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3 votes
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Six transgender people talk about how the pandemic has affected their bodies
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When I injured my vocal cords, I was forced to change the way I spoke – and discovered how much our voices reveal who we are
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How Israel built a nuclear program right under the Americans' noses
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
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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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Digital transformation at the edges of business: New careers, organizations, and means of communication
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European Court of Human Rights upholds rights to self-determination around gender
@Paul Johnson: Very important trans rights case in ECtHR today. The case concerns the situation of two trans people who were refused recognition of their gender identities because they had not undergone gender reassignment surgery.The Court held this to be a violation of the ECHR (Art 8). pic.twitter.com/9bUvYg156L
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Alexei Navalny: Poisoned Russian opposition leader held after flying home
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Covid-19 independent review released
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How'd y'all grow up?
If you care to explicate your personal situation... I'm interested! So, in what circumstances did you grow up and how did that effect you in terms of the person you are now???
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James Hetfield and the News - "Hip to Be the Sandman" (Metallica + Huey Lewis mashup)
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Fauve (2018)
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400,000: The invisible deaths of Covid-19
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Umphrey's McGee - Zonkey (2016)
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The "whitewashing" of Black Wall Street: A century after the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre, Black entrepreneurs in the city’s Greenwood district feel threatened with erasure yet again
8 votes -
US President Joe Biden indicates plans to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office, sources confirm
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Capturing reality and the art process behind Project: Mara - Dreadnought Developer Diaries Episode 3
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The most memorable illustrations of 2020, as chosen by art directors at The New York Times
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Sámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against Norway windfarm – indigenous communities say planned Øyfjellet turbines will interfere with migration paths
8 votes -
Finding a foothold for Nordic skiing in rural Alaska
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KeenWrite: Dark themes
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Hear me out: Why Star Wars: The Phantom Menace isn't a bad movie
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Put an end to marketing gimmicks and learn how to engage the new generation customers - an interview with Anthony Baker
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The word "Robot" is a hundred years old this month
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 17
This thread is posted daily - 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,...
This thread is posted daily - 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.
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of January 11
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!
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Let's talk about communism and the left
Whenever i talk about my views in politics people say i'm a lefty. I want to understand what is this boogeyman called communism that will "take over the world". I live in Brazil and, for the...
Whenever i talk about my views in politics people say i'm a lefty.
I want to understand what is this boogeyman called communism that will "take over the world". I live in Brazil and, for the average american, our free health care system is communism. Even some brazilians think it's bad, which baffles me because it helps a lot of people, myself included. Everyone who needs cancer treatment go through it, it's one of the best in the world (for this particular disease at least) and affordable private health care plans won't cover expensive cancer treatment here.
People here often talk about communism being bad, but what really is communism?
I grabbed the Communist Manifesto and Why Marx Was Right to read, but did not start yet since i have to finish the book i'm currently reading.
I never tried to understand these things because they are all over the place and it's a little boring to me, so i'll ask some basic questions here before i go further in this endeavour.
Please, try to answer without anger and pointing fingers. Because every time i read about these topic online, there is fight and everyone says different things and accusations runs rampant.
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What exactly is communism in layman terms? Because for me it's all over the place. Everything that seems to care about people is put into the communist basket, but a lot of people call it a dictatorship. ELI5.
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Why almost every average citizen (americans and brazilians at least) says it's bad?
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My best friend is a school teacher and is a marxist. He says Joe Biden is still a terrible choice, but the only alternative to Trump and he is not a communist at all, but i keep hearing people call him a commie. WTF is he? If possible, ELI5 what he is and what he stands for.
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Why there is right x left and no place for something in between? Is there a need to everything be one side or another to work? There is no middle ground in politics? Grabbing aspects from the left and from the right and co-existing in the same government is a problem?
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A lot of people really think letting companies run wild and free is good. That the market will regulate itself. I think this is naive, because even now they do some really shady stuff. Just look at Nestle.
Why people say that and is there some truth to this that i can't see? Is regulating companies a communist thing? -
People say that communism didn't work when implemented and the other side says that it was not really communism. What is the truth here? It didn't work? if not, why it didn't? If it was not true communism, what it was and why it was not true communism?
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Is there a country that is communist today?
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What books about the left and the right i should read? Nothing too dense.
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The first blue pigment discovered in 200 years is finally commercially available. Here’s why it already has a loyal following.
20 votes -
Inside Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous rollout
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Designing a free music notation font for MuseScore
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Inside eBay’s cockroach cult: The ghastly story of a stalking scandal
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DakhaBrakha: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (2021)
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Apple's Pro MacBook revival plan is stupid smart: Bring back old features
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NPR's Planet Money performs The Great Gatsby
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The bit short: Inside Crypto’s doomsday machine
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A Word on Statistics
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Steam - 2020 Year in Review
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Margo St. James, advocate for sex workers, dies at 83
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How Tarantino shoots a film at three budget levels
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Why you should stop reading news
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Xbox’s “instant on” feature could consume four billion kWh of energy by 2025
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Martin Ødegaard, Real Madrid's summer signing who never plays – whether he is being punished or just doesn't count for Zidane isn't known
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PeerTube v3 : it’s a live, a liiiiive !
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Daily thread - United States 2021 transition of power - January 16
This thread is posted daily - 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,...
This thread is posted daily - 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.
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When capitalists go on strike
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Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks
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Franzoli Electronics - WATT's Up? (Tesla coil cover of 4 Non Blondes)
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How to Eurovision – ‘It seems that Norway and the violin are a perfect combination’
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The unsettling truth of the story behind "Mostly Harmless", the hiker whose mysterious death fascinated the internet
16 votes