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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of February 12
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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This is why we don’t recycle wind turbine blades
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The day I put $50,000 in a shoe box and handed it to a stranger
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What is India's "uniform civil code" and why does it anger Muslims?
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Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within twenty days
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Fake grass, real injuries? Dissecting the NFL’s artificial turf debate.
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Too Many Zooz x Moon Hooch - Nowhere Else to Go (2024)
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The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US and cost over $1 billion
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Defeat Clintin the mini-boss in new ‘Epstein’ island game on Steam
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Should pay be more transparent? Policies that force companies to reveal the pay of peers have unintended consequences.
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Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
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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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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
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The best game animation of 2023
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Seventeen behind-the-scenes stories from 'Galaxy Quest'
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Fanatics has finally pissed off the wrong people
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OpenAI releases Sora: Creating video from text
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A peer reviewed journal with nonsense AI images was just published
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Humble Choice - February 2024
February 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games. Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Life Is Strange: True Colors 81...
February 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Life Is Strange: True Colors 81 89/90 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Scorn 68 77/82 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed 68 78/73 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Beacon Pines 81 98/97 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition N/A 74/81 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Children of Silentown 70 87/81 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Oaken 77 81 Win, Mac, Linux ❓ Unknown ✅ Native Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder N/A 65 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
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The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion
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Jarmo Kekäläinen relieved of his duties as general manager
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Sweden has consistently reported some of the lowest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world – unfortunately these achievements don't extend to foreign-born mothers
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Demonstrators claim lack of affordable housing in Gaeltacht region threatens the survival of the Irish language
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Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of February 11
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle are most worth my attention?”
Rules:
- No grey market sales
- No affiliate links
If posting a sale, it is strongly encouraged that you share why you think the available game/games are worthwhile.
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Ocarina of Time speedrunning glitch discovered - Ganonfloor
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nginx forked by co-founder - new fork will be freenginx
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Alexei Navalny: Vladimir Putin critic dies after 'losing consciousness' at maximum security prison
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Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers, genetic study reveals
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What is the horrible phrase my wife learned from her grandpa?
Hello! My wife's grandfather would say the phrase "ʃɛkrɛplj jɛɽɛ" from what I can decode from the phonetic alphabet on Wikipedia, or my best English estimation "shikrepple yere" with a flipped r...
Hello! My wife's grandfather would say the phrase "ʃɛkrɛplj jɛɽɛ" from what I can decode from the phonetic alphabet on Wikipedia, or my best English estimation "shikrepple yere" with a flipped r if that makes no sense. He would say this when he lost a hand in poker, when she repeated it as a kid got chewed out and told not to say it, and he died without having ever said what it meant. He was stationed in Germany during the Korean War, so our best guess is something Polish..? But we can't find much that matches.
Tilderinos, can you translate what horrible phrase my wife has been casually repeating to people trying to figure it out and what language it's even in? Apologies if this is a slur or something... And thanks!
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California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
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What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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I'm getting top surgery!
I know I've seen a bunch of people say they want more positive posts here in ~lgbt, and happily I have the opportunity now! I live in Germany and here top surgery needs to be individually approved...
I know I've seen a bunch of people say they want more positive posts here in ~lgbt, and happily I have the opportunity now!
I live in Germany and here top surgery needs to be individually approved by your insurance provider for them to cover it. I got a letter back from them on Monday agreeing to cover it, and as of today the hospital scheduled my surgery for late March! I was expecting a lot more delay between getting the approval from my insurance and when the surgery could be scheduled (especially after the months it took to gather all the paperwork I had to send my insurance!), so I'm super hype.
My work will give me all the time I need off, and I live with my wife who should be able to take over any tasks I can't do during recovery. As much as I complain about how trans healthcare works in Germany atm, I wouldn't have been able to get this surgery back home in the US for cost reasons. So I'm feeling really lucky right now -- my transmasc friend in college had to save up for years to afford their surgery.
I'd love any recommendations anyone has for how to make my recovery as easy and comfortable as possible. I've got transmasc friends who have got top surgery, but most of what I've got from them has been "take more time off work than I did" and "drains suck". The surgery is in only a little over a month, so longer-term stuff like "get to a healthy weight" and "gain pectoral muscle to get a better aesthetic" are probably off the table, but I welcome anyone's practical recommendations! Obviously I'll get instructions from the doctor but I figure there are likely people here with personal experience who might have suggestions that a doctor wouldn't think to mention.
Also, I'm getting double-incision (only real option at my size) and atm I'm erring on the side of not getting nipple grafts. Not a huge fan of my nipples and I want to avoid any potential complications or dissatisfaction with them. I figure if I regret it I can always get nipple tattoos, whereas if I get the grafts and regret it there's not a ton of options. If anybody here has personal experience one way or the other, I'd really love to hear your perspective.
But most importantly, I'm just so excited that things are finally moving forward at a brisk pace! It's like finally getting the opportunity to stop and take a sharp rock out of the inside of my shoe.
EDIT TO ADD: oh god I just realized how am I going to keep my cats from lying on my chest
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | February 12, 2024
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Microsoft Flight Simulator | Dune expansion launch trailer
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As Bitcoin rallies, banks are pushing US regulators to change crypto guidance
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Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro is a new, more efficient AI model
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Hugo voting data from Chengdu WorldCon raises suspicions of vote tampering and incorrect eligibility rulings
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Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India
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FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden's ties to Ukrainian energy company
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Greece legalizes same sex marriage
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American Bar Association calls for US courts to find a different word than master, citing history and negative associations
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ final season sets August release date on Netflix
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UFC 298 is coming Feb 17, Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria
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Ski vacations in the Alps are becoming increasingly elitist
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Climate change threatens Europe’s trains, but resilience is expensive
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Kristen Stewart ‘I want to do the gayest thing you’ve ever seen in your life’
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Parkland mass shooting victims send AI robocalls to NRA-supporting US politicians
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Karen Dió - Sick Ride (2023)
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