Typical Homeoffice meeting with cats (lemmy.world)
Do you consider Lemmy/Reddit (and similar platforms) to be social media?
I had this discussion with a friend, and we really couldn’t reach a consensus....
This calls for jihad (lemmy.world)
‘It wasn’t a big deal’: secret deposition reveals how a child molester priest was shielded by his church (www.theguardian.com)
Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times as he detailed how the Catholic church protected him for more than two decades after he admitted to molesting children...
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families (www.theguardian.com)
A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer children...
That one band... (lemmy.world)
After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them (kotaku.com)
Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. (www.wsj.com)
Lawmakers say investors that scooped up hundreds of thousands of houses to rent out are driving up home prices...
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Prove you're really a Trekkist! (lemmy.world)
‘They’ve destroyed us because of some tweets’: why has Saudi Arabia targeted these three sisters? (www.theguardian.com)
Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives...
Sailing the high seas (lemmy.world)
Italy's falling birth rate is a crisis that's only getting worse (www.euronews.com)
Italian welfare systems are already struggling to cope with the ageing of the population, and there is no consensus on what to do about it....
Men behind the doomsday seed vault in the Arctic win World Food Prize (apnews.com)
As Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin began thinking about ways to prevent starvation and protect the world’s food supply, they came up with what Fowler called “the craziest idea anybody ever had” — a https://apnews.com/general-news-international-news-c7510518d0c9428782d06d0235f5783a built into the side of an Arctic...
Social media abstinence can boost self-esteem (www.dw.com)
A Canadian study has found that refraining from social media for a week can have a positive impact on one’s body image. Online beauty ideals are most harmful to young women who try to achieve unhealthy body shapes....
Microsoft's payment to Bobby Kotick would cover the salaries of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin employees for over 17 years.
FYI, the article is in Spanish: hobbyconsolas.com/…/desarrollador-summerfall-stud…
A Ukrainian sport plane drone just flew 800 miles (1300 km) into Russia to blow up an oil refinery (www.forbes.com)
It’s the deepest Ukrainian drone strike of the war, so far...
Should I get another device? (lemmy.world)
Cool distros to try
I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
Barcelona is parched — and angry at quenched tourists (www.politico.eu)
The yawning gap between locals’ and visitors’ consumption is stoking long-standing resentments ahead of an election....
Virginia school board votes to restore names of Confederate leaders to schools (www.nbcnews.com)
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in northern Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the board approved a motion to restore the names....
Things the "owl"-gorithm recommends to me... 😒 (lemmy.world)
I’ve mentioned a number of times, it can be a challenge trying to look for awesome pictures for you all every day due to unlabeled, uncited, or just falsely presented pictures....
Triplets (lemmy.world)
Photo by Justin Rogers...
Cybertruck Breaks Down 35 Miles After Delivery, Tesla Says Coolant Leaks Not Covered (www.carscoops.com)
