National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American non-profit media organization … It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations such as the Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR
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A whole host of things are state-afilliated. That shouldn’t be conflated with ran by the state, or operated by the state, or controlled by the state.
I recognize that twitter has its own stupid definition of what they mean when they label something as state-afilliated, and I don’t think NPR meets those standards.
A whole host of things are state-afilliated. That shouldn’t be conflated with ran by the state, or operated by the state, or controlled by the state, which is probably the concern.
A whole host of things are state-afilliated. That shouldn’t be conflated with ran by the state, or operated by the state, or controlled by the state, which is probably the concern. lemmy.world/comment/4454636
NPR receives grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
According to CPB, in 2009 11.3% of the aggregate revenues of all public radio broadcasting stations were funded from federal sources, principally through CPB; in 2012 10.9% of the revenues for Public Radio came from federal sources.
Funding isn’t held hostage for the purpose of controlling content or anything like that, but NPR receives funds from the CPB, and the CPB receives funds from the government. I’m not sure why believing otherwise is so important to you.
you are part of a group of people who intentionally misrepresent
No, I am not. Every institution of higher education in the country receives money from the federal government or state government, but that doesn’t make them centers for brainwashing students or pumping out propaganda. One organization having a relationship with or a connection to another does not mean that one organization controls another. It is not evidence of a conspiracy. The planet is not controlled by the Koch brothers, George Soros, and/or the lizard people.
You think you managed to pretend I didn’t make a simple request.
Are you the one that was upset that I said that “NPR gets some money from the government.” instead of “The government doesn’t control NPR. NPR gets some money from the government.”? Your other comment was removed.
The Sweden’s capital upcoming low-emission zone will only permit use of electric cars and gas cars that meet the Euro 6 emission standards. Euro 6 plug-in hybrid heavy vehicles will also be permitted. The zone is in effect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Violating the rules of the zone is a traffic offence which can result in a...
I think the policy is not quite as strict as the guy makes it out to be.
Lars Strömgren, Vice Mayor for Transport and Urban Environment of the City of Stockholm said: … ‘Many cities have implemented low-emission zones where high-emission cars are allowed to drive if they pay a charge. Stockholm’s model is more far-reaching. Petrol and diesel cars are prohibited, period. It is more ‘ultra’ than the ultra low emission zone of London.
There are caveats to the scheme. While it is primarily intended to allow for only fully electric cars, bigger vans with plug-in hybrid engines will also be allowed, and exceptions will be made for ambulances and police cars, as well as cars in which the driver or passenger has a documented disability.
A so-called class-three environmental zone primarily allows fully electric cars to drive. Exceptions apply for bigger vans, where plug-in hybrid vehicles will be allowed under the regulation.
Some vehicles are exempted from the regulation, including ambulances and police vehicles as well as cars where the driver or a passenger has a documented disability.
Why Is Red Dye No. 3 Allowed in Food but Not in Cosmetics? The short answer: Bureaucracy, it seems. As the recent petition to the FDA puts it: “There is no scientific or public health justification for permitting the use of FD&C Red No. 3 dye in food while prohibiting [the dye] in cosmetics and externally applied drugs.”
Instead, it’s largely the result of complicated internal processes at the FDA. The list of color additives the agency allows in food, supplements, and ingested drugs (like pills and liquid medicine) is separate from the list for cosmetics and applied drugs (like prescription lotions). That means the FDA has had to make decisions about the safety of each type of use at different times.
The agency approved the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food and supplements before it approved its use in cosmetics. By the time the FDA had to make a decision about whether to permanently approve its use in cosmetics, in 1990, the agency had enough evidence from scientific studies to show that it caused cancer in lab rats. So the FDA then banned Red Dye No. 3 from all cosmetics. But at that point, the color was already on a permanently approved list for food.
So then what happened? At the time, the FDA said that it would “take steps” to ban it from food as well, but then … it didn’t. When CR asked the agency to explain its lack of action in 32 years, officials didn’t answer directly but wrote: “The FDA evaluates and approves color additives for certain uses, based on the most current science available at the time. Following our initial evaluation, our scientists continue to review relevant new information to determine whether there are safety questions and whether the use of such substance is no longer safe under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.”
“Regardless of the reason why it’s taken this long, it’s absurd that it’s taken this long,” says Thomas Galligan, PhD, principal scientist for food additives and supplements at the CSPI and one of the authors of the group’s petition to the FDA. “In 32 years, there’s millions and millions of children who have been exposed to this chemical who didn’t need to be.”
The National Hockey League (NHL), the highest-level professional ice hockey league representing 32 North American teams, has banned individual players from wrapping their hockey sticks with rainbow-colored Pride Tape during warm-ups, games, and practices....
Players shall not be put in the position of having to demonstrate (or where they may be appearing to demonstrate) personal support for any Special Initiatives.
That seems reasonable.
A factor that may be considered in this regard includes, for example, whether a Player (or Players) is required to be in close proximity to any groups or individuals visibly or otherwise clearly associated with such Special Initiative(s).
A Staten Island woman buying pot from a local deli got into a misunderstanding with the cashier — who ended up macing her, dragging her outside by her hair, kicking her in the head and mistakenly calling her trans.
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
I didn’t mean that there isn’t any good information on social media. I have spent a bunch of time watching video lectures that MITOpenCourseWare has posted on youtube.
Using social media sites as a news aggregator is like looking at the news through a filter. I think that is bad because you don’t know how the filter works and you don’t control the filter.
In the dense, damp forests northeast of Houston, a pair of brothers hit on a viable real estate business model: Offer plots of cheap land and unconventional loans for people who wanted to build their own houses, with few restrictions....
Harris invited lawmakers, and state officials including Abbott, to tour the development Thursday and said 15 to 20 had accepted the invitation. Abbott — whose campaigns have received $1.4 million in donations from Harris since 2018 — was not among them. An Abbott spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Harris said he was not sure if his development will be included on the special session’s call, but that he was working on gathering facts that refute the allegations to send to lawmakers.
“When they see that, this whole thing might just go away,” he said.
He said he believes that Abbott is “a good guy” who made a mistake by not gathering information before talking about the development publicly.
“I think he’s gonna know he made a mistake when the facts come out about what’s really going on here,” he said. “I’m curious to see how he reacts when he finds out he’s got egg on his face.”
The claim was that Google was taking a query for “kids clothing” and turning it into " kids clothing" to get more ad revenue from , but the slide shows the exact opposite: " kids clothing" is turned into “kids clothing”.
Large businesses in California will have to disclose a wide range of planet-warming emissions under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday — the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation....
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
This is a messy story. It has been covered by other publications. Other publications have included additional details. I suspect that what happened may not be so clearly black and white as the story presented by Jezebel.
What more do you need to feel like this woman should be “allowed” to receive life-saving medication?
She was prescribed medication. Did they leave that out of the article?
Rule asks whether the drug would be a very effective treatment if she were a post-menopausal woman. The doctor says, “Yes, it would be.” In a longer version of the recording, obtained by the Times Union, it’s not clear whether the doctor is trying to discourage Rule from ever getting an abortion, or is awkwardly trying to communicate the risks of the medication. Rule said the doctor prescribed a different medication that has other negative side effects.
Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....
Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled.
This is not a uncommon sentiment even among people who are religious. Usually, it is something like, “I’d rather be fishing and thinking about God, than sitting in a church thinking about fishing.”
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible (niemanreports.org)
A lot of people threaten to leave Twitter. Not many of them have actually done it....
Internet disagreements. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Artist’s instagram: www.instagram.com/rusty.creates/...
Bay Area restaurants institute penalties for brunch vomiters (www.sfgate.com)
Apparently many San Franciscans enjoy getting smashed out of their minds at brunch.
Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)
Stockholm to ban all petrol and diesel cars from city centre (airqualitynews.com)
The Sweden’s capital upcoming low-emission zone will only permit use of electric cars and gas cars that meet the Euro 6 emission standards. Euro 6 plug-in hybrid heavy vehicles will also be permitted. The zone is in effect 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Violating the rules of the zone is a traffic offence which can result in a...
California becomes the first state to ban four chemicals in food, including red dye No. 3 (www.nbcnews.com)
The food and drink additives, which have been linked to health issues, could be removed from products nationwide as a result of the new law....
Video released of LAPD ignoring robbery to catch Togetic in Pokémon Go (www.404media.co)
NHL bans players from using rainbow-colored tape on hockey sticks (www.lgbtqnation.com)
The National Hockey League (NHL), the highest-level professional ice hockey league representing 32 North American teams, has banned individual players from wrapping their hockey sticks with rainbow-colored Pride Tape during warm-ups, games, and practices....
Woman buying pot from NYC deli maced, dragged by hair, kicked in head by cashier who mistook her for trans (www.nydailynews.com)
A Staten Island woman buying pot from a local deli got into a misunderstanding with the cashier — who ended up macing her, dragging her outside by her hair, kicking her in the head and mistakenly calling her trans.
Mastodon actually has 407K+ more monthly users than it thought (techcrunch.com)
Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation (www.wired.com)
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
A Texas Community Attracts Migrant Homebuyers and Republican Ire (news.yahoo.com)
In the dense, damp forests northeast of Houston, a pair of brothers hit on a viable real estate business model: Offer plots of cheap land and unconventional loans for people who wanted to build their own houses, with few restrictions....
How fast are Linux pipes anyway? [2022] (mazzo.li)
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs law requiring big businesses to disclose emissions (apnews.com)
Large businesses in California will have to disclose a wide range of planet-warming emissions under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Saturday — the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation....
Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone (blog.cloudflare.com)
Windows 12 May Require a Subscription (www.pcmag.com)
[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”
A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of ‘Childbearing Age.’ She Just Sued the Hospital (jezebel.com)
Tara Rule says her doctor in upstate New York was “determined to protect a hypothetical fetus" instead of helping her treat debilitating pain.
America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion (apnews.com)
Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning. “And it felt more spiritual than any time I set foot in a church,” he recalled....
Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law (www.theguardian.com)
Joe Biden worries that the “extreme” US supreme court, dominated by rightwing justices, cannot be relied upon to uphold the rule of law....