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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - April 25-26
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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MSX computers - Scrolling, sprites, and stereotypes
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TikTok-famous doctors are getting into NFTs and it's a mess. MetaDocs’ NFTs were designed to "revolutionize medicine." But its social media–famous doctors can’t prescribe for or diagnose NFT holders.
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Meteorites could have brought all five genetic 'letters' of DNA to early Earth
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We should all know less about each other
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Robinhood set to lay off 9% of their full time employees
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Bilge dumping: The worst pollution you've never heard of
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Norway seeks solution to looming EU tax on car batteries – batteries produced outside the UK or the EU after 2027 face a 10% customs tax
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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Inept 'People's Convoy' chased out of Bay Area by egg-throwing kids
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Cluster munitions: The banned weapons Russia and the US won't give up
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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Climate activist Wynn Alan Bruce dies after setting himself on fire outside US Supreme Court on Earth Day
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Kane Tanaka: Japanese woman certified world's oldest person dies, aged 119
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Every movie with Oscar buzz coming out in 2022
I know you all got sick and tired of me talking about awards. But straight after the Oscars happen, award pundits rev up their early predictions. So here's a general list of every movie that has...
I know you all got sick and tired of me talking about awards. But straight after the Oscars happen, award pundits rev up their early predictions. So here's a general list of every movie that has general awards buzz. It's not every movie, but it's a lot of the bigger ones.
I'll link a trailer if there is one (or if there is footage), and I'll put the director and what it's about briefly.
Armageddon Time dir. James Grey (autobiographical drama)
Asteroid City dir. Wes Anderson (romantic dramedy ensemble)
Avatar 2 dir. James Cameron
Babylon dir. Damien Chazelle (Hollywood transitioning from silent to sound loosely based on Hollywood Babylon)
The Banshees of Insherin dir. Martin McDonaugh (Irish friends break up)
Bardo (or False Chronicle of Handful of Truths) dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu (Mexican history recreated)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever dir. Ryan Coogler
Blonde dir. Andrew Dominik (Marilyn Monroe dark and twisted biopic)
Bones and All dir. Luca Guadagnino (coming of age romance horror)
Broker dir. Hirokazu Koreeda (family road drama)
Canterbury Glass dir. David O. Russell (period piece comedy)
Cha Cha Real Smooth dir. Cooper Raiff (coming-of-age)
Decision to Leave dir. Park Chan-wook (neo-noir)
Disappointment Blvd dir. Ari Aster
Don't Worry Darling dir. Olivia Wilde (social thriller)
Elvis dir. Baz Luhrmann (Elvis biopic)
Emancipation dir. Antoine Fuqua (slave drama)
Empire of Light dir. Sam Mendes (romantic-drama period piece)
Everything Everywhere All At Once dir. Daniels (action-comedy multiverse of madness)
The Fabelmans dir. Steven Spielberg (autobiographical drama)
The Greatest Beer Run Ever dir. Peter Farrrelly (Vietnam war drama)
The Holdovers dir Alexander Payne (dramedy)
I Wanna Dance With Somebody dir. Kasi Lemmons (Whitney Houston biopic)
The Killer dir. David Fincher (based on the graphic novel)
Killers of the Flower Moon dir. Martin Scorsese (western)
Knives Out 2 dir. Rian Johnson
Next Goal Wins dir. Taika Waititi (sports dramedy)
Nope dir. Jordan Peele (aliens invade)
The Northman dir. Robert Eggers
Poor Things dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (woman changes brains with a baby)
Rustin dir. George C. Wolfe (Bayard Rustin biopic)
She Said dir. Maria Schrader (journalists who uncovered the Weinstein story)
The Son dir. Florian Zeller (based on his play)
Thirteen Lives dir. Ron Howard (based on the rescue mission in Thailand)
Three Thousand Years of Longing dir. George Miller
Till dir. Chinonye Chukwu (seeking justice for Emmett Till)
TÁR dir. Todd Field (German pianist)
The Whale dir. Darren Aronofsky (based on the play, 400 pound man struggles to connect with his daughter)
White Noise dir. Noah Baumbach (based on the novel, college professor existential crisis)
The Woman King dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood (historical epic)
Women Talking dir. Sarah Polley (based on the novel)
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LUMITIME - A digital clock with no electronics
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Why Americans eat dessert for breakfast
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Downhill, on a couch, on public roads
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Marathon my age: Running 42.195kms on my 42.195th birthday
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64-year old finds the ejection handle in an impromptu fighter jet ride. He survives and now hates his co-workers.
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The absurd mystery of flamingo no. 492
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on CIA and NSA
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 25
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
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Alesso feat. Zara Larsson – Words (2022)
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Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia
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Predict the next five years in the US
How do you see the next 5 years playing out, politically, economically, socially, militarily? In areas that hit closest to you? I feel I'm not confident in making a forecast more specific than...
How do you see the next 5 years playing out, politically, economically, socially, militarily? In areas that hit closest to you? I feel I'm not confident in making a forecast more specific than “nothing good will happen." And yet I have to make huge decisions about where to live and work.
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BAND-MAID - Choose me (2017)
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Has anyone here actually acted on their escapist fantasies?
I would love to hear stories of all the tilderinoes here who somehow acted on their impulses to somehow upend their lives, that could be in small or big ways -- moving to another country, changing...
I would love to hear stories of all the tilderinoes here who somehow acted on their impulses to somehow upend their lives, that could be in small or big ways -- moving to another country, changing careers, changing their name, anything else.
I very often think about how someday I'll finally take hold of my life and suddenly start doing all the things I'd like to if I do some "big thing", whatever that currently is (changing my name, moving abroad...). So I was wondering if it is at all realistic, if anyone here actually has experience with something similar and if it actually helped to improve their life.
I always really enjoy reading advice people give here, even though I sadly do not ever actually really use it. Thank you.20 votes -
Plain Text - Dylan Beattie - NDC Oslo 2021
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Why audiences in China are loving Green Book
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France re-elects Emmanuel Macron with 58% of votes
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Elmo and the Gom Jabbar Test in Dune
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I finally understand why US evangelicals support Donald Trump, and it's not just hypocrisy, mindless anti-gay, or stupdity
It's because they believe(d) he can(could) tear the whole thing down, so they can rebuild a theocratic empire on its ashes. I was listening to Ian Masters' Background Briefing from sometime in the...
It's because they believe(d) he can(could) tear the whole thing down, so they can rebuild a theocratic empire on its ashes.
I was listening to Ian Masters' Background Briefing from sometime in the past few days, and he had some lady on who said it. She was speaking about the idiotic ruling from FLA on the mask mandate, then pointed out that this judge was one on the approved list from the Council for National Policy. Apparently Trump agreed only to appoint judges from this list, among other concessions, in order to gain evangelical support. And then she said, they want to tear down all American institutions, so they can install a theocracy instead. It finally all made sense.
This is terrifying to me. I was brutalized by evangelical fundamentalist religion growing up, and am still severely impeded by the trauma in my adult life. I would much rather live in a world where every lunatic open carries a fully automatic submachine gun than live in a theocracy.
I was recently informed about the Council for National Policy. They're a force for evil. A highly effective force, that his been working mostly in secret since at least the 80's to turn America into a Spanish inquisitors pipe dream.
This still doesn't quite explain why middle class Baptist Jane would vote for Trump, I guess maybe racial fear? Paternalistic conditioning?
I try to be solutions focussed generally speaking, but I don't see one right now, sadly. I aim to start looking and thinking..
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - April 22-24
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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French election 2022: full live results
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Netflix stock price drops 35%, posting biggest fall since 2004
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A day in the life of (almost) every vending machine in the world
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The Vikings cut them down, we want to bring them back – bringing back the ancient forests of Iceland
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Greenland offers a roadmap for how to get Inuktut taught in Nunavut's schools
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Repulsive Curves
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Ideal Flight - A Stormlight Archive animated short
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Sonic The Hedgehog 3 (prototype)
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LittleVMills - Why Is It Always An Anime Avatar!? (2022)
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How “Z” became Putin’s latest propaganda meme for the war against Ukraine
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Russia to deploy Sarmat missiles by autumn in 'historic' nuclear upgrade
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Is Christmas actually related to the birthday of Sol Invictus?
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