More than 4 billion people don’t have access to clean water at home (www.vox.com)
Researchers wildly underestimated how many people don’t have safe drinking water....
Day 31 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (lemmy.world)
Today’s game is LA Noire. Playing Fallout New Vegas put me in a mood for that era, but i was having issues getting NV to run, so i launched LA Noire instead and played that since i had shelved it for a bit after one of the cases.
FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October (www.cnbc.com)
If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died?
ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)
It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.
Woman charged in brazen plot to extort Elvis Presley's family and auction off Graceland (apnews.com)
A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges she orchestrated a brazen scheme to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property before a judge halted the mysterious foreclosure sale, the Justice Department said Friday....
UK riots: Judge hands down longest jail sentences yet (www.bbc.co.uk)
Someone looted Lush....
'Very Unpleasant Regime': Fellow Leftist Lula Criticizes Maduro Amid Election Dispute (www.commondreams.org)
FBI raids US home of Russian-born analyst who advised Trump in 2016 (www.theguardian.com)
Dimitri Simes, whose name appeared prominently in Mueller report, ‘puzzled and concerned’ by raid in Virginia...
Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 (github.com)
Hello everybody, Daniel here!...
Los Angeles wants a ‘no-car’ Olympics. Can the city of drivers turn a corner? (www.theguardian.com)
Gentleman who has this on their 2024 bingo card (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Arena Breakout: Infinite is a snack-sized Tarkov I can't stop playing, but has some awful monetisation (www.pcgamer.com)
California auto insurance costs set to rise by 54%, new report says (abc7.com)
Lukashenko urges Russia and Ukraine to end war as Kursk incursion continues (www.euractiv.com)
UCLA can’t let protesters block Jewish students from campus, judge rules (ktla.com)
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed in June by three Jewish students at UCLA. The students alleged that they experienced discrimination on campus during the protest because of their faith and that UCLA failed to ensure access to campus for all Jewish students....
Organic Maps got removed from Google Play Store. (sh.itjust.works)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/23834340...
Black women voters strongly back Harris in an election they view as crucial for democracy (19thnews.org)
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Mario In The Multiverse ROM Hack Draws Inspiration From Rayman, Spongebob, Pokémon, & More. (retrododo.com)
Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide? (www.theguardian.com)
[Video] Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century (www.youtube.com)
What was the first video game you ever played?
Star Trek: Prodigy Season Two is available to watch on SkyShowtime in Europe (mastodon.social)
The specific regions should be the Nordics, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, and Central and Eastern Europe.
Porridge
