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3 votes
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How artist imposters and fake songs sneak onto streaming services
4 votes -
The first eight Olympic athletes in sport climbing
4 votes -
You can’t deny people their rights and be nice about it
17 votes -
O Maidens in Your Savage Season and “Not Like Other Girls” Syndrome
5 votes -
The inclusive languages used by the English NHS
10 votes -
Caesar as King? (45 to 44 B.C.E.)
10 votes -
Interview with Valve about their upcoming Steam China project, curation and exclusivity
7 votes -
Why is Joe Rogan so popular? He understands men in America better than most people do. The rest of the country should start paying attention.
30 votes -
Dissecting A Dweet: Parallax Mountains (Analyzing a 140 byte JavaScript demo)
3 votes -
Neil Young’s lonely quest to save music: He says low-quality streaming is hurting our songs and our brains. Is he right?
8 votes -
WebAssembly Interface Types
6 votes -
Turbo, An Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
7 votes -
Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase - August 19, 2019
5 votes -
The new Nintendo Switch review: The updated Tegra X1 tested in depth
10 votes -
Forty rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there
8 votes -
The Big Business of Scavenging in Postindustrial America
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What do you think the first sentence of this poem means? | Fiddler Jones by Edgar Lee Masters
THE EARTH keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life. What do you see, a harvest of clover? Or...
THE EARTH keeps some vibration going
There in your heart, and that is you.
And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
What do you see, a harvest of clover?
Or a meadow to walk through to the river?
The wind’s in the corn; you rub your hands
For beeves hereafter ready for market;
Or else you hear the rustle of skirts
Like the girls when dancing at Little Grove.
To Cooney Potter a pillar of dust
Or whirling leaves meant ruinous drouth;
They looked to me like Red-Head Sammy
Stepping it off, to “Toor-a-Loor.”
How could I till my forty acres
Not to speak of getting more,
With a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolos
Stirred in my brain by crows and robins
And the creak of a wind-mill—only these?
And I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle—
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.I've always loved this poem. To me, it's about a man, loved by many, that recognizes his responsibilities, but can't help but forgo them to go and have fun with friends and loved ones (in short, anyways). The first line, however, has always intrigued me, and I can never land on a meaning for it. I think it's basically saying that in your heart is your true character (your soul), and that will never change. Or maybe it's saying that everyone has that "vibration" in their heart that yearns for enjoyment. What do you think?
4 votes -
Bond 25 title revealed: No Time to Die
@007: Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, 007 in... NO TIME TO DIE. Out in the UK on 3 April 2020 and 8 April 2020 in the US. #Bond25 #NoTimeToDie https://t.co/qxYEnMhk2s
7 votes -
How the Daguerreotype started a Victorian black market for pornography in London
7 votes -
Flaws in cellphone evidence prompt review of 10,000 verdicts in Denmark
8 votes -
Bolsonaro was ridiculed on social media after criticising Norway for whaling techniques which the country does not use
13 votes -
UK will delegate its voting rights in meetings it does not attend to Finland, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU
7 votes -
Pensioner has been savaged by a crocodile that once belonged to Cuban leader Fidel Castro at a Swedish aquarium
5 votes -
Indonesia deploys troops to West Papua region as protests spread
4 votes -
I don't understand internet comments sometimes (reading comments on Aaron Swartz)
So I'm just browsing the internet when I should be asleep, and naturally I'm on Reddit. I've read a couple of topics about Aaron Swartz. Comments that get heavily upvoted are things like "the...
So I'm just browsing the internet when I should be asleep, and naturally I'm on Reddit. I've read a couple of topics about Aaron Swartz. Comments that get heavily upvoted are things like "the prosecution didn't kill him. he did." ... why does nobody realize this is an incredibly callous thing to say? What the fuck is wrong with people? Why is this acceptable? You'd think more people would take his side or at least be sympathetic.
5 votes -
George Pell loses appeal against child sex abuse convictions, may lose Order of Australia honour
8 votes -
Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, turning life into an endless competition and making everyone—even the rich—miserable
11 votes -
Nordics seek common stance on climate after talks in Iceland
6 votes -
Disney-Sony standoff ends Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige’s involvement in ‘Spider-Man’
9 votes -
Mount & Blade II | Early Access March 2020
10 votes -
Kerbal Space Program 2 | Cinematic announce trailer
23 votes -
VietDoom pre-alpha footage
5 votes -
Movie Monday Free Talk
Thanks to @dubteedub for doing this up until now, let's bring em back :) Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel...
Thanks to @dubteedub for doing this up until now, let's bring em back :)
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any movies that you'd like to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here!
Spoilers are okay, just give fair warning so people who care about them can participate too.
10 votes -
WeWork files for IPO
12 votes -
Reddit is launching "RPAN" live streaming as a time-limited experiment for this week, but it will become a permanent feature soon
20 votes -
Tame Impala - Borderline (2020)
8 votes -
Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
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Does anybody here use a wake up light?
I'm working on some sleep hygiene habits at the moment and would like to know if anyone has any feedback, good or bad, for using a wake up lamp/sunrise alarm clock. I have to get up for work...
I'm working on some sleep hygiene habits at the moment and would like to know if anyone has any feedback, good or bad, for using a wake up lamp/sunrise alarm clock. I have to get up for work before it's light outside so this wouldn't be replicable by just leaving my blinds open.
Part of me likes the idea of a softer, gentler wakeup from light rather than noise, but there's another part of me that's worried I'll hate it just as much as I hate my alarm clock. My bullshit detector is also ringing pretty loudly when I see that the flagship brand name model is selling for $200 USD. Two hundred dollars for... a... light... that... slowly... turns... on. What?!?!
Nevertheless, maybe there's something I'm missing here (like the other $180 worth of technology presumably hidden in there). As such, I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has one. I'd love to hear your experiences and, if you're willing to share, which model you have.
14 votes -
Where Travis Scott - Sicko Mode's weirdest moments came from: Tracing the roots of Jamaican dub music | Vox Earworm
4 votes -
Mythbuster Jr is pretty entertaining
Mythbusters is back, but in a tweaked format. Adam Savage fronts with a team of six young people. Jamie, Kari, Tory, and Grant are absent, only appearing in video flashbacks to the previous show....
Mythbusters is back, but in a tweaked format.
Adam Savage fronts with a team of six young people. Jamie, Kari, Tory, and Grant are absent, only appearing in video flashbacks to the previous show.
Mythbusters with kids could have been horrific, but they've managed to make this entertaining and informative. They've increased the amount of STEM stuff. We see people doing a bit of math while planning something out. The kids are smart, and the show allows them to be smart while also being children. Adam is a great fit, being a big kid himself but also filling the role of a pseudo parent and giving friendly advice (often around safety, such as the tag strap used to manoeuvre huge steel plates).
The old show had a some problems. They'd have too many pre-break "what's coming next" and post-break "here's what happened before", and they'd chop up the myths being tested into tiny little bits. They still do that, but not nearly as much.
It's a fun, entertaining watch, and it's safe for families to watch together.
13 votes -
NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, resembling a large quadcopter drone, will fly through the orange clouds of Titan searching for signs of life
8 votes -
A pickpocket's tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins
10 votes -
Silicon Valley's crisis of conscience: the private retreat centers where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions
5 votes -
Cracking the Code of Cicada 3301 [Episodes 1-4 Playlist]
4 votes -
Taiwan can win a war with China
15 votes -
Information operations directed at Hong Kong
20 votes -
Finland's vital role in the production of graphene
4 votes -
What are you coding today?
What are you coding? Or are you reading a CS paper? and of course, have you read SICP today? ___-------___ _-~~ ~~-_ _-~ /~-_ /^\__/^\ /~ \ / \ /| O|| O| / \_______________/ \ | |___||__| / / \ \...
What are you coding? Or are you reading a CS paper?
and of course, have you read SICP today? ___-------___ _-~~ ~~-_ _-~ /~-_ /^\__/^\ /~ \ / \ /| O|| O| / \_______________/ \ | |___||__| / / \ \ | \ / / \ \ | (_______) /______/ \_________ \ | / / \ / \ \ \^\\ \ / \ / \ || \______________/ _-_ //\__// \ ||------_-~~-_ ------------- \ --/~ ~\ || __/ ~-----||====/~ |==================| |/~~~~~ (_(__/ ./ / \_\ \. (_(___/ \_____)_)
29 votes -
You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality
6 votes