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5 votes
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US child poverty rate at an all-time low
11 votes -
Finnish utility Fortum plans to add 560 megawatt capacity by reactivating an idle coal-fired power plant on Finland's west coast
7 votes -
What did you do this week (and 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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of September 12
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
9 votes -
Smoking in the United States has reached its lowest levels ever, with just 11% of people saying they now smoke cigarettes
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Should the Steam Deck just be a gaming tablet?
I struck me while using my Steam Deck the other day to watch Twitch that the device has almost everything it needs to provide users with a tablet-like experience alongside being a gaming device....
I struck me while using my Steam Deck the other day to watch Twitch that the device has almost everything it needs to provide users with a tablet-like experience alongside being a gaming device. When you're not in desktop mode Steam provides you with a high quality UI optimized for many of the same constraints as a tablet. For "great on deck" games and the store/library UI you get an easily navigable touch screen-supporting experience. If Valve can bring in Android apps for Twitch, YouTube etc. we could get that kind of experience universally.
Desktop mode can peacefully co-exist with a tablet experience as you will switch between the two distinct modes of operation. This seems like a great way to capture a market of users normally turned off by ideas of tablets replacing their normal computers. I haven't used a tablet in years but I would use one that was a full Linux gaming OS at the same time.
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Wikipedia Speedruns
19 votes -
Equaldex: a collaborative knowledge base for LGBT rights worldwide
5 votes -
Public grief over Queen Elizabeth II in Hong Kong seen as both nostalgia and dissent
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How petrol pumps know when to turn themselves off
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
8 votes -
How Christian Bale and David O Russell cooked up star-packed historical whodunit ‘Amsterdam’ through five years of diner meals
8 votes -
Siting bank branches
3 votes -
The Beths - Knees Deep (2022)
4 votes -
Repainting cheap Star Wars halloween masks
2 votes -
The Ethereum Merge is done, opening a new era for the second-biggest blockchain
23 votes -
Inside the documentary cash grab
8 votes -
How a volcanic eruption and a mysterious phenomenon known as a mast year were perfectly timed together to create a new forest in Iceland
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 12
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.
7 votes -
Adobe in final talks to acquire Figma for $20B USD
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Far right's triumph in my country reveals a very Swedish brand of intolerance – political parties proved that our supposed liberalism is only skin deep
8 votes -
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Coming May 12th, 2023
14 votes -
2022 Golden Goose Award mini-documentary
4 votes -
I Wanna Dance With Somebody | Official trailer
3 votes -
Why the American lawn really sucks
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Ideas how to unlock Google's blocking of my YouTube RSS feeds
I subscribe to quite a few youtube channels to get notified when there are new videos posted. I've had this set up for several years. Today I tried to add a new channel I've discovered. My RSS...
I subscribe to quite a few youtube channels to get notified when there are new videos posted. I've had this set up for several years.
Today I tried to add a new channel I've discovered. My RSS reader informs me it's blocked. I check all the other youtube feeds. Every single one of them reports "Error transferring <feed url>." server replied Forbidden (201).
Update: One day later and every feed is connecting and transferring again. It seems to be a temporary block. My IP address has changed overnight though so that's still my main suspicion.
It seems like I'm not the only victim
That contains a link to the author's issue on google's issue tracker
The official response is
Status: Won't Fix (Infeasible) Unfortunately, there's nothing we could do here. Please reach out to community forum or Stackoverflow. Check out the link below:
They completely misunderstood the question - it's not asking how to find a feed, it's asking why that feed is getting blocked.
Not only this but using DuckDuckGo bangs for to search google get randomly sent to a captcha page - issuing the exact same query a second time goes through perfectly. The same is happening with keyword searches I set up in my browser. .
Any ideas what to do about this?
So sick of google's monopoly.
13 votes -
A Chinese spy wanted GE’s secrets, but the US got China’s instead
11 votes -
Sins of a Solar Empire 2 | Teaser
7 votes -
‘Blade Runner 2099’ series greenlighted by Amazon with Ridley Scott executive producing
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Pep Guardiola has found his most interesting Manchester City yet thanks to Erling Haaland
4 votes -
Boxed in: Life inside the 'coffin cubicles' of Hong Kong – in pictures
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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?
4 votes -
Where everybody knows your name, a Cheers retrospective
2 votes -
Europa Universalis IV: Lions of the North | Release trailer
4 votes -
Patagonia founder gives away the company to fight climate change
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Gallup poll: Approval of labor unions at highest point since 1965
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
8 votes -
Wordpress to Pelican in twenty-four hours
4 votes -
Jimmy Kimmel apologizes to Quinta Brunson for controversial Emmys bit
2 votes -
Tango Chirimen and Te-Nassen (A dissertation on applying traditional Japanese textiles to modern garments)
5 votes -
Swedish rightwing on verge of narrow election win but waits on final tally – bloc including far-right Sverigedemokraterna on course for one-seat majority
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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!
4 votes -
Finnish radio telescope aims to protect satellites from solar storms – Metsahovi Radio Observatory has been tracking the Sun's solar cycles for decades
3 votes -
California’s drought regulators lose big case. What it means for state’s power to police water
9 votes -
Norway says ‘no’ to a gas price cap – Oslo's gas payday is equivalent to about £350 for each Norwegian man, woman and child
7 votes -
Energy crisis fuels rush for firewood sending prices skyrocketing
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What are some good ultra-low-spec computer games?
So my TV is broken (so no Xbox) and my laptop is a potato. Well, not a total potato, it has an i54210 1.7ghz CPU with integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics. It's a Linux machine, but since Proton I...
So my TV is broken (so no Xbox) and my laptop is a potato. Well, not a total potato, it has an i54210 1.7ghz CPU with integrated Intel HD 4400 graphics. It's a Linux machine, but since Proton I fully expect to be able to play many low spec games.
I'm looking into some low spec games. I got Papers Please and liked it a lot. For something meatier I was thinking Baldurs Gate Enhanced, but I fear that I might have a hard time with the outdated mechanics. I had a hard with the original Fallout for that reason... I loved it back in the day, but it was just too clunky for my current tastes.
21 votes