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vatlark@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the location of ICE officers, is now the top social networking app in the US25·2 days agoThe app is only available on iOS, because it would have to collect information on Android that could put people at risk.
I would be curious to learn more about how the OS requires an app to collect data.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Fedigrow@lemmy.zip•Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?English5·4 days ago!showerthoughts@lemmy.world is mostly humming along. When there are small deviations from the rules I am trying to message OP thanking them and suggesting little corrections. Generally it’s received pretty well. It’s a little more work but it seems healthier.
Wow, TIL.
The platypus’s mammary glands lack teats, with milk released through pores in the skin. The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.[16][71] After they hatch, the offspring are milk-fed for three to four months.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Fedigrow@lemmy.zip•Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?English3·4 days agoAlso, subscribed!
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Fedigrow@lemmy.zip•Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?English5·4 days agoNice! Subscribed!
vatlark@lemmy.worldtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•G7 agrees to exempt U.S. multinationals from global minimum taxEnglish24·5 days agoI was really optimistic about this tax, but if one of the largest economies gets an exemption then it kinda defeats the point.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_rate
I think Naruto is mostly runnin’, not Walken.
vatlark@lemmy.worldtoUnited States | News & Politics@midwest.social•Marine Corps veteran says he feels betrayed after his father was arrested by masked federal agents in Southern California46·10 days ago“I don’t think the way this is going is right,” the veteran said. “I do believe in a better system. I believe that people like my dad, like my mom, like any parent or close family member of any law enforcement officer or military member, I think they should have a way easier and better access to a legal status.”
Not a strong stance.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Buy European@feddit.uk•US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications9·11 days agoI wonder how many social media accounts someone can create?
vatlark@lemmy.worldMto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I have discovered chat IS cute and so are you <39·12 days agoThis post was reported for spam.
Its not a typical showerthought, but it doesn’t seem to be doing harm, just people having good fun, so I’ll let it go for now and let the votes do the talking.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Palestine@lemmy.ml•Egypt blocks activists aiming to march to Gaza to draw attention to humanitarian crisis3·22 days agoHere is the organization putting it on: https://marchtogaza.net/
It seems like federation largely allows you both to have it your own way. Some instances are growth focused and others are culture focused (beehaw comes to mind).
My goal is to chip in where I can to make Lemmy a nice place. Eventually there will be another exodus of corpo socials and we will see a sudden influx.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto Buy European@feddit.uk•Minister of International Trade says Canada should apply for EU membership: “Canada is only 19km from France.”1·22 days agoThe article has several people quoted that didn’t know the islands are french. I was attempting to play on that but my attempt clearly didn’t land well.
vatlark@lemmy.worldto World News@quokk.au•Trump administration reviewing Biden-era submarine pact with Australia, UK2·23 days agoSome schadenfreude for France.
Now I’m walking with feet, she keeps her young in a bag.
Wow, he just made smoke. And she’s tamed a stag.
Now they invented a cure for when my stomach is sick.
And there’s math in my head, and she’s discovered the Higgs.
Seems well written. Lots of references.
Maybe not the most meaningful but quite interesting: