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What is your country's "coals to Newcastle"?
I was talking with a friend who mentioned “taking tea to India”. It made me wonder what the equivalents are around the world. “Taking coals to Newcastle” is the UK’s.
Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
“You can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to the sauce to give it more tackiness.”
Millennials are 'quiet vacationing' rather than asking their boss for PTO: 'There's a giant workaround culture' (www.cnbc.com)
Every day there’s a new article trying to shame workers for existing.
UK petition of "Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state" just got thrown back to the Government
I just received this email saying that the response “did not respond directly to the request of the petition”...
Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route (qz.com)
Those Silicon Valley geniuses have done it again!...
Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15741608...
Prison Architect 2 transitioning game to a different studio (store.steampowered.com)
Really weird thing to happen before the game is even released. The game previously got delayed and is now being moved to a different team.
Nvidia will be pushing users of recent generation cards to the open source modules rather than their proprietary modules! (forums.developer.nvidia.com)
Valve launches Proton 9.0 with improved game compatibility and more - KitGuru (www.kitguru.net)
"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" (lemmy.world)
How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement)
I still don’t know if it goes ground floor, second floor or ground floor, first floor, second floor
How do you know if you have a Habit?
I, am trying to understand if I have habits. My definition of a habit is: “Something that you do often and regularly, sometimes without knowing that you are doing it” from the Harvard Dictionary...
What do you think of these 17 political policies?
The whole of Germany shall be declared a united, indivisible republic....
Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls (www.theatlantic.com)
Google removing links to California news websites as part of test in response to pending legislation (www.cnbc.com)
I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better (www.pcgamer.com)
In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel? (upload.wikimedia.org)
Bonus points if there’s a known onomatopoeia to describe the sound.
If you have some cold water evaporating, is it possible to make it evaporate sooner by adding hot water?
How hot would it have to be?
Programming languages personified - leftoversalad (leftoversalad.com)
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Good luck speed cameras (i.postimg.cc)
Did you ever think that maybe all VPN services are actually secretly owned/funded by governments and that they are only giving you a false illusion of privacy?
What adventure games do you recommend?
pretty much the title. i have played most of sierra, lucasarts and telltale catalogues so if you are suggesting one of their games i’ve probably already played it. it doesn’t have to be a copycat, homage or in the same style as these companies’ games either, just that it must satisfy the vague definition of being an...
Why do some languages use gendered nouns?
Why do some languages use gendered nouns? It seems to just add more complexity for no benefit.
Former Mossad official: Children in Gaza over the age of 4 deserve to be starved (www.lemkininstitute.com)
In an interview on Israeli television, former Mossad official Rami Igra said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 are “involved” and deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of withholding food and humanitarian aid....
'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate (www.pcgamer.com)
Is HTTPS a scam?
Like the TSA at the airport....
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A US scientist has brewed up a storm by offering Britain advice on making tea (apnews.com)
An American scientist has sparked a trans-Atlantic tempest in a teapot by offering Britain advice on its favorite hot beverage....
OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware (arstechnica.com)
Mega-rich renew call on global leaders at Davos to 'tax our extreme wealth' (www.cnbc.com)
More than 250 billionaires and millionaires on Wednesday reiterated their call on elected representatives of the world’s leading economies to introduce higher taxes on the very richest in society....
As folks freeze to death in Milwaukee, Ohio pastor charged for offering shelter (www.jsonline.com)
What caused the change in electronic terminology?
What caused the shift from calling things like rheostats and condensers to resistors and capacitors, or the move from cycles to Hertz?...
China bans export of rare earths processing tech over national security (www.channelnewsasia.com)
why arent guitars made with 3.5mm jacks rather than quarter inch jacket
Why do new sites embed tweets? (lemmy.world)
Why is the journalistic standard to embed tweets (xeets?) instead of using screenshots?...
Train manufacturer intentionally bricks trains serviced by independent service providers (zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl)
Polish train manufacturer that lost servicing tender programmed train controller to brick itself after train stays for some time in 6 ISP facilities or in 1 their faculity(for testing?) until undocumented button combination is pressed. Some controller versions brick itself after train is idle for 10 days. After news about this...
Teen girls are being victimized by deepfake nudes. One family is pushing for more protections (apnews.com)
A mother and her 14-year-old daughter are advocating for better protections for victims after AI-generated nude images of the teen and other female classmates were circulated at a high school in New Jersey....
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (youtu.be)
The last bit sounds a lot like an advertisement for Lemmy ^^
Who went "full fedi" yet?
Bit of a simple question: Some people on lemmy are still posting stuff from youtube, xitter and the like....
They should believe in themselves more. (monyet.cc)