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McDonald's: $18 Big Mac was 'exception' (www.newsnationnow.com)
McDonald’s is fighting back against viral tweets and media reports that it says have exaggerated its price increases....
Revealed: how a US far-right group is influencing anti-gay policies in Africa (www.theguardian.com)
A long-standing US anti-pornography campaigning group has advised, promoted and endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ activists and politicians in Uganda, including a governing party member who endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ laws by saying gays “should be castrated”, and a virulently homophobic founder of a “militaristic” Christian boys camp....
How Ken Paxton is stretching the boundaries of consumer protection laws to pursue political targets (www.texastribune.org)
Consumer protection laws give attorneys general broad legal authority to request a wide range of records when investigating businesses or charities for allegations of deceptive or fraudulent practices, such as gas stations that hike up fuel prices during hurricanes, companies that run robocalling phone scams and unscrupulous...
Two more US officials resign over Biden administration’s position on Gaza war (www.theguardian.com)
Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development (USAID), said he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians, which was cancelled at the last minute by USAID leadership last week....
If you could make a non-linux OS go mainstream, which one would you pick?
I make the specification of non-linux because otherwise this would just become a thread full of obscure distros that do the same thing as a million other distros....
CEO Who Tanked Company's Stock By 20% Reveals 5-Point $700m Plan To Save Cracker Barrel (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Cracker Barrel’s CEO faces an uphill battle to revive the restaurant chain after a blunt admission sent stock prices plummeting 20 per cent.
His neighbors live in constant terror (lemmy.world)
Sorry, the name stuck (lemmy.world)
The Washington Post said it had the Alito flag story 3 years ago and chose not to publish (apnews.com)
Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, the Washington Post acknowledged it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it....
Vanity Fair France apologizes after editing out actor’s Palestinian flag pin (www.cnn.com)
Chinese scientists develop cure for diabetes, insulin patient becomes medicine-free in just 3 months (m.economictimes.com)
My friend didn't have a great experience with Linux
I have been daily driving Linux for over two years now and I have switched distros many times. So, when my friend bought a new laptop, I convinced him to install Linux Mint on it. I asked him if he wanted to dual boot, he said no because it would fill up all his storage. We installed Linux Mint. The other day, he wanted to play...
NYU Nurse Is Fired After Calling the Gaza War a ‘Genocide’ in Speech (www.nytimes.com)
we love open source!!1! (lemmy.ca)
Therapists are blaming polyamory for patients' problems. These researchers want to change that. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
[SOLVED] [Manjaro XFCE] Trying to mount an SSD but gives me a "Failed to mount" error
I’m trying to mount one of my SSDs on my systems but it gives me this error when trying to mount from File System: “Failed to mount “New Volume” - No object for D-Bus interface.” If I go into Gparted and check the description of the device in question it gives me this: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 3). Failed to...
I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.
Everywhere I am there is a guy running a leaf blower. At my house, leaf blowers everywhere all day long. At work, of course, leaf blowers blowing dirt and allergens into the air. It’s such a special noise, it goes through walls and headphones so effectively. They are the most pervasive, annoying things on the planet. I hate...
After Peddling Fake Hamas 'Beheaded Babies' Story, Media Ignores Actual Beheaded Palestinian Baby (www.thecanary.co)
AsahiLina: ✨ We got a bunch of Steam games to run on Asahi Linux!!! ✨ (vt.social)
Update : more games!
Melinda French Gates announces $1 billion donation to support women and families, including reproductive rights (www.cbsnews.com)
Cuteness Overload? (slrpnk.net)
Just adopted this little fella, welcome to the fam Sesam ! Was a bit afraid he wouldn’t go well with our other kitten we already have, but 3 days in, they’re already great friends, playing and sleeping together!...
Sovcit needs some help. (lemmy.world)
Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry (www.theguardian.com)
Minimum ! (jlai.lu)
thank you google maps, very bikeable trail (lemmy.world)
White House assessing if Israel violated "red line" with Rafah strike (www.axios.com)
NFL Kicker Accused of Sexual Assault on Team Flight (www.thedailybeast.com)
Normalize it! (lemmy.world)
Are we going to halt this Bronze Age collapse or what, Minoans?
Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome
Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...
Families of Uvalde victims sue Activision, say Call of Duty is 'the most prolific and effective marketer of assault weapons in the United States' (www.pcgamer.com)
Man insults judge who sentenced him to 12 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot (apnews.com)
A New Jersey electrician who repeatedly attacked police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison by a judge who called him “a menace to our society.”...
Excellent (lemmy.ca)
'Sedition Panda' convicted of assaulting officer on Jan. 6 after judge calls defense argument 'absurd' (www.nbcnews.com)
Daily marijuana use outpaces daily drinking in the US, a new study says (apnews.com)
So if I'm having a conversation, and the other person is wiping their nose a lot, does that mean they think THEIR nose is dirty, or that they're trying to tell me MY nose is dirty?
The future is here (sh.itjust.works)
Political consultant indicted for deep-faked Biden ad telling people not to vote (www.rawstory.com)
Harvard board bars 13 pro-Palestine student protesters from graduating, overruling faculty (thehill.com)
Believe what you see, not what you’re told (sh.itjust.works)
Uvalde school shooting victims' families announce $2 million settlement with Texas city and new lawsuits (www.cbsnews.com)
Trump lashes out after DOJ reveals classified documents were found in his bedroom (www.independent.co.uk)