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This Week in Review ☕️ : Nike fully exits Russia | The World continues to feel the fallout from anti-abortion ruling | Digital Nomad Families are the new trend | The Worlds Most Liveable City revealed
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Quick Bites:
Law🇺🇸 : Seems like the world is still feeling the fallout from the US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade last Friday.
Pro life but no baby formula in CVS? Yeah, okay 👋
PS. We thought it was CRYSTAL clear when Rachel said this..... 👇🏻
Key Highlights, according to CNBC:
💡The landmark ruling struck down the constitutional right to abortion
💡Before this, abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy were permitted in the US since 1973
💡More than half the states are expected to outlaw or severely restrict abortion
💡Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Biden to declare a public emergency over abortion access
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences [..] We hold it must be overruled”
-Justice Samuel Alito
For what its worth, my team and I would personally like to apologize for the ignorant American men who wrote this bull and made this happen! 🙏
Our Thoughts💡: Tbh, after 2 years of masks and mandatory vaccinations, "my body, my choice" seems like a distant dream.
PS. Ladies, get rid of any trace of period tracking NOW! 🙈
Sportswear 👟 : Nike to make full exit from Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.
Placing a gigantic Nike order today in gratitude! 🙏
Nike said the site and its mobile app will "no longer be available in this region" and that it doesn't plan to reopen its 100 stores in the country.
Ukraine and Russia account for less than 1% of Nike's revenue, making the move "largely symbolic rather than material to [Nike's] results."
The sportswear giant joins a growing list of companies who have halted operations in Russia- including McDonald's, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Uniqlo, Adidas and Puma.
Our Thoughts💡: As Putin's aggression makes headlines, it is now clear that no Russian leader since Tsar Nicholas II has caused his country so much damage, so damn fast.
Russia has been cut off from world trade, destroying half a century of economic prosperity- all.because.of.one.man.
Let that sink in.
Work 🌎 : Digital nomads used to be mid 20-year olds taking a gap year and backpacking across Europe. But now, full households are taking to the road to become 'Digital nomad families'.
Yep, you heard that right. Sweatpants have become the official work uniform- even for mom and pop!
Personally, we didn't need a global pandemic to witness the end of the corporate dream.
As soon as Brooks Brothers' bankruptcy filing in 2020, it was clear to us that sweatpants + Netflix changed the game long before Covid hit town!
Workers with children are becoming increasingly comfortable with a nomadic lifestyle, partly due to fluctuations and the hassles tied to virtual learning, according to a new survey by Lonely Planet.
"One of the reasons you’re doing this is to give children freedom of thinking [..] and how open the world is and how many different opportunities are out there", a UK-based teacher told BBC.
Our Thoughts💡: Seems like #TheFutureOfWork is flexible indeed.. Which is AWESOME given there's nowhere we feel quite as home as from our couch 😴
Quality of Life: The best city to live in the world has been revealed.
For those guessing, think Beethoven and Mozart, Wiener Schnitzels and Sacher Tortes and Baroque palaces and gardens.
Quality of life is best in Vienna, according to a ranking of the World's Most Liveable Cities.
The Austrian capital benefited from the easing of Covid-19 restrictions and replaced New Zealand's Auckland as #1 this year.
In Vienna, they use the term 'Lebenskunst': the art of living well. The city offers overall stability, good infrastructure, low crime rate, low pollution and great public transport, BBC reports.
Each year, the local municipality spends almost 1/5th of its budget on social welfare and subsidized housing.
Most importantly, there are plenty of opportunities for culture and entertainment.
The city is famous for hosting over a dozen music and film festivals a year, alongside more than 400 lavish balls. BBC.
After Vienna as #1, we have:
2. Copenhagen, Denmark
3. Zurich, Switzerland
4. Calgary, Canada
5. Vancouver, Canada
6. Geneva, Switzerland
7. Frankfurt, Germany
8. Toronto, Canada
9. Amsterdam, Netherlands
10. Osaka, Japan & Melbourne, Australia (tie)
Quicker Bites:
Johnny Depp to reprise Captain Jack ‘Pirates’ role with $301mn deal.
Louisiana and Utah courts temporarily block trigger laws banning abortions.
The G7 summit is underway in Germany.
Russian missiles continue to hit Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, in "an apparent show of defiance," NY Times
Protests break out across the US after Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade.
Oil prices could slump to $75 a barrel.
Sharon Stone revealed she's had nine miscarriages in a powerful statement about reproductive health.