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San Francisco’s downtown becomes a wake-up call for other cities in the US
60 votes -
Intel discontinuing NUC manufacturing
39 votes -
The issues with reusable straws
20 votes -
How to use ChatGPT to ruin your legal career
28 votes -
Cordon Bleu and mashed potatoes in a French Michelin two-star restaurant with Giuliano Sperandio
8 votes -
"Severed" [shittycamerachallenge]
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Analysis: Pollution time bombs — Contaminated wetlands are ticking towards peat ignition
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Strongly influenced by Quakers 175 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage in the USA
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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training
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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.
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - July 13
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - 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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Is it true that plants begin to consume oxygen around 45°C?
I used to work with a guy who had three PhD's. (two in Europe, one in the US). He had them in math, chemistry and biology. He said a few fairly outlandish things over the timeframe that I knew...
I used to work with a guy who had three PhD's. (two in Europe, one in the US). He had them in math, chemistry and biology. He said a few fairly outlandish things over the timeframe that I knew him, but every one I ever dug into it turned out was basically accurate.
One of the things he mentioned in passing, but which I haven't been able to confirm to my satisfaction is that when plants reach certain high temps, they start producing H2O2 instead of H2O. (around 45 Celcius)
I've read a few papers that seem to indicate that part at least is true, but I've never found anything that says whether or not this puts plants into the 'consumer' column for oxygen.
Anyone here able to point me to something that has this answer? or anyone here know the answer, even if it's not specifically been published yet?
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What are your thoughts on Viewfinder (2023)?
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Google is directing searchers straight to troves of nonconsensual deep fake porn, raising legal and ethical concerns
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Should we keep problematic posts visible rather than deleting them?
There was a post here the other day asking women about their preferences in a partner's emotional attachment style (not the exact wording, but about as close as I can remember). The responses were...
There was a post here the other day asking women about their preferences in a partner's emotional attachment style (not the exact wording, but about as close as I can remember). The responses were overwhelmingly critical of the framing of the question and how it mischaracterized the qualities of a healthy relationship. Upon looking at life.women a day or two later, it seems to have been removed.
While I agree that the post showed problematic thinking and was kind of a nuisance post rather than one which fostered healthy discussion, I'm not sure I agree with removing it entirely. The original poster did not seem to have any malicious intent, but instead displayed a flawed internal view of healthy relationships. Though the feedback was likely not what they were hoping for, I think it could be instructional not only for that original poster but also for any other site visitors who may have a similar way of thinking. If someone were to read the post and not recognize anything wrong with it, only to then read the criticism in the comments, it's possible they may discover that their own thinking is flawed in a similar way to OP and seek to change the way they view the topic. If we hide every problematic question, people with similar thinking won't ever see that 1) other people have similar problematic views and 2) those views are problematic for reasons X, Y, and Z.
More simply, if people come here and ask questions that we find distasteful, instead of deleting them should we leave them up with the relevant feedback so that other people learn from that interaction and develop a better idea of where the poster went wrong? It feels like there are a lot of folks out there that might be simply ignorant about social and relationship norms and could learn by example. If these people never see a post where someone is getting called out for their misguided thinking, how do we expect them to learn what's acceptable and what isn't?
I'm curious to hear your opinions. Should we tolerate entertaining some troublesome questions in order to better educate others, or is it not our job to teach them proper social skills/those posts don't belong here at all?
(To be clear, I do not support leaving up anything overtly abusive or malicious/hateful, those should obviously be removed ASAP).
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Minneapolis, MN: A welcome surge in transit ridership
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A look back at some robotic inventions that didn't quite get there
12 votes -
US review of the Ideapad Duet 5i
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Pepper master Ed Currie tastes the hottest peppers from eleven countries
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Having trouble staying logged in here, and elsewhere on iOS
I’ve been running into a minor annoyance of late, I tend to get logged out of ~ on a page refresh (I.e., pull the screen down) on iOS after about a day or less. I have also noticed that my outlook...
I’ve been running into a minor annoyance of late, I tend to get logged out of ~ on a page refresh (I.e., pull the screen down) on iOS after about a day or less. I have also noticed that my outlook web also does a thing where it seems to forget that I’m signed in under an account, and asks me to input an email, but if I refresh, there’s a 50/50 shot it will see I’m logged in and drop me into the outlook web client.
I recall some of these threads from a few years ago here (but having issues finding them in search) and seem to remember the consensus being “check your add-ons”…. But this is happening on the super nerfed Firefox for iOS (I.e., there are no add-in’s to my knowledge).
I’m running Ffirefox 115 if that helps at all
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Amazon seeks to evade EU regulations by claiming it isn't a Very Large Online Platform
29 votes -
Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse explained
11 votes -
Strongman tries Olympic Bobsleigh
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A Haunting in Venice | Official trailer
5 votes -
Expanding heat wave prompts alerts for 115 million people in the United States
59 votes -
Transit groups in New York call for congestion toll to be passed on to for-hire vehicle riders
19 votes -
Viking Link joins UK and Denmark power grids for first time – 765km high-voltage cable joins Bicker Fen in Lincolnshire with Jutland in Denmark
10 votes -
The Val Programming Language
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Microsoft lost its keys, and the US government got hacked
25 votes -
New York gets ready for a hot Spotted Lanternfly summer
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Known for photographs showing hundreds of naked people posing in a wide variety of environments, US artist Spencer Tunick has gathered thousands to pose naked in Finland
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SAG-AFTRA approves thirty-nine indie projects to shoot during actors' strike, including two A24 films
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How the SAG-AFTRA strike could upend this year’s movie release schedule and box office
17 votes -
Medieval Myth Busting - Arrows vs Armour 2, using historically accurate reproductions from time of the Battle of Agincourt (1415)
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED Other extra videos in the series: ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL...
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - FULL MEDIEVAL ARMOUR TESTED
Other extra videos in the series:
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARMOUR PLATE TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - MAIL TESTS
ARROWS vs ARMOUR 2 - ARROWHEAD MATERIAL TESTSAnd they have also created a website for the project now too:
https://todtodeschini.com/youtube-projects/arrows-v-armour-2/Previous series of tests from a few years ago:
https://tild.es/h3u6 votes -
CityLine, zero emissions rapid bus transit, launches in Spokane
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What are your favourite dad jokes?
I'm really partial to this one: What's red and bad for your teeth? . . . A brick :P
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The lost patients of Washington state's abandoned psychiatric hospital
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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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City services | Feature highlights #5 | Cities: Skylines II
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Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
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Anyone diagnosed with osteoporosis?
I was just diagnosed with osteoporosis which doesn't come as any surprise given that I've lived with severe arthritis all my life. I have some treatments in process including an infusion...
I was just diagnosed with osteoporosis which doesn't come as any surprise given that I've lived with severe arthritis all my life.
I have some treatments in process including an infusion (reclast?)
I am 65 and have a history of some significant accidents including being hit by a car as a small child which likely accelerated the condition.
I've also been on opioid pain meds for many years. I have been in the process of stopping these in an effort to see how much pain I can handle. My life is a lot less active in the last 15 years so it seems quite doable at this stage. My entire family died around 2008 and I don't have near the responsibilities that I had in the past.
I have read that these drugs can also accelerate the condition.
But they were necessary and I have no regrets.
It's just depressing and just wanted to share.18 votes -
Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
159 votes -
How quantum physicists explained Earth’s oscillating weather patterns
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Atmospheric rivers can cause catastrophic flooding and landslides but are crucial for water supply. In an era of increasing whiplash between flood and drought, can we learn to embrace the rains?
5 votes -
What crypto wallets get wrong
3 votes -
The Password Game
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A simulation of first contact ran on May 24, 2023. Here is the website with the details.
15 votes -
We must end the tyranny of printers in American life
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A few things to know before you steal my Porsche 914
23 votes