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NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data
  • Honestly I don't see why buying data on the open market is illegal. I think it shouldn't be legal to sell it but it is. I'd prefer nobody have access than the NSA pretend they don't see what anyone else can buy.

  • The Seeds Joe Biden Has Planted
  • It's not that Americans are stupid. Any nation can fall into the same trap if we devolve control of our infrastructure to plutocrats who look down on the public.

    It's the attitude that Americans are dumb and deserve our fate that's shared by the elite who make it their business to fuck over the most vulnerable of us.

  • Donald Trump Ridiculed for Bizarre Magnet Remarks at Iowa Rally
  • The story here isn't that Trump doesn't understand magnets, it's that he was transparently told to say something by a donor associated with John Deere and he fucked it up because he didn't understand it.

  • U.S. oil production has hit a record under Biden, but he seldom mentions it.
  • It's a great reason until there's an alternative. As long as voters look to gas prices for their votes, taking action that raises them is politically toxic.

    Meanwhile leftists are literally criticizing the Biden administration for high gas prices' impact on the working class.

    You want to change it? Let's change it. Starting with activists.

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    Reminder not to engage with any Washington Post content Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LY2jViybLQPsgsm7hVo75V8aHNu5DUEZXB8vwc60YZo/edit

    https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-at-the-washington-post-deserve-a-living-wage

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    apnews.com U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes

    Federal regulators will review the use of a chemical found in tires after a petition from Native American tribes in California and Washington state.

    U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7820643

    > U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn. > > The Yurok tribe in California and the Port Gamble S’Klallam and Puyallup tribes in Washington asked the Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit the rubber preservative 6PPD earlier this year, saying it kills fish — especially coho salmon — when rains wash it from roadways into rivers. Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut also wrote the EPA, citing the chemical’s “unreasonable threat” to their waters and fisheries. > > The agency’s decision to grant the petition last week is the start of a long regulatory process that could see the chemical banned. Tire manufacturers are already looking for an alternative that still meets federal safety requirements. > > “We could not sit idle while 6PPD kills the fish that sustain us,” Joseph L. James, chairperson of the Yurok Tribe, told The Associated Press. “This lethal toxin has no business in any salmon-bearing watershed.”

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    utopianfiat's community @lemmy.world utopianfiat @lemmy.world
    This platform kinda sucks

    People are more hostile here than on Reddit. I barely participate anymore and any time I do my inbox gets filled with horrible responses. It's like the worst people from Reddit have decided to be here permanently.

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    Cars becoming more dangerous for their drivers and the public - Hyundai and Kia recall nearly 3.4 million vehicles due to fire risk and urge owners to park outdoors
    apnews.com Hyundai and Kia recall nearly 3.4 million vehicles due to fire risk and urge owners to park outdoors

    Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly 3.4 million vehicles in the U.S. and telling owners to park them outside due to the risk of engine compartment fires. The recalls cover multiple models from the 2010 through 2019 model years including Hyundai’s Santa Fe SUV and Kia’s Sorrento SUV.

    Hyundai and Kia recall nearly 3.4 million vehicles due to fire risk and urge owners to park outdoors
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    Reddit is a shithole

    The image is a reddit post with the following text (automatically transcribed):

    I remember I got into an argument on reddit awhile ago with a person over Italian food. It got to the point they were following me into other subs to harass me. I clicked on their profile to block them and their most recent post was them drinking their own piss on r/piss. At that moment I realized I had spent so much pointless time arguing about the taste of food with someone who drinks their own piss as a hobby. This site is a shit hole.

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    Smuggled Promotional Notifications: Will Google do anything to stop app authors from doing this?

    A couple of times I've been presented with notifications from commercial apps downloaded from the Play store that are very clearly promotional material. Thankfully, Android allows me to block particular notification channels if I swipe the notification lightly and hit the gear icon. I can disable the particular "Promotion" channel.

    However, with some apps, the "Promotion" channel is already turned off, and now they're sending promotions under other channels ("General Notifications", "System Alerts"). Does anyone else think this is shady enough to report, and how would you go about reporting it?

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    peertube.io [Day 10] Posting the Lemmy logo every day but I do what the top comment says

    @snake.case@lemmy.world: Meal looks good, now for a bit of ambience, needs some Rick Astley serenading me!

    [Day 10] Posting the Lemmy logo every day but I do what the top comment says

    @snake_case@feddit.uk: "Meal looks good, now for a bit of ambience, needs some Rick Astley serenading me!"

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    www.theguardian.com DeSantis aide fired after sharing video featuring symbol used by Nazis

    Nate Hochman ‘no longer with the campaign’ after posting video using internet memes popular on the far right

    DeSantis aide fired after sharing video featuring symbol used by Nazis
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    [article] IHOP in Quincy to be taken by eminent domain, will be demolished to build a parking garage
    www.nbcboston.com IHOP in Quincy to be taken by eminent domain, will be demolished

    [This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.] One of a handful of pancake house locations in the Greater Boston area is going to be torn down to make room for new development. According to a source, IHOP in Quincy is slated for demolition, with a Patriot Ledger article saying that the city ...

    IHOP in Quincy to be taken by eminent domain, will be demolished

    I was told we can't build transit because we'd have to take private property via eminent domain, what gives?

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    [Day 5] Posting the Lemmy logo every day but I do whatever the top comment says

    @dill@lemmy.one "Scale the Image down and back to full size in a lossy editor like mspaint. Disable uniform scaling so you have to eyeball the aspect ratio."

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    www.nbcnews.com Hunter Biden pleads not guilty after plea deal derailed

    Prosecutors told the judge no more charges are expected against the president's son.

    Hunter Biden pleads not guilty after plea deal derailed

    Something is starting to smell really rotten about this proceeding. Apparently the judge is a Trump appointee who is now claiming without evidence that Hunter Biden's lawyers pretended to be opposition lawyers to get things that should be sealed placed under seal, and still refuses to seal those things.

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