In the age of public salary-range listings, some jobseekers feel duped (www.bbc.com)
Is it disrespectful to call someone instead of answering their email?
I tried getting season tickets for a local baseball team but the ordering system was quite literally designed for old people and was driving me insane:...
Best country to VPN to?
The VPN provider I use has servers in multiple countries. I was wondering if privacy laws would make it better to VPN to some countries over others when pirating.
While half-asleep, I heard and saw my door creak and open wide. Then when I woke up later, it was fully closed. Is it possible I hallucinated it?
Firefox reader view 🔛🔝 (lemmy.one)
This is, of course, an exaggeration of the both of them. Each has its own use case in which it performs better than the alternative. In truth, I use ubo as much as I use reader view :)
Manosphere grifters misuse evolutionary psychology to promote anti-feminist views (boingboing.net)
New research in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, from University of Kent researchers Louis Bachaud and Sarah Johns, explores how members of various manosphere communities (think Andrew Tate and his ilk) misuse research and concepts from evolutionary psychology to bolster their own misogynistic views.
OpenAI's offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenAI’s offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse::The prank was a reference to the “paper clip maximizer” scenario – the idea that AI could destroy humanity if it were told to build as many paper clips as possible.
Terms of Service (media.kbin.social)
alt text(parodical) YouTube popup: Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube’s Terms of Service - It looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don’t you know that by watching youtube you entered a CONTRACT?! - We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. We paid good money...
BIRDS. (lemmy.ml)
Hate these with every ounce of my being (lemmy.sdf.org)
The Arctic permafrost is 1,000 years old. As it thaws, scientists worry what it might unleash (www.usatoday.com)
Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support (www.notebookcheck.net)
Mom's phone, Trek edition (lemmy.world)
What's up, my fellow trees? (media.kbin.social)
Would anything get you to use Google Chat with friends? (9to5google.com)
Is this a rhetorical question? 😂
me🚀irl (mander.xyz)
toot by @MostlyHarmless
Russia Moves to Ban International LGBT Movement as Extremist (www.wsj.com)
How do games like Sea of Thieves stay afloat?
I think No Man’s Sky is also in the same boat....
The EU will finally free Windows users from Bing (www.theverge.com)
All of these Windows 11 changes are part of key tweaks that Microsoft has to make to its operating system to comply with the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act, which comes into effect in March 2024....
USS Nauvoo (pixelfed.social)
Biden administration staff sign open letter demanding cease-fire in Israel-Hamas war (www.nbcnews.com)
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (www.freethink.com)
MIT engineers and collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids salt-clogging issues of other designs.
Freedom from advertising... (lemmy.world)
What is your exotic pet?
I want to hear from the people with pets like centipedes, prarie dogs, alligators, scorpions, vultures, octupus… What is taking care of your pet like?