The ten stages of genocide (www.hmd.org.uk)
Palestinians are at #8.
Who is Christopher Gilbert? Aspiring doctor left brain dead after friends pushed him into lake despite knowing he can't swim, will be released from the hospital soon (urmi.org)
Christopher Gilbert (age 26, born in 1997) is a Shreveport native and recent graduate of Louisiana Tech University. He had aspirations of attending medical
Staples plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it. (www.thecooldown.com)
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs....
YSK: There is a website (app too) that shows what political parties companies support (if any) (www.goodsuniteus.com)
YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. (www.aaa.com)
In the past, laminated glass was usually installed in the windshield, with side and rear windows being tempered only....
YSK The US Government has a Webpage for New Fathers to Find Dad Jokes (www.fatherhood.gov)
YSK those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)
Many have microSD cards soldered to their circuit boards.
YSK: There is a firefox extension that redirects Youtube videos to Peertube (addons.mozilla.org)
YSK: You can navigate Lemmy with just your keyboard (like RES) (github.com)
What’s this?...
YSK: You Need to Turn on Apple’s New Stolen iPhone Tool (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11099621...
YSK: Targeted Ads are a Cybersecurity Risk (avoidthehack.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11049489...
YSK about the app Yuka which lets you scan food and cosmetics to identify harmful chemicals or additives (yuka.io)
The app gives a score out of 100 for each product scanned based on how healthy or harmful it may be and offers alternative products which may be healthier. The developers do not sell ads or user data and have a no influence policy which prevents brands from paying to place their products in the app. There is a premium version...
YSK: Android and iOS settings for better security and privacy (thenewoil.org)
The article lists settings to change on Android 14 and iOS 17....
YSK: Do You Really Need That Antibiotic? It’s antibiotic season. Brush up on how you should use them — and when to avoid them. (NYT, Dec 2023) (www.nytimes.com)
It’s refreshing to see a major news outlet discussing collateral damage and not just resistance. Over the past decade, 99% of the time antibiotic overuse is covered and warned about it’s always only in regards to resistance....
YSK: How to clean your wood-burning stove glass (external-content.duckduckgo.com)
Tldr; Wet newspaper dipped in ashes....
YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective" (en.wikipedia.org)
“Systematic reviews of controlled clinical studies of treatments used by chiropractors have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective, with the possible exception of treatment for back pain.[8] A 2011 critical evaluation of 45 systematic reviews concluded that the data included in the study “fail[ed] to...
YSK about Sketch Toy (sketchtoy.com)
(the link again in case the clickable title doesn’t work on all instances: sketchtoy.com)...
YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores (askthedentist.com)
I learned about this many years ago and the difference after I started using only SLS-free toothpaste was night and day. I used to get canker sores any time I would bite the inside of my cheek, hit my gums with the hard parts of my toothbrush, etc., and this completely stopped a while after I switched to SLS-free....
PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote - /kbin meta - kbin.social (kbin.social)
YSK: Pro Publica has a tool that lets you request documentation of why your health insurer denied your claim (projects.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/9208209
YSK about the New York Times' Tor onion service (open.nytimes.com)
Why? In their words:...
Former chemical engineer in the coal industry, urging B.C. municipalities to change the term natural gas to "fossil gas" (www.cbc.ca)
“The term natural gas does not explicitly convey the fossil origins of such gas, leading to potential misunderstandings and hampering policy-making,”
YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf" (cdn.zmescience.com)
Some of the many articles about it:...
The colour of the Sun is white (www.wtamu.edu)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6080744...
YSK that Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees, will donate all profits on September 13th (tomorrow) to victims of the recent Moroccan earthquake (blog.ecosia.org)
Ecosia is great in general, they’ve done stuff like this before for wildfires and such, and they are carbin negative and use 100% of their profits for helping the planet...
