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4,000 US Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized during the pandemic
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - September 1
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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Poor teeth - If you have a mouthful of teeth shaped by a childhood in poverty, don’t go knocking on the door of American privilege
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Stomping the margarine: Life when we had to color our food
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Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey | Trailer 1
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William Shatner’s Esperanto horror movie is a cult classic
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‘Chip ‘n’ Dale: Rescue Rangers’ wins Emmy for outstanding television movie
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Made a couple of themes for my static site generator (mkws)
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Gerda: A Flame in Winter | Launch trailer
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Liz Truss to be next UK Prime Minister
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Two Swedish filmmakers have been found guilty of illegally disturbing the MS Estonia ferry, which sank in 1994 killing 852 people
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One week of Stable Diffusion
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Quora+ Program: A case study in ruining a perfectly functional community forum and online information resource
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Meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production – which further warms the planet
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ premiere draws twenty-five million global viewers in first day, Amazon says
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First impressions using Astro
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Vote on world’s most progressive constitution begins in Chile
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Is it possible to change my username on Tildes?
Basically the title. I imagine the answer is no, based on what little I know of databases and whatnot, but was still curious to find out.
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‘Euphoria, ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘The White Lotus’ score on night two of 2022 Creative Arts Emmys
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Homeworld 3 | Official extended gameplay trailer
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The problem with mini-maps
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They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (1990)
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Nerdforge & Linus Tech Tips collaborate to build the ultimate cyberpunk PC
Part 1: Nerdforge - I Built the Ultimate Cyberpunk PC (18:28) Part 2: LTT - This PC took 600 HOURS to Build! (25:04) And if you just want to skip to the results, it's at 19m32s in the LTT video.
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Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
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Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies aged 91
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Matt Berry - What's in my (record store) bag?
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Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson tackles crime and energy fears on the campaign trail a week before the national election
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There’s a trick to it
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‘The Whale’ star Brendan Fraser on playing a man who weighs 600 pounds: ‘I needed to learn to move in a new way’
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2022 Creative Arts Emmys winners list, night one: ‘Adele: One Night Only,’ Super Bowl Halftime, ‘The Beatles: Get Back’ dominate
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People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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FTL: Kestrel Adventures
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The Proverbial Pen #3
Today is day three of my "war against writer's block"! As I keep fighting with my proverbial pen, I hope that some day I'll be able to get out of my block and be able to write some real stuff like...
Today is day three of my "war against writer's block"!
As I keep fighting with my proverbial pen, I hope that some day I'll be able to get out of my block and be able to write some real stuff like research paper or novel or story book.What I realized today is that Word Power is a very important skill. A writer is essentially a Wordsmith or someone who carves and arranges the words and phrases into sentences, just as a sculptor or carpenter would do with wood or other raw materials. To be a better writer, you must learn to fall in love with words which is probably easier said than done - especially for us non-native speakers!
Having a regular habit or routine helps with this. Each time you come across a difficult word, you open the dictionary software or app and learn its meaning. It hardly takes a few minutes but it's a very useful skill as each new word you know of acts like a raw material or building block for your writing. Better still, develop linguistics as a hobby as mastery of grammar is equally important and so is learning about how languages, cultures and people basically work and interact at the core.
Apart from that, noting down right ideas as they come is also very important. For example, the idea about the Wordsmith thing occurred to me yesterday when I was having a cup of tea. I noted it on time (before it could vanish into the depths of that dark matter called subconscious mind and become irretrievable again!), and made a note of that on my computer so that I can write it in today's proverbial pen.
Even after having these basic tools and ingredients, you may not be able to write anything at all if you lack that focused energy or passion to write about a particular topic - be it a research paper, novel, story book or something else. You need to have that energy to write which I feel I'm lacking right now. I might be able to feel that energy some day as I continue with my battles, at least I hope so! Thanks for reading this and staying with me in these challenging times.
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Will we run out of lithium?
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The true history of the Knights Templar with Dan Jones
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What makes Disney villains so gay?
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Film productions from around the world are eager to capture Iceland's dramatic landscapes – and to take advantage of an attractive incentive scheme
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Darren Hayes looks back: ‘What you can’t see is how unhappy I was’
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Sample Breakdown: Daft Punk - Discovery
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What do you collect?
Collections can be made of anything. Some items have no purpose other than being part of the collection itself, something to look at and feel warm inside, while others are more functional or...
Collections can be made of anything. Some items have no purpose other than being part of the collection itself, something to look at and feel warm inside, while others are more functional or enjoyable by themselves.
Some collectors are moved by a desire for completion, some by nostalgia, or historical preservation. There are also those who accumulate objects which they believe will grow in value.
People collect books, movies, posters, magazines, rocks, cars, tools, swords, sand, tshirts, game cartridges, music CDs, videogame consoles, dolls, action figures, computers, letters, stamps, coins, digital files of all kinds, and knives. Anything that you cherish having in great numbers can be a collection.
So what do you collect, and why?
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Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns discuss public transit in North America
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Norway is extending the life of its last Arctic coal mine – will now operate until 2025 amid Europe's energy crisis
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What's an underrated, cancelled, or largely forgotten show that you really love?
As always, anything goes. Curious to see what you guys and girls come up with!
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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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Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space S01E01 - "Little Fingers"
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US FAA approves unleaded aviation gas covering piston fleet
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Photography feedback
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