can you imagine an American grocery chain standing up to their vendors? (www.cnn.com)
The difference between European countries and America is becoming so stark. Anyone reading or watching global news has to see how backwards this country is and that it’s only getting worse.
Contradicting federal health officials, Florida Gov. DeSantis recommends against new COVID booster (apnews.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health department official are directly contradicting federal health recommendations and warning residents against getting a new COVID-19 booster, saying there’s not enough evidence it provides benefits that outweigh risks....
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
Concerns of Redditor safety, jeopardized research amid new mods and API rules....
Germany arrests a man accused of illegally exporting electronic components for drones to Russia (apnews.com)
A German-Russian dual citizen has been arrested in Germany on allegations of violating the country’s foreign trade act multiple times by exporting electronic components to a company in Russia involved in the production of military materiel and accessories, Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday....
Rail whistleblowers fired for voicing safety concerns despite efforts to end practice of retaliation (apnews.com)
Hours before a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio and erupted in fire in February, a judge ruled a former railroad employee could proceed with a lawsuit claiming he had been harassed for years by managers who said he reported too many flaws in rail cars he inspected and had his job changed after reporting an injury.
Amazon won’t stop sending tortured woman unwanted boxes of shoes (arstechnica.com)
TIL the military cannot enlist a recruit with an IQ measured lower than 80 and is required to keep enlisted individuals with an IQ of 81-92 to less than 20% of the armed forces in active duty. (www.law.cornell.edu)
(a)The number of persons originally enlisted or inducted to serve on active duty (other than active duty for training) in any armed force during any fiscal year whose score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test is at or above the tenth percentile and below the thirty-first percentile may not exceed 20 percent of the total...
Twitter to ditch bird logo, Musk says (www.politico.eu)
Shit (lemmy.zip)
Woman propped up to look alive for family after already being declared dead at Adena Hospital, records show (sciotovalleyguardian.com)
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — A recent incident at Adena Health System has intensified scrutiny of its cardiology department. A 65-year-old woman died during what should have been a routine heart catheterization, leading to pressing questions about the practices and credentials of the physicians involved. What happened after her time of...
Letter Found in Vatican Archives Confirms Church Was Told About Death Camps (www.nytimes.com)
The newly discovered letter, written by a German Jesuit to Pope Pius XII’s personal secretary, suggests that the pope knew of Hitler’s atrocities but chose to remain silent.
Dear Brother Printers: Eat a [Sponsor friendly words here] (www.therecycler.com)
For a while now I have been a Brother evangelist because they just worked, they did not lock you into first party only printing supplies, and they were overall a good value....
Cash bail disproportionately impacts communities of color. Illinois is the first state to abolish it (apnews.com)
But Illinois is about to overhaul the system that upended Ross’ life. Illinois’ Pretrial Fairness Act, which abolishes cash bail as a condition of pretrial release, will take effect Sept. 18, making Illinois the first state to end cash bail and a testing ground for whether — and how — it works on a large scale....
New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people (fediscience.org)
“They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It’s entirely the opposite of what people think they’re going to do with the money.”
Forty-six million Americans are drinking "forever chemicals" in their tap water, report finds (www.salon.com)
Companies are a lot more willing to raise prices now — and it's making inflation worse (www.cbc.ca)
Corporations are a lot more willing than usual to raise their prices lately, and it’s putting more of the burden of high inflation on consumers....
No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked (arstechnica.com)
(IPTV) 🌍📺This frequently-updated github list gives you TV stations from around the world [x-post] (lemmy.ml)
Tech bros' attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages (www.theregister.com)
Almost one in five men in IT explain why fewer females work in the profession by arguing that “women are naturally less well suited to tech roles than men.”...
I Donated My Eggs to Help Pay Off My Student Loans (www.businessinsider.com)
Whoopsie daisy (lemmy.zip)
Antimatter falls down, not up: CERN experiment confirms theory (www.nature.com)
Archaeologists discover half a million-year-old wooden structure -- and it's not built by Homo sapiens (www.zmescience.com)
The researchers don’t know which ancient human species made the structure and the tools, but it’s unlikely to have been Homo sapiens. The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens found so far date from around 300,000 years ago and were found in Israel, Dull told CNN. He believes the people who made the structure were cognitively...