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UK’s richest family on trial in Switzerland for human trafficking, confiscating staff passports, paying as little as £7/day (www.bbc.com)
Everyday, as an American (midwest.social)
Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
‘It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California sheriff says (www.yahoo.com)
Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Summer 2023 Was the Northern Hemisphere’s Hottest in 2,000 Years, Study Finds (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9555227...
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. (humanities.ku.dk)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2916897...
The second matchup of the tournament (lemmy.world)
Crime (mander.xyz)
US man has brain damage, mother says, after allegedly being pushed into lake (www.theguardian.com)
Yolanda George, mother of Christopher Gilbert, calls on police to make arrest after incident in Louisiana in April...
Get rid of landlords... (lemmy.world)
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Putin 'may launch all-out bid to seize second city' - as Western officials fear major Russian advance (news.sky.com)
A disease that makes crops inedible would be so much worse than any pandemic
Paul Alexander, the polio survivor who spent over 70 years in an Iron Lung, has died at 78 (www.bbc.co.uk)
American dream of owning a home is dead, majority of renters say (www.theguardian.com)
Exclusive: most renters surveyed by Harris Poll say the areas they live in have become so unaffordable they are ‘barely livable’...
Senior IDF officer censured over demolition of Gaza university without approval (www.timesofisrael.com)
Footage widely shared on social media showed a massive blast at Israa University, prompting US President Joe Biden’s administration to ask Israel for clarification....
A former US surgeon general says he went to the ER for dehydration and ended up with a $5,000 bill. He called the healthcare system 'broken.' (www.businessinsider.com)
New Zealand repeals world-first smoking ban passed by Jacinda Ardern (www.independent.co.uk)
Reversal of smoking ban criticised as ‘shameful’ for lacking evidence...
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Have you ever been in your local paper? If so, why?
When I was a kid, me and my beavers group got into the local paper because we did something....
DOJ announces arrests in ‘high-end brothel network’ used by elected officials, military officers and others (www.cnn.com)
Fantasy rednecks (lemmy.world)
Man imprisoned 16 years for wrongful conviction fatally shot by Georgia deputy (www.cbsnews.com)
A man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff’s deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said....
The Curse review: Emma Stone comes up trumps again in this brilliantly unsettling new television comedy (www.bbc.com)
How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?
Well, everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too, including Central and South America. Is there a specific term in english for these people?...
I'm not kidding when I say for the FIRST time I actually can grasp the size (startrek.website)
A little short for a starship, isn’t he?
Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)
Russia is defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the UN's top human rights body (apnews.com)
Patrick Stewart: Why I Stormed Off the Set of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Am I? Who knows (startrek.website)
Source Page. Credit is to SMBC-Comics and even more credit to @aperson who noticed it was missing and found the credit in this comment. Sorry about that and thanks, you’re awesome aperson
PSA: Reddit is Forcing Users to Accept Personalized Ads (www.macrumors.com)
TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there’s no more opt-out option.
Time to go to the Delta quadrant. Again. (i.imgflip.com)
Best minds of the Russian Navy (i.imgur.com)
Source: t.me/wartimejokes
18+ Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository?
You can assume that for every day you take the pill you don’t age that day - if you skip it for a day you age by a day.
TIL that in the US, liberal adolescents are much more likely to experience depression than their conservative counterparts. This divergence in depression rates only started recently and is growing (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024 (www.breakingthenews.net)
Tensions are escalating (startrek.website)
Trump Warns ‘Cognitively Impaired’ Biden May Cause ‘World War Two’ (nymag.com)
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Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)
What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?
I often daydream about how society would be if we were not forced by society to pigeon hole ourselves into a specialized career for maximizing the profits of capitalists, and sell most of our time for it....