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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...

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....

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:...

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....

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

“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.”...

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

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...

That the end of the world feels just a little bit nearer here than it does in some places may not be coincidental to Varoufakis’s having written a new book called Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Nor that the book comes to the conclusion that capitalism has been replaced with something even worse. Not the glorious...

As users post less and less to Instagram, new apps have tried to stake their claim as the next big thing. The French social-media app BeReal, which gained popularity for its more authentic experience, peaked at 75 million downloads per analytics firm Sensor Tower and a $630 million valuation. Growth has stalled a year later,...

Ruben exposed how Chemours tried to settle with four different city governments about them dumping toxic chemicals in the surrounding waters, effectively poisening the city and the surrounding areas.

So two weeks ago it was said that the fossil fuel sector received up to 37 billion in annual subisidies, but it turns out to be even more