Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
I’ve been using connect, it was buggy at first but they did multiple updates and I’m growing fond of it. I will probably download and check out sync and boost. But connect has the advantage of being here first and I’ve spent a whole month getting used to it.
I just finished all 8 seasons of Homeland on Hulu. It was good - worth watching IMO especially if you enjoy political dramas as I do. There were many twists and turns, some I disliked, most I liked.
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Funilly enough, another topic for weekly discussion I was planning, was plastic and food. Really not a fan of having plastic around stuff that I eat, especially when heating it....
Drove hundreds of miles through some very rural New England, USA today. Most areas were very nice with well kept homes and cute, small city centers (mostly only a couple of brick, commercial buildings)....
Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up. Now, one Mexican entrepreneur is building houses out of bricks made from the invasive species.
The kidnappings and randoms have been going on for awhile now. Hopefully someone or some group didn’t kidnap her to force her to work as a nurse for them.
Iranian authorities are again cracking down on women breaking the country’s strict dress code as they try to reassert control after last year’s momentous protests that were rooted in demands for more freedoms in the Islamic Republic....
Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette (www.bbc.com)
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
GOP readies fight against new fuel economy standards (www.rollcall.com)
Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore (www.androidpolice.com)
New Vaccine Targets Alzheimer’s Disease at its Roots - Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)
[Weekly thread] What have you been watching? 7/30-8/5
Free talk thread to discuss what you’ve been watching and ask for recommendations. Be sure to tag spoilers.
BBC Launches A Mastodon Instance (social.bbc)
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Microwaving plastic releases millions upon millions of polymer bits (www.wired.com)
Funilly enough, another topic for weekly discussion I was planning, was plastic and food. Really not a fan of having plastic around stuff that I eat, especially when heating it....
What do all the people do (for work) in rural area towns and unincorporated areas?
Drove hundreds of miles through some very rural New England, USA today. Most areas were very nice with well kept homes and cute, small city centers (mostly only a couple of brick, commercial buildings)....
How Bricks Made From Invasive Seaweed Clean Mexico's Beaches | World Wide Waste | Insider Business (youtu.be)
Millions of tons of sargassum wash up on beaches across North America every year. Exposure can lead to breathing problems, and it costs millions to clean it up. Now, one Mexican entrepreneur is building houses out of bricks made from the invasive species.
[Day 7] Posting the Lemmy logo every day but I do whatever the top comment says (lemmy.world)
@ilikemoney “Put the whole thing in a bowl of beans”
The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter (www.theatlantic.com)
Germany (lemmy.tf)
In summer heat, bear spotted in Southern California backyard Jacuzzi (apnews.com)
Maybe pool bears will convince people climate change is real. We can always hope.
Drone attack on Moscow (Russia, Moscow City) (files.catbox.moe)
Boston Hts. Police Chief arrested in Key West for beating homeless man ‘for no apparent reason,' police say (www.news5cleveland.com)
Chief claimed he was stabbed multiple times and may have killed attacker, but he had no stabbing injuries, report states
2 Americans have been kidnapped in Haiti, organization says (www.nbcnews.com)
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Iran Renews Crackdown on Women Who Defy Islamic Dress Code (www.msn.com)
Iranian authorities are again cracking down on women breaking the country’s strict dress code as they try to reassert control after last year’s momentous protests that were rooted in demands for more freedoms in the Islamic Republic....
Mitch McConnell’s ‘sandbag’ moment stokes anxiety over US gerontocracy (www.ft.com)
Edit: Thanks @Jearom for providing the paywall free link!
those damn libs
Pie rates (lemmy.world)
AAAAAA (lemmy.world)
Elephant on the loose spotted outside supermarket (www.bbc.com)
Local media reports the animal escaped from a circus but has since been returned.
Not so Taboo Topics Religion Taught me to fear (lemmy.world)