Disclaimer: I know TurboVPN and the others mentioned are not good services to use, I’m strictly doing research. I’m not looking for VPN recommendations....
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday....
Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified...
Super fun idea which I guess came after the Civ games. And certainly after computer programming.
As plausible as any hypothesis because we are wired that way.
Brains don’t do so great trying to grasp the incomprehensible improbability of life on earth , so all these stories have fertile ground in which to grow
At a business, a secretary, almost always a woman, would answer the phone for all calls. There were no direct lines into anyone. If you were in she would transfer the call to your office. If you were out she would use this pad to take messages. When you came back in to the office you would always stop at the front desk and you...
Nothing to do with bias. It’s a shitrag outlet. Most of their articles are stolen, or they just report on what other outlets are reporting - there’s hardly any original work and the clickbait is cheap shit .
Senior Tories fear Rishi Sunak is facing a vicious circle of party ill-discipline, amid concerns that attacks from Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman will signal his inability to restore authority in the months before the general election....
“We are going to make sure the man who is obviously going to lose the next election loses the next election, and then take credit for it from our Party, which has just lost the election .
Private health insurance market grows by £385m in a year amid NHS crisis (www.theguardian.com)
Demand for private treatment booms as NHS waiting lists remain long, while more people also sign up for dental cover...
Ghosts Of War by Slayer (lemmy.ca)
How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++ (slrpnk.net)
Disclaimer: I know TurboVPN and the others mentioned are not good services to use, I’m strictly doing research. I’m not looking for VPN recommendations....
Russia, Iran turning Israel and Ukraine into ‘battlefield laboratories,’ experts say (thehill.com)
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday....
Blanket physics is harder to understand than Calabi-Yau Manifolds (files.catbox.moe)
Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)
US is reimposing oil sanctions on Venezuela, officials say (www.yahoo.com)
Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood (theintercept.com)
Ahead of the United Nations Security Council action to consider the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the international body, the United States is lobbying nations to reject such membership, hoping to avoid an overt “veto” by Washington. The lobbying effort, revealed in copies of unclassified...
‘For All Mankind’ Renewed For Season 5; Apple Expands Universe With Spinoff Series ‘Star City’ (deadline.com)
What do you think about the idea that we're in a simulation?
I don’t think that we’re in a simulation, but I do find myself occasionally entertaining the idea of it....
Does anyone remember these? This was a time before answering machines, hard line voice mail, beepers, cell phones etc? (lemmy.world)
At a business, a secretary, almost always a woman, would answer the phone for all calls. There were no direct lines into anyone. If you were in she would transfer the call to your office. If you were out she would use this pad to take messages. When you came back in to the office you would always stop at the front desk and you...
Ukraine was in trouble already — now it openly admits it's on track to lose (www.businessinsider.com)
Former GOP insider: Trump has "reprogrammed a generation" to fight against democracy (www.salon.com)
Why I Talked to Pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan (www.sapiens.org)
Here he is on Rogan if you can stomach it. I cannot....
Russia to grow faster than all advanced economies says IMF (www.bbc.com)
An influential global body has forecast Russia’s economy will grow faster than all of the world’s advanced economies, including the US, this year....
Pearson: Airline catering employees vote 96% to strike, wages frozen during pandemic to help company, now management brags about profitability while offering raises as low as 89 cents an hour (teamsters.ca)
Local elections 2024: When and where are they, and who can vote? (www.bbc.co.uk)
What's the most ridiculous "Pimp my Ride"-mod you have seen? (lemmy.world)
luv me petrol, won' let the wokies take me boiler (feddit.uk)
Senior Tories fear Johnson and Truss will sabotage Sunak’s election campaign (www.theguardian.com)
Senior Tories fear Rishi Sunak is facing a vicious circle of party ill-discipline, amid concerns that attacks from Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Suella Braverman will signal his inability to restore authority in the months before the general election....
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)