[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?
Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don't come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don't really get upset by it...
Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump ( www.usatoday.com )
Lemmy is a worse platform for women than Reddit was
(Content warning, discussions of SA and misogyny, mods I might mention politics a bit but I hope this can be taken outside the context of politics and understood as a discussion of basic human decency)...
It's okay, tankies love fascism, so they're not put out by the result ( lemmy.world )
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT ( www.tomshardware.com )
TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell ( www.entrepreneur.com )
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone ( www.theverge.com )
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Single Issue Voters will save the world! ( lemmy.world )
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Hamas official says group would lay down its arms if an independent Palestinian state is established ( apnews.com )
A top Hamas political official told The Associated Press the Islamic militant group is willing to agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel and that it would lay down its weapons and convert into a political party if an independent Palestinian state is established along pre-1967 borders.
Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining ( www.neowin.net )
Statcounter reports that Windows 11 continues to lose its market share for the second month in a row. Windows 10, meanwhile, is gaining more users and is now back above the 70% mark.
What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?
For me : Trippie Redd's "!" Is actually a great album
Teen pizza delivery driver shot at multiple times after parking in the wrong driveway ( www.nbcnews.com )
Interview with the victim....
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Young Democrats face Gaza blowback as they try to mobilize students for Biden ( www.cnn.com )
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What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' ( www.androidauthority.com )
YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it....
Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Even from people that never lived in a communist state...
Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles ( www.psypost.org )
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. ( humanities.ku.dk )
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2916897...
TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US ( www.bbc.com )
It's movie night. You don't know who's coming but you have to pick a movie everyone vibes with. What do you choose?
Medical freedom vs. public health: Should fluoride be in our drinking water? ( www.nbcnews.com )
Misinformation campaigns increasingly target the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse mandates. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle....