The International Seabed Authority—the United Nations body that regulates the world's ocean floor—is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for the green energy transition.
This is going to be a shit show. If they can make robots to hand pick the nodules, then fined but you know it's going to be just some huge dredge that fucks everything up down there. They need to do some long term studies first to see if a dredge maneuver has any long term impact or if the sediment just resettled.
Sorry if someone has already asked this. This is my first post on Lemmy. I mean, I guess you could ask the same question about Reddit but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be Read-It. But what does Lemmy mean? Is it a cute word for a small lemon?
Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx...
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
Don't just vote, go get fucking organized with community, and fucking fight.
And do what exactly? Hold a sign on a sidewalk and yell? It all revolves around voting. If your actions don't end up changing votes, then it's literally pointless.
Under the new bill, Florida could have roads made of phosphogypsum, a material known by the EPA to contain a "potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas," that's the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
But it's just radon - people have that shit in their basements all the time. I am curious if this could actually work. Like there is a limited amount of radon in the material, and once its out there in a thin layer, wouldn't it all vent off after a short period of time? Especially in the sun?
Yea, kind of worried this place is becoming an insecure knee-jerk reaction place just like reddit became post 2016. Like it's totally possible that boomers could better detect fake news. What's the big deal if so? No reason to take it so personally and start crying about Business Insider having an agenda. It's just ridiculous.
Analysis of mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather....
More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.
Serral wins 4-2 over Gumiho. Serral has been on an absolute tear since Katowice - he is 54-2 in matches and 126-20 in maps. Only MaxPax and Clem have taken a match off him. This is 2018 Serral again.
EuroBeans Back Off (lemmy.world)
So, what's up? Everyone doing good? How was your day?
How is everyone today?...
The Magic of Moss: The Tiny Plant Absorbs 6x More CO2 Than Other Plants, Says New Study (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Found in at least 12,000 varieties from snow-capped mountains to red-hot deserts, moss is the oldest living relative of all plants
Deep sea mining permits may be coming soon. What are they and what might happen? (phys.org)
The International Seabed Authority—the United Nations body that regulates the world's ocean floor—is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for the green energy transition.
Male Painted Bunting from Texas
Why is it called Lemmy?
Sorry if someone has already asked this. This is my first post on Lemmy. I mean, I guess you could ask the same question about Reddit but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be Read-It. But what does Lemmy mean? Is it a cute word for a small lemon?
Bluesky temporarily halts sign-ups because so many people are joining from Twitter (www.theverge.com)
Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter-like social network, is pausing new signups “temporarily” to try and resolve performance issues it’s been experiencing after Twitter introduced limits on the amount of tweets you can see in a day. Even though you still need an invite code to be able to join Bluesky, it seems that the influx...
OC Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
Kbin noob here - Is it the intended experience to take 2 clicks to open an image? (one to open the thread, then another to open the image)
Bonus question: How do you collapse comments? Some threads are busy and hard to navigate without this.
The James Webb Space Telescope captures image of Saturn and its rings in all their shiny glory
The Supreme Court strikes down Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan, blocking debt relief for millions of borrowers (www.businessinsider.com)
The Supreme Court ruled Biden's student-loan forgiveness is illegal, meaning borrowers will resume payments without debt cancellation this year.
Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis (www.cbsnews.com)
Under the new bill, Florida could have roads made of phosphogypsum, a material known by the EPA to contain a "potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas," that's the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
Boomers are memed for falling for fake news but are better at identifying online misinformation than Gen Zers and millennials, survey finds (www.businessinsider.com)
Beehaw's Demographics survey of June 2023!
Compiling this data was not as hard as I expected, let's go through the data and the shiny graphs!...
Archaeological evidence shatters the myth of men as hunters and women as gatherers (phys.org)
Analysis of mounting archaeological evidence from across human history and prehistory is challenging the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather....
The Great Grift: More than $200 billion in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen, federal watchdog says (apnews.com)
More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives. That's according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs designed to help small businesses survive the worst public health crisis in more than a hundred years.
If there's one thing I won't miss about reddit
Looking for mods
I have no interest in being a mod for this community. I just wanted to get it started. If it gets active, let me know if you want to be a mod.
Congrats to ESL Summer winner!
Serral wins 4-2 over Gumiho. Serral has been on an absolute tear since Katowice - he is 54-2 in matches and 126-20 in maps. Only MaxPax and Clem have taken a match off him. This is 2018 Serral again.