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12 votes
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Liverpool is finishing a phenomenal season - thanks in part to an unrivaled reliance on data and analytics
3 votes -
Why is America’s biggest tobacco company trying to increase the legal smoking age to twenty-one?
10 votes -
Deutsche Bank says software to detect money laundering had a bug
7 votes -
The man who is ageing too fast
7 votes -
Car industry urges 'jump-start' for electric vehicle chargers
3 votes -
Budj Bim indigenous eel trap site on verge of world heritage listing
4 votes -
Recreating iOS 7 designs in Microsoft Word
6 votes -
Europe has outlined its own demands for letting Boeing's 737 Max return to the skies, instead of relying on the US
8 votes -
Why shaky data security protocols for apps put LGBTQ people at risk
8 votes -
GOG Galaxy 2.0 - All your games and friends in one place
22 votes -
Google changes policy on abortion advertising: will require advertisers who wish to run ads about abortion to apply for approval first
5 votes -
A union fight at Marquette University
6 votes -
Abolish the priesthood: To save the Church, Catholics must detach themselves from the clerical hierarchy—and take the faith back into their own hands
10 votes -
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens
6 votes -
Somebody thought it was a good idea to put a touchscreen with kids games on my head
Rant: I just got off a very long overnight flight and was kept up all night by kids (and an adult) playing touchscreen games on the back of my headrest. It’s like someone tapping you on the back...
Rant: I just got off a very long overnight flight and was kept up all night by kids (and an adult) playing touchscreen games on the back of my headrest. It’s like someone tapping you on the back of the head constantly.
This is the third time this has happened to me.
Who tf thought this was a good idea??? Does this drive anyone else crazy?
I mean the touchscreen ui makes sense for starting movies, etc... but putting games on it seems totally nuts to me. Am I alone in this opinion?
23 votes -
Far-right Facebook groups 'spreading hate to millions in Europe'
10 votes -
Firefox 67 released - Updates focused on performance and privacy
23 votes -
Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society's behind-the-scenes campaign to make US courts more conservative
7 votes -
SensorID - Using smartphone sensor calibration data to generate a globally unique device fingerprint
3 votes -
Nintendo to shut down Animal Crossing, Fire Emblem mobile games in Belgium over loot box law fears
7 votes -
Binyavanga Wainaina: 'How to write about Africa'
2 votes -
The Voynich Manuscript may have successfully been decoded
18 votes -
Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting
12 votes -
Laying out all the evidence: Shiva Ayyadurai did not invent email
9 votes -
Python built-ins worth learning
13 votes -
MLS Week 12: All Matches Discussion
DC United @ Toronto FC Portland Timbers @ Houston Dynamo Atlanta United @ Vancouver Whitecaps Orlando SC @ Seattle Sounders FC Dallas @ LAFC New England Revs @ Montreal Impact Toronto FC @ Real...
DC United @ Toronto FC
Portland Timbers @ Houston Dynamo
Atlanta United @ Vancouver Whitecaps
Orlando SC @ Seattle Sounders
FC Dallas @ LAFC
New England Revs @ Montreal Impact
Toronto FC @ Real Salt Lake
Chicago Fire @ San Jose Earthquakes
Seattle Sounders @ Philadelphia Union
Columbus Crew @ MNUFC
Vancouver Whitecaps @ Sporting KC
DC Unived @ Houston Dynamo
FC Cincinnati @ Orlando SC
Atlanta United @ NYRB
LAFC @ FC Dallas
Colorado Rapids @ LA Galaxy5 votes -
Hobbling Huawei: Inside the US war on China’s tech giant
4 votes -
500 Rubber Band Challenge!! [Not Clickbait] [Crazy] [Graphic]
Is it self-inflating to label one's own work as graphic? (It is kinda graphic, clickbait title aside.) This doesn't even really capture the right imagery I was trying to go for. Might just have to...
Is it self-inflating to label one's own work as graphic? (It is kinda graphic, clickbait title aside.)
This doesn't even really capture the right imagery I was trying to go for.
Might just have to re-write this idea into a completely different piece, I'm not sure. (mfw literally "felt creative idk might delete later")
The "ball" was supposed to really be a watermelon, because we've all seen that YouTube video where they explode a watermelon with rubber bands, but I didn't leave myself enough space to develop that transition from ball to melon properly. (Brand new sentence?)
Why am I even posting this if I feel its unfinished?
Who knows.
Anyway let's get to the thing here it is vvvvvvvvv
slip.
twist.
smack.
10 rubber bands on a ball
all hold each other taut
the inception of a toy
that will quick be left for naught
but brings a momentary joy - its only cause.
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work.
stoa.
sweat.
hustle on, man, that's your call
you gotta love your boss.
it's the struggle of a boy.
that you never would be caught
while feeling tears or overwhelm - lest you be mocked.
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smack.
stretch.
strain.
100 rubber bands slap
starting slightly straining
its appearances are coy,
the ball slowly rolls to stop.
picked up and bounced against the floor - it doesn't pop.
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work.
stare.
grind.
expectations are my all.
you dream of taking off -
escape makes you overjoyed
daily grind just puts your off.
your brain it strains against the skull - stressing nonstop.
.
pop
waste
spill
500 rubber bands smack
crushing and constraining
such a carnage to enjoy
they start rolling out the mops.
the ball explodes onto the floor - as if a prop
.
rip
slice
tear.
my fists crash into the walls.
my skin, just rip it off
rip out the bone, leave me void
naked muscle growing moss.
wrap rubber bands around my head until it pops.
6 votes -
Under fire, SF cops announce criminal investigation of reporter
12 votes -
Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
7 votes -
Answer Sheet California is overhauling sex education guidance for schools — and religious conservatives don’t like it
10 votes -
EFF launches "TOSsed Out", a new project to highlight ways that Terms of Service and other rules are unevenly and unthinkingly applied to people by online services
12 votes -
The struggle to hire and keep doctors in rural areas means US patients go without care
6 votes -
Where algorithms can't find you
4 votes -
Dauntless has launched on PC (Epic store), PS4 and Xbox One with full cross-play and cross-progression
7 votes -
How to measure how much pee is in your pool
8 votes -
Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro
18 votes -
Muslim lawmakers host Ramadan feast at Capitol
9 votes -
With workers hard to find, immigration crackdown leaves Iowa town in a bind
8 votes -
Men cause 100% of unwanted pregnancies
22 votes -
How greed and corruption blew up South Korea’s nuclear industry
6 votes -
Jeremy was fired for refusing fingerprinting at work. His case led to an 'extraordinary' unfair dismissal ruling.
13 votes -
How the brain shapes pain and links ouch with emotion
3 votes -
Valve explains their thoughts about whether the recent Assassin's Creed: Unity giveaway resulted in the first "off-topic review bomb" with a positive effect
14 votes -
What should I do with all my old tech junk?
I am currently decluttering, and I have boxes upon boxes of accumulated tech stuff (for lack of a better term). USB cables, dongles, flash drives, cameras, MP3 players, phones, installation discs,...
I am currently decluttering, and I have boxes upon boxes of accumulated tech stuff (for lack of a better term). USB cables, dongles, flash drives, cameras, MP3 players, phones, installation discs, etc.
It's a giant mess that I want to be rid of, I just don't know the best way to go about it and thus have some questions:
- What's my best course of action: Is "electronics recycling" the way to go? Should I sort it and donate the useful stuff to a thrift store? Would local mom-and-pop computer shops potentially be interested in some of it?
(Note: I have no interest in extracting money from the hoard and would be happy for the useful stuff in there to go to a "good home" that can take advantage of it.)
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Is there anything that's simply not worth donating/recycling? Should I simply throw some older stuff (e.g. floppies, component cables, anything with a parallel port) out, or does recycling somehow reconstitute the metals/resources in them?
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I have several dead hard drives and flash drives that have personal information on them that I was never able to wipe. Should I just hold onto these indefinitely since someone could use them maliciously, or is the likelihood of that happening close to nil?
18 votes -
The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part II | Chart Party
4 votes -
Britons can’t help but make the European elections all about Brexit
8 votes -
Overwatch's third anniversary: Free to try this week, past seasonal brawls featured every day, and more
5 votes -
Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds
7 votes