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'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.' (finance.yahoo.com)

What produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs?

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US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS (www.theguardian.com)

Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA’s ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound...

California set to hike wages for fast-food workers to industry-leading $20 per hour (www.cbsnews.com)

Starting Monday, most California fast-food workers will earn at least $20 an hour — the highest minimum wage across the U.S. restaurant industry. Yet the pay hike is sparking furious debate, with some restaurant owners warning of job losses and higher prices for customers, while labor advocates tout the benefits of higher...

can anyone tell me the justification for putting Samuel Bankman-fried in prison for 25 years but Trump gets a fine? Is it federal vs. state?

Pretty much what the title says. I know he’s a former president and has all of his supporters, but what’s the official reason? Thanks.

Twitch Bans Using ‘Intimate’ Body Parts As Green Screens [Kotaku got you covered on the issue] (kotaku.com)

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (arstechnica.com)

The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: gofetch.fail

Yep, defintely not a bad person (sh.itjust.works)

Can you tell excel sheets which were created using a pirated version of MS Office?

My friend works for a company which requires her to use Microsoft specific application, she didn’t really want to switch to Win 11 and choose to just use Wine Linux package and install a 2016 version of MS office on her Linux laptop. That’s all well and good, but this company she is working for servers other clients at...

What can we do when something is too vast to provide representative examples for?

I feel like often people ask me “Oh yea? Name some examples.” and the burden is on me to prove something by providing representative examples. But often it’s so overwhelming how many examples there are for something that I feel obligated then to either list everything, or try extra hard to find good examples, and even then...

Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy (futurism.com)

Ideas for how to repurpose a half broken laptop

Due to unfortunate circumstances (me dropping the laptop) I have now ended up with a half broken laptop that has a broken screen and a dying battery. I could repair it, however, I don’t wanna bother as I’m very likely gonna be getting a new one soon....

EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam (www.theverge.com)

There hasn’t been a lot of good news out of EA lately, but here’s some: the company just launched a bunch of classic games on Steam. The new (old) releases include nine games in total, spanning franchises like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and SimCity....

The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked. Difference. (i.imgflip.com)

Uvalde schoolchildren were massacred under a sheriff’s watch. He was still undefeated on Super Tuesday (www.independent.co.uk)

Sheriff Ruben Nolasco won re-election despite pressure from victims’ families to step down and a Justice Department report finding ‘cascading’ failures among the law enforcement response that day...

How do you manage your server files?

I’m currently debating on how to manage files on my servers. I have a jellyfin and a minecraft server on which I need to add, remove or download files quite often. I don’t really want to use scp for everything, so I was wondering what everyone uses....

There’s one in every friend group (lemmy.world)

New Study Shows Kids Are Bullied For Not Spending Money In Free-To-Play Games (kotaku.com)

if I see these on the car in front of me, I'll merge into the oncoming lane, close my eyes and floor it (lemmy.world)

In The Matrix, how are babies made?

Being stuck in a pod by yourself makes it kinda difficult to get intimate with someone in the real world.

Rice covered in cow cells aims to provide nutritious, sustainable food (www.science.org)

Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' (www.thecooldown.com)

Scientists develop game-changing ‘glass brick’ that could revolutionize construction: ‘The highest insulating performance’::The team of scientists developed an aerogel glass brick, which is a translucent and thermally insulating material.