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Helldivers 2's crucial 01.001.100 update completely reworks weapons, adds new Galactic War feature, and changes much more in bid to make the game easier ~games Article 3465 words 17 votes
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An Israeli and a Palestinian discuss 7 October, Gaza – and the future ~society politics Article 8079 words 8 votes
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Retrospective on the introduction of the Vanguard anti-cheat software to League of Legends ~comp Article 4597 words, published Aug 22 2024 16 votes
The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong ~science anthropology Article 3158 words, published Nov 1 2023 58 votes
The last of the Zoroastrians. A funeral, a family, and a journey into a disappearing religion. (2020) ~humanities religion history Article 6046 words, published Aug 6 2020 17 votes
Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and vastly cheaper than mined diamonds. Beating nature took decades of hard graft and millions of pounds of pressure. ~science physics Article 7318 words 63 votes
"Sound of Freedom" inspiration accused in lawsuits and interviews of sexual predation ~life Article 3834 words 15 votes
Post-Positivism is not yet normalized in international relations ~society politics Article 3913 words 6 votes
Unexceptional exceptionalism: The use of force by great powers and international instability ~society politics Article 5590 words 4 votes
Challenge or opportunity? EU-China economic cooperation and the Belt and Road initiative. ~society politics Article 4949 words 4 votes
Laboratories at home and abroad: Russian information operations pre-deployment ~society politics Article 10 177 words 9 votes
The asteroid-in-spring hypothesis - Two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth ~science Article 11 226 words, published Aug 27 2024 8 votes
Django for Startup Founders: A better software architecture for SaaS startups and consumer apps ~tech Link 4 votes
Oracle's $115 million privacy settlement: What consumers should know ~tech privacy Article 4112 words 22 votes
Review: South Africa's Brave New World, by R.W. Johnson ~humanities.history Article 4773 words 6 votes
How Italy’s largest fossil fuel company uses sustainability-linked bonds as a loophole to keep financing hydrocarbons ~finance business Article 3562 words 9 votes
Inside Boeing’s factory lapses that led to the Alaska Air blowout ~transport Article 3709 words, published Aug 25 2024 16 votes
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A prominent accessibility advocate worked with studios and inspired change, but she never actually existed ~games Article 3843 words 20 votes
The US government spends millions to open grocery stores in food deserts. The real test is their survival. ~food Article 4079 words 35 votes
The Circassian genocide, Russian Empire's systematic mass murder, ethnic cleansing and expulsion of 95–97% of the Circassians, resulting in 1 to 1.5 million deaths during the Russo-Circassian War ~humanities.history Article 9547 words, published Apr 19 2023 26 votes
The LLMentalist effect: how chat-based large language models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con ~tech Article 4404 words, published Jul 4 2023 29 votes
She faked her chimp's death; then things went apeshit ~life.pets Article 5386 words, published Jul 30 2022 14 votes
More on American incuriosity, New York regional rail edition, Part 1: European history ~transport Article 3654 words, published Aug 8 2024 10 votes
A drunken evening, a rented yacht: the real story of the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage ~news ukraine crime russia Article 23 votes