The average American household’s monthly costs total $8,856 according to an Independent analysis — and someone earning $100,000 takes home about $8,333 a month after taxes, leaving them $523 short before a single dollar of discretionary spending. Also: Sheena Sittner, a Missouri substitute teacher who earned $140 a day through staffing contractor Kelly Education, was fired after someone “did a deep-dive search” and found her OnlyFans account she’d been running for two years — and after the firing went public, her monthly revenue shot to approximately $20,000. And the reason you can’t tickle yourself is a window into one of the most fundamental mechanisms of consciousness: your cerebellum generates precise predictions about the sensations your own movements will cause, and cancels the tickle response before you feel it. A delay of less than one second between your action and the touch is enough to fool the system. Plus the Lincoln Park billionaire rat infestation, Hitler Mussolini elected mayor in Peru, Darth Vader’s lightsaber going to auction, a shark that winked, and a closing note on Mike Ditka.
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