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Just your average urban druid interested in technology and quantum field theory.
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‘Make Europe Great Again’: Hungary’s new motto for EU presidency has a familiar ring to it (www.wral.com)
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Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time (arstechnica.com)
In December 2019, astronomers were surprised to observe a long-quiet galaxy, 300 million light-years away, suddenly come alive, emitting ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light into space. Far from quieting down again, by February of this year, the galaxy had begun emitting X-ray light; it is becoming more active. Astronomers...
To be fair, I'd try a bacon ice cream (www.bbc.co.uk)
American healthcare be like (lemmy.today)
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership (www.cnbc.com)
Biden's approval rating just hit its lowest mark on record (www.businessinsider.com)
What were the names your parents were going to name you that didn't make the cut?
What's the most damage a single action has done to your home?
Fuck Kai Winn
I know it’s been posted before, but I’m rewatching DS9, and man, fuck Kai Winn.
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes (nichegamer.com)
Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal?
I mean carbs in the bread, proteins and fat in the peanut butter. Use wholemeal bread for fibers....
I captured this pic almost by accident while hiking to photograph some abandoned buildings. Perth, Western Australia [OC] (lemmy.world)
No editing or colour adjustment, just cropped.
Kabosu dies: Shiba inu dog was meme and face of Dogecoin (www.bbc.com)
706 people named Kyle got together in Texas. It wasn’t enough for a world record (apnews.com)
How many people named Kyle can fit in one place? For one Texas city, not enough....
After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians (apnews.com)
Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently....
Volume (sh.itjust.works)
What song grounds you when you feel like you're living through a hurricane?
Best Lemmy App in 2024
Now that the Reddit exodus is about a year old and the client apps have matured, what’s the latest state of the above question?...
What horror story/movie/game/whatever terrifies you even though it's fictional?
Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint?
Think of the universe as a painting. There’s the image made in paint, and the surface it was painted on. The canvas....
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks (arstechnica.com)
“[Razer] falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified respirator,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement....
How do you keep your homes clean?
I’ve just swept and mopped. Once the floor dries, I could easily go sweep again and turn up more dust and dirt. If I were to mop again, I’m almost certain the water in my bucket would be filthy. It feels like it’s never actually clean....
How much longer will the age of Science last?
I’m curious what your take is on the finite nature of Science. I imagine the fractal “edge” will always remain illusive, but when do we hit 98% or 99.999% documented confirmed, distilled, and well explained? (Centuries? Millennia?) When does it become an engineering corpus?...
Waymo arson in San Francisco sparks new debate on self-driving cars (neuters.de)
Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims (gizmodo.com)
Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet....
How important is vitamin D drops to be under the tongue?
Bought some vitamin D drops (liposomal) that say to take under the tongue. Now it’s surprisingly hard to actually do that. So how much am I missing out if it’s in the general mouth or on top of the tongue?...
What's the craziest thing you've seen on a map?
Like weird place names on Google Maps, as an example.
Right-Wingers Say Super Bowl Is Rigged So Taylor Swift Can Endorse Biden (www.rollingstone.com)
A caffeine supplementation of 3 mg/kg significantly improved performance of elite e-sports players, by enhancing reaction and shooting skills (original.newsbreak.com)
What are some things you can/should cheap out on?
I often hear, “You should never cheap out on a good office chair, shoes, underpants, backpack etc…” but what are some items that you would feel OK to cheap out on?...
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A Colorado town's newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief's house (apnews.com)
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher...
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)
What was the dumbest misunderstanding you had as a kid about something you read
I thought in Harry Potter when they “sacked” Professor Dumbledore that they twisted his nutsack AND then fired/expelled him....
Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
This episode contains: sex, fear (startrek.website)
What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?
Looking for journalists, researchers, professionals, creators, etc....
Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia (wikimediafoundation.org)
The Foundation supports challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that jeopardize Wikipedia's community-led governance model and the right to freedom of expression....
The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay."
Fact (startrek.website)
[OC] A Tree Near My Parents' House (lemmy.world)
As we head in to the long winter here in Chicago, I revisited a photo I took last spring. Shot on a Sony a7iv with the Sony FE 35mm f/1.8
What is something small you can do almost (if not everyday) to improve on yourself?
It could be physically, mentally or in some cases spiritually