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Lemmy World outages

Thank you to the admins for all of your hard work maintaining Lemmy.World through the downtime. A lot of us are already so comfortable here that we rush to the Discord server to check in when it's down.

Point being, the members of Lemmy.World are really grateful to the admins, the mods, and fellow Lemmings who have been posting interesting content and participating in deep discussions!

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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?

I'd used Reddit in some fashion since about 2012. Jumped ship once I realized Lemmy was gaining steam and Spez wasn't going to budge. I'm sad, no doubt, but I think it's because Reddit was easy. Been lurking on Lemmy more lately just from lack of time, but I'm glad to see that things are still rolling along! I think the communities here are full of folks trying to make something amazing. Happy to contribute!

Edit: Punctuation.

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The Secret Movement Bringing Back Europe’s Wildlife | NOEMA

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Regarding farming, aside from poor farming methods, another sad reality is that a huge number of farmers bought into the cheap fertilizer sludge on the market. The sludge grows well but contains high levels of PFAS (toxic microplastics). Crops have been full of microplastics for decades. The same is true of fields and streams containing local deer and fish populations. If you hunt and eat those animals, you ingest PFAS as well.

In the USA, State and Federal agencies are starting to research the PFAS problem as well as fallout medical effects. Are ingested PFAS a cause for our high rates of cancer or mental health disorders?

As with everything they're starting to ask for funding and nobody's quite sure who's going to pay for it yet.

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Big Gulp!

Great photo of this green heron! One of my favorite birds, I love how secretive they are. I usually only see them if I'm sitting still and they're slinking around.

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Xbox Game Pass adds beloved Story of Seasons game today

Pretty good remaster with some thoughtful touches. The artwork looks great and the controls are responsive. Only thing I don't like is the music. Too repetitive for me. I'm glad to see this and Rune Factory 4 on GamePass for folks to try. I'm about halfway through Spring 1 on remastered FOMT and have plenty of crops to water and a few chickens!