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What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?

Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet (www.404media.co)

An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay...

Round 2 🚢 (jlai.lu)

They lied to us (sh.itjust.works)

Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes. (www.centraloregondaily.com)

(Title shamelessly stolen from this comment in the crossposted !micromobility thread.)

How many times will I tell you? (lemmy.world)

KDE 6 FOR ARCH LINUX IS HEREEEEEEE (lemmy.ml)

Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?

I’m interviewing for a software dev job currently (it’s in the initial stages). If things work out, I’d absolutely prefer a work laptop with Linux installed (I personally use PopOS but any distro will do), a Mac will be second choice, but I absolutely cannot tolerate Windows, I abhor it, I hate it… (If all computers left...

Late Actor Matthew Perry's Twitter Hacked: Fake Charity Plea Targets Fans with Cryptocurrency Scam (www.bitdefender.com)

Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry’s Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate....

No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on (www.cnn.com)

No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on::Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, arguably a step back from EVs.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney clears charges against white supremacists, says there's a bias against the far right (www.latimes.com)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/judge-again-dismisses-charges-a…

Often we say infinite growth (capitalism) is not sustainable and reasonable. Can we also say infinite progressivism is also not sustainable and reasonable?

This question is social/political, and meant to trigger a nice debate on the negatives of imbalanced infinite progressivism we seem to be heading in social and technological spheres, ignoring science, practicality and reason....

What does your current setup look like?

And how's there a car in a mall? Life's important questions (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)

Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY’s analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

No charges for New Mexico officers who knocked on wrong door before fatal shooting (www.bbc.com)

Authorities in New Mexico will not seek charges against three police officers involved in a fatal shooting after arriving at the wrong house last year....

Well then.. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

me🗽irl (lemmy.world)

It's as if my eyes have been opened for the very first time... (lemmy.world)

Thinking about making the big switch – recommend me a distro!

Hey all, I’ve been thinking about making the jump from Windows to Linux as my daily-driver and I’ve been struggling on what distro to use....

Texas refuses to comply with Biden administration's cease-and-desist letter about border access (www.nbcnews.com)

The Department of Homeland Security had directed the state to stop blocking the U.S. Border Patrol’s access to roughly 2½ miles of the U.S.-Mexico border...