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1 in 10 restaurants in the US serve Mexican cuisine, reflecting expanding population, study shows (www.usatoday.com)
Food is deeply ingrained in cultural identity, and is one way to learn about a community’s heritage, familial customs and values. In the U.S., Mexican food is one of the most popular cuisines, with 1 in 10 restaurants serving Mexican, according to recent findings from the Pew Research Center. This trend reflects an expanding...
Pfizer plans to charge nearly $1,400 for Paxlovid (www.axios.com)
Pfizer will list its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid at a price of $1,390 per five-day course when it soon hits the commercial market, the drugmaker confirmed to Axios....
Google Nest Team: Update regarding recent changes to speaker groups for Nest speakers, displays, and Chromecast (www.googlenestcommunity.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2157354 (!google)...
Burgers and hotdogs with fresh pico (lemmy.world)
[I just watched] Dear Child (2023) (lemmy.world)
A mysterious woman’s escape from her harrowing captivity points investigators toward the dark truth behind an unsolved disappearance 13 years earlier....
‘Trump show is over,’ says New York attorney general as third day of fraud trial ends (www.theguardian.com)
Letitia James calls former president’s appearance at civil trial a ‘political stunt’ and a ‘fundraising stop’...
Indian-Mexican wedding gift
We’re Polish living in Germany and were invited to a wedding in India by a friend of ours. The groom is Indian and the bride is Mexican, to make things more complicated. It’s planned at the end of November. That’s the first time going to India for us, we don’t know much about the culture. We don’t know what we should...
OpenAI DALL-E 3 Screen Capture: Sky Dachshund! (www.youtube.com)
Nipah virus outbreak: what scientists know so far (www.nature.com)
India is taking urgent steps to halt the transmission of a rare but deadly virus that spreads from bats to humans.
Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more (www.pcworld.com)
Mexico’s Moment: The Biggest US Trading Partner Is No Longer China (www.bloomberg.com)
The new Cold War is a business opportunity, and Mexico looks better placed than almost any other country to seize it....
Apple Announces iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus With USB-C Port, Dynamic Island, Frosted Glass Design (www.macrumors.com)
State House Candidate in Virginia Condemns Leak of Sex Tapes (www.nytimes.com)
Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running in one of seven tossup House seats in the closely divided legislature, denounced the “illegal invasion of my privacy.”...
Spain's soccer chief Luis Rubiales quits in kiss scandal (www.reuters.com)
Rubiales announced his resignation in a statement in which he said his position had become untenable, with the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) later confirming he had sent a resignation letter to acting president Pedro Rocha....
Can I keep fried eggs in fridge?
How long? Does it change the concistency or taste?...
Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered (www.ign.com)
Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm’s Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered::A new report details how a PR firm paid off critics to post positive reviews of 2018 drama Ophelia on Rotten Tomatoes, prompting scrutiny over the reviews aggregator.
Bodycam: Pregnant woman accused of shoplifting shot by police (www.cnn.com)
Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police....
White man faces trial in US for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house (www.aljazeera.com)
Teenager Ralph Yarl was shot without warning through a door after going to the wrong house to collect his brothers.
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...
Army officers say they are taking power in Gabon (www.bbc.co.uk)
What was the best performance by somebody not primarily known for their acting? #MovieDiscussion
Pope says 'backward' US conservatives replaced faith with ideology (www.euronews.com)
Pope Francis condemned the “very strong, organised, reactionary attitude” in the US church and said Catholic doctrine allows for change over time....
[What is the best movie you watched last week?] 26 August
Fifa suspends Luis Rubiales from all football-related activity over Hermoso kiss (www.theguardian.com)
Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales has been provisionally suspended by Fifa following his conduct at the women’s World Cup final in Sydney last weekend....
Axolotl: This Incredible Creature Can Regenerate Its Brain, Heart, And Limbs (yt.revvy.de)
Reddit is a Dying Mall (www.staygrounded.online)
Foe - Official Trailer | Amazon Studios (www.youtube.com)
Premise: Based on the novel foe by Iain Reid-...
Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules. A similar fight is coming to the U.S. (www.statnews.com)
Kellogg’s is waging a war here over Tigre Toño and Sam el Tucán....
Twitter to hide news headlines from link previews (9to5mac.com)
Twitter (now X) has become a great platform for following news, and many media groups (including ours) share links to...
Shopping at Target
Stopped at Target to look for some shoes.
Man disparages Pride flag, then kills shopkeeper in California (www.bbc.com)
A US shop owner was shot dead after a dispute over a Pride flag displayed outside her business, police say.
The Nvidia Shield TV still holds up four years later, but it’s due for a refresh (9to5google.com)
YSK that restroom hand dryers blow fecal bacteria onto your hands (journals.asm.org)
There was a peer-reviewed report published in the journal for Applied and Environmental Microbiology that studied the amount of bacteria that was blown from hand dryers in 36 public restrooms at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The sample from the study concluded that as many as 60 colonies of bacteria were...
YSK: you can use a flashlight to direct cockroachs in the direction you want.
Why YSK: If you’ve ever had cockroaches in your home, you would be familiar with the feeling of unease that comes when they escape your clutches while roaming freely within the crevices of your home and soiling your belongings along the way. Before that happens, you can use a flashlight to direct them to your ‘striking...
Ron DeSantis Says He Has “Moved On” And Disney Should Drop Its Lawsuit Against Him (deadline.com)
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged The Walt Disney Co. to drop its lawsuit against him, while telling CNBC that he has “moved on” from his battle with the company and that it should drop t…
Far-right populist posts shock win in Argentina’s primary election (www.aljazeera.com)
Javier Milei’s win is a stinging rebuke of the political establishment in a nation battered by economic woes.
Scientists discover a genetic variant that seems to limit HIV infection (www.sciencealert.com)
Bug in Stremio? Missing episodes and no streams found
I’m loving Stremio so far, but having bad luck with the TV show Only Murders in the Building. It’s a fairly recent show. However, it doesn’t show any episode information for season one and two on Android. On Google TV it does show the episodes but getting No Streams Found for every episode. I could easily found it on...
Ecuador presidential candidate Villavicencio assassinated (www.reuters.com)
QUITO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption and organized crime, was killed on Wednesday evening during a campaign event in the north of the capital Quito, authorities said.
Who is sneaking fentanyl across the southern border? Hint: it's not the migrants (www.npr.org)
Prosecutors and defense lawyers say Haley’s story is typical; the vast majority of illicit fentanyl — close to 90% — is seized at official border crossings. Immigration authorities say nearly all of that is smuggled by people who are legally authorized to cross the border, and more than half by U.S. citizens like Haley....
Students banned from using nicknames under new anti-trans Florida schools guidance (www.thepinknews.com)
The Orange County Public Schools system in Florida has announced guidance banning trans students from bathrooms and the use of nicknames.
Show off your Android: the Home Sweet Home(screen) Edition!
Hey Android enthusiasts!...
It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)
Source: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90
Themes
Maybe this question or demand is too early, but it would be cool to be able to use the themes I used for boostforreddit....