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Eat a magic mushroom, grow a little higher. (lemmy.ca)

How did Peter Piper pick pickled peppers?

Were the peppers already pickled on the plant somehow? Is there a type of pepper called pickled peppers? What is a peck anyway?

For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from !technology

US military leaders say Tuberville is aiding US adversaries with hold on military nominations | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)

libmem_cpy-strnrrn-std-clib_Cmvaeffc_ld-TWA_nif.aarch64(32bit)2-0.13.2-23.2.so.7(3).1.1.gz.conf (programming.dev)

“It’s just easier to type” and other lies you believe

Greener Alternative To Lithium-ion Battery (www.silicon.co.uk)

Preacher learns that screeching into ears is a poor conversion tool (sh.itjust.works)

Is anyone else like 10 times more likely to play a game they pirated versus one they bought?

I can’t explain it, something about the freedom of acquisition takes the pressure off and lets me just launch it and try it out....

How terrible is double NAT? really?

Hi,...

New communities and flooding the feed

What I mean is someone sets up a new community, blasts it with a bunch of content to get things started, or sets up a new community bot that makes 20 posts and every other post in my feed is that community. Usually with 1 or 2 votes each and no comments. No matter what way I sort I see this....

Help deciding PC upgrades

So…I’ve been increasingly struggling to run the latest games, as the age of my 6 years old desktop is starting to show, and Starfield denying my GPU just pissed me. I know it’s a bug and I can probably play it, but it’s outright the minimum for this game, and so I’d like a refresh of the worst, or should I consider a...

Does black coffee taste slightly salty?

Recently switched to black coffee for a few weeks. I’ve had sour, bitter notes from the office coffee machine and a chain cafe....

Rudy Giuliani "sealed his own fate" in legal loss: Constitutional lawyer (www.newsweek.com)

Chads! (lemmy.ml)

Truly people of our time!

Mushroom pickers urged to avoid foraging books on Amazon that appear to be written by AI (www.theguardian.com)

Amateur mushroom pickers have been urged to avoid foraging books sold on Amazon that appear to have been written by artificial intelligence chatbots....

Two jokes in one (sh.itjust.works)

Any rss reader which aggregates feeds

On Thunderbird for example, there’s no way to aggregate feeds from different places, into just one common view. I’m looking for aggregating all feeds from different places into a common view, where I can globally just keep what I want to read from everywhere and remove what I’m not interested on....

Navigation bar always ends up overlapping apps. Any way to prevent this? (sh.itjust.works)

So, I’m using a Pixel 4A, and almost daily, I end up having to reboot because the navigation bar overlaps the bottom of my apps or games, and rebooting is the only way I find to fix this....

X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training (stackdiary.com)

Here’s the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn’t entirely new; we’ve heard stories of...

Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up | There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon. (arstechnica.com)

Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up | There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon.::There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon.

AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine (arstechnica.com)

After nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers (apnews.com)

Pennsylvania plans to end on Dec. 31 its longstanding contract with the nonprofit Real Alternatives, the first organization in the nation to secure significant state and federal subsidies to support anti-abortion counseling centers. Under the program, Real Alternatives distributed the state and federal funds to dozens of...