EPA’s new rule could strip protections from more than half of U.S. wetlands (www.washingtonpost.com)
The agency finalized the new regulation to reflect a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this year...
If we are worried about microplastics, why isnt there more outrage over "microfiber" ?
It seems like microfiber materials should be a major contributor to micro plastics, especially with all the laundering of the microfiber cloths and clothes.
BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Global Order (consortiumnews.com)
Why Youtube's recommendations are now days are weird and possible solutions to the issues (www.youtube.com)
Chinese-backed port project in Peru to be the 'gateway from South America to Asia,' official says (apnews.com)
Dozens of cranes lift blocks weighing several tons and drop them to compact the soil of a roughly one-square-mile area on Peru’s Pacific coast, part of China’s most ambitious port project in Latin America designed to facilitate trade between the regions....
The even less ethical solution is something alike SNWs "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" first servant kind of thing (feddit.de)
We need a more user-friendly approach to telling people about the Fediverse (kbin.social)
I'm assuming most of us here want a large community. The reality is most people aren't into technology nearly as much as many of the people actually on the Fediverse. For other people who are into tech (like myself and a lot of people here), the federation technology itself being promoted as a core component of the appeal makes...
Category 1 Hurricane Hilary barrels toward California, still threatening floods and damaging winds (www.cnn.com)
Hurricane Hilary is expected to slam into Southern California on Sunday as a rare tropical storm, unleashing floods, fierce winds and heavy downpours as residents evacuate, parks and beaches close and first responders brace for water rescues....
What exactly makes a shoe "orthopedic"?
Seems to just be a marketing term nowadays.
How about Vivaldi Browser?
I know we aren’t allowed to use Chrome. We can’t use Brave. But how does the Lemmy community feel about the Vivaldi Browser? or is it still not Firefox…
Isn't it weird that we put credentials in the environment?
Almost every program that we run has access to the environment, so nothing stops them from curling our credentials to some nefarious server....
Ex-wife of slain Microsoft exec Jared Bridegan charged with his murder (abcnews.go.com)
These 3 teams just hacked a US Air Force satellite in space ... and won big cash prizes (www.space.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1562369...
Amazon pinches sellers: Use our costly logistics services or pay extra fee (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1553712...
Assuming that (non-free) GPU drivers perform telemetry, can the GPU surreptitiously access the network (internet) to send the collected data? (www.extremetech.com)
The Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made (youtu.be)
What are some open source games you can recommend for Linux?
Looking to get some games on my mint setup
Forget ‘quiet quitting’ — ‘loud laborers’ are killing workplace morale. Here’s how to spot them (www.cnbc.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/Feh55...
An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass (arstechnica.com)
Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media (blog.archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/1463699...
North Korea punishes women for wearing shorts, declaring them ‘capitalist fashion’ (www.rfa.org)
Nearly 4m fewer UK working days in past year due to strike action, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Resolution Foundation report says much of industrial action ‘fuelled’ by public sector workers’ anger over falls in real-terms pay
If you could travel to any fictional world, which one would you pick and what would you do there?
You're lying down, trying to sleep. Some part of your body is itchy, scratching will wake you up, not scratching will remain itchy. Do you scratch or wait for the itch to go away?
I have this issue often. I know if I scratch, it will wake me up and take longer to sleep because of my body movement. If I don’t scratch, my mind only focuses on the itch. Sometimes I’ll wait 5 minutes for the scratch to go away and then I just cave and start scratching any minor itch I have on my body. Has anyone just not...