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When it comes to indoor gardening you basically have to go big or go home. Anyone who has started seedlings in the kitchen and hoped to get some basil or thyme out of the process knows that it’s easy to get a sprout but hard to get a plant. Chicago-based Rise Gardens hopes to change that.
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The company makes home indoor gardens that include water controls, lights, and little seed pods that will let you grow fresh veggies in the home. Their latest product, announced at CES 2021, is an improved Personal Garden that can fit on a shelf and includes a new Alexa skill that lets you control your garden with your voice.
How to Change Your Political Party Affiliation
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Aside from one Republican Senator who’s currently mulling a decision to switch her political affiliation, Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol hasn’t necessarily compelled Republican lawmakers to flee the party en masse. The Trump era, with its normalization of incendiary rhetoric, only saw a handful of lawmakers switch their affiliations out of contempt for the president; one notable example is former Michigan House Representative Justin Amash, who abandoned the Republican party to become an Independent in 2019 and then switched again to Libertarian last year.
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In a segment kicking off the second season of her late-night show, A Little Late With Lilly Singh, the host explained why she’d been getting “ a million tweets” every day in 2020 asking why she had a live, unmasked studio audience during a global pandemic. (Plus, she was sitting right next to her famous guests like right up in John Cena’s face!) Singh explained, for what sounds like the billionth time, that she and her NBC bosses had had the brilliant-at-the-time idea to pre-tape an entire season’s-worth of interviews in 2019. “We’ll bank this evergreen content,” 2021 Singh said of her material about going to movie theaters and hanging out at friends houses, “we can air it forever, it will always make sense.” Live and learn, new kid.
Holy Crap The New 2021 Changlis Have Been Significantly Improved
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As a proud Changli owner, the cheapest electric car in the world, I have to admit that one of the things I never considered about my $1,200 car is that it may look
dated. Looking like a giant Cozy Coupe, sure, but never really obsolete. Looks like I was wrong, as our friends over at Changli have been busy, and the latest version of their cheapest EV is quite significantly improved over the model I got just last year.
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A couple of Jalopnik readers, inspired by that special Changli something, bought their own new Changlis, and received the updated models. Jared got one in the familiar Changli Red, and Tim got a blue one. Both sent pics, though Tim sent a lot more, so we’ll be mostly seeing this new blue Changli.
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This illustration picture shows social media application logo from Parler displayed on a smartphone in Arlington, Virginia on July 2, 2020
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Parler, which rose to prominence as the “conservative Twitter” thanks to its lax content moderation, is having one of the worst weeks of its existence indeed, after the time it’s had, Parler may cease to exist at all.
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Like an old-world pariah cast out of its village for various social crimes, the app was driven literally off the internet over the weekend, as Google, Amazon, and Apple all banned the app from their platforms. It was a whiplash-inducing turn of events for a company that, until this weekend, was one of the fastest-growing apps on the internet.