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I have been thinking about looking for a European alternative to Trustpilot for a while as Trustpilot are not trustworthy in my opinion.

They have removed legit reviews and are very expensive for businesses. They have been reported to use aggressive sales tactics, pressuring businesses into paid plans by highlighting negative reviews or offering better visibility for positive ones. Trustpilot has been failing for years to do what it claims it does. For both the customer and the business end.

For both (customer and business), it is better to post reviews on multiple platforms, and for us, it is better if the review platforms are European. I know these are already fairly well known and used in some countries, but not everywhere. Please post links to any others, as I could only find two and hope that there are more.

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Image description: A monk in dark red robes sitting in a cross-legged on a snow-covered mountain slope, surrounded by dramatic alpine peaks and to the left of the monk stands a gnarled tree with a dark trunk and branches, its canopy displaying brilliant fall colors that create a striking contrast against the predominantly blue-toned landscape. The snowy ground is dotted with dark rocks and stones, while steep mountain faces rise on both sides, creating a valley.

USDA research points to viruses spread by pesticide-resistant mites, indicating a worrying trend

U.S. beekeepers had a disastrous winter. Between June 2024 and January 2025, a full 62% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States died, according to an extensive survey. It was the largest die-off on record, coming on the heels of a 55% die-off the previous winter.

As soon as scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) caught wind of the record-breaking die-offs, they sprang into action—but their efforts were slowed by a series of federal funding cuts and layoffs by President Donald Trump’s administration. Now, 6 months later, USDA scientists have finally identified a culprit.

According to a preprint posted to the bioRxiv server this month, nearly all the dead colonies tested positive for bee viruses spread by parasitic mites. Alarmingly, every single one of the mites the researchers screened was resistant to amitraz, the only viable mite-specific pesticide—or miticide—of its kind left in humans’ arsenal.

Artist: Mac Star | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

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Taken from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBPkI3CCY8o

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/136532

Could be a ghost, poltergeist, cryptid, UFO, raining frogs, time slip, premonition, anything you are comfortable sharing.

Despite the title being an .... interesting choice - this is from the official Krita channel and has actually interesting content, IMO

The director of one of north Gaza's largest hospitals was killed, along with his wife, daughter and sister, in an Israeli strike on their apartment, medical officials said Wednesday.

Diaa Al-Najjar, Al-Sultan's nephew, said his uncle never stopped working amid the war, even for a moment.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other aid groups have accused Israel of targeting hospitals and condemned the attacks and arrests of medical workers. Munir Al-Barash, general director of Gaza's Health Ministry, said the killing of Al-Sultan is the latest death in a long list of health-care workers targeted in the Gaza Strip.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/5573430

Text version: https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/nothing-showing-up-on-my-mastodon-instance

Original image: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28362528
VLCat idea:
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/15171348

The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors.

Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.

Medicaid, a program jointly run by states and the federal government, covers more than 70 million low-income or disabled people, including nearly half of the nation’s children. Republicans say the $900 billion-a-year program was allowed to grow too large under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden by adding nondisabled adults they say don’t deserve government assistance, and they have long sought to scale it back.