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Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. The Under-Consumption Core encourages you to only buy what you need. Aleksandar Nakic/Getty Images Gen Z has embraced the “nucleus of scarcity consumption.”They tend to only buy what they need and reject influencer marketing.Economic pressures like inflation and debt are partly driving Gen Z’s decline in spending. Influencer marketing has become a staple in the social media era, with Gen Z being one of its most prime targets.For many members of Gen Z, the age group between 12 and 27, TikTok is the primary social media platform where they…
Editor’s note: Follow Olympic gymnastics live, results, scores and highlights For the women’s qualifying round.With Russia not participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics, the U.S. gymnastics team could win even more medals.Simone Biles is back and stronger than ever, likely to win a few more gold medals before leaving the Paris Olympics. The U.S. women’s gymnastics team has four returning athletes at the Olympics, each of whom feels they have something to prove.Meanwhile, the U.S. men’s gymnastics team has a great chance to end a 16-year Olympic medal drought. They won their first team medal in nine years at the…
In the weeks before former president Donald Trump announced his vice-presidential pick, some of tech’s biggest names launched a quiet campaign to push for one of their own: Ohio Sen. JD Vance.The former president fielded repeated calls from tech entrepreneur David Sacks, Palantir adviser Jacob Helberg, and billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Vance’s former employer and mentor, imploring him to add the one-time Silicon Valley investor to the ticket, according to three people familiar with the entreaties, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private conversations.Vance’s most forceful Silicon Valley advocates are euphoric about the former never…
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Polling stations are open in Venezuela for voting Sunday. Presidential Election The outcome will be either deep political change or another six years of extending the policies that have caused the world’s worst peacetime economic collapse.Whether President Nicolás Maduro or his main rival, former diplomat Edmundo González, is elected, the election will have ripple effects across the Americas. If Maduro is re-elected, both opponents and supporters of the government have signaled they will join the 7.7 million Venezuelans who have already fled the country in search of opportunity abroad.Voting begins at 6 a.m. local time. The…
When Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” last week and denounced Donald Trump and J.D. Vance as “wackos” (part of his latest media offensive), the line of attack quickly gained traction among Democrats.Chief among them was de facto presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who just days later began using the same language in campaign messages against her Republican opponent, including at a fundraiser in Massachusetts on Saturday.That simple phrase quickly highlighted why Walz, a popular two-term Midwest governor, former congressman, military veteran and former public school teacher, was suddenly on the short list of potential running mates for…
Despite his personal frustrations with the “woke mind virus,” Musk remains CEO of Tesla and the electric car pioneer. On the surface, a Trump presidency would be bad for a company trying to move away from fossil fuels. But during a conference call with Tesla investors on Tuesday, Musk’s reasons for supporting Tesla became abundantly clear.Musk is primarily concerned with maintaining Tesla’s dominant position in the EV market, rather than worrying about society moving toward an all-electric future. One of President Joe Biden’s defining legislative achievements, the Inflation Control Act, helped traditional automakers get serious about getting into the EV…
Meghan Markle was snapped looking smart as she attended a business summit in the Hamptons on Friday.According to sources, the 42-year-old wife of Prince Harry went to the event to pick up tips on her new lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard.During the G9 Ventures Summer Summit, which was hosted by power broker Amy Griffin, the Duchess of Sussex was photographed with two longtime friends.An image shared from the high-powered summit showed the mother-of-two smiling as she posed with make-up artist and entrepreneur Bobbi Brown, and designer Misha Nonoo.Meghan was snapped with both of the women during the early days of her relationship with Prince…
The Neshoba County Fair is approaching, and political candidates from across the state will be gathering at the fairgrounds next week to give street speeches in open tents with church chairs and sawdust-covered floors.The fair has already begun, but elected officials and candidates are scheduled to give political speeches in Founders Square from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Wednesday and from 9:20 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Thursday.There will be 16 speakers.”The Neshoba County Fair began in 1889 as a livestock and agricultural exhibition but quickly expanded to include horse racing, carnival rides, political speeches and musical entertainment,” according…
A bizarre new procedure which gives people cartoon-like features – pointy faces, overly chiseled jawlines and Popeye-style biceps – has been criticised by surgeons. While the eye-catching looks help influencers garner thousands of followers, surgeons have warned that these extreme and disturbing procedures can result in “serious mental and physical health consequences”, including tissue death. In Britain, extreme measures are a crime under the Habeas Corpus Act of the 1850s. However, many people still seek surgery abroad to undergo these rare procedures. Here, MailOnline investigates some of the most worrying social media surgery trends. Russian influencer “Bazooka Hands,” aka Russia’s…
It’s another packed day at the Paris 2024 Olympics, with Simone Biles and the U.S. women’s gymnastics team making their Games debut and preliminaries beginning at 5:40 a.m. ET.Sunday’s Olympic swimming schedule features three finals, with two-time Olympian Tori Huske of the United States and first-time Olympian Gretchen Walsh set to compete in the 100-meter butterfly.Meanwhile, the U.S. men’s basketball team will face Serbia in its first group match, while the U.S. women’s basketball team will face Germany in the group stage.At least six U.S. teams will compete in team sports for a total of 25 sports. USA TODAY Sports…