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Every year, the U.S. National Civilian Community Corps, better known as AmeriCorps NCCC, organizes teams of volunteers to help communities across the U.S. with environmental work, including habitat restoration, emergency response and wildfire mitigation. It’s also the latest federal agency on the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) chopping block. Most of the staff have been placed on leave and volunteers abruptly sent home.

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The original was posted on /r/pcmasterrace by /u/JohnathonFennedy on 2025-04-25 05:25:31+00:00.

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Apparently, Ukrainian drones pushed through and started a chain reaction.

Explosions reportedly continued for hours, and authorities evacuated nearby settlements. Initial reports indicate that the site, previously protected by one of Russia’s densest air defense networks, suffered catastrophic damage.

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The original was posted on /r/framework by /u/dasVerderben on 2025-04-25 04:32:52+00:00.

Excited I was to track my 13" preorder, follow the tracking page every step of the way and see the package being in the final delivery stage yesterday morning.

I was happy and full of hope and plans for when it finally arrived - just to read my package had been delivered at 11:54.

Thing is, I never received a package, I never signed off on receiving it, yet still there's "proof of delivery" on FedEx's tracking page, claiming I signed.

Fortunately, there's a camera pointing to my yard, showing a white delivery truck passing by at exactly the time claimed for the delivery, slowing down but never stopping.

The issue is reported to FedEx, they investigate now.

I just feel like the folks at framework should also know about this - I am deeply saddened and all I want is my new device :(

If the shipment is gone, I might get my money back, but I need to wait for weeks or month to get the actual Laptop I ordered :(

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The original was posted on /r/framework by /u/KeyboardGunner on 2025-04-24 17:14:20+00:00.

Pakistan on Thursday cancelled visas for Indian nationals, closed its airspace for Indian owned or operated airlines, and suspended all trade with India including to and from any third country. The retaliatory…

With bold patterns and vibrant colors, the Picasso Bug (Sphaerocoris annulus) looks like it walked right out of a painting.

Native to tropical Africa, this tiny shield-backed bug uses its dazzling design to warn predators: "I'm toxic, don't touch me!"

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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/deccan2008 on 2025-04-25 02:24:09+00:00.

On Saturday morning, downtown residents awoke to a grisly murder scene. A dozen trees had been massacred in the dark of night. The damage was widespread and indiscriminate. A grove of majestic Ficus microcarpa that had cooled a busy bus stop for decades were all sawed cleanly in half. A row of Chinese elms that created a canopy for street vendors were lopped off parallel to the street, draping a gruesome pattern of leafy right triangles along the sidewalk. Entire blocks of shade had been eliminated overnight. It was, literally, a tree emergency.

I know the term because I've filed more than a few such requests on the city's 311 app. (Yes, there's a new app, and I'll be writing about it soon; I've been inputting some more challenging service requests to test how well it works.) In the last few weeks, I've reported a dead purple orchid tree shedding limbs on the sidewalk, a block of freshly planted desert willows that were leaning precariously after their stabilizing stakes had been removed, and perhaps most troubling, a set of three ficuses with their trunks layered in graffiti. I honestly don't even know how you triage that type of tree emergency. But I may not get to find out. So far, none of these tree emergencies have been addressed by city workers.

And then, on Monday, the mayor dropped her 2025 budget that included dramatic reductions in tree funding. The entire city's urban canopy is facing deep cuts.

In its attempt to close a $1 billion deficit, the mayor's budget is bleak, recommending the layoffs of 1,647 workers and the closure of entire departments. As Frank Stolze reported at LAist: "It's the most austere budget since the city was wracked by the 2008 recession." If you talk to anyone who works with trees in our city, they'll talk about how the 2008 recession decimated LA's urban forest. As budgets tighten, tree planting is reduced, but so is tree maintenance: watering, trimming, and pruning roots so they don't turn sidewalks into rubble. And that's exactly what happened after 2008. The situation got so bad that the city planned to cut down 12,000 trees so the ruptured sidewalks below them could be repaired — until a judge ordered the city to keep the trees and find a better way to fix the sidewalks.

Or it's another type (additive, subtractive, phase-based, etc.)

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