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World’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor comes online (www.independent.co.uk)

The scientists used lasers to fuse two light atoms into a single one, releasing 3.15MJ (megajoules) of energy from 2.05MJ of input – roughly enough to boil a kettle....

The key to eternal life and never dying is to stay in the living room. Don't leave the living room.

Anon plans a long con (also this community just hit 1k subscribers!) (sh.itjust.works)

Las Vegas campus shooting leaves three dead, one in critical condition (www.reuters.com)

American Chocolatier Behind Brutal Killing of Canadian Millionaires, Authorities Say (www.vice.com)

The two wealthy estate owners were in a years-long feud over the use of a public road which ran through the chocolatier’s property....

‘Anti-Zionism is antisemitism,’ US House asserts in dangerous resolution (www.aljazeera.com)

[OC] Baby Owls in a Saguaro (pawb.social)

Weird Roommate Binge Eats Entire Bunch Of Bananas (www.theonion.com)

link: theonion.com/weird-roommate-binge-eats-entire-bun…

I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz

Just seems like everything is “this company did this to their employees” and less about “this novel messaging protocol offers these measured pros and cons.” Or similar...

Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 (www.techrepublic.com)

Gemini is available to consumers in Bard or Pixel 8 Pro now, with an enterprise model coming Dec. 13.

100 Million Firmware Updates Supplied By The LVFS (blogs.gnome.org)

Nestle (lemmy.world)

Heathcliff without Heathcliff 12/7/2023 (lemmy.world)

6 December 1986 (sh.itjust.works)

What does Screen Rant have against Scotty? (lemmy.world)

Wieambilla shootings: US arrests man over Australian religious terror attack (www.bbc.co.uk)

Tesla Whistleblower Wins Free-Speech Award | Silicon UK Tech (www.silicon.co.uk)

Muhammad Ali Defended His Title Against ALL Challengers (1975)

Texas DA drops charges against 17 cops in 2020 police riots, calls for feds, says investigation “revealed problems within the department that cannot be corrected by criminal prosecutions alone” (www.cnn.com)

Guess who funds who (lemmy.world)

Biden administration delays ban on menthol cigarettes until 2024 (www.nbcnews.com)

Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings?

For example, in English the word right (opposite of left) and right (privileges, as in human rights) are homonyms. In Spanish, derecho/a also means both of those things. Don’t the concepts behind those words predate the cross-pollination of the two languages? Why do they share this homonym quality?

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