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Multi-level marketing model (lemmygrad.ml)

The amount of plastic waste entering aquatic ecosystems could reach 37 million tons per year by 2040 (www.telesurenglish.net)

TL DR...

DLsite Suspends Use of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express (www.sankakucomplex.com)

i found this article talking about some japanese pornographic page removing support for some credit cards…in the comments and related articles the weebs are blaming “the left” for censoring the things that their rightist ideology calls “degeneracy”…and some of them post some ironic anti-western takes about how the...

All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds | Rich lists (www.theguardian.com)

They've managed to combine greenwashing AND indigewashing (lemmy.ml)

Context: Advertisement on youtube...

U.N.’s Forest Protection Goals at Risk, Say Independent Assessors (www.projectcensored.org)

Specifically, $675 billion a year is invested in exploiting forests versus the mere $2.2 billion a year committed to protecting them, a discrepancy of 307 to 1. To effectively prevent deforestation, the annual sum invested should be $460 billion, more than 200 times the current amount, according to the report....

Micro-apartments are back after nearly a century, as need for affordable housing soars (apnews.com)

A century ago these would have been called tenement houses, but now we did a hip and cool Millennial rebrand: micro-apartments! The article spins this nicely:...

How Airlines Colluded To Ensure Onboard Food Would Be Awful (viewfromthewing.com)

‘Young Indian Method’ Teaches TikTok Spammers How to Hire and Control 'Third World Country Workers' (www.404media.co)

about police and decriminalization (lemmygrad.ml)

well…i’ve found this opinion in mastodon, i think it has a point and i’m mostly agree with it, what do you think about it? i’d like to read more opinions about this concept

BuT HaVe YoU CoNsIdErEd tHe EnViRoNmEnTaL iMpAcTs oF LaB gRoWn DiAmOnDs? (apnews.com)

I can’t believe someone unironically wrote this article. It’s completely transparent this is just ass-grabbing by the traditional diamond industry trying literally anything to deter people from buying manufactured diamonds. I wonder how much AP was paid to run this slop....

The amount of racist white supremacist and capitalist bootlicking lies and reasoning on this page is astounding. TV Tropes are fucking crackers. Maybe edit bomb the page? (tvtropes.org)

rebel toothbrushes (lemmygrad.ml)

they said that in communism you’d have to give your toothbrush, but in capitalism you’ll have a hacked toothbrush and you’re gonna enjoy it!

Why Public Bathrooms Suck in North America: Uytae Lee's Stories About Here (www.youtube.com)

China hints at its asymmetric warfare system aimed at dethroning US dollar (archive.ph)

For Beijing, it’s not so much about replacing the greenback within the current system but creating an entirely separate alternative...

Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

“Philippe Tremblay, director of subscriptions at Ubisoft, explained to GI.biz what needs to happen before subscription services become a more significant slice of the video game business.”...

truly the power of innovation (lemmygrad.ml)

who needs free software or getting rid of planned obsolescence?

Hospital staff get baked potato as a 'Christmas bonus' from work (and got taxed on it) (www.indy100.com)

Perhaps a sign that the hospital admin needs a potato canon to the face, in their next group Minecraft session.

How Airlines Quietly Became Banks (www.youtube.com)

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...

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