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Darryl George: Texas judge rules school district can restrict the length of male students’ natural hair (www.cnn.com)

Couples race to move frozen embryos out of Alabama after court defines them as children (www.telegraph.co.uk)

TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

I always assumed credit scores were an integral and historic part of the American financial system....

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

If you can, use Firefox.

Georgia Senator Vows to Protect Girl, But Then Runs Away After Learning She Is Trans (www.erininthemorning.com)

During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers ® knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away....

Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees. (www.bloomberg.com)

Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March (www.reuters.com)

Obscure button tier list (sh.itjust.works)

If you have “Help” instead of “Ins”, replace it with Overgod-tier. Keep pressing it, it will come....

Swiss cocaine so cheap and widely used they’re considering legalising it (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies (www.theverge.com)

What are some of your, "If I like this, what else might I like" questions?

Thanks for all the interesting replies! Given the response, I decided to make a whole community around this, hope you’ll consider joining!...

San Francisco homeless sweep was cheered on by the right. It was also illegal (www.vice.com)

Hundreds of unsheltered people living in tent encampments in the blocks surrounding the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco have been forced to leave by city outreach workers and police as part of an attempted “clean up the house” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s annual free trade...

8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro 'Analogous to 16GB' on PCs, Claims Apple (www.macrumors.com)

8GB RAM on M3 MacBook Pro ‘Analogous to 16GB’ on PCs, Claims Apple::Following the unveiling of new MacBook Pro models last week, Apple surprised some with the introduction of a base 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3 chip,…

What is the most "Thankless" job?

If someone comments saying their actual current job, please be kind and thank them in a reply.

Barcelona anti-tourism protesters fire water pistols at visitors (edition.cnn.com)

Protesters in Barcelona have sprayed visitors with water as part of a demonstration against mass tourism....

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into law (apnews.com)

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday....

what foss phone OS do you use and why?

I was thinking about using graphene OS, but I’ve read some lemmy users dislike this OS due to perceived misleading advertising and the pixel 7a you’re supposed to install graphene on because it’s from google (an advertising company)....

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle (www.theguardian.com)

The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics....

Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. (lemmy.world)

Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...