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Biden to block oil drilling across 625 million acres of U.S. waters in c/[email protected]
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Average national cost of gasoline per gallon in the US (monthly average) first went over $3 nearly two decades ago. Today it's $3.07. The July 2006 average of $3.025/gallon would have the purchasing power of around $4.75 in today's dollars. What are people really thinking they should be paying for gasoline in a world that needs to be moving AWAY from using fossil fuels?

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What's the appropriate response to "What's up?" in c/[email protected]
The People Cheering the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting in c/[email protected]
Programming with metal, or metal with programming? in c/[email protected]
Man who found smooth Mars bar gets £2 compensation in c/[email protected]
Owning a home has rarely been this much more expensive than renting in c/[email protected]
Owning a home has rarely been this much more expensive than renting in c/[email protected]
Owning a home has rarely been this much more expensive than renting in c/[email protected]
Long COVID may be far more common than previously known, new Mass General Brigham study finds in c/[email protected]
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malaengthap (แมลงทับ) beetle wings (lemmy.world)
 

I recently learned about beetle wings from Thai jewel beetles malaengthap (แมลงทับ) being used for making jewelry, sculptures, and clothing. Does anyone know about how these are acquired? The couple things I've read say they're ethically sourced by selling the wings for arts/crafting and consuming the actual beetles. But how is the beetle meat separated from the wings without damaging them? Specifically I was wondering if there is a particular utensil used, kind of like a melon baller?

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Do you organize the order of your groceries in the checkout line? (lemmy.world)
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I'm just wondering what the title asks: do you organize your groceries in the order you will check them out, if doing self-checkout, or arrange them on the belt/counter in a standard checkout line, in the hope that they'll be bagged in a specific way?

I didn't know there was any other way people do it, but just learned some people prefer to checkout/bag without pre-arranging things. I'm kind of curious to see what's more common, or if there's some other options I haven't considered?