TIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.
Graffiti's quality of art and sentiment has fallen in the modern era (lemmy.world)
Boy survives 100ft Grand Canyon fall after dodging tourist photo (www.bbc.co.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1427367...
Like clockwork (i.imgur.com)
You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon (www.theverge.com)
On my Threads profile, I changed my featured link to be my Mastodon profile URL....
'Dad, people are sending me pictures of bears': Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke 'wasn't ready' for the bear sex scene to go so viral (www.pcgamer.com)
When your son's friends start sending him bear pics, you know you made a splash.
btrfs and nvme
So, recently, I bought an nvme ssd to replace the very old ssd I have on my laptop. I don’t know what the non-nvme is called. It shows as “sda” on the system. Anyway, doubled the storage. The new drive is an nvme WD black SN770. I have the same one running just fine on an optiplex dell mini running endeavourOS. Zero...
Final Fantasy 16 sales did not meet high expectations, says Square Enix president (www.eurogamer.net)
Sales of Final Fantasy 16 did not meet Square Enix's high expectations, said president Takashi Kiryu. Last week the com…
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)
I do not wish to live in the Gummy Universe. (lemmy.world)
The Reddit Protest Is Finally Over. Reddit Won. (gizmodo.com)
The last major holdouts in the protest against Reddit’s API pricing relented, abandoning the so-called “John Oliver rules” which only allowed posts featuring the TV host. The article describes it as "the official end of the battle," which seems an overstatement to me, but it's the certainly the end of the initial phase....
Anon is living like royalty (sh.itjust.works)
ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive
PSA: Download on your hard drives, never trust online hosting.
TLDR: Download your content offline before it gets lost forever....
Honest question, how many of you watch the autoplaying videos on websites ?
They are one of the most infuriating things for me. But I curious to know why is this a popular pattern in websites. Do people actually stop whatever they were planning to do and watch the video ?...
I rode a dinosaur, you IDIOT! (lemmy.world)
This was posted on one of the videos on the channel of archaeologist Flint Dibble (yes that is his real name, his dad is also an archaeologist and his brother’s name is Chip)....
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Who or what is Jerma?
My younger friends all talk about this Jerma person like he’s some kind of mythical entity. An eldritch being that cannot be explained for any attempt at explanation inevitably fails....
Has anyone here ever been permanently banned from reddit? If so, is there any way to get unbanned?
I'll get right on that (yiffit.net)
$1 million starter home? It's the norm in 237 cities, according to Zillow (abc7.com)
What is the current state of Lemmy?
Has it grown like people have kept predicting? or is this peak lemmy? Did Peak Lemmy already happen?
PSA: Grayjay is really good
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/15242858...