Woman flew drone carrying drugs and USB drive with pornography into prison yard (www.theguardian.com)
Queensland prison staff found drone crashed close to exercise area with sealed bag nearby containing contraband
El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing (apnews.com)
Making memes from every episode of DS9 [s01e17] (i.ibb.co)
In other news, I now have the ability to screenshot, and access to a warp tool. My shitposting powers grow by the minute....
Looking for the new COVID vaccine booster? Here's where to get the shot. (www.cbsnews.com)
Pharmacies across the U.S. have started administering new COVID-19 booster formulations from drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna....
Apple Store Down Ahead of iPhone 15 Pre-Orders (www.macrumors.com)
Apple's online store is down ahead of iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro pre-orders, which are expected to be available at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time in the...
Beijing says it now has capacity to build Taiwan rail link from Chinese mainland (www.scmp.com)
Crimean Bridge 2 : Highspeed Electric Boogaloo...
SHOIGUUUUU!!!!! (i.postimg.cc)
For those with larger phones, how do you handle them without grip accessories?
Do you cave and use both hands? Do you take the chance and try to use them one-handed when more actively using them? Or do you ultimately submit and get an accessory to kinda help, at least with keeping a hold of them?...
T-pose on your F14 Tomcat to assert dominance (feddit.de)
source 19:50
[SOLVED] Why do stories have such effect on us?
All religions have it’s own myths, own stories, own set of values. And these are/were good stories, I mean, even though they are not true, they are certainly interesting. You won’t feel bored by it....
Should there be a UK Minister for Men? (lemmy.world)
A UK Member of Parliament recently suggested that there should be a Government minister for men which would presumably do similar things to the existsing minister for Women....
Bethesda claims that the Intel ARC GPUs do not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirements (www.dsogaming.com)
According to Bethesda Support, even the Intel Arc A770 GPU does not meet Starfield's PC minimum requirements.
North Korea launches new tactical nuclear attack submarine (www.reuters.com)
North Korea has launched its first operational "tactical nuclear attack submarine" and assigned it to the fleet that patrols the waters between the Korean peninsula and Japan, state media said on Friday....
Reddit / lemmy vs Old internet forums
Are sites like lemmy , reddit and discord the true successors to the old internet forums of the 2000s . or were the forums superior to todays reddit , lemmy or discord
Armenia to exercise with US troops next week in sign of frustration with Russia (www.reuters.com)
Mishaal Rahman: The way Android calculates how much storage space "system" files takes up is still totally faulty, even in Android 14 (twitter.com)
nitter.net/MishaalRahman/…/1699460577200833017
Tropical Depression 13 forms in Atlantic, could become "major hurricane" by end of week (www.cbsnews.com)
A new tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic and is forecast to become a powerful hurricane by the end of the week, according to the National Hurricane Center....
Your prayers have been answered, next up: childless airline (imgur.com)
Don’t ask me for translation, just google Corendon xd
India steps up coal use to stop outages triggered by unusually dry weather (www.reuters.com)
Arcade game in browser (programming.dev)
Back in the 90s, it was a game as Java applet. But then somebody removed all those nice plugins. I ported it a while back to C#, made it into desktop (Gtk, WinForms etc), but now finally, it returns - with WebAssembly - back into the browser, where this originally “remastered from DOS” game began 😀
Gaming laptop with good Linux support?
A similar question was raised some day’s ago from a other person, but with different background. In this case, I would like to buy a nice gaming laptop. Of course I would use it for office and coding to, but primary I’m searching recommendations for gaming. I would like to play Wine/Proton game’s and also native Linux...
EU purchases of Russian LNG up 40% compared to pre-war levels, new study finds (www.euronews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/2121597...
Is Twitter/X really going to shut down anytime soon?
As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major...
Former US Cardinal McCarrick not competent to face sex abuse trial, judge says (www.reuters.com)
A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday dismissed a criminal case charging former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick with molesting a 16-year-old boy in 1974, saying the 93-year-old was not competent to stand trial after psychological experts found he had dementia....
Canada study debunks stereotypes of homeless people’s spending habits (www.theguardian.com)
The widely held stereotype that people experiencing homelessness would be more likely to spend extra cash on drugs, alcohol and “temptation goods” has been upended by a study that found a majority used a $7,500 payment mostly on rent, food, housing, transit and clothes....
