Since 1975, the Social Security Administration has annually adjusted, based on the rate of inflation, the amount of the monthly payment sit sends out. This cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is designed to ensure that recipients have roughly the same buying power even if prices go up. Normally, the COLA isn’t very big. It was 1.3 percent last year and 1.6 percent the year before. In 2009, 2010, and 2015 it was zero....

Inirv React is a set of retrofit motorized knobs that fit on most existing gas and electric ranges and turn the burners off at the first sign of trouble. How does it know there’s trouble, you ask skeptically? Easy: because you mounted the Inirv React’s accompanying Wi-Fi/Bluetooth-enabled sensor to the ceiling above the stove. And inside, there’s a smoke, gas, and motion detector. If you suddenly find yourself changing a diaper in the nursery and your grilled cheese goes up in flames, the sensor detects burnt toast (it glows blue for normal, red for trouble) and instructs the knobs to shut the operation down....

Sometime early in 2018, Lil Tay became a viral sensation almost overnight when she began posting pictures and video of herself cursing and throwing money at a camera for her two million Instagram followers. While many wrote the whole thing off as a joke, it’s humor was debatable, and others naturally took offense to the child’s antics. But, on June 6th, the nine-year-old vanished from social media entirely. It made some sense....

For evidence, many are looking to hospitals and ICUs that are overwhelmed by sick kids, particularly in hotspots such as Texas, Florida, and Louisiana. But COVID cases in kids are skyrocketing across the country, including an 84 percent increase in cases week to week in late July. Last week, nearly 94,000 kids came down with COVID. Delta is much, much more contagious than any previous variant. But is it also more likely to make them really sick or to kill them?...

Kimmel is a notorious prankster and the candy prank may be his most popular recurring gag. The videos from the last seven years have a combined total of nearly 200 million views. But the fact is, as some have rightfully pointed out, asking parents to lie to their kids to make strangers laugh is a pretty terrible tactic that does more harm than good. The purposeful deception around which this prank revolves might seem harmless....

On February 20th, Heather M. Nicholson shared a story on Facebook, and it quickly went viral. It has everything one would need to hit the masses: a funny story, a fail that is really cringy, oh and a thong. Nicholson began her post by explaining that she had picked her son, Hunter, up from school, and he had a story about something that happened in class that day. “Momma, something funny happened today,” Hunter said, according to Nicholson....

In a recent practice video, the teens are proving themselves as a match for their fathers’ Miami Heat legacy. The clip shows the boys teaming up to execute an impressive dunk, which will certainly remind NBA fans of what their dads used to do when they played together. If their work is any indication of what we can expect from them during basketball season, fans are in for a treat....

“Leaving this here in the event that the powers that be are listening,” Burton tweeted with a link to the petition, which has received over 137,000 online signatures so far. The petition notes that Burton has plenty of experience with hosting, as he was the host of Reading Rainbow for more than two decades. It also noted that he “has inspired and shaped the minds of several generations of trivia-loving nerds....

title: “Low Sugar Desserts Your Kids Will Love And No Bouncing Off The Walls” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-05” author: “Stanley Youmans”

While Dubois, an in-demand executive coach who helps everyone from start-up founders to public servants navigate interpersonal and gender issues, says that this future dad’s intentions were no doubt pure — she notes that he likely thought he was doing a service to empower these women — the insensitive nature of his input was hilarious. However important the information might have been, this class was not about him. “This was an arena where women were clearly the experts and the focus, but he centered his expertise as the most important thing on the agenda,” says Dubois....

“I wanted to find the cutest Barbie Power Wheels car online and turn it into a drift kart,” Olding told the automotive site The Drive. The “Barbie Mustang Go-Kart” took four days to build, and he took his hot pink speed machine for a test drive in this crazy video, which shows him really pushing the toy car to the max. It looks nearly uncontrollable, and aside from hitting 5mph over the speed limit, Olding goes downhill, spins out, does donuts, and even narrowly avoids a tumble off the side of a cliff....

We are in the kitchen making tacos. It is Wednesday, not Tuesday. Themed meal days are not for us. Neither, for that matter, are such terms as hump day, throwback Thursday, or low-hanging fruit. In any case: tacos. The radio was on, I was browning some of the filling, and my wife was dicing a tomato. I don’t remember what we were talking about, but I do remember that I said a forbidden phrase: “I dunno....

What Is a Supermoon? approximately 30 percent brighter and 14 percent larger When Can You See the Pink Moon? reach its peak illumination on Monday, April 26 at approximately 11:33 pm EST Will It Really Be Pink? according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. Is This the Only Supermoon of 2021?

Now, I’m not saying you should shave your head if you’re not bald, but I am saying you may just want to select whatever number clipper you think you want on that razor and just stick to it. For life. We’re talking about picking a solid buzz cut for yourself and just moving on. If you’re over a certain age, spending money on men’s haircuts is a scam. Do you know how long an expensive haircut looks good for?...

The school board voted unanimously to the end its relationship with the law enforcement agency nine days after four MPD officers killed George Floyd, an African American man accused of using a counterfeit bill at a deli, in an incident that’s been followed by protests — and often violent police responses — in cities around the world. Floyd’s death might have been the final straw, but it comes after student activists pressured the board to remove cops from schools for years....

in Texas have found a brilliant way to be side-by-side the rest of their family during Thanksgiving, even though they can’t physically be there: by sending two six-feet-tall cardboard cut-outs of themselves. It might sound strange, but it’s a strange holiday season already due to COVID-19, and all things considered, it makes a lot of sense. Grandma Missy Buchanan and Grandpa Barry Buchanan may have just found a perfect solution that will allow them to at least be semi-present at the dinner table, with their cardboard look-alikes smiling on as their kids and grandkids eat turkey and pumpkin pie....

“Finn decided he HAD to get these bananas! They’re super squishy, and I figured whatever it has cute packaging and it’s a good sensory toy for a toddler,” Lerum wrote in the caption on May 1, with pictures of the toys both in their packages and then out of them. “The first photo is what they come in. They’re packaged super cute and appealing for kids. Then you open the package and peel them!...

TikTok user Alex Presley, on May 21, shared a video where his mom guessed the logos of several national football league teams. And the video went viral because his mom is surprisingly, shockingly, impressively bad at guessing. Alex showed his mom the logo for the Los Angeles Chargers, she focused in on the lighting bolt. She had the right idea but failed with her guess of “Somethin Shazaam.” Next up was the logo for the Minnesota Vikings which prompted his mom to say, “it looks like a construction worker with horns....

I glanced toward the bathrooms and noticed an old woman – wide eyes, and her hand over her mouth – staring down at my daughter. Her husband looked shocked and somewhat terrified. The two quickly scurried away. Curious (perhaps morbidly so), I quickly moved toward the bathrooms and hid behind the corner to listen in. “Did you just pee, or poop?” she asked someone. I chuckled. Sure, a little gross, but she’s just a kid....