Exclusive: Firms weigh removing Taiwan staff from China after death penalty threat (www.reuters.com)
Some foreign companies are considering moving Taiwanese employees out of China after Beijing said it could impose the death penalty on “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists, said four people familiar with the matter....
Beaks
What's the best videogame console of all time?
For me is a coin toss between PS1 and 360. The silver goes to the PS2. Currently owner of a Xbox series x and a switch. The switch was meh and I like the X fine enough mostly because I can play old games at 60 fps.
Coffee, eggs and white rice linked to higher levels of PFAS in human body (www.theguardian.com)
New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma and breast milk....
Free Speech Under Fire: How Israel’s Tech Guard Is Killing Free Speech Online (www.mintpressnews.com)
With Words of Iron, social media users are encouraged to amplify pro-Israel content by commenting with autogenerated text created by the website’s developers, as well as mass-report content deemed “anti-Israel.”...
This Wouldn’t Be the First Time an Incumbent Stepped Aside. Here’s What Happened Last Time. (www.politico.com)
Thursday’s presidential debate debacle — widely regarded as a low point for President Joe Biden, who appeared feeble and sometimes confused — many Democratic elites and nonpartisan pundits are suggesting a break-the-glass-in-case-of-emergency move that resided on the margins of conventional political thought just a week...
/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion.
Where should I mount my internal drive partitions?...
Boeing’s crisis in Washington is about to soar to a new phase (www.politico.com)
Embattled aerospace giant Boeing faces a monumental choice: Plead guilty to a felony fraud charge for its role in past deadly plane crashes, or roll the dice on a high-profile trial against the Justice Department....
Ten years ago, I built this thing for a 4th of July party. (lemmy.world)
'Murica
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/36215278...
Pro-Palestinian protesters breach security at Australia's Parliament House to unfurl banners (apnews.com)
Radix LSD Sorting Base 10 appreciation post 🤗 (youtu.be)
Where it all started going wrong... (lemmy.world)
(Please don’t complain to me about censorship, I didn’t censor it.)
Just don't do it (lemmy.world)
Science proves... aliens had purses! (lemmy.world)
To clarify: the original post highlighted the purse as their proof.
It's been a week (lemmy.world)
The aliens didn't just build the pyramids, they built one from space rocks! (lemmy.world)
By the way, there is no such thing as ‘The Benben Pyramid.’...
Scientists discovered the oldest termite mounds on Earth — and they're 34,000 years old (www.livescience.com)
Author who recommended killing Palestinian journalists receives German ‘peace prize’ (skwawkbox.org)
cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/14790362
Germany summons Turkish ambassador as row erupts over alleged right-wing salute goal celebration at Euro 2024 (edition.cnn.com)
YSK the full scope of the recent US presidential immunity decision
TLDR: there are no qualifying limitations on presidential immunity...
I can play Fallout 4 in full screen
For years I was stuck with a setup where my main monitor was plugged into the GPU via HDMI, but my secondary monitor only had VGA, for which the card did not have a port. My motherboard does have one, though. Using that basically worked… with random issues popping up both now on Linux and way back in the dark times....
Follow up from late Linux 90s post
This is a follow up thread as I saw some posts regarding games being used on Linux such as ports from Loki....
How different would civilization be if humans had "mating season" ?
Let’s imagine, a world where 10 month a year, men and women don’t care about each other. However, twice a year, during 2-3 weeks, non pregnant women produce pheromone that men can’t resist and start calling every boy around to breed with them....