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Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel
as the Netanyahu government prepares to attack Iran—a move that's expected to provoke an Iranian response.
No shit.
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Alarm as Pentagon Confirms Deployment of US Troops to Israel
as the Netanyahu government prepares to attack Iran—a move that's expected to provoke an Iranian response.
No shit.
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Florida Board of Education approves new Black history standards that critics call ‘a big step backward’
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They were actually just unpaid interns so it’s all okay, nothing to see here
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Canada advises LGBTQ2 travellers to be aware of U.S. state laws
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I wish everyone was this rational
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Canada advises LGBTQ2 travellers to be aware of U.S. state laws
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Need to keep backwards compatibility
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IKEA will pay 6 million euros to East German prisoners forced to build their furniture in landmark move
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Because they are currently the only company acknowledging their fault? Boycotting them while ignoring all the other companies benefiting from the exact same practice seems counterproductive…
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Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee
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Docker Desktop now has a license cost for medium+ sized businesses. Docker Engine remains open source, but the desktop UI as well as the tech that makes Docker work on Windows (and Mac?) is now no longer free.
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Daddy is here
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Seems pretty in line with republican values to me
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Users when we lock the office door for 10 minutes to have a meeting
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Regular password changes haven’t been recommended procedure for several years now. The only problem it solves is preventing people from using the same password everywhere, but since everyone just sticks a number at the end anyways it doesn’t actually protect against that either
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Exception to the 'it isn't stupid if it works' Rule
I’d argue this is not an exception, just a misunderstanding of what “works” means. Clearly the “protecting wires in case of overload” function is not working…
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McDonald's workers in Italy declared a strike after being forced to work in sweltering kitchens in 104-degree temperatures with no AC
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Japan drives on the left side of the road. Korea on the right. Japan has right hand drive, i.e. the steering wheel is on the right
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Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code
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Something along those lines already happened..
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In Norway it is required by law to apply a standardized label to all advertising in which body shape, size, or skin is altered through retouching or other manipulation.
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It’s even worse than this. The law is apparently worded in such a way that doing anything to an image counts as retouching. So unless basically publish straight from the camera they have to put that mark on
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Microsoft accused of malware-like tactics, again, in attempt to push users onto Bing
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Tbf, they did recently (I think) implement a feature where Edge would open with the email in a sidebar when opening links from outlook. So at least there’s some point to it.. if that’s a feature anyone actually wants..
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Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China
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You can tell the book is written from within China. It has some different perspectives to what you’d normally find in a “western” book, but not in a propaganda way. Worth the read
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More than 100,000 protest across Germany over far-right AfD’s mass deportation meetings
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Calling Netanyahu a Nazi is mostly about pointing out the hypocrisy so it makes sense
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The Linux Foundation has become a patent troll
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Funny you should use Big Mac as an example, since McDonalds actually lost that trademark in Europe due to some legal dispute with a pub in Ireland or something
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I have attempted science.
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From what I remember they hypothesised that, but then put it to the test by having something else small move in front of the elephant and it didn’t care. Further confirming it was the mouse it was afraid of