I am very typical earthling. I like earth food and earth drink and earth sports and earth media. Im all about earth things because I am so typical and earthling. so typical as to be very boring and not worth investigating or looking into because I am definately from earth.
How do folks feel about the firing of Arwady?
It bothers me as I feel she was fired do to her doing her job and sticking to her guns on what the correct thing to do given the data. FYI im on kbin and my notifications page is not working so I may not respond so well.
US Agency to Announce 'Surveillance Industry' Regulation (www.improvethenews.org)
Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — a US government agency — will announce Tuesday a new rule to restrict the types of consumer data that can be sold by businesses. It will require data brokers, or any other company in the so-called surveillance industry, to be covered by the Fair Credit...
Hunter Biden's Lawyers Say Prosecutors Reneged on Deal (www.improvethenews.org)
Attorneys for Hunter Biden have submitted a court filing accusing federal prosecutors of reneging on a plea deal that would have ended tax and gun charges against Pres. Joe Biden’s son. ABC News...
Kansas Police Raid Newspaper Office, Reporter Injured (www.improvethenews.org)
Marion County, Kansas police Friday raided the office of the local newspaper — the Marion County Record — as well as the homes of its journalists and 98-year-old co-owner Joan Meyer. Meyer died at her home a day after, with the paper reporting the raid had left her "stressed beyond her limits." Guardian (LR: 2 CP: 5)...
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline (www.theguardian.com)
One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?
House Democrat says people want to ‘turn the page’ on Biden (thehill.com)
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who has floated a presidential primary contest against President Biden, said Sunday people want to “turn the page” on the incumbent president when it comes to 2024.
me_irl (lemmy.world)
Let’s call it a day
Sharp rise in cost of food basics forces UK families ‘to make desperate choices’ (www.theguardian.com)
Which? research finds cheese, butter and bread are up by more than 30% in the past two years, hitting the poor hardest
Analysis | The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why? (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
When economists published revealing data about doctor salaries, the backlash was intense. Why? And why do doctors earn so much more in America than in other countries?
Taler: a payment system that is actually ethical (taler.net)
This project is no where near production ready but its still cool
Russian scientists have grown watermelons in the coldest place on Earth (www.livescience.com)
Scientists in Antarctica did the unimaginable: They grew a bounty of watermelons while living on the ice-cold continent.
Why Americans love big cars (www.vox.com)
It’s not just a consumer choice; it’s a policy choice.
Scientists Puzzled to Find Plastic Fragments Inside Human Hearts (futurism.com)
Microplastics have been found inside human heart tissues — though as the scientists who found them note, it's not all that surprising.
Reactions to Satanism: A Field Guide (stephenbradfordlong.com)
Family of Utah man shot dead by FBI after threats to Biden say he was ‘frustrated’ (www.independent.co.uk)
‘He was understandably frustrated and distraught by the present and on-going erosions to our constitutionally protected freedoms and the rights of free citizens’