TIL that Germany created synthetic butter from coal during WW2. It was described as nutritious and of agreeable taste. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Ukraine’s incursion into a sliver of Russia is likely to make it harder for Moscow to mount a major renewed offensive in Ukraine’s east and is the kind of surprise operation that could eventually impose real costs on the Kremlin, according to U.S. officials....
More than 1,000 people sign letter to justice department for federal investigation into industry’s misinformation...
Taking accurate screenshots with Puppeteer has been a real pain, especially with pages that don’t fully load when the standard waitUntil: load fires. A real pain. Some sites, particularly SPAs built with Angular, React, or Vue, end up half-loaded, leaving me with screenshots where parts of the page are just blank. Peachy, just...
Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.
Quick introduction, I’m someone who has a massive fear of buggy/glitchy video game models for some reason, but over time I have gotten better I love horror films and I’m not really scared or disturbed easily. Forgot where I found this game and all things about it. One time, I was over my friend’s house while waiting to set...
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Rocky owning the keyboard. No work for me today
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On July 18, federal wildfire managers placed the nation under a designation known as Preparedness Level 5 — bureaucratic code for all hands on deck or, as one veteran wildland firefighter called it, “fire DEFCON.” In layman’s terms, Preparedness Level 5 means that the country’s wildland firefighting resources are...
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Google’s Meet app is getting a few more features designed for calls. Meet, the videocalling app Google rolled Duo into a couple of years ago, is designed to handle both meetings and personal video calls. The update, which will roll out over the coming months, focuses on the personal side. It offers an updated UI and features...
🏴☠️ AHOY fellow pirates and welcome to the state of global piracy for July 2024! ARRR! 🏴☠️...
SpaceX’s Starship launches at the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas, have allegedly been contaminating local bodies of water with mercury for years. The news arrives in an exclusive https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/12/spacex-repeatedly-polluted-waters-in-texas-tceq-epa-found.html on August 12, which cites...
In 2021, the Biden administration said that Title IX protects LGBTQ students after the Supreme Court ruled in 2020 that Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employment discrimination on the basis of sex, applies to gay and transgender workers as well....