kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

Why is the US not considered a third world country?

IMO, The US has crumbling infrastructure, corrupt government, dangerous cities, and a lot of homelessness, among so many other problems. Hell, millions of people in the US don’t even have power right now....

My friend's cat used to do this to me all the time (lemmy.world)

Ray Lynch - Celestial Soda Pop [ New Age/Alt Pop/Instrumental | United States | 1984 ] (youtu.be)

A bubbly Monday to the lot of you.

Is my punctuation correct?

I couldn’t find a “grammar help” community so I thought this might be a good place to pose this question. Sorry for asking something that boils down to “please help me with my homework” but I’m at a loss. I’m supposed to be using MLA format....

"WTF‽" (i.imgur.com)

I have become all things to all men (lemmy.world)

Pigbutt (lemmygrad.ml)

Finally, some good fucking news.

Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries (www.tomshardware.com)

In 2023, Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh of electricity, surpassing the consumption of over 100 nations, including places like Iceland, Ghana, and Tunisia, according to an analysis by Michael Thomas. While massive energy usage means a substantial environmental impact for these tech giants, it should be noted that...

A Trump Ally Is Training 75 Armed Citizens. Is That a Militia? (www.nytimes.com)

Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.

Insight into One of Life’s Earliest Ancestors Revealed in New Study (www.bristol.ac.uk)

An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth’s earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing.

“It’s sick” (sh.itjust.works)

“Gods in the Building”: How the Texas Senate Buries Sexual Harassment Complaints and Enables Bad Actors (www.texasmonthly.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/texas-senate-sexual-harassment/

Testimonies From the Mawasi Massacre: 90 People Buried in the Sand (scheerpost.com)

Text-based Interactive Fiction games recommendations from Itch.io (lemmy.world)

This is a list of text-based IF’s that I and another user from itch.io, xSai or Bladed-Barbwire on Discord, made on itch.io, and I thought I’d share this here with you guys in case anyone is interested. All the credit goes to xSai for coming up with the idea. Also, note that, neither I nor xSai own the rights to any of these...