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5 votes
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RCMP adding incels to terrorism awareness guide
7 votes -
The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
8 votes -
Last Marble Standing E2 Balancing - Marble Race by Jelle's Marble Runs
14 votes -
How seventy years of cop shows taught us to valorize the police
10 votes -
Where banks don't lend: In Chicago, lenders have invested more in a single white neighborhood than in all the Black neighborhoods combined
10 votes -
Why email is the best discussion platform
10 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
7 votes -
Show taper/defense attorney represents George Floyd protesters pro bono
4 votes -
Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
4 votes -
The guardrails are off the US Military: It’s no longer guaranteed that the Pentagon will resist unlawful orders from the President. And the rot is deeper than you think
20 votes -
Any recommendations for reading classic non-fiction in modern times?
I've been on a long and steady roll reading classic literature, both fiction and non-fiction. I think it's important to get a perspective from earlier times that influenced our current culture and...
I've been on a long and steady roll reading classic literature, both fiction and non-fiction. I think it's important to get a perspective from earlier times that influenced our current culture and also because many of these works have withstood the test of time.
However, I'm having real trouble reading some of the non-fiction e.g. Plato's Republic and Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. With both fiction and non-fiction I accompany my readings with Sparknotes to make sure I'm not missing anything important. In the case of non-fiction I often can barely get a cohesive thought out of the original text. In some cases the text is too old to be understood on it's own and in others the author has great ideas but poor writing (e.g. Nietzsche, famously). But Sparknote's is much too brief—I'd like a more involved experience.
My request is this: I'm looking for books (or resources to find such books) about classic non-fiction that
- distill the concepts without watering them down
- provide context with either modern culture and/or other works that are related
- are written for an intelligent layman; prose meant to communicate to a non-expert audience but with scholarly rigor
Basically, I read at a high level but I am not a professional scholar of literature, philosophy or history, yet I would like to have a bridge to such an understanding.
EDIT: I found this site to be exactly what I was looking for: https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html
10 votes -
"My Immortal" as alchemical allegory
9 votes -
One of Copenhagen Zoo's giant pandas escaped from its enclosure early on Monday and roamed the park before staff were able to sedate it and bring it back
4 votes -
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change
21 votes -
Could solar storms destroy civilization? Solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
7 votes -
Forrest Fenn confirms his treasure has been found
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What are you confused by?
I thought this might be an interesting subject for conversation, inspired by the rationalist emphasis on the importance of noticing your confusion for figuring out important warning signs that...
I thought this might be an interesting subject for conversation, inspired by the rationalist emphasis on the importance of noticing your confusion for figuring out important warning signs that could easily be overlooked.
I think it's best to try to answer the question as genuinely as possible. Sometimes, saying you're confused is implied criticism of others' behavior, but I think it's more important to notice those moments when things about the world genuinely don't add up.
As a simple example, I'm somewhat confused that the stock market has been going up. It's not all that confusing because bear market rallies are a thing, and many others are puzzled by this as well. But still, I must admit that I don't understand the mechanism behind it.
30 votes -
Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination – sources say South Africa handed over dossier, but not everyone is hopeful mystery will be solved
5 votes -
Donald Trump administration makes move to completely roll back US methane pollution regulations
23 votes -
Will all this fiscal and monetary stimulus lead to excessive inflation? (No.)
5 votes -
New Zealand's last remaining active COVID-19 case recovers
17 votes -
'Man becomes the sex organs of the machine world: Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media' (2012)
14 votes -
Hiking 100 miles alone on the Resurrection Pass Trail in Alaska
8 votes -
Let's give some love to indies! What's your favourite indie game?
Personally, my favourite indie recently has been Katana Zero, the action in that game is so fluid and fun.
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After a staff uproar, New York Times says that Senator Tom Cotton’s “Send In the Troops” op-ed it published yesterday did not meet its standards
21 votes -
Daily thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests - June 6
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most...
This thread is posted daily - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of June 1
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
What’s the impact of Turkmenistan’s COVID delusion?
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What's your "hype song"?
Short of drugs, I find music to be one of the most effective ways of inducing an emotional state on demand. If you want to hype yourself up, get that adrenaline flowing, what's your go-to song?...
Short of drugs, I find music to be one of the most effective ways of inducing an emotional state on demand. If you want to hype yourself up, get that adrenaline flowing, what's your go-to song?
For me, it's definitely DJ Mehdi - Signatune (Thomas Bangalter edit). Hard-hitting French House. It's repetitive and brutal, and not at all what I would choose for a cozy, relaxed listening experience. But god damn if it doesn't get the adrenaline flowing.
What's yours?
17 votes -
Black pepper ice cream recipe
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When phones were fun: Samsung's "Matrix Phone" (2003)
8 votes -
Where does my main battery go?
8 votes -
Coronavirus: Hard-hit Brazil removes data amid rising death toll
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Haven't gamed on a PC for ten years. Built a gaming rig. What games do I install?
I've been out of PC gaming for at least 10 years. Although I have a PS4 and I loved playing God of War 4 and Witcher 3. Through what might only be described as a mishap, I've ended up building a...
I've been out of PC gaming for at least 10 years. Although I have a PS4 and I loved playing God of War 4 and Witcher 3.
Through what might only be described as a mishap, I've ended up building a computer with a kickass GPU. 3700X, RX 5700XT, 2TB Gigabyte Aorus NVMe. The works.
Build's half done, I plan on dual booting hackintosh & windows 10 -- the latter I haven't used in many years as well, I'm a UNIX guy.
What should I even install on this thing? I've been very disconnected from the gaming industry and I've no idea what games are new or good or cool to show off what my hardware can do
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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!
6 votes -
What if the internet never existed?
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Black Death, COVID, and why we keep telling the myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and bad Middle Ages
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Disfunctional Disco: SloMo Surfing The Quantum Fields II
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Platforms, publishers, and presidents | Real Law Review
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George Floyd: 3rd or 2nd Degree Murder? UPDATED | Real Law Review
16 votes -
Incognito mode detection still works in Chrome despite promise to fix
11 votes -
A man emerges from a 75-day silent retreat in Vermont
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Katri Kulmuni will step down as Finland's finance minister after admitting on Friday that she had used taxpayers' money to fund training on how to speak in public
12 votes -
Why the Golden Gate Bridge sounds like a David Lynch movie now
10 votes -
Thou - Smoke Pigs (2013)
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Alexis Ohanian (site co-founder) resigns from Reddit's board, urging them to fill his seat with a black candidate and pledging future gains on his stock to serve the black community
63 votes -
Godot Editor running in a web browser
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Immortal Technique - Civil War (ft. Killer Mike & Brother Ali & Chuck D) (2016)
6 votes