Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors....
The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering....
And let’s not pretend that prisons don’t regularly disregard inmates dietary restrictions, even the medically necessary ones. It’s easy to laugh at this one because ‘haha vegan’ but it’s still atrocious to ignore any dietary restriction, let alone such a common one.
The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.
They said that while you might be able to make it for sports, you certainly can’t make it for chess. That doesn’t mean they personally think there’s a case for sports too.
As a French speaker I had never heard of this, but I looked it up and it’s indeed the case specifically for circumflex accents (ê, ô, â, î) and not the others.
A neat resource (in French naturally) that I found on this:
One of my absolute favourite shows from my childhood, sadly cancelled after 13 episodes. There have been rumours of a reboot but nothing confirmed for a while.
“In June 2022, Oakley claimed that they were still in the process of pitching the project, and that if this version was picked up, then it would continue under the Mission Hill moniker, rather than being titled Gus and Wally.[4] He also mentioned that it would include the unproduced episodes from the original incarnation of the show.[4]”
I'm sure it was just created as an exercise, right? (lemmy.ca)
Japan says seawater radioactivity below limits near Fukushima (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Tests of seawater near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant have not detected any radioactivity, the environment ministry said on Sunday (Aug 27), days after authorities began discharging into the sea treated water used to cool damaged reactors....
Leaked Email Shows Elon Musk Demanding "Sub 10 Micron Accuracy” Cybertruck Parts (jalopnik.com)
Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks
Sam Bankman-Fried living on bread and water because jail won't abide vegan diet, lawyer says (www.nbcnews.com)
The co-founder of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX pleaded not guilty to a seven count indictment charging him with wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering....
Never gets old (lemmy.ca)
Just finished this one last night! (lemmy.world)
World chess federation bars transgender women from competing in women's events (apnews.com)
The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.
TIL just 20% of European homes have air conditioning compared to 88% in US (www.nbcnews.com)
til: Benford's law: real life number are not evenly disribued, 1 occur 30% of the time (lemmy.world)
Charger prong can wiggle after being bumped. Dangerous? (lemmy.world)
Hi all,...
Kaiserschmarrn (discuss.tchncs.de)
A broken apart fluffy pancake from Austria served with Marillenröster - something between a Compost and Marmalade made from apricots
Mission Hill (1999-2000) (lemmy.world)
One of my absolute favourite shows from my childhood, sadly cancelled after 13 episodes. There have been rumours of a reboot but nothing confirmed for a while.
After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/
I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.
The Welsh disagree. (lemmy.world)
'Minor Rotation Detected' in Clarence-Rockland (instantweather.ca)