On Wednesday, Video Games Plus, a North American chain that has been around for over 30 years, confirmed in a statement on X that, despite GTA 6 being one of the biggest launches in entertainment history, it will maintain its existing ban on selling games that don’t have a hard copy.

Meanwhile, Loot Box Gaming, another video game retailer focused on physical media, has also revealed that it won’t be selling GTA 6 at launch if it isn’t available on a disc.

Gotta be rehab

South Korean ambulances cannot move a patient to an ER without the receiving hospital’s approval.

Refusals have grown more frequent in recent years, driven by chronic staff shortages and the medical staff’s fear of criminal charges if a patient dies in their care. Doctors in South Korea are prosecuted for medical negligence at higher rates than those in other developed countries, according to multiple studies.

Transfered to South Carolina from Oregon. Had a plea agreement that specified incarceration in Oregon. Lawyer isn't licensed in SC. Claims retaliation.

Fuck the prison system and the US.

Yea they announced it months ago, but the first release of seerr just dropped today.

NEW YORK — After more than a decade of mixing and kneading dough in his family’s Brooklyn pizzeria, Salvatore Lo Duca recently made a distressing discovery: A key component of their thin-crust pies, bromated flour, contained a suspected carcinogen already banned in much of the world.

So, in the back kitchen of Lo Duca Pizza, the 39-year-old began tweaking the original recipe handed down by his parents — with unexpected results.

“When we started playing around with a different flour, I actually took a liking to it,” said Lo Duco, who runs the shop with his five brothers. “It’s a little more expensive, but the quality is there.”

A looming ban on the additive, potassium bromate, may soon force thousands of pizzerias and bagel shops across New York into a similar transition.

...the oxidizing agent, which reduces rest time for dough and helps ensure a stronger, chewier product.

In a release Tuesday, Moderna said the FDA did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with the vaccine. Instead, it said the FDA took issue with the “comparator” in its clinical trial — the vaccine the company used as a benchmark to evaluate its own shot.

The FDA said the use of the standard flu shot as a comparator “does not reflect the best-available standard of care.” The standard flu shot is FDA-approved.

Last year, Kennedy ordered that all new vaccines go through placebo-controlled clinical trials.

When vaccines are already available for a disease, it's considered unethical to give clinical trial participants a placebo, rather than compare the new vaccine to the existing one. Giving a placebo would leave people who would be otherwise protected vulnerable to infection.

So glad we have someone competent leading the FDA. /s

As we were talking, I asked if I could record the call. He said no. I was in front of a keyboard, though, furiously jotting down every word.

Depends on the jurisdiction if you need two-party consent to record.

That woman is an absolute legend

Tennessee state Rep. Monty Fritts (R), who is running for governor

It's fucked up that he's already an elected official

Not sure if serious or not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell

::: spoiler warning: description of her death

Santos-Aviles, 35, died after setting herself on fire in the backyard of her home in Uvalde, Texas. The Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office later ruled her death a suicide. :::

Holy fuck what an awful way to die. Really curious how they determine that to be suicide.

Rep. Max Miller, who strenuously denies the allegations, was elected to represent Ohio’s 7th District in 2022, with Donald Trump’s endorsement.

Miller’s ex-wife, Emily Moreno—daughter of Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno

Moreno, 32, alleges that Miller, 37, struck her during a custody exchange at his home in full view of the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, leaving bruises on her arm, elbow, and torso.

To find a recipe that he likes? Lots of ways to make dough.

Reporters and photographers outnumbered both groups handily.

Lol

You didn't append this to your path, you just overwrote the whole value. You'll need to use full paths to commands to edit the file and fix it like export PATH="$PATH:/the/new/path/to/add"

https://yggleak.top/ was an interesting read

People suck

Been using linkwarden with floccus. LW has an android app now too. I haven't really tried anything else and floccus could use some improvements but seems to work for me.

An athlete convicted of committing credit card fraud against one of her national teammates has won an Olympic gold medal for France in the women’s 15km biathlon, beating her victim to do it.

Julia Simon, 29, was handed a €15,000 fine and a three-month suspended sentence last October after she was found to have spent more than €2,000 using card details belonging to Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, also 29, who finished in 80th place in the same race. A third member of the French team, Lou Jeanmonnot, won the silver.

Simon was also found to have used the card details of the team physiotherapist to make purchases between 2021 and 2022. She denied the crime for three years, claiming she had been a victim of identity theft, before finally admitting her guilt in a court hearing in Albertville last October after she was found to have photos of the credit card on her phone. “I confess the accusations but I don’t remember committing them,” she said at the time. “It’s like a blackout.”

That last line is gold