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TikTok’s brief and raunchy experiment with a dating feature is over

For a brief moment, we looked for love in a hopeless place: TikTok.TikTok tested a new dating feature over the past week that thrust users into live group chats with other singles.The tool lived in a section of the app called “hangout” that’s tailored toward multi-guest experiences. It invited users…

12 things a seasoned interior designer would never have in her own home

The rustic trend, which features wood paneling on interior walls, has some style benefits. However, the designer said, it’s overdone and dated.”It’s also impractical — if a piece of shiplap gets damaged, it can be difficult and expensive to fix depending on the extent of the damage,” she told BI.If you want to lean into a more rustic home design, Lang recommends limewash paint, which has a streaky effect.”Limewash gives you the opportunity to add…

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American farmers feed growing demand with less farmland

CADIZ, Ky. – The U.S. soybean industry is working to meet growing global demand despite operating with less farmland and fewer farms. According to the Department of Agriculture, the U.S. had about 943 million acres of farmland in 2000. That figure has since fallen about 7% to 874 million acres.…

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Don’t outsource the best parts of parenting to AI

There are a lot of things about parenting that are unpleasant drudgery. There’s the obvious ones: diapers, cleaning bottle parts, picking up Legos, listening to “Wheels on the Bus” over and over.As kids get older, you’ll also discover so many more annoying things: The constant sorting of too-small clothes, dividing…

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