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2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Actual size is supposed to be 1.5 (kbin.run)

I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you'd think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.

Driving in Japan (jemmy.jeena.net)

Driving in Japan with the wheel on the right side. The first time I did that last year I drove on the wrong side of the road about 5 times and got a shock every time when I saw all the ghost drivers just to quickly realize that it’s me who is driving the wrong way. This year it only happened one time, so my brain seems to...

FTC Non-compete rule published in Federal Register (www.govinfo.gov)

This goes into effect September 4, 2024. Employers with existing non-compete agreements must post the notice on page 163 (38504). After that date you may accept a job offer from anybody, including a direct competitor, and not worry about violating any non-compete agreement....

Passions. (lemmy.world)

Source: geekdom.social/

85,000 Police Officers in the USA have been investigated or disciplined for misconduct over the past decade (medium.com)

Are Maine prisoners being held in solitary confinement? Without a definition, it’s hard to say (www.newsfromthestates.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/are-maine-prisoners-being-held-…

Vertical Parking Systems: An Historical Perspective and Urban Innovation (www.infoterkiniviral.com)

The storied annals of city development chronicle the evolution of parking systems as a hallmark of human creativity

Six incarcerated people sue Alabama leaders, alleging unconstitutional prison labor (www.montgomeryadvertiser.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/73546541007/

Virginia Prosecutor drops charges against five deputies in Irvo Otieno death: Cases continue against three others charged in the death of the 28-year-old Black man at a state mental hospital in 2023 (www.washingtonpost.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/irvo-otieno-cases-dropped/

Legal Aid demands probe of NYPD’s ‘unlawful’ detention of pro-Palestine protesters (www.nydailynews.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/legal-aid-demands-probe-of-nypd…

Probe Opened Into Allegations of Excessive Force by Chicago Police Officers During Pro-Palestinian Protests (news.wttw.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/probe-opened-allegations-excess…

Just use GIMP (sh.itjust.works)

‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way (www.theguardian.com)

With the world’s humanitarian system in crisis, many NGOs now recognise that local charities can deliver much more at far less cost...

270,000 UK forces records thought to have been exposed to Chinese hackers (www.theguardian.com)

Payroll data at risk includes names, bank details and addresses of current and former force members, government sources suggest...

Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity (www.nytimes.com)

Don't be a bootlicker, don't be like Eugene (lemmy.ml)

Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others (apnews.com)

The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the U.S....