Scathing court ruling on Donald Trump’s empire is a bitter blow to his successful tycoon persona (www.theguardian.com)
For years Donald Trump was the host of The Apprentice, a reality TV show in which contestants vied for a management job within his organisation and he would deliver the verdict: “You’re fired!”...
France moves homeless people out of Paris as city prepares for next summer's Olympics (www.cnn.com)
First US Abrams tanks arrive in Ukraine (thehill.com)
The first U.S. Abrams tanks pledged to Ukraine have arrived in the country and are being prepared to send into battle, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Monday....
How could SI units be derived from scratch without the use of modern technology?
Think “you wake up in the woods naked,” Dr. Stone-style tech reset. How could humans acquire a 1-gram weight, a centimeter ruler, an HH:MM:SS timekeeping device, etc. starting with natural resources?...
US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills (www.theguardian.com)
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to providing an abortion after 20 weeks and tampering with human remains
How does a polite and grateful person navigate the internet?
I care a lot about what other people think (not good) and if someone tries to help or helps me, I can’t stay without saying thank you. I really want to thank people who comment on my posts. But many times I ask a lot of questions and I thus reply to a lot of comments and try to be polite and show how grateful I am. So, now, I...
Based on a true story (i.imgur.com)
Letter shows Vatican knew about Nazi death camps despite long denial (www.smh.com.au)
Well let's not do anything hasty (startrek.website)
Bodycam shows Seattle cop joking about "limited value" of 26 year old woman killed by police cruiser and also joking about writing it off as a cheque worth $11000. (www.cbsnews.com)
Mandatory bees (startrek.website)
Flat iron steak stroganoff on pappardelle (lemmy.world)
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California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms and other natural psychedelics (www.latimes.com)
California lawmakers on Thursday narrowly approved a bill supported by veterans and criminal justice reform advocates to decriminalize the possession and personal use of a limited list of natural psychedelics, including “magic mushrooms.”...
Searx is no longer maintained (github.com)
A new modern look for the Android brand (blog.google)
The bugdroid is now in 3D lol
Fan ejected from US Open match after German player said the man used language from Hitler's regime (apnews.com)
A fan was ejected from a U.S. Open tennis match early Tuesday morning after German player Alexander Zverev complained the man used language from Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime....
A thousand miles (programming.dev)
Far-right militants in Greece illegally ‘arrest’ migrants they blame for fires (observers.france24.com)
Two videos posted online on August 23 show Greek members of the extreme right illegally “arresting” migrants in Evros, a Greek region bordering Turkey. The footage shows the militants forcing one group of men to sit in the dirt. Another group of terrified migrants have been crammed into a trailer. While members of the far...
This mofo was born on the wrong day (lemmy.world)
New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits (www.washingtonpost.com)
As Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was visiting China earlier this week, a sea-green Chinese smartphone was quietly launched online....
Fauci on masks: people should take risks into account (www.cnn.com)
“The CDC does not mandate anything,” says Dr. Anthony Fauci. But if a Covid surge leads to a recommendation that people wear masks, “I hope they would abide by the recommendation and take into account the risks to themselves and to their families. We are not talking about forcing anybody to do anything.”
A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains (www.technologyreview.com)
A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains::The experiment to treat Parkinson’s is a critical early test of stem cells’ potential to tackle serious disease.