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5 votes
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Movie Monday Free Talk
Thanks to @dubteedub for doing this up until now, let's bring em back :) Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel...
Thanks to @dubteedub for doing this up until now, let's bring em back :)
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here!
Spoilers are okay, just give fair warning so people who care about them can participate too.
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WeWork files for IPO
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Reddit is launching "RPAN" live streaming as a time-limited experiment for this week, but it will become a permanent feature soon
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Tame Impala - Borderline (2020)
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Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
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Does anybody here use a wake up light?
I'm working on some sleep hygiene habits at the moment and would like to know if anyone has any feedback, good or bad, for using a wake up lamp/sunrise alarm clock. I have to get up for work...
I'm working on some sleep hygiene habits at the moment and would like to know if anyone has any feedback, good or bad, for using a wake up lamp/sunrise alarm clock. I have to get up for work before it's light outside so this wouldn't be replicable by just leaving my blinds open.
Part of me likes the idea of a softer, gentler wakeup from light rather than noise, but there's another part of me that's worried I'll hate it just as much as I hate my alarm clock. My bullshit detector is also ringing pretty loudly when I see that the flagship brand name model is selling for $200 USD. Two hundred dollars for... a... light... that... slowly... turns... on. What?!?!
Nevertheless, maybe there's something I'm missing here (like the other $180 worth of technology presumably hidden in there). As such, I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has one. I'd love to hear your experiences and, if you're willing to share, which model you have.
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Where Travis Scott - Sicko Mode's weirdest moments came from: Tracing the roots of Jamaican dub music | Vox Earworm
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Mythbuster Jr is pretty entertaining
Mythbusters is back, but in a tweaked format. Adam Savage fronts with a team of six young people. Jamie, Kari, Tory, and Grant are absent, only appearing in video flashbacks to the previous show....
Mythbusters is back, but in a tweaked format.
Adam Savage fronts with a team of six young people. Jamie, Kari, Tory, and Grant are absent, only appearing in video flashbacks to the previous show.
Mythbusters with kids could have been horrific, but they've managed to make this entertaining and informative. They've increased the amount of STEM stuff. We see people doing a bit of math while planning something out. The kids are smart, and the show allows them to be smart while also being children. Adam is a great fit, being a big kid himself but also filling the role of a pseudo parent and giving friendly advice (often around safety, such as the tag strap used to manoeuvre huge steel plates).
The old show had a some problems. They'd have too many pre-break "what's coming next" and post-break "here's what happened before", and they'd chop up the myths being tested into tiny little bits. They still do that, but not nearly as much.
It's a fun, entertaining watch, and it's safe for families to watch together.
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NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, resembling a large quadcopter drone, will fly through the orange clouds of Titan searching for signs of life
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A pickpocket's tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins
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Silicon Valley's crisis of conscience: the private retreat centers where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions
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Cracking the Code of Cicada 3301 [Episodes 1-4 Playlist]
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Taiwan can win a war with China
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Information operations directed at Hong Kong
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Finland's vital role in the production of graphene
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What are you coding today?
What are you coding? Or are you reading a CS paper? and of course, have you read SICP today? ___-------___ _-~~ ~~-_ _-~ /~-_ /^\__/^\ /~ \ / \ /| O|| O| / \_______________/ \ | |___||__| / / \ \...
What are you coding? Or are you reading a CS paper?
and of course, have you read SICP today? ___-------___ _-~~ ~~-_ _-~ /~-_ /^\__/^\ /~ \ / \ /| O|| O| / \_______________/ \ | |___||__| / / \ \ | \ / / \ \ | (_______) /______/ \_________ \ | / / \ / \ \ \^\\ \ / \ / \ || \______________/ _-_ //\__// \ ||------_-~~-_ ------------- \ --/~ ~\ || __/ ~-----||====/~ |==================| |/~~~~~ (_(__/ ./ / \_\ \. (_(___/ \_____)_)
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You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality
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Dirty tricks 6502 programmers use
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Sylvia Plath: "The Bee Meeting" with annotations
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Number of Interrail tickets sold in Sweden has nearly doubled so far this year as the country's no-fly trend has taken off
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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What creative projects are you working on? (August 2019 edition)
it's creative thread time, gamers. here you can share/provide updates on some of the projects that you're working on. they can be of any kind--digital, physical, work related, passion project,...
it's creative thread time, gamers. here you can share/provide updates on some of the projects that you're working on. they can be of any kind--digital, physical, work related, passion project, whatever. pretty straightforward, i think.
november thread • february thread • march thread • april thread • may thread • june thread • july thread
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Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has won Dave's 'Funniest Joke of The Fringe' award with the niche culinary pun
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The world's largest all-electric ferry has completed its maiden voyage between Søby to Fynshav
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Maybe your Zoloft stopped working because a liver fluke tried to turn your Nth-great-grandmother into a zombie
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Unusual plan for disaster relief: just give survivors money
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New Zealand glaciers won't survive this century, scientists say
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Global sea level rise began accelerating ‘thirty years earlier’ than previously thought
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Making the switch to Bitwarden, unsure how to go about it
I have had several accounts taken over, and decided I've had enough. I decided to use a password safe, which I've been wanting to do for years, and finally settled on Bitwarden because it's fully...
I have had several accounts taken over, and decided I've had enough. I decided to use a password safe, which I've been wanting to do for years, and finally settled on Bitwarden because it's fully open-source.
The hangup is I'm unsure how to transition to it. I've logged some old email accounts I occasionally need to access, my new Netflix account (just got my own), and tildes, but I haven't changed my email password, for example (my email password is only used for email).
For anybody who has done this already, is it best to dig up all my accounts and jump over to bitwarden, or to switch them as I see/use them over time?
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B.C. manhunt suspects recorded final message on phone found with bodies, family says
Original article behind hard paywall: B.C. manhunt suspects recorded final message on phone found with bodies, family says Secondary article behind soft paywall: Canadian teens shot final video...
Original article behind hard paywall: B.C. manhunt suspects recorded final message on phone found with bodies, family says
Secondary article behind soft paywall: Canadian teens shot final video message before taking their lives
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Most people know prisoners can marry. Few remember the co-ed prison, the impromptu courthouse wedding and the Supreme Court ruling that allows them to do so.
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Newark, NJ: Inside America's latest lead water crisis
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Clear cut: Saving British Columbia's inland rainforest
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Humankind is Sega’s innovative new challenger to Civilization
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Why everyone should read Harry Potter: Tales of the young wizard instill empathy, a study finds
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Paged Out! A new experimental (one article == one page) free magazine about programming
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Global network's nuclear sensors in Russia went offline after mystery blast
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Inside the Virgin Galactic spaceport sending the mega rich into space
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I lost my job for keeping Charlottesville police accountable. I'd do it again
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Mapmaker: The Gerrymandering game that puts the fun in undermining democracy
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I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.
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When limiting online speech to curb violence, we should be careful
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Rethinking natural altruism: Simple reciprocal interactions trigger children’s benevolence
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Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy' hits no. 1 on Billboard Hot 100, dethroning Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' after record nineteen weeks on top
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Maybe you know that article is satire, but a lot of people can’t tell the difference
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The events that led to Gamergate started five years ago today, and The New York Times has just published a series of four pieces related to it
I'm posting this in ~tech since I think the stories are more related to social media than games. I haven't read them yet, but am just about to start working my way through. Unfortunately, they're...
I'm posting this in ~tech since I think the stories are more related to social media than games. I haven't read them yet, but am just about to start working my way through.
Unfortunately, they're in a weird and ugly format, with an incredibly distracting background that constantly sends little "mouse cursors" towards the actual location of your mouse. I highly recommend using Reader Mode or something similar to get rid of the styles. You might also have to click a "READ MORE" link in the right place to even get the text of the article to show up properly.
Here are links to the 4 pieces (I'm not even sure if they'll work properly because of this disaster of a layout):
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New Hong Kong protest ads urging international help appear in 11 newspapers worldwide
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Google Stadia Connect - August 19, 2019
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Tourism is eating the world
8 votes