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Pope Francis calls US Catholic Church 'reactionary' (www.dw.com)

Pope Francis has lamented a “very strong reactionary attitude” in the US Catholic Church, saying that ideology had replaced faith in some parts of it and some members had failed to understand “there is an appropriate evolution in understanding matters of faith and morals.”...

Marketing or Education (programming.dev)

Wild pig-like animals are tearing up an Arizona golf course. The internet is delighted (www.salon.com)

Unstoppable javelinas love coyote pee like it’s “bacon bits in their salad.” Here's why golf courses are peeved

Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Smoking age should rise from 18, by one year every year - Rishi Sunak (www.bbc.com)

PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here (distrochooser.de)

I found this site a while back - basically it will ask you a bunch of questions on your usage of your PC, and will came out with a list of recommended distros, and a list of reasons why YOU could like or not like it....

Senior Citizen Sex (lemmy.zip)

US ad revenue at Musk's X declined each month since takeover -data (www.reuters.com)

US ad revenue at Musk’s X declined each month since takeover -data::Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55% year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought the company formerly known as Twitter in October 2022, according to third-party data provided to Reuters.

Singapore: Right to own a car starts at $76,000. And that doesn’t include the car (edition.cnn.com)

Philosophy meme (lemmy.zip)

Not sure why this got removed from 196lemmy…blahaj.zone but it would be real nice if moderation on Lemmy gave you some sort of notification of what you did wrong. Like an automatic DM or something

PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com)

TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there’s no more opt-out option.

Downtowns are dead, dying or on life support, says expert with over 50 years of researching urban policy (fortune.com)

Outdoor Workers Are Climate Victims (newrepublic.com)

How extreme weather could unite the environmental and labor movements

We've Been Duped (lemmus.org)

“I just wanted to make you proud of me, pop.”

The space armament treaty says: no nuclear, biological or laser weapons in space. but kinetics... (sh.itjust.works)

At least 200+ desktop extensions to be available on Firefox Android in December (blog.mozilla.org)

Quotes from the blog post:...

Kanye West to Jewish Adidas employee: 'Kiss a picture of Hitler every day' (www.rawstory.com)

An explosive new investigation by the New York Times details how Adidas employees experienced frequent anti-Semitism from Grammy Award-winning rapper and Yeezy designer Kanye West for nearly a decade....

Former chemical engineer in the coal industry, urging B.C. municipalities to change the term natural gas to "fossil gas" (www.cbc.ca)

“The term natural gas does not explicitly convey the fossil origins of such gas, leading to potential misunderstandings and hampering policy-making,”

SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS (github.com)

I’ve already been paying for YouTube Premium for many years to get rid of advertisement, and I’ve been using SponsorBlock for a year or so on my laptop to skip the inline ads, but because most of my watching of YouTube happens on the TV I always had to use the remote to skip it. It helps to see the “most rewind” area so...