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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/if_it_is_in_a on 2025-01-20 05:35:37+00:00.

more adventures on rednote mostly because it’s entertaining how mad people get when i talk about it :3 /halfjoke

this was posted 12/31 btw so i don’t think “the mods haven’t gotten to it yet” is a real thing

#le is common in parallel to the anglosphere’s #wlw which i think is adorable

my number one qualm with little red book so far is there is no native translation like tiktok has. lots of google translate is necessary to get the social media to social :P

necessary disclaimer: fuck the CCP and all the real violence and repression they do. just want to give credit given where due, and so far here im just seeing a lot of assumptions with no evidence? so im gonna post what my experience is :) i welcome all to do the same

A total of 86 people have died after a petrol tanker truck overturned and exploded in Niger state. Most of the victims were impoverished local residents who had rushed to scoop up the spilled petrol, local authorities said. The price of fuel in Nigeria has gone up by 400 percent since Nigeria's president ended decades-old subsidies.

The truck carrying 60,000 litres of petrol exploded after flipping over on a road in the centre of the country on Saturday, Nigerian authorities said.

"The final death toll from the tanker explosion is 86," said Ibrahim Audu Husseini, spokesman for the Niger state's emergency management agency.

"We buried 86 burnt corpses between 12:00 pm yesterday to 2:00 am of today," he said, updating an earlier toll of 70.

"It took us 14 hours to bury the bodies because we couldn't get excavators and had to get locals to dig the mass grave manually."

He said 52 other people suffered "severe burns from the explosion".

The blast struck at the Dikko junction on the road linking the federal capital Abuja to the northern city of Kaduna.

A crowd of people rushed to the spot where the tanker had turned over in search of fuel.

Kumar Tsukwam, the Federal Road Safety Corps sector commander for Niger state, said in a statement: "A large crowd of people gathered to scoop fuel despite concerted efforts to stop them."

President Bola Tinubu expressed "deep sorrow over the fuel tanker explosion", a statement from his office said Sunday.

He ordered a national campaign to "raise public awareness about the severe risks and environmental dangers of scooping fuel from fallen tankers".

Such accidents have become common in Africa's largest oil producer, which is grappling with its worst cost of living crisis in a generation.

The price of petrol in Nigeria has soared more than 400 percent since Tinubu scrapped a 50-year-old subsidy when he came into office in May 2023.

In October, 147 people died in a similar accident in Jigawa state, one of the worst such tragedies in Nigeria.

In 2020, the Federal Road Safety Corps listed 1,531 fuel tanker accidents which claimed over 535 lives.

(First off, I just got banned for having multiple accounts :/)

I frequented the AITA posts and the advice posts, and I saw one from a teenage girl.

She has a boyfriend, and her male friend wouldn’t leave her alone as he was obsessed with her.

She kept telling him no and wanted to be just friends with him, until she had to block him.

The comments were outrageous. Some were saying stuff like “good on you for blocking him. you’re not responsible for his feelings, nta”.

however, some people were calling her a whore, saying she was seeking validation from other men, that men and women couldn’t be friends.

I have no idea where they’re drawing this conclusion. I know many women who have male friends with nothing between them.

And it’s completely plausible for a male friend to have feelings. She can’t control his feelings. She didn’t start dating/making out with him and clearly wasn’t interested in him, so she didn’t cheat.

they also said she was asking for him to be attracted to her, that it was her fault, etc.

They were even saying that the girl was terrible and that the guy was “NTA, not even a little” because he just had a “harmless crush and couldn’t control his feelings” even though he literally asked her to cheat on her bf and guilt-tripped her right before she blocked him?

This feels kind of gross, poor OP was 15 when she made the post :/

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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/ZagTheWag2 on 2025-01-20 03:01:36+00:00.

I have been wanting to switch over to Linux full-time after ditching windows. I’m familiar enough with Linux to be able to comfortably use the terminal, regardless to what distribution I’m on.

I have a RTX 2060S. I’m currently running pop!OS. Although I have tried bazzite, Garuda, and nobora. All three of those distributions had the same issue as this one.

1: hitching while scrolling, particularly on webpages.

2: Poor frame timing. No support for G-sync or Freesync. Overall, everything looks to be running at a lower frame rate than it is. Just doesn’t play well with my 185 Hz monitor.

3: audio crackling.

This is both Wayland and X11. I’ve been thinking of switching over to an RX 6800. Will switching my graphics card fix these issues?

For example, when I plug my steam deck into both of my monitors, none of these problems are replicated. My ultimate goal is to switch over to SteamOS after it gets publicly released and I want a computer that can support it.

I can improvise rhymes very well and am good at being mean to people but I have so little business rapping and my voice would sound terrible with it enough to negate it, if anything cause I just wouldn't have.the confidence necessary. I'd be really conscious about not doing a black voice, not sounding like Eminem or the beastie boys etc. I would be booed and sent to die.

Summary

Three lawyers of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3.5 to 5.5 years for belonging to an extremist organization.

The lawyers, arrested in October 2023, were added to an official list of “terrorists and extremists” the following month.

The case is seen as a way to increase pressure on the opposition and discourage defense lawyers from taking on political cases.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52942832

The community is only 13 days old. Frequently I see post on all from either the mod or new accounts all ranting about bch or related sites and they’re all super excited to tell you about it. I mean look at the pinned post and replies for goodness sake.

All new accounts. All just loving bch so much and super excited to tell you about it. A lot of the posts have strikingly similar formats too. Like bold sub-title paragraph of text and repeat. Reeks of botting/astroturfing. Just me or nah? Im going to post again regarding lemmy being cool with bots auto posting links to off site frequently, but that’s a rant for another day.

The World Health Organization (WHO) could see lean years ahead if the US withdraws membership under the new Trump administration. Such a withdrawal, promised on the first day of Donald Trump’s new administration, would in effect cut the multilateral agency’s funding by one-fifth.

The severe cut would be uncharted territory for the WHO, potentially curtailing public health works globally, pressuring the organization to attract private funding, and providing an opening for other countries to influence the organization. Other countries are not expected to make up the funding loss.

The WHO works to improve the health of millions of people globally – from working to eradicate polio and tuberculosis to coordinating US HIV and Aids prevention work in Africa.

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The original was posted on /r/fossdroid by /u/Revbender on 2025-01-19 11:53:22+00:00.

Here's a video of gameplay on the deck