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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. Previous topics Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
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Demand for gynecological "premarital exams" in Utah worries sexual health experts
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Can anyone help me with home security systems?
I could use some clarity, as I feel like most of what I'm reading regarding home security is either FUD or marketing. I don't trust most of the comments I read online, as almost everything about...
I could use some clarity, as I feel like most of what I'm reading regarding home security is either FUD or marketing. I don't trust most of the comments I read online, as almost everything about this seems predicated on creating fear in me so that I'll pay up.
Simplisafe and Frontpoint are supposedly easy (and Simplisafe is quite cheap), but reviews online are mixed, and many people seem to think a self-installed wireless system is garbage no matter who it's from or who's doing the monitoring. Is this true, or is this just stratrgic doubt trying to drive me to a different or more expensive solution? I don't know!
Also, ADT sent me an ad that was a straight up lie. The person on the phone had to guess at how they might be able to stack discounts to even get close to the price I was looking at on their flyer, and the best she could offer was ~50% higher than what was shown, with their higher tiers costing well over double the price in the ad. I politely terminated the call.
My home security needs are simple. All I need is basic protection, and, honestly, I'm less concerned about a break-in than I am a fire. That's what I'd want to make sure I have solid monitoring for. My stuff can be replaced, but my home itself and my dog cannot.
Can anyone help me cut through all of the crap out there and just give me accurate information? What's my best bet?
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The value of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, grew to a record ten trillion Norwegian crowns ($1.09 trillion) on Friday
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How did Washington, DC fans experience the World Series in 1924, 1925 & 1933? Check out these photos.
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A newly-discovered species of beetle, Nelloptodes gretae, has been named after young climate activist Greta Thunberg
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Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
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In Finland, an intelligent office could change the way people think about working
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Twitter stock plunges 20% as company blames ad-targeting problems for earnings miss
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The European Union, Iceland and Norway agree to deepen their cooperation in climate action
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Little Big - Rock-Paper-Scissors
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My own private Iceland—tourism has never been “authentic”
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Bethesda announces "Fallout 1st", a $13/month premium membership for Fallout 76 that allows you have to have a private world along with other benefits
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The Pixel 4’s 90Hz display only works at high brightness levels
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 | Teaser
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House overwhelmingly approves contentious new copyright bill
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MIT Media Lab scientist claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, but the computers never worked
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Lonely Mountains: Downhill | Release trailer
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How skeletons of WWI ships came to rest in the Potomac
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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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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You can't rehabilitate George W. Bush
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In pursuit of better baby formula: Replicating human milk is no easy feat—nor is separating the science from the hype
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So how many people work at tildes?
So was just wondering how big the tildes team is?
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Films that changed my life - Jared’s Vlog
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Persona 5 Scramble | Gameplay trailer (English subtitles) - Releasing Feb 20, 2020
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Moontrap: Target Earth, possibly the worst movie ever made
This is what you get when you search VUDU for free science fiction movies. The plot is banal enough. A spacecraft is discovered in Colorado that is 14,000 years old. A linguist and her lover are...
This is what you get when you search VUDU for free science fiction movies. The plot is banal enough. A spacecraft is discovered in Colorado that is 14,000 years old. A linguist and her lover are hired to read an inscription and then summarily paid and told to go home by the mysterious and unlikeable head of the project, Richard Kontral.
This description in no way does justice to how bad the script is. My first theory was that a rich father gave his fourteen year old son a chance to create a movie for his birthday present. But it's really just a low budget sequel to an obscure cult film called Moontrap.
The lead character, Scout, is played by Sarah Butler who evidently rose to wordly fame in I Spit on Your Grave. Every line that Scout says to the villain includes adolescent sexual insults. The villain is I believe a washed up actor from an old sitcom called The Nanny. This guy is really hard to watch, the acting is as bad as the script.
There's a scene of robots fighting that looks like it was choreographed with Rockem Sockem Robots, a toy from my childhood. If you're a collector of bad movies, this is a true gem.
It was tough to watch, but our free streaming was slim pickings that night. I wanted to watch Day of the Triffids a classic bad movie from the '60's , but got outvoted. At least that movie was based on an interesting SF novel by John Wyndham. Maybe tomorrow night.
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SPIEL '19: Day 0 - First glances at a few releases
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The invented Chinese names of the 2019 federal election — ranked
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Designing investigative conversations in Heaven's Vault
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قلب: لغة برمجة [alb: a programming language]
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Inside /r/Relationships, the unbearably human corner of Reddit
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Hackers steal secret crypto keys for NordVPN. Here’s what we know so far.
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Jayson from Vegas flies in for final hike up 'symbol of all Australia'
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Adventure Time revived at HBO Max
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The Outer Worlds | Launch trailer
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Ubisoft delays Watch Dogs Legion, Gods & Monsters, Rainbow Six Quarantine and dramatically drops financial targets
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Ahead of her ambitious Cornucopia tour reaching the UK in November, we select the greatest work by the Icelandic pop-polymath Björk
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Medieval Fighting Techniques - Mounted vs Foot (Lance vs Polearm & Sword)
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Is there a manga equivalent of sakuga?
A part of a page drawn with higher than usual quality or attention or detail, or something along those lines? Does it have a name?
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What does it take to build the world's best pension systems? Ask the Netherlands and Denmark
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Svensk Vindenergi – Sweden is set to have more wind power capacity than nuclear this year
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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New release: Tails 4.0
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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
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Google demonstrating quantum supremacy
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Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F. (Begins Machiavelli Series)
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Martyr of Verdun: Émile Driant's Command Post
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