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25 votes
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The history of Halloween
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of October 31
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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Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
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Denmark's election on Tuesday is expected to change its political landscape, with new parties hoping to enter parliament and others seeing their support dwindle
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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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Soft reminder to read linked article when commenting
I don't think this has been much of an issue so far with this community, but I expect that with time people will be more and more likely to not read the linked article before commenting. We've...
I don't think this has been much of an issue so far with this community, but I expect that with time people will be more and more likely to not read the linked article before commenting. We've become so primed in general to consume information on the Internet in a way that makes us feel overconfident in our understanding based on just a few details, that I think it would be useful to have a soft reminder to actually read and engage with the things you're responding to instead of offering a "hot take".
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Should we build our own Wayback Machines?
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Chinese poetry of the detention barracks at Angel Island
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Team of Swedish engineers has finally developed the first crash test dummy designed on the body of the average woman
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What early American writers knew about our scariest stories
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Legacy Database Migration: What To Know Before You Start
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How 2022 became a huge year for horror movies
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AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
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NASA and ESA agree on next steps to return Mars samples to Earth
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Lady of the Gobi
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Adidas ends partnership with Ye [Kanye West] over antisemitic remarks
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Florida Board of Medicine votes to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers
@Erin Reed: A dark day for trans youth.Florida Board of Medicine has just voted to ban gender affirming care for all trans teenagers.They cut the hearing early and told activists to "email them."I cry for Florida's trans youth. This was a sham hearing with fake experts. pic.twitter.com/JORaHN4uFA
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What's so wrong about sexbots?
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It appears both the West and Beijing itself have grossly overestimated Chinese expansion in Greenland
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Have MMO's lost the RPG?
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At least 146 dead after stampede during Halloween festivities in Itaewon, South Korea
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RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language
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‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ runtime sails past three hours
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Knock at the Cabin | Official trailer
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Science has a nasty Photoshopping problem
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Welcome to hell, Elon - Nilay Patel on Elon's Twitter acquisition
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The Witcher Remake is in development
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Will Elon Musk ruin Twitter? That’s the wrong question.
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Chinese tech giants are creating a new class of elite workers in Latin America
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Denmark is a right-wing paradise – even centrists are terrified of immigration
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 24
This thread is posted weekly - 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...
This thread is posted weekly - 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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'Andor' is the best thing Star Wars has done and you should be watching It
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Celebrities say they’re quitting Twitter as Elon Musk takes over: “I’m out of here”
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Brightest-ever space explosion reveals possible hints of dark matter
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Hermanos Gutiérrez - El Bueno Y El Malo (2022)
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Alice Boman feat. Perfume Genius – Feels Like A Dream (2022)
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The most lawless county in Texas
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Candadian House of Commons gives unanimous consent to recognize residential schools as genocide
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Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson
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Designing APIs for humans: Object IDs
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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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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for seventy-five years
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What is your earliest memory of the internet?
When did you first get on the internet? What do you remember of that time?
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Norway-style windfall tax on energy companies could raise £33.3bn extra by 2027, plugging a hole in UK government finances, analysis has found
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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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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - October 20
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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There's a new Di Gi Charat series airing now for the series' 24th anniversary: "Reiwa no Di Gi Charat"
Named for Reiwa, Japan's current calendar era which began in 2019. This came completely out of left field for me. I was going down the Internet nostalgia rabbit hole, likely inspired by the ~talk...
Named for Reiwa, Japan's current calendar era which began in 2019.
This came completely out of left field for me. I was going down the Internet nostalgia rabbit hole, likely inspired by the ~talk topic. The path eventually led me to Di Gi Charat, the anime series from 1999.
The original anime still holds up today. The episodes—only 4 minutes each, including the theme song—are highly bingeable. They're on YouTube. So quirky and funny. It's about these two small weird alien catgirls landing in Akihabara, Tokyo's anime central, and working part-time at an anime store called Gamers. Incidentally, Gamers is a real store, and these characters are Gamers' mascots.
Reiwa no Di Gi Charat has fansubs which can be found on unofficial sources. 4-minute episodes. Theme song performed by Masami Okui like the original. The art is really polished. It's amazing they brought back the original voice cast for this. I'm floored.
(Listening to Di Gi Charat soundtracks on Spotify as I write this!)
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The Pale Blue Eye | Official teaser
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The 2022 Nuclear Posture Review: Arms control subdued by military rivalry
10 votes