Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. The guidance by Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello and the school board's attorney, Michael McKinley, was obtained by...
Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.
Complex sugars are simply not going to be metabolized by yeast, which is why many dark beers are cloying? Not all dark beers (IE schwartzbier) are sweet because of better conversion in malting and mashing (and water chemistry)?
IPAs can have very quick turn around though. A local place only uses kveik…
Somehow you’ve gotten your dream home. The cabin in the mountains, penthouse downtown, castle nestled deep in the woods, nuclear bunker in the hills, or whatever. Whats the bit you’d add that might raise a brow from others? The fireman’s pole? The slide? The moat? The hidden room behind a bookshelf where you keep your...
Cultivars are clonal and biotech crops encourage monocropping, which both create problems with ecosystem health, disease and climate resilience, and soil degradation.
Purposefully using “worse” (different) seed is a solution as crop rotation, cover crops, and allowing land to go fallow helps with soil health (and reduced erosion and runoff and waterway pollution…)
Maximizing yields through subsidized monocropping and biotech seeds is unsustainable resource extraction.
I have a collection of music in flac format and now I want to store them on my phone. flac files get too much space and downloading all the playlist in mp3 takes as much time as finding decent and real high quality flacs (there is plenty of songs on internet which only look like 320kbps and are not really high quality). So I...
I just bought a portable fan for my tent that charges via USB-C. Almost everything is on it now (headphones, earbuds, battery bank, laptop, GoPro, drone…) except my iPhone and an old, mini keyboard/touchpad.
Is it counter intuitive when you look in the mirror so you would use the right taper guard on your left side and vice versa? Or does it go from your own perspective where left taper would go on left side? Hope this makes sense, I’ve been cutting my own hair for years and this has always confused me.
Even if you think what you would say is obvious, please add. This is genuinely something I think makes sense regarding local bus routes given the longevity of light rail and how infrequently routes change, but I also suffer from confirmation bias, so I’m hoping for reasons this would be a terrible idea but obviously would...
It speaks to my soul... (startrek.website)
Florida school district orders librarians to purge all books with LGBTQ characters (popular.info)
Librarians in public schools in Charlotte County, Florida, were instructed by the school district superintendent to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. The guidance by Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello and the school board's attorney, Michael McKinley, was obtained by...
They were lucky Aladdin was such a cool dude (startrek.website)
Dallas mayor switches parties to join GOP (www.cnn.com)
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city....
Drop tests leave iPhone 15 Pro absolutely battered; iPhone 14 Pro comes out fully functional (www.phonearena.com)
Credit card losses are rising at the fastest pace since the Great Financial Crisis (www.cnbc.com)
Day 1 of having a Deck and this is a noticeable issue (programming.dev)
Original meme is for Switch....
Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in (www.engadget.com)
Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
Hyundai is offering free home chargers and install discounts for new EV buyers (www.theverge.com)
it's that time of the year again (szmer.info)
Republican hardliners threaten US government shut down unless Biden slashes FBI spending (www.telegraph.co.uk)
House Freedom Caucus is also demanding an end to 'woke policies' at the defence department and more money to be spent on border enforcement
Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study (www.forbes.com)
Some interesting stuff here, including links to more studies showing similar results in different countries....
should I pay off my student loans in full before intrest kicks in?
General financials:...
Would you live in a rural area?
People of lemmy, would you live in a rural area? Why or why not?
‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon (www.404media.co)
What temperature do you keep your thermostat at?
Title. We keep ours at 75F, parents do 77F, and in laws 68F. It made me curious what everyone else keeps theirs at?
Rule (i.imgur.com)
The media won't talk about this!!!!! (i.imgur.com)
What would be the odd addition to your dream house?
Somehow you’ve gotten your dream home. The cabin in the mountains, penthouse downtown, castle nestled deep in the woods, nuclear bunker in the hills, or whatever. Whats the bit you’d add that might raise a brow from others? The fireman’s pole? The slide? The moat? The hidden room behind a bookshelf where you keep your...
Hookworms successfully prevent type 2 diabetes in human trial (newatlas.com)
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She's beautiful (lemmy.world)
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty - Gameplay Trailer | gamescom 2023 (www.youtube.com)
in Western Australia, until 2021, it was illegal to transport more than 50kg of potatoes in your car unless you were a member of the potato corps. (www.drive.com.au)
What's some really unpopular opinion you have?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular....
As Louisiana’s coast washes away, the dead are the first to go (www.aljazeera.com)
Hurricanes and rising seas are displacing caskets. What do you do when the climate crisis comes for the dead?
Recommended FLAC converter?
I have a collection of music in flac format and now I want to store them on my phone. flac files get too much space and downloading all the playlist in mp3 takes as much time as finding decent and real high quality flacs (there is plenty of songs on internet which only look like 320kbps and are not really high quality). So I...
USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked part images (www.macworld.com)
When you cut your own hair with clippers which side do you use the left/right ear taper guards on?
Is it counter intuitive when you look in the mirror so you would use the right taper guard on your left side and vice versa? Or does it go from your own perspective where left taper would go on left side? Hope this makes sense, I’ve been cutting my own hair for years and this has always confused me.
Shouldn't we be switching buses with light railway? (lemmy.tf)
Even if you think what you would say is obvious, please add. This is genuinely something I think makes sense regarding local bus routes given the longevity of light rail and how infrequently routes change, but I also suffer from confirmation bias, so I’m hoping for reasons this would be a terrible idea but obviously would...
Eye glasses wearers in the US, where do you buy your glasses from these days?
I’ve been going to VisionWorks but I want to shop around this time. I don’t want to go to any Luxottica store....