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10 votes
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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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.
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8 votes -
Hospitals in Latin America buckling under coronavirus strain
8 votes -
Code is Speech?
10 votes -
11 realpolitik career tips for junior developers
6 votes -
After the crisis, big business could get even bigger: the pandemic and its response thus far are perfectly designed to concentrate corporate power--but we don’t have to accept that
6 votes -
Singapore sentences man to death via Zoom call
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It's called artificial intelligence—but what *is* intelligence?
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The Peruvian finance minister María Antonieta's coronavirus fight makes her a hero
4 votes -
Roe of “Roe v. Wade” says Christian right paid her to be anti-choice mouthpiece
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S-Town podcast producers settle lawsuit with subject’s estate: suit filed in 2018 alleged the podcast used McLemore’s identity for a commercial purpose, violating Alabama's Right of Publicity law
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Mystery of lava-like flows on Mars solved by scientists: mud volcanoes
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Purple lightning strike during a thunderstorm
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Let's be comrades: In her book "Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging", American political theorist Jodi Dean wants us to give the word "comrade" another try
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War, colonialism, and industrialism | The worldbuilding of Avatar
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New York Times phasing out all third-party advertising data
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Oceania explained
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A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
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Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana
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A series of articles on the state of American democracy from early 2015 by Vox
American democracy is doomed ('constitutional hardball' is a great way to describe the 'modus operandi' of the Trump-McConnell GOP.) This is how the American system of government will die I found...
American democracy is doomed ('constitutional hardball' is a great way to describe the 'modus operandi' of the Trump-McConnell GOP.)
This is how the American system of government will die
I found their predictions to be kinda interesting (and clearly minimal)
The best-case scenario is that we wind up with an elective dictator but retain peaceful transitions of power. This is where I'd place my bet. Pure parliamentary systems, especially unicameral ones, give high levels of power to the prime minister and his cabinet, and manage to have peaceful transitions nonetheless. The same is true in Brazil, where the presidency is considerably more powerful than it is in the US.
But parliamentary systems also feature parties that are stronger than their leaders, which serve to prevent single individuals from garnering too much power. America's parties are getting more polarized, but they still aren't as strong as those of most other developed nations.
The worst-case scenario is if the presidency attains these powers and someone elected to the office decides to use them to punish political enemies, interfere with elections, suppress dissent, and so forth. Retaining an independent enough judiciary is a guard against this, but only if norms around obeying its rulings are strong. And, unusually, America allows for true independents, undisciplined by their parties, to become heads of government.
The US political system is not gonna collapse. It's gonna muddle though (A pretty interesting take. There are problems but people won't try to fix them but instead become disengaged and kinda forget about it.)
I think one of the things the authors missed while writing these this is how news became partidarized in the same manner, thus allowing outlets like Fox News to just consume the Republican electorate. They also missed how voting has been targeted too, and underestimated how willing the public was to act and how would the public react to this, which was by electing someone who didn't care about said broken Congress (or any sort of constitutionality), which is what became of Trump.
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Electrons may very well be conscious
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NASA will likely add a rendezvous test to the first piloted Orion space mission
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Japan’s HTV cargo vehicle ready for launch with last set of new ISS solar batteries
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A senior engineer has left SpaceX to work for Relativity Space
8 votes -
Why NetNewsWire is fast
5 votes -
Introducing Signal PINs: A method of storing some account data (profile, settings, etc.) securely on Signal servers in case you lose or switch devices
16 votes -
Do we really want a new Cold War with China? Corporate media is laying the ideological groundwork for a new cold war with China, presenting the nation as a hostile power that needs to be kept in check
20 votes -
How fast are people returning to pre-COVID lifestyles?
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‘Hard stop’: US states could lose National Guard virus workers
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This is the Daily Stormer’s playbook
7 votes -
Straight talk from ex-CDC for the long slog ahead
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Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
16 votes -
What will it take to prevent a new Great Depression in the USA? Around $10,000,000,000,000 (ten trillion dollars)
9 votes -
Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releases results of investigation showing that recovered cases that re-test positive later are not infectious
9 votes -
Why anger against Trump might not be enough for Biden to win
6 votes -
A case for the revival of women's Test cricket
6 votes -
DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux
7 votes -
Doordash and pizza arbitrage
22 votes -
WHO approves inquiry into global coronavirus response
8 votes -
The unintended consequences of working from home
5 votes -
State and federal data on COVID-19 testing don’t match up
8 votes -
Climate explained: Why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
6 votes -
Microsoft announces the Windows Package Manager preview
20 votes -
Microsimulation of traffic control: Onramp
8 votes -
Two churches reclose after faith leaders and congregants get coronavirus
10 votes -
It’s time to get on the bidet train, America
19 votes -
The impact of rainfall-induced early social distancing on COVID-19 outbreaks
4 votes -
Orb.farm: A virtual ecosystem
20 votes -
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine shows encouraging early results
5 votes