GeneParmesan

joined 1 year ago
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NPR: Over $200 billion in pandemic business loans appear to be fraudulent, a watchdog says in c/news@kbin.social
[–] GeneParmesan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Is that true? All I heard was “nobody wants to work anymore” six months after getting the stimulus checks. Surely the poor were able to turn their $1,400 into millions, right? /s

Rather than telling Reddit users to migrate, share links to Fediverse posts to drive them here in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] GeneParmesan@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

That’s the tactic that got me started on Reddit. For a while before the dreaded relaunch, many of the links on Digg were just linking to Reddit posts.

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'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
 

Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.

Trust me... Pick an apple and read the review in c/humor@beehaw.org
[–] GeneParmesan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

He also does video reviews of the apples on TikTok

What is a technology growing up that when you saw it, it blew your mind? in c/tech@kbin.social
[–] GeneParmesan@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I drove 2.5 hours to buy that Apex DVD player. That was really one of the first reasonably priced DVD players you could buy. Loud as a freight train when it ran, but watched a lot of DVDs on that guy’ mostly from early Netflix.

Google unexpectedly sells its domain-hosting business to Squarespace | Engadget in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] GeneParmesan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been happy with Cloudflare’s registrar service. It’s pretty barebones and missing some TLDs, so the rest of my domains live at Namecheap.