TIL that a high school in Pennsylvania issued an Apple MacBook to each of its 2,306 students, then remotely activated the webcams to spy on the students at home.
Don_Dickle @ Don_Dickle @lemmy.world Posts 343Comments 708Joined 1 yr. ago
How can I message someone in a community I was banned from to delete my messages? So I can quit seeing 15 messsages all at once? I really don't know why lemmy world can't look into my account and see
Gerasimov ignored warnings of Ukrainian troop buildup near border, Bloomberg reports
TIL that the longest javelin throw was 99.52 meters using a now illegal technique that was considered "out of control". No one has broken this record with modern javelin rules.
Iran’s new president battles revolutionary guard to stop all-out war with Israel
How do I get in touch with the creator of lemmyworld or the one who was the first to create the fediverse?
How come I can't see sertin communites? Like asklemmy. and if this is because I get banned how do I protest it or even see what I got banned for?
TIL the Allies fielded thousands of tanks by the end of World War I, a major technological breakthrough. The Germans deployed just 18.
TIL the mangaka Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) is married to another famous manga author Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho)
TIL George Clooney was asked to play himself in a sketch for the Movie 43 (the gag was that Clooney is bad at picking up women), and Clooney replied "No fucking way."
TIL that in the early days of Fed-Ex, there was one time the company couldn't afford the fuel bill for their planes, so the founder took the company's last $5,000 and went to Las Vegas and won $27,000
TIL the Japanese words 青 (ao) and 青い (aoi) can refer to either blue or green depending on the situation.
How can I delete a community I created by accident? Also how come communities are disappearing from my subscribed list? Also why when in some communities it shows subscribe pending?
TIL that in 2020, Burger King ran an advertising campaign featuring a picture of a moldy Whopper, to prove that their burgers are made without preservatives. This unconventional advertising method wor
When I was in nursing school I saw all my classmates typing on the brand new Mac's . And I was sitting there typing on a Toshiba then I gave up the computer and just started writing because I knew ahead of time I would have to prove myself in the field more than getting an A. I got out with a B in all my classes. But somewhere there are many nurses who got D and can barely do field work. I was lucky to have a mom as a nurse. But when I go to a doctors office and a PRN is asking me questions I always ask where did you go to school and so forth. They usually get pissed but I do not care because they relay shit to the doctor. And 90 percent of the time when you go to rural doctors they just read the shit on the screen and go by that. I can say this as a traveling nurse and an ex opiod addict.