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5 votes
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Flat-earther ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in rocket ride above California desert
30 votes -
Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password
13 votes -
Intuit near deal to acquire Credit Karma for $7 billion
15 votes -
Silicon Valley ruined work culture
15 votes -
Spiritfarer | Gameplay teaser
6 votes -
What you can expect from the Xbox Series X
7 votes -
Jens Nygaard Knudsen, who created the iconic Lego minifigure, has died at the age of 78
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Lawsuits, mountains of unsold leggings, and families drowning in debt: The tumultuous story behind LuLaRoe, a multilevel marketing brand that promised millennial women a pathway to financial freedom
5 votes -
Hmong leaders rally against Trump administration deportation push
5 votes -
Garbage language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
10 votes -
I've received a school project where I need to read a book but I've never really wanted to read a book and don't know many books at all. What book should I read?
People like me are why I believe the slippery slope is a fact, not a fallacy... I'm asking this in the context of a school project mainly because of 2 things: 1: 2 of the questions of the project...
People like me are why I believe the slippery slope is a fact, not a fallacy...
I'm asking this in the context of a school project mainly because of 2 things:
1: 2 of the questions of the project are about main and secondary characters and their physical and psychological characteristics, so the book is gonna require those unless I'm misinterpreting those questions.
2: The project is for March 12th so something like 1984 with 300+ pages is probably too long. (Although there are probably many technicalities to blur this, like how much text there is in a page and the actual amount of pages I can read in a given time and how much time can I dedicate to reading the damn book.)
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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!
6 votes -
Icelanders celebrate Bolludagur – the cream-filled buns are generally made of choux pastry and topped with a chocolate or caramel glaze
6 votes -
Finding faith in the gods of the Vikings – Richard didn't expect his hobby would help him find his own belief through Norse mythology
8 votes -
The tears of our mothers
7 votes -
Lilliputian: A Mobile Client for Tiny Tiny RSS
17 votes -
What TV classics are significantly better than the remake?
What classic TV shows are so good that you are much better off watching the original, in spite of them being remade?
17 votes -
Struggling to keep up, Finland exports plastic waste – a quarter of all plastic waste will be sent to facilities in Sweden or Germany for sorting and repurposing
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Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans
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Meet the pie with no meat, just a 'delicious plant-based filling'
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“We are at a turning point”: The coronavirus outbreak is looking more like a pandemic
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Accordion Synthesizer Project
I've been posting about this in various topics but now that it's on Github, I thought maybe it's time to give it a topic of its own. From the README: My goal is to eventually replicate the...
I've been posting about this in various topics but now that it's on Github, I thought maybe it's time to give it a topic of its own. From the README:
My goal is to eventually replicate the keyboard and sound of the bass side of an accordion in an electronic device that accordion players will find easy to adapt to. So far I've built three prototypes:
- Prototype 1 was trying out a Teensy 4 with an audio shield on a breadboard, with 4 bass buttons.
- For prototype 2, I put the buttons on two double-decker circuit boards (9 bass buttons). Here's the Video. You can see the remains of prototype 1 in the background.
- For prototype 3, I built a real case out of wood and laser-cut acrylic panels, to make a desktop device that's more easily portable. This one uses a Teensy 3.6. Here's the Video. I designed it in Onshape and you can look at the CAD model online.
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‘Friends’ cast to reunite for exclusive panel discussion on HBO Max
7 votes -
Why six hours of sleep is as bad as none at all
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In spy shows, bigger is not always better...
I was a Homeland fan right from the start. Great performances, constant suspense, smart developments. The show remained watchable in later seasons, but the amount of action was greatly increased....
I was a Homeland fan right from the start. Great performances, constant suspense, smart developments. The show remained watchable in later seasons, but the amount of action was greatly increased. Previously smart characters became dumb, and on season 7 Carrie Mathison was more action hero than spymaster.
Most recently, this is happening in Amazon's series Jack Ryan. The first season was a good thriller with interesting twists. The second was basically "Jack Ryan: Navy Seal". We know right from the start who the bad guy is, and, in the end, we get a "twist" that is both lazy and predictable. Not only that: Jack's "cowboy" behavior gets absurdly dumb (he's kind of an asshole too...), in a way that is not compatible with his backstory. I won't spoiler anything, but in this season he does things that would make Jack Bauer stand and applaud.
To me, that's frustrating because I love all that spy shit, preferably with large doses of realism. If I want action I'll watch Mission Impossible or something.
One of the possible reasons for the increase in action scenes in successful spy shows is the larger budgets. They start small, with character-driven stories, and grow to be action movies.
Another might be the need to please and retain a larger audience gained in the first seasons.
They also tend to get less and less realistic, like The Americans.
I wish there was a spy show that kept being a spy show all the way through.
9 votes -
Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature
45 votes -
The lost 110 words of the US Constitution: The 14th Amendment says states that infringe the vote must lose representation in Congress. It’s time to make this happen.
15 votes -
Gran turismo 4: An old bassman...
6 votes -
ViacomCBS to launch new streaming service blending CBS All Access with Paramount films, Viacom channels
8 votes -
Policy vs technology
15 votes -
The laptop market is in an atrocious state
27 votes -
The rules for rulers
10 votes -
Westworld | Season 3 trailer
19 votes -
Donald Trump's budget gives Greenland another try – administration's proposal would give the State Department $587,000 to build a first permanent consular services outpost
4 votes -
Sweden starts testing new official digital currency – pilot project will be run in an isolated test environment together with digital tech consultants Accenture
5 votes -
Non-opioid treatment for pain: Sean's Story
3 votes -
Finnish government has agreed to take in up to 175 asylum-seekers from camps in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta to alleviate the humanitarian situation in the Mediterranean
8 votes -
There's a dark side to Boris Johnson's government, and even his allies are fed up with it
12 votes -
A new book by Greta Thunberg's mother reveals the reality of family life during her daughter's transformation from bullied teenager to climate icon
14 votes -
How doctors die
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‘I was a bad influence on the Beatles': James Taylor on Lennon, love and recovery
5 votes -
Electron microscope animation: Carbon nanotubes pulled into thread
8 votes -
‘Now is the time’: A Federal Reserve official urges Congress to plan for recessions
7 votes -
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor could leapfrog current nuclear fusion tech
11 votes -
Clearing up the confusion around Prop 13 on the 2020 ballot
7 votes -
How do I combat the "women need safe spaces" argument?
(I am trans-inclusive. I believe trans rights are human rights. I believe in self-identification. I will use whatever pronouns someone choose, and I try not to assume pronouns.) In the UK recently...
(I am trans-inclusive. I believe trans rights are human rights. I believe in self-identification. I will use whatever pronouns someone choose, and I try not to assume pronouns.)
In the UK recently there's been a bit of a debate between trans-phobic "gender critical" feminists who say that for sexual safety women need spaces that are women only, and that this means they need to exclude trans-people.
I think this is bullshit. I'd like some good quality arguments to use against this.
What are your ideas?
14 votes -
Glitter and be gay – or don't, and still be gay
12 votes -
Studio Gainax under new management
8 votes -
California state lawmaker introduces bill to create universal basic income of $1K a month
21 votes