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What are you up to instead of what you wish you were doing?
U.S. University Did Something Crazy: Listened to Student Protesters Instead of Calling the Cops on Them (www.jezebel.com)
Panera says it's phasing out its controversial Charged Lemonade nationwide (www.nbcnews.com)
Lawsuits have blamed the highly caffeinated drink for at least two deaths....
New Orleans man and woman accused of killing witness in insurance scheme (www.theguardian.com)
‘Red’ Harris and Jovanna Gardne allegedly involved in murder of person cooperating in inquiry into over 100 staged truck accidents...
What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?
It bugs me when people say “the thing is is that” (if you listen for it, you’ll start hearing it… or maybe that’s something that people only do in my area.) (“What the thing is is that…” is fine. But “the thing is is that…” bugs me.)...
Rant: Star Trek writers really need to be more careful about what living scientists they choose to reference. (www.thestand.org)
If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize in advance and it’s okay if it gets removed....
Louisiana Lawmakers Move to Criminalize Possession of Abortion Pills (www.rollingstone.com)
Just can't get that jingle out of my head (lemmy.world)
Setup ideas with an old AV receiver
The house I live in has integrated speakers and they are all hooked up to an old AV receiver (Marantz NR1604). Currently it is annoying to play music through the receiver because essentially I have to plug my phone directly to the receiver. I am looking at other options....
[TNG] What did you think of the Dixon Hill stuff?
Personally I wasn’t a fan of them, so was glad they didn’t continue on.
American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby (www.bbc.com)
A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline’s booking system....
American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) passes House, headed to Senate. Overshadowed by TikTok ban but arguably much more important. (www.whitecase.com)
What others are saying about the APRA www.commerce.senate.gov/…/what-others-are-saying#…...
So now what distro are we running for LTS desktops?
Ubuntu has too many problems for me to want to run it. However, it has occurred to me that there aren’t a lot of distros that are like the Ubuntu LTS....
May I present to you: The Wikipedia Star Trek Into Darkness Debate (en.wikipedia.org)
From December 1, 2012, until January 31, 2013, a stylistic disagreement unfolded between editors on the English-language Wikipedia as to whether the word “into” in the title of the Wikipedia article for the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness should be capitalized. More than 40,000 words were written on the article’s talk...
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x05 "Mirrors"
LoglineCaptain Burnham and Book journey into extradimensional space in search of the next clue to the location of the Progenitors’ power. Meanwhile, Rayner navigates his first mission in command of the U.S.S. Discovery, and Culber opens up to Tilly....
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell (www.entrepreneur.com)
Dolphin found dead on beach riddled with bullets, NOAA offers $20k reward to find killer (www.usatoday.com)
Don’t wanna bash on Discovery … but is there notable disengagement around the final season?
I’m personally not watching it (you could call me a bit of a disco “hater” and s4 really kinda bummed me out) … but thought I’d see how people are enjoying it and think about getting a paramount subscription....
Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia (www.economist.com)
I don’t blame them. Ukraine needs to take the war to Russia to win.
Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)
What distro he uses? 🐧💻 (lemmy.ml)
Kari Lake suggests supporters 'strap on a Glock' to be ready for 2024 (www.nbcnews.com)