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‘People are desperate’: How Australians are spiraling into debt amid cost of living pressures|ABC News

Julie Williams lost her job in January just as supply shortages hit West Australian supermarkets and fuel prices started climbing to record highs. Like many Australians, she struggled to keep her head above water as the cost of living soared. “Buying what I normally would is not as accessible. The [price of] food has gone up astronomically,” she said.Ms Williams cares for her 78-year-old mother and recently had her daughter’s young family temporarily move in with her.

Read More ‘People are desperate’: How Australians are spiraling into debt amid cost of living pressures|ABC News

Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in (RIP)Twitter After Hinting at nothing of importance|Bloomberg

Stinky Musk has been one of the worst a-holes on Earth and has regularly run into trouble on the Internet. The Tesla Inc. chief executive officer is currently seeking to exit a 2018 deal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that put controls in place related to his tweeting about the electric-car maker.

Read More Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in (RIP)Twitter After Hinting at nothing of importance|Bloomberg

6 People Dead, 12 Wounded After Multiple Shooters Open Fire in Downtown Sacramento|Complex

“A lot of guns going off and they were big handguns, they weren’t rifles,” said 67-year-old Sue Lockwood, who heard the shooting. “I was sitting up in my tent and I zipped it up and laid down. There was no foxhole. It went on for quite a while. There was a lot of gunshots. It wasn’t just some drunk guy.”

Read More 6 People Dead, 12 Wounded After Multiple Shooters Open Fire in Downtown Sacramento|Complex

Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.|MIT-Tech Review

“In the last two, three years more people have started talking about the ethics of AI,” Awad said. “More people have started becoming aware that AI could have different ethical consequences on different groups of people. The fact that we see people engaged with this—I think that that’s something promising.”

Read More Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from.|MIT-Tech Review

In a country gripped by violence against women, a new femicide detective squad seeks to make the killers pay.|ABCnetAU

Sayuri’s review found evidence police were too willing to believe the partner’s version of events. Many cases were deemed suicides on the man’s say-so, without police properly following other lines of inquiry. Investigations were also tainted by “prejudices and gender stereotypes” about women, the review found, especially relating to suicide.

“One of [the stereotypes] was that women are very emotional, very impulsive, depressive, not very rational,” she says. “That we would make the decision to take our own life faced with a situation that was difficult to resolve. And the partners, the men, often said that’s how it happened, and the investigation followed from there.”

Read More In a country gripped by violence against women, a new femicide detective squad seeks to make the killers pay.|ABCnetAU

China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735: 132 feared dead after plane crashes into mountain – South China Morning Post

The 737-800 model that crashed on Monday has a good safety record and is the predecessor of the 737 MAX model that has been grounded in China for more than three years after fatal crashes in Indonesia in 2918 and Ethiopia in 2019.
China’s worst ever domestic air disaster happened in 1994, according to the Aviation Safety Network, when a China Northwest Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 flying from Xian to Guangzhou crashed after takeoff, killing all 160 people on board.
The last domestic crash was in 2010, when a plane crashed in Yichun in Heilongjiang province, killing 42.
China’s airlines had recorded over 100 million continuous hours of safe flight as of February 19, according to Zhu Tao, an official with the Civil Aviation Administration.

Read More China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735: 132 feared dead after plane crashes into mountain – South China Morning Post