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Rent monopoly crackdown continues as FBI raids corporate landlord for 18 Arizona properties (coppercourier.com)
Federal agents raided a property management company operating in Arizona as part of an investigation into price-fixing rent, marking a distinct escalation in the renewed push to enforce consumer protection laws....
Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho (ktvz.com)
On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)
Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming (www.latimes.com)
In case of paywall: archive.today/M5OFY
Harry and Meghan’s Charity Declared ‘Delinquent’ by California AG (www.thedailybeast.com)
In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see?
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
Disk imaging
What are we doing for disk imaging theses days?
Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools (www.nbcnews.com)
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names....
Tracking down Scorpion, Europe's most wanted migrant-smuggler (www.bbc.com)
Barzan Majeed, aka Scorpion, is on the run after smuggling thousands of migrants into the UK.
I'm falling for a long-distance "bad boy trying to turn good" who has PTSD and traumatic family/past, afraid of it possibly being mistake but I'm not ready to let go: What should I do?? Please help!
Please read post for full context and be kind with me. Any help/input will be appreciated!...
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining (www.neowin.net)
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
It's movie night. You don't know who's coming but you have to pick a movie everyone vibes with. What do you choose?
If it works, kill it. (lemmy.world)
Rule of Google: if it works, kill it....
Was there ever a internet comment that actually really hurt you?
Can you live without YouTube ?
Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?
Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits (www.nola.com)
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers....
What's your favorite profound quote?
JUST TODAY I was going to buy WinRar. I've used the software forever, for free, and I just thought... I appreciate this, they've never given me grief, and I'm going to pay them.
And I went on their page to subscribe for a lifetime membership, and they wanted 20 bucks, which I was okay with, but it does not include Major Updates! I guess I’ll buy it and just click the do not check for updates button but that seemed kind of, I don’t know....
What person can help me sort out the big picture of my life?
21M, my life right now is such a mess....
Greta Thunberg detained at The Hague climate demonstration (www.theguardian.com)
Do you prefer the headphone jack to be at the top or at the bottom on a phone, and why?
AI Has Lost Its Magic (www.theatlantic.com)
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
Google Play Store listing apps installed from F-Droid that it cannot update (i.imgur.com)
Essentially the apps have same package name but different signatures and the app store that installed it should be the only one to recognize and update it....
'I will not feed a demon': YouTuber Ruby Franke's child abuse case rooted in religious extremism (apnews.com)
The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah....
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
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What is your favorite form of potato?
The most versatile of foods, creating chips, hash browns, and vodka, among other things. Which option is the best one?...
Et tu, Guinnéss? (lemmy.ca)
500ml to 440ml?...
What is a gender neutral replacement for man, guys, buddy, etc?
So I’ve realized that in conversations I’ll use traditional terms for men as general terms for all genders, both singularly and for groups. I always mean it well, but I’ve been thinking that it’s not as inclusive to women/trans people....
LMDE and Alienware 17 r4
Hi folks. Anyone running Debian on Alienware 17 r4? Or am I dreaming because of the “NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti” graphics? My preference would be LMDE
Adult daughter. Should I disown her!? (lemmy.ca)
Edit: LOL love the responses. You ain’t wrong…...
LMDE on Dell Precision
Hey all. Going to take advantage of dellrefurbished sale. Dell is all abour Ubuntu. But I’d like to play around with LMDE....
Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown (arstechnica.com)
What is the worst song to listen to in the car because of sirens wailing, brakes screeching, horns honking, or any other scary stuff?
Protesting for tuna (lemm.ee)
Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)
Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...
What have you done recently to lovingly annoy your spouse/significant other? For example, this morning I brought my wife her toast singing the first line from "Baby One More Time" in Brittany voice...
“Baby baby, I brought you your toast again.”...
North Korea's Kim orders military to 'thoroughly annihilate' US, South Korea if provoked (apnews.com)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his military should “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea if provoked, state media reported Monday, after he vowed to boost national defense to cope with what he called an unprecedented U.S.-led confrontation....
LG says its new 4K projector is a ‘stylish art object’ (www.theverge.com)
LG says its new 4K projector is a ‘stylish art object’::LG’s new CineBeam Qube is a small, boxy, minimalist 4K laser projector with a handle and HDMI eARC support.
Joe Rogan Mistakenly Blasts Biden’s Mental Fitness Over Something Trump Actually Said (variety.com)
Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content (www.theverge.com)
More than 200 Substack authors asked the platform to explain why it’s “platforming and monetizing Nazis,” and now they have an answer straight from co-founder Hamish McKenzie:...