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I’m plus-size and wore a barely-there outfit for Jamaica’s Carnival – I am the beauty standard, people call me ‘queen’
A PLUS-SIZE woman has stunned viewers with her outfit and energy at a Jamaican carnival.
People wholeheartedly agreed with her that she’s the beauty standard.
Shoniqua, a plus-sized content creator, showed off her barely-there outfit for a Jamaican carnival[/caption]
Shoniqua Shandai (@shoniquashandai) shared her flashy get-up for the culture festival in a video with over 40,000 TikTok followers.
She flaunted and stunted in a bedazzled gemstone get-up complete with huge purple and yellow feather wings.
At the festival, Shoniqua came to a revelation: “And you know what I realized, I am f**king gorgeous,” she said.
“I am the beauty standard,” the content creator concluded, adding the hashtags #curvy and #bodypositivity.
People took to the comments to share their thoughts — many couldn’t help but agree.
“Yes you are the beauty standard!!!” said one enthusiastic commenter.
“Yaaassss QUEEN,” said another.
“Absof**kinlutely the standard, forget the mustard lemme ketchup,” joked a third.
“Sis! You represent very well! Watching how you love yourself out loud gives me confidence to love myself loudly,” said a fourth.
“Absolutely exquisite. Thank you.”
Even the singer Lizzo was blown away: “Omg,” the singer said simply, adding adoring emojis.
People agreed that she was the beauty standard[/caption]
Are Standard Chartered shares massively undervalued?
Dr James Fox takes a closer look at Standard Chartered shares and explores whether investors may be missing a trick after the stock’s correction.
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Proposed EPA drinking water standard would restrict cancer-causing ‘forever chemicals’
For the first time, the US government plans to regulate the presence of “forever chemicals” in drinking water. PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are ubiquitous in the modern world. They’re found in many household items, including non-stick Teflon pans and dental floss, and can stay in water and soil for generations. What’s more, PFAS exposure has been linked to a whole host of health problems, including cancer, liver damage, asthma and developmental issues among children.
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed national drinking standard that would require public utilities to monitor drinking water for PFAS contamination and notify the public if the levels of those chemicals exceed the new standard. The proposal calls for classifying Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) as individual contaminants that water utilities would be mandated to detect at a level of four parts per trillion. Under an Obama-era recommendation, the agency previously recommend that water contain no more than 70 parts per trillion of PFAS chemicals. The EPA estimates the new guidelines will prevent “thousands” of deaths and “tens of thousands” of illnesses that are attributable to PFAS poisoning.
EPA is proposing the first-ever national standard to limit PFAS in drinking water. This action is a major step to protect communities from PFAS pollution, leveraging the latest science and building on existing state efforts to limit PFAS. pic.twitter.com/iBw91oL5Xh
— U.S. EPA (@EPA) March 14, 2023
“EPA’s proposal to establish a national standard for PFAS in drinking water is informed by the best available science, and would help provide states with the guidance they need to make decisions that best protect their communities,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “This action has the potential to prevent tens of thousands of PFAS-related illnesses and marks a major step toward safeguarding all our communities from these dangerous contaminants.”
With today’s announcement, the EPA will accept public comment on the proposal for 60 days before it takes effect. A handful of states, including New Jersey, Vermont, Michigan and New York, already regulate the chemicals on their own. That said, PFAS water contamination is a national problem. One 2020 study estimated that as many as 200 million Americans have been exposed to the chemicals through their tap water. More recently, scientists have found polyfluoroalkyl substances in human breast milk.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/proposed-epa-drinking-water-standard-would-restrict-cancer-causing-forever-chemicals-183538221.html?src=rss
The Top Antitrust Cop Says Big Tech Looks a Lot Like Standard Oil
Jonathan Kanter, the Department of Justice’s top antitrust enforcer, says Big Tech’s cornucopia of questionable business practices looks an awful lot like the oil industry during Standard Oil’s reign. Once a symbol of unstoppable corporate power, the John Rockefeller-owned mega-monopoly was ultimately broken up into…
C++ 23 Language Standard Declared Feature-Complete
C++ 23, a planned upgrade to the popular programming language, is now feature-complete, with capabilities such as standard library module support. On the horizon is a subsequent release, dubbed C++ 26.
The ISO C++ Committee in early February completed technical work on the C++ 23 specification and is producing a final document for a draft approval ballot, said Herb Sutter, chair of the committee, in a blog post on February 13. The standard library module is expected to improve compilation.
Other features slated for C++ 23 include simplifying implicit move, fixing temporaries in range-for loops, multidimensional and static operator[], and Unicode improvements. Also featured is static constexpr in constexpr functions. The full list of features can be found at cppreference.com.
Many features of C++ 23 already have been implemented in major compilers and libraries, Sutter said. A planned C++ 26 release of the language, meanwhile, is slated to emphasize concurrency and parallelism.
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: Insulin costing $35 a month ‘should be the new standard in America,’ Eli Lilly CEO says. But could this happen?
The TikTok ‘bold glamour’ filter is going viral for its wildly unrealistic beauty standard
Lots of filters online are designed to zhuzh up your look. But a filter going viral on TikTok is different. It basically overhauls your entire face and it’s leaving people worried.
The “bold glamour” filter basically makes you a different person. It sharpens your chin, fills in your eyebrows, smooths your skin, brightens your cheeks — hell, it might even improve your credit score, who knows. It’s a wildly effective filter — it can be difficult to decipher that it’s a filter at all. Folks immediately pointed out the danger of such a filter.
Imagine the beauty standards it would set. People don’t want to live in a world where everyone has to airbrush out anything perceived as an imperfection.
What makes the bold glamour filter especially concerning is it is seamless. You can move your face, put your hands in front of the filter, do whatever — and the filter remains on. That means people might not be able to immediately realize you’re using a filter in your TikTok. Back in the day, a filter was something silly like dog ears or Disney-fied eyes. Now the tech has come far enough where it’s basically reshaping and contouring your appearance in real time. That is frightening, especially for young folks on TikTok trying to grapple with beauty standards.
People on TikTok wrote that the filter should come with a warning and that it was basically face tuning, but just a filter. They’re not wrong. It smooths out any blemishes, it plumps your lips, whitens your teeth, while all still plausibly looking like it’s still you. The skin even seems to retain some texture while using the filter, basically hiding the fact that it’s smoothed.
The bold glamour filter is frighteningly effective. Should we let it, it creates an impossible and off-putting standard for anyone living a normal life. Already, there are tons of TikToks tutorials promising make-up to copy the filter IRL. That feels like a dangerous precedent to set.
Credit: Screenshots: TikTok / @joannajkenny / @chiaraking / @wearelunaapp
The bold glamour filter is out there. And, remember, nobody can — or should aspire to — look like that filter in real life.
How to get the ‘bold glamour’ TikTok filter
Should you want to see what the filter looks like, you can pull it up pretty much like any other filter on TikTok. All you do is click the plus button in the app. From there you can click effects on the bottom left corner, search and choose the bold glamour effect, and see what you look like with the filter. Just be forewarned, TikTok is not real life.
We Need Moon Standard Time
As the race back to the Moon heats up—with plans for long-term human habitation—reliable communication is a fundamental issue. With dozens of plans for experiments of various sizes and scopes needing to communicate with each other and Earth, the European Space Agency has opened a call for help in building the required …