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A rock hit a car in a Walmart parking lot in Lehighton, PA in 2023, busting the window and landing in a half gallon of ice cream. A group of open-minded scientists agreed to take the case and identified the rock as a genuine meteorite. Source is Pennsylvania Geology Winter 2024.

Lemmy has a strong tendency to criticize the US, and a lot of the critiques of certain issue with the US are valid. However, I started getting really tired of opening comment sections in innocuous and non-political posts only to see that someone somehow found a way to criticize the US in it. At first, I started thinking that maybe some Lemmy users are really unhappy and find criticizing a something stronger helped them feel better as if standing up to injustice was a passion of theirs. But, we don't see them do that with other targets, just the US. The more I notice and think about it, I'm starting be suspicious that some of those users and comments aren't authentic, but made to create divisiveness in the West and reject the US entirely. In other words, they may be Russian, Chinese, et al. agents working to feed a stream of propaganda in order to further cause chaos and lack of unity in the West as we have seen them do before.

Anyone else think about this?

This is what I'm thinking the game plan is:

1. Criticize something obviously unjust that the US has done. Ignore that all other major powers have also committed atrocities.
2. Link and liken it to other US matters & behaviors
3. Paint the US entirely as evil so that nothing the US can do is just
4. Attack anyone that supports anything out of the US (we are between here and #3 above)
5. Create a black-and-white model of geopolitics: US vs everyone else. EU and Russia on the same team lol
6. West fragments as US and EU relationship dwindle from pseudo-populist movements (e.g. MAGA)
7. Pick specific countries in the EU to start alienating and repeat the cycle
8. ???
9. Profit in special economic zones

Summary

The U.S. Supreme Court will review the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's preventive care mandate, following a 5th Circuit ruling that deemed the task force responsible for setting these guidelines unconstitutionally structured.

The task force, which recommends preventive care services, is challenged by Christian businesses who object to covering HIV-preventing medication due to religious beliefs.

The 5th Circuit's ruling jeopardizes jeopardizes critical preventive care like cancer screenings for millions.

The justices are expected to rule by June, marking another key legal challenge to Obamacare, though not its first encounter with the Court.

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Hearing that Civ 7 is going to have Steam Deck support is tempting me.

I am running a VM on Gnome Boxes on a laptop with Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155H Processor and integrated graphics. I am able to run the VM without 3D acceleration with no problem, but whenever I turn it on, the VM's display malfunctions. I tried it with EndeavourOS, CachyOS and Fedora 41, all have 3D acceleration issue.

Summary

Caroline Darian, daughter of convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot, insists her father should die in prison.

Pelicot, 72, was sentenced to 20 years for drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle, and facilitating her assault by 50 other men over a decade.

Police uncovered his crimes after an unrelated arrest led to disturbing evidence.

Darian, who suspects she was also drugged, campaigns against drug-facilitated assault.

She struggles with her dual identity as the daughter of both Pelicot and her mother, now a feminist icon in France.

More comprehensive show notes on the flarum forum. Enjoy this federated, self-hosted foss podcast about DIY and learning. Looking forward to expanding it to include more DIY, hardware and other sorts of projects like cooking and music. Added mixing through Stereotool, run off my old Pi.

Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform ebook editor that uses Qt6 (and QtWebEngine). It is designed to edit books in ePub format (both ePub 2 and ePub 3).

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Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin-hen Season 2, episode 1

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Remembrance of the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010 comes as the country faces major challenges, including gang violence and extreme poverty.

The earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7, took place on 12 January, 2010, killing at least 200,000 people and displacing 1.5 to 2 million more. Within 30 seconds Port-au-Prince was turned upside down, families torn apart and tens of thousands of people put at risk of starvation.

Fifteen year later, the scars remain visible in the city.

Various countries and international groups raised almost $10 billion (€9.7 billion) for Haiti, pledging to rebuild the island and support its people. But Antonal Mortimé, who was at the time executive secretary of the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organisations (POHDH), told Haitian media that the funds were not in fact invested in the reconstruction plan after the earthquake.

"Everything would have been different if the allocated funds had actually been invested," he said.

Like him, many Haitians blame the international community and the United Nations for their slow response. They claim there was a focus on Western staff in the immediate searches.

They also blame the UN for the cholera crisis which broke out a few months after the earthquake and claimed yet more victims. It was reported that the outbreak was due to UN troops from Nepal improperly setting up waste disposal in their camp at Meille, a small village north of Port-au-Prince.

The UN admitted some responsibility in 2016, with deputy spokesman for the secretary-general, Farhan Haq, saying: "Over the past year, the UN has become convinced that it needs to do much more regarding its own involvement in the initial outbreak and the suffering of those affected by cholera."

A generation of children is bearing the scars of Haiti’s earthquake, according to the charity Save the Children, their futures shaped by repeated displacements, ongoing crises and persistent disruption to their education over the past 15 years.

"While Haiti has made some strides in recovery, ongoing violence from armed groups has crippled progress, leaving children’s futures hanging in the balance," the charity said in a statement issued on Wednesday, 8 January.

Chantal Sylvie Imbeault, Save the Children’s country director for Haiti, said: “Life has been a series of crises for many children in Haiti. From hurricanes to earthquakes to the rampant violence we’re seeing today, many families we’ve spoken to have been displaced eight, nine, 10 times in the past 15 years."

Referring to the situation in the country today, she added: "Armed groups have turned Port-au-Prince into an open-air prison for children. Nowhere in the city is safe. They can’t safely go to school, play outside or leave their neighbourhoods. These children’s futures are slipping away.”

President Jovenel Moise's 2021 assassination exacerbated the instability, and the consequences of several natural disasters, including the 2010 earthquake, have worsened the crisis.

Almost half the population now lives in hunger and extreme poverty, according to the International Rescue Committee, who put Haiti on its list of "10 crises the world can’t ignore in 2025".

But Haiti has suffered from political violence for decades, due to political instability and years of dictatorship followed by poor governance, US interventions and the consequences of the enormous debt inflicted by its former colonial ruler, France, since Haiti's independence in 1804.

Haitians had paid more than 112 million francs to France (around €547 million) by 2022, according to research by the New York Times and academic centres.

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Original Title: Hand-drawn map of the Ottoman Empire created in 1855 by cartographer Heinrich Kiepart (1818-1899). It is pretty crazy how detailed, accurate, and visually stunning some of these old maps are. Citation in comments. [9360 × 6686]

Hey everyone,

I’ve been wondering about this for a while now— does the Fediverse have a potential equivalent to platforms like Podchaser?

For those unfamiliar, Podchaser serves as a database and discovery platform for podcasts, with features like ratings, reviews, creator building, integrations with various apps and platforms, and more.

I personally believe that something like this could fit really well within the decentralized, open-source nature of the Fediverse, especially given how creative and diverse the communities, and Fediverse Platforms, are.

If something like this already exists, I'd love to hear about it.

And if not, has anyone ever considered potentially making one?

Perhaps have it be a fork of Bookwyrm, called something like:

Podwyrm

or something similar?

Similar to the Platform concept of Moviewyrm, as mentioned in my other post.

(https://lemmy.world/post/24118854)

Unfortunately, I lack the knowledge, time, and energy to spearhead such a project, but I am happy to brainstorm ideas or support in small ways if someone out there is inspired to take this on.

Curious to hear everyone’s thoughts.

This shit got down bad 🤣🤣