the company added that users “may not post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed…
IT WAS ROUGHLY 10 p.m. in Las Vegas, on July 8, 2001, when a man rummaging through the garbage behind a bank just west of the Strip found the body. Tossed behind a dumpster and covered in trash was a dead black man. Though he had no ID on him, police would soon learn that he was…
Change happens slowly in Japan, but it does happen. You wake up one day, and things that weren’t possible years ago are happening today. Nowhere is that more evident than in the woman who will represent Japan in the Miss Universe pageant—but that’s to the chagrin of some who wanted a more “Japanese” winner. Eriana…
A lipid panel is one of the most basic blood tests in modern medicine. Doctors use it to measure cholesterol levels in their patients, probably millions of times each year. This is not a procedure where some hospitals are really great at lipid panels and some are terrible. There’s just not space for quality variation:…
A complaint over a malfunctioning photo booth at an Ohio Chuck E. Cheese’s escalated into a terrifying attack involving a dozen birthday party-goers on Sunday — an incident that left two employees seriously injured, according to police. Police say a female patron complained to Chuck E. Cheese’s employees in Parma, Ohio, about the photo booth not…
In Dec. 2014, president Barack Obama nominated Colleen Bell—a soap opera producer—as the country’s next ambassador to Hungary. Before Bell’s confirmation vote, Obama’s 2008 Republican rival, senator John McCain, took to the Senate floor. “I understand how the game is played,” McCain protested, “but [Hungary] is on the verge of ceding its sovereignty to a…
Photo: St. Pauli Pinklet Zurück via SFGate No one wants to confront a public urinator. Aside from the sketchy stranger factor, any good samaritan-slash-neighborhood nag will have the laws of hydraulics working against them and should thus think twice, for the same reasons you don’t sneak up behind someone operating a garden hose. In effort…
And so, a little over a year after the last debt ceiling hike melodrama, in allowed the US kicked the can on its maximum borrowing capacity was extended until, well, know, and in the meantime total US public debt rose to $18.149 trillion… … the soap opera with the self-imposed borrowing ceiling on America’s “credit…