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7 votes
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Former leader of a religious right organization said he recruited and coached wealthy volunteers to wine, dine, and entertain conservative Supreme Court justices while pushing conservative positions
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of July 4
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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‘Captain America 4’ with Anthony Mackie lands ‘Cloverfield Paradox’ director Julius Onah
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Single-use plastic waste is getting phased out in California under a sweeping new law
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Amsterdam is changing
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Is the US going to break up?
Hi tildos. I am curious on your thoughts on the stability of the US in the short-medium term. What I'm worried about is the combo of a majority of Republicans having beliefs divorced from reality...
Hi tildos. I am curious on your thoughts on the stability of the US in the short-medium term. What I'm worried about is the combo of a majority of Republicans having beliefs divorced from reality due to a sophisticated propaganda network, increasing "othering"/hatred of non-repubs, fascism becoming more popular among young people and the brazen mask-off takeover of the govt.
From my understanding these sorts of things (civil war, country breaking up) tend to happen very slowly, then all at once. I am very worried we are approaching the "all at once" stage. Is this reasonable? Is a civil war likely? Balkanization of the US? Something else?
What could be done to prepare? I have European-immigrant parents, so would getting citizenship in their country be prudent? Learning other languages? (I know english, mediocre grasp of birth-language, poor/middling spanish). Buying a rifle?
I am starting to regret choosing to attend a university in Texas haha with these prospects.
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Brittney Griner pleads guilty to Russian drugs charge
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What did you do this week (and 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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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Georgia Guidestones destroyed by explosive device
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Shinzo Abe, Japan's former prime minister, assassinated at a campaign stop
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Leadership Sync
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Meta Quest headsets will finally stop requiring a Facebook account
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Why are quintic equations not solvable? - the Galois theory approach
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James Caan, Oscar-nominated actor of 'The Godfather,' 'Misery' and 'Elf,' dies at 82
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The alchemy of deposits
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Allen Carr’s ‘Easy Way’ method helped millions quit smoking, but medicine never took it seriously — until now
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Should I quit smoking right now, or wait?
I'm an on-again off-again smoker, currently (the past 4-5 months) on-again. Been meaning to requit, but it's been much harder for me this time. Here's the crux. Two of my roommates just tested...
I'm an on-again off-again smoker, currently (the past 4-5 months) on-again. Been meaning to requit, but it's been much harder for me this time.
Here's the crux. Two of my roommates just tested positive (for Covid). Not guaranteed, but it's a good bet that, within another 2-3 days, all 5 of us will be symptomatic.
Am I better off quitting right now, or will that just put added stress on my lungs during the coming illness, and I should wait until after I recover (always assuming I survive it, of course)?
ETA: Y'all are shooting holes in my, apparently, flimsy justifications to keep smoking. Just switched to vaping now.
Thanks everyone.
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The code the FBI used to wiretap the world
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LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment discovers three new exotic particles
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Nineteenth-century critiques of technology show how longstanding many current concerns are
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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How traceable are you? - Experiment results & analysis
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Feel good movies
Covid finally caught up with me and I'm going to be living like a hermit for the next 2 weeks. It's been a stressful month here so I'm looking to melt my brain (or at least the bits covid hasn't...
Covid finally caught up with me and I'm going to be living like a hermit for the next 2 weeks. It's been a stressful month here so I'm looking to melt my brain (or at least the bits covid hasn't already melted). I'd love to check out your easy watching, good time having, feel good suggestions!
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What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
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Ian Nepomniachtchi wins Candidates Tournament with round to spare
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Show your Emacs shortcuts in colour when giving presentations
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Can ‘the people’ solve climate change? France decided to find out.
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Absurd Trolley Problems
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James Cameron tells off ‘Avatar’ haters, defends three-hour ‘Avatar 2’ runtime: ‘Get up and go pee’
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Thoughts on learning languages
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What's the point of grammatical gender?
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - June 30
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - 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.
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Minnesota lawmakers voted to legalize THC edibles. Some did it accidentally.
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Tax excess margins
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Scandinavian airline SAS announced that it has gone bankrupt a day after 1,000 pilots walked out on strike
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The Woman King | Official trailer
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A history of tacos
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How do you steer a drill below the earth?
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Nationalism is underrated by intellectuals
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Amsterdam | Official trailer
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€2 billion underground ‘water battery’ turns on in Switzerland
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🤔 Emojivism 😀
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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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Summer Games Done Quick 2022, a charity speedrunning marathon, has begun
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Is it possible to expand my Windows EFI partition?
I currently dual-boot Arch and Windows and just use the Windows EFI partition in Arch as well, however I only have about 13 MB of space left on it. I’d like to try installing Gentoo on an extra...
I currently dual-boot Arch and Windows and just use the Windows EFI partition in Arch as well, however I only have about 13 MB of space left on it.
I’d like to try installing Gentoo on an extra SSD I have with nothing on it, but don’t really want to have a second EFI partition if I can avoid it.
So my question is, can I shrink the Windows main partition towards the right and expand the the Windows EFI partition into the newly freed space?
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Major Xonotic update 0.8.5 releases
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Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever - The city wants to get right what Sidewalk Labs got so wrong
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NASA's CAPSTONE satellite has gone dark
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