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8 votes
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Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model with an unprecedented degree of photorealism and a deep level of language understanding
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - May 25-26
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - 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.
15 votes -
Noise Job – Sunken (2022)
9 votes -
Why Denmark is voting on its defence relationship with the EU – and what it says about democracy in Europe
5 votes -
The four members of ABBA made their first public appearance in fourteen years as they attended the premiere of their ABBA Voyage show in London
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Am I stupid or is the entire StackOverflow network difficult to navigate?
I made an account a few years ago but only started contributing recently. Outside of the barrage of awards, levels, limitations, I really just don't get how to find my way around the site. For...
I made an account a few years ago but only started contributing recently. Outside of the barrage of awards, levels, limitations, I really just don't get how to find my way around the site.
For instance, Google Sheets is listed in both Web Applications and Stack Overflow. Is there a way to get a consolidated view of all of the networks or do I have to check each one individually?
6 votes -
How A24 became the ultimate film cult
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Ray Liotta dies: ‘Goodfellas’ star and ‘Field Of Dreams’ actor was 67
9 votes -
How Disney's Tower of Terror works
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Replica of Hong Kong's 'Pillar of Shame' unveiled in Norway – artist behind the work, Jens Galschiøt, vowed that the statue's symbolism would live on
8 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
7 votes -
Sumo's top earners of 2022 so far
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Gifted helmer Hlynur Pálmason interrogates the role of religion in Iceland's past – but it's really colonialism that's at question in his new film 'Godland'
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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?
5 votes -
Denmark forces refugees to return to Syria – under a more hostile immigration system, young volunteers fight to help fellow refugees stay
5 votes -
Autistic people care too much, research says
25 votes -
Introducing: AMD Privacy View
12 votes -
ISIS plotting to assassinate George W. Bush in Dallas
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Ihsahn - Introspection (2012)
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Art, fashion, and the French Revolution
5 votes -
DARPA moving forward with nuclear thermal engine design
11 votes -
I made tourists think they landed at the wrong airport
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'They were shooting directly at the journalists': New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces
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The reinvention of a ‘real man’: In cowboy country, a father and husband troubled by suicide reimagines American masculinity, one conversation at a time
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Astra reveals details of next, larger rocket
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Five facts you didn’t know about sumo
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Beast | Official trailer
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Melvin Capital to shut after heavy losses on meme stocks, market slump
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Apple's Self Repair Program toolkit weighs seventy-nine pounds
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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.
6 votes -
This algae battery can power a computer for months
8 votes -
We might need to reevaluate the sexual harassment allegations against David Sabatini
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Can gravity batteries solve our energy storage problems?
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - May 23-24
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted Monday/Wednesday/Friday - 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.
16 votes -
Babylon 5 (1993) retrospective/review - Part 1
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Thor: Love and Thunder | Official trailer
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How the US market crash is forcing Hollywood giants to reassess digital strategies
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Crypto Boy - Salem Ilese et al. (2022)
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Weird Weapons - 'Bike' chain flail
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What did you do this 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 weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
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 weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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I forgot how to have fun
Like the title says, over the past couple of years, I think I slowly forgot how to have fun. I'm looking for any advice anyone might have (whether you've gone through the same process or not) on...
Like the title says, over the past couple of years, I think I slowly forgot how to have fun. I'm looking for any advice anyone might have (whether you've gone through the same process or not) on how to have a bit more fun.
The past 4 years have been transformational and formative for me. At 21 I decided to switch majors and move out from my parents' house to a more urban city. I mentally (depression) and financially struggled for the first 3 years, going broke in my second year of my second chance at undergrad at one point, eating bowls of rice. I identified my shortcomings (lack of achievements and disposable income) and worked on them. In the 3rd year I worked part-time while also taking a TA position with a full engineering course load. Last summer I completed an internship while also working as an independent contractor for a startup and kept the contractor position while being a full-time student up until this year. I signed a full-time offer at a big company this January and have one course left to fully graduate. I'm also correcting exams and tests on a part time basis for a professor. All this to say, I suddenly had a significant boost in income the last couple of months, and even more free time, whereas I was living on ~20k/year previously, with no free time.
This doesn't mean I don't enjoy or appreciate any fun activity I partake in. When I do go out with my friends I'm having a lot of fun and I'm breathing in every moment. I'm not depressed (not anymore), but I find myself having a more neutral mood outside of hangouts. What I'm struggling with is initiative with regards to fun. What can I do to have fun? I live in a cramped-up studio which I plan on moving out of in spring, but for now I don't have space for a TV let's say. I don't have a gaming pc, because up until now I couldn't afford one. I have a ps4 with a couple of old games, though sometimes I struggle to play them because of a lingering feeling of guilt from using it as a medium of procrastination in my teens. People mention lifestyle creep that follows an income boost, but I think my financial situation in the past has some lingering effect on me that's inhibiting even a small healthy dose of that. It's hard for me to justify upgrading some of my stuff, because they still work. Or buying some items I've wanted, because I'm doing fine without them. The isolation in a studio and the now gone uncertainty that was during the pandemic before I signed a full-time offer also played a role here I think.
So, having read through all that, I welcome any ideas or suggestions on how to spice my weekly life a bit more. I want to shake off the fight-or-flight phase that I was in. What are some things that you do that you think I could adopt to have a bit more fun by myself?
25 votes -
Church of Scotland to allow same-sex marriages
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Denmark beat Canada for the first time with a 3-2 victory in the 2022 IIHF World Championship
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Meet the retired oil exec plugging forgotten wells to reduce emissions | World Wide Waste
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Why are there no bridges in East London? | Unfinished London
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Going nuclear to desalinate seawater
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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
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Netflix customers canceling service increasingly includes long-term subscribers
23 votes