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12 votes
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Inside Killer Queen, the addictive arcade sensation that’s spawned its own subculture
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Bulgaria court recognises same-sex marriage in landmark ruling
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In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case
9 votes -
Dicey Dungeons, the next game from Terry Cavanagh (Super Hexagon, VVVVVV) will release on August 13
8 votes -
Narcissism and the new politics of identity
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What games have you been playing lately?
Tell us what you're playing and what you think. I want to know what everybody is in the middle of right now!
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Suggestion: The older the topic is, the less it gets bumped in the global view
If someone posts on a one month old thread, it shouldn't make it to front page. If someone post on a new 1 day old thread, if should, but not at top, but... somewhere else. A method of weighting...
If someone posts on a one month old thread, it shouldn't make it to front page.
If someone post on a new 1 day old thread, if should, but not at top, but... somewhere else. A method of weighting oldness vs liveness should play there.
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Photographers, Instagrammers: Stop being so damn selfish and disrespectful
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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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Texas has generated more electricity from wind than coal so far this year
11 votes -
David Sirlin's new fighting game Fantasy Strike released today - this is his summary of its notable features and innovations
9 votes -
Motion smoothing is ruining cinema
25 votes -
Dish agrees to $5 billion US deal for wireless assets
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Why a "public option" isn't enough
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Apple buys Intel’s smartphone modem business
10 votes -
Rapper A$AP Rocky charged with assault over fight in Sweden
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The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction
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Tildistas in the US, who do you support in the 2020 Democratic Primary?
supplementary condorcet voting poll, if you'd like to answer in more nuance and provide some data to compare against when i ask this question later on down the road. poll has been closed as the...
~supplementary condorcet voting poll, if you'd like to answer in more nuance and provide some data to compare against when i ask this question later on down the road.~ poll has been closed as the week i said it'd be open has elapsed. thanks folks, and of course feel free to continue replying to this thread,
(foreigners are also welcome to chime in on who they'd vote for if they were eligible)
it's still 200 days to the iowa caucuses, but since this election cycle began literally six months ago already and we already have one debate under the belt, we're probably far enough along in the primary at this point that at least some of the billion candidates trying to run for the coveted position of democratic nominee for president in 2020 are making an impact on you, and nobody has actually asked this on here recently, weirdly enough.
i'll probably ask this question again in... i dunno, three months (so mid-october)? and see what changes between threads (if anything does).
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Why Sriracha Sauce Became So Popular
7 votes -
What's the difference between... cage-free, pasture-raised, free-range, organic, and other labels on eggs?
8 votes -
Rainbows, frogs, dogs, and 'The Muppet Movie' soundtrack at forty
6 votes -
The Mutable Web
5 votes -
An asteroid just buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time
News article in The Conversation: An asteroid just buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time A bit of science: Asteroid 2019 OK to flyby Earth at 0.19 LD on July 25 - the largest of the...
News article in The Conversation: An asteroid just buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time
A bit of science: Asteroid 2019 OK to flyby Earth at 0.19 LD on July 25 - the largest of the year
Video showing the asteroid's orbit: Asteroid (2019 OK) Just Missed Earth and it was really close at 54,000 mph
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
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What's your "must have" software for a MacBook Pro, especially for programming?
Just got my first MacBook Pro, and I've been setting things up. Wondering what people's "must have" software on MacOS is and what programming tools you might recommend. I've heard that I should...
Just got my first MacBook Pro, and I've been setting things up. Wondering what people's "must have" software on MacOS is and what programming tools you might recommend. I've heard that I should definitely install
homebrew
so that I can have a real package manager like I've got on Linux.19 votes -
Finland works towards goal of carbon neutrality by 2035 – reforestation is having a great impact in the Nordic countries
4 votes -
Pile - Firewood (Audiotree Far Out) (2019)
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Greta Thunberg writes climate essay for the The 1975's new album
4 votes -
How a 'perfect storm' cut off water to this Colorado town
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Mario Draghi signals 'worse and worse' outlook warrants ECB stimulus
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Jeffrey Epstein on suicide watch after accused sex trafficker is found injured in New York jail
17 votes -
The Bronze Age of Scandinavia was made possible by trade with Great Britain
5 votes -
Inside a nuclear reactor (the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
8 votes -
Glory to Papers Please: A Critical Analysis
6 votes -
Alchemist, a restaurant serving a fifty-course menu, has opened in Copenhagen
5 votes -
Wolfenstein: Youngblood | Launch trailer
5 votes -
Ween - I Can't Put My Finger On It (1994)
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US ‘fake news’ hits NZ gun buyback efforts
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Plant parenthood
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Samsung says it has fixed the Galaxy Fold and will release it in September
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Why Boris Johnson is even more dangerous than Trump
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‘Do not mistake our aloha for weakness’: Fourth day of Native Hawaiians protecting of sacred land and yet action is not slowing down
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In your opinion, what sort of effects has the rise of social media had upon society?
It's no secret that social media is used by a large amount of people. The Pew Research Center has a social media fact sheet if you'd like to see the numbers. They claim that 72% of the American...
It's no secret that social media is used by a large amount of people. The Pew Research Center has a social media fact sheet if you'd like to see the numbers.
- They claim that 72% of the American population uses some form of social media.
- In 2018 twitter reported 326 million active monthly users.
- Facebook posted record number profits last year.
- Reddit had 330 million users in 2018
- One of the most amazing parts of social media's rise is how quickly that it happened. As stated in the Pew Research article:
when Pew Research Center began tracking social media adoption in 2005, just 5% of American adults used at least one of these platforms. By 2011 that share had risen to half of all Americans
With no signs of slowing down, social media is certainly going to be part of our lives for the foreseeable future. What sort of impact do you think it has had upon our society? Has it connected the people of the world, or disconnected them? Do the positive aspects outweigh the negative? If you believe social media's impact has been negative, do you think it can be fixed? How do you see social media evolving?
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Lawyer: Shooter wasn't trying to kill a mob boss. He was under 'QAnon' delusion
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Grand Theft Auto 5 Online - The Diamond Casino & Resort is now open
6 votes -
Home brew! Who's brewing up what?
The home brew community is one of those groups I just love. Everyone's enthusiastic, helpful, and excited. So... what are you working on? Got something in the fermentor? Something planned for the...
The home brew community is one of those groups I just love. Everyone's enthusiastic, helpful, and excited. So... what are you working on? Got something in the fermentor? Something planned for the weekend?
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Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says
15 votes -
Human friends of Canada geese sue federal government for helping Denver turn the birds into food
5 votes -
How Michael Palin introduced North Korea to Monty Python
6 votes