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Dry powder versus wet powder: The numbers have spoken (TechCrunch)

Carta data seems to confirm that VCs are opting to support portfolio companies over making new investments: Bridge rounds boomed in Q4 2022.

Take It From a Dry Texter: Short Messages Don't Mean Someone Isn ... (Vogue.com)

Dating lore has it that long—and speedy—responses are best, but Daisy Jones mounts a defense of dry texting.

Was I supposed to write kisses on the notes? As a phrase, “dry texting” is relatively recent in the grand scheme of things. When I was 12 or 13, I used to exchange scrunched-up notes across the classroom. “If they wanted to, they would,” people love to say online, and that seems to apply to messaging you at all hours of the day and dropping whatever they’re doing to reply in an appropriately timely manner. But over text we mainly keep it to-the-point, as if it’s the ’90s and we’re on our pagers. “Where u at?” “Going shop.” “Cool.” In person, we’re affectionate, the type of couple you’d feel a boiling rage towards for being slow and stuck together on the pavement.

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'Dry' Nevada Town Considers Lifting Booze Ban (U.S. News & World Report)

ALAMO, Nev. (AP) — In the small rural town of Alamo in Lincoln County there are no bars or restaurants or stores selling liquor. By law, businesses are not ...

“If I keep any of the products, it’d be Budweiser.” “Because if they’re gonna get it, they’re gonna go to Caliente and get it or they’re gonna go to Vegas and get it and bring it home anyway. “I should say most people kind of like it that way, for everybody.” “To me it doesn’t matter either way,” Richards said. Its owner, Pam Broxson, 56, keeps it as a side business to her motel and its 11 rooms, each with a different theme, including ones based on Area 51 and aliens and the 1960s hippie era. “It wasn’t a change of heart or anything like that on the alcohol,” Holaday explained about the town’s apparent shift on booze. But Broadhead said she doesn’t want to see alcohol sold in the Great Basin Foods store “where there’s the kids (who) are all going in there for lunch, because of the temptation. The one LDS church in Alamo has three wards and its parishioners make up the dominant share of inhabitants of the town, Holaday said. “There are not a whole lot of opportunities here.” “I mean, it’s just, the religion states that they can’t, ‘we’re not supposed to drink alcohol.’ ” But that ban on alcohol in this “dry” desert oasis, 95 miles north of Las Vegas on U.S. (AP) — In the small rural town of Alamo in Lincoln County there are no bars or restaurants or stores selling liquor.

'They bleed you dry': the recruitment scammers preying on ... (The Guardian)

As cybercriminals increasingly target the job market, antipoverty advocates say punitive welfare rules leave job seekers particularly vulnerable.

“I’ve rung the banks, I’ve tried to get them to get it back. Rose is still in the group and is hoping there will be a way to get the money back. The scammers instructed Rose to put in larger and larger amounts – until they stopped paying her back. Everything seemed easy – at the start, the scammers paid more for “pre-paid tasks”, where Rose put in money and was paid back extra. “The first one is $200 and you get basically $54 back for that, which isn’t much. Like a lot of scam victims, Rose has focused on all the other things she could have done with that money.

Dry Cleaning review – artful theatrics and clever songwriting, but no ... (The Guardian)

The post-punk quartet balance knowing pretension with cutting social realism as they perform tracks about missing tortoises and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

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