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8 votes
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Trump eliminates federal anti-racism training, calling it “a sickness”
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GWU investigating whether White professor invented her Black identity
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Inside Amazon’s secret program to spy on workers’ private Facebook groups
7 votes -
I’m moving across the country in a few days
I’m moving from the Midwest to California on Tuesday to start graduate school (I’ve been in an post-baccalaureate research position for the last two years). I’ve been so busy packing and making...
I’m moving from the Midwest to California on Tuesday to start graduate school (I’ve been in an post-baccalaureate research position for the last two years). I’ve been so busy packing and making sure I see friends that I think it hasn’t truly hit me yet. I’ve lived around Chicago my whole life, even during college, so I suppose I’m a bit nervous about the change of location and being so far from friends and family. I’m incredibly excited of course to begin this new phase, but nervous nonetheless.
Have any of you all ever had big moves in the past? Any advice for settling in a new locale?
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Louisiana’s weak environmental laws are keeping residents in the dark about health risks in the wake of Hurricane Laura's path through dozens of major petrochemical plants and oil refineries
8 votes -
US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor
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From its origins airing the banter of bored firefighters to its robust classical programming today, Dallas’s WRR-FM has filled an unusual niche on the airwaves for nearly a century
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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 31
This thread is posted weekly - 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 weekly - 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.
9 votes -
Arizona university prevents potential Covid outbreak by testing feces
8 votes -
A Seattle police officer’s extraordinary pay raises questions SPD can’t answer
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US indictments and raids of piracy group members in "The Scene" throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
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Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California
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SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
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Covid testing rant
I'm in line at a free covid testing site. It is a CVS minuteclinic. I have to use the normal drivethrough, and self administer the nasal swab. What the hell is that bullshit? My wife went to a...
I'm in line at a free covid testing site. It is a CVS minuteclinic. I have to use the normal drivethrough, and self administer the nasal swab.
What the hell is that bullshit? My wife went to a 'real' test site where a professional swabbed and she described it as a pap smear on the back of her eye.
So I'm going to a CVS so they can print a barcode, give me, an unqualified layperson a long qtip and a test tube to do my own test and drop in a collection box. Which they will likely ship to an actual lab.
And for all of this 'work', they get to bill my insurance for hundreds or more, which will likely mean rate hikes later.
Our healthcare system is a sham, and this is just further proof. Given I have to do it myself anyway, the government should just mail me a kit which I then drop off.
It would not shock me in the slightest if they actually just drop the tests in a dumpster and just send a 'negative' a few days later.
Edit: 40 min later, through line and swabbed. Yes, they just have Quest diagnostics empty the dropbox. 0 reason CVS should be involved.
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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Joe Ruby, TV writer and producer who co-created Scooby-Doo, dies at 87
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Extreme heat wave targets California as wildfires rage
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The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network
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The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
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The inside story of the 25-year, $8 million heist of maps, books, and artwork from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library
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With Canada and Mexico borders closed, Americans are trapped in their own health care system
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We don’t know how to warn you any harder. America is dying.
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Chicago Sky's Courtney Vandersloot sets a WNBA record with eighteen assists in a win over the Indiana Fever
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Google proposes new village next to Mountain View tech hubs
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Donald Trump administration announces nationwide US eviction moratorium through end of the year
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The state fair is canceled, but deep-fried Oreos are not
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As brick-and-mortar restaurants scrambled to devise sustainable to-go plans during the pandemic, food carts were able to continue doing what they do best: adapt
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Joe Biden campaign launches official Animal Crossing: New Horizons yard signs
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Airline pilots landing at LAX report "a guy in a jetpack" flying alongside them
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Geofence warrants - Smartphone location data is giving US law enforcement new surveillance tools
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Silicon Valley has deep pockets for African startups – if you’re not African
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The eco-yogi slumlords of Brooklyn
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Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US FAA approval
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Porn star Ron Jeremy charged with sexually assaulting four women
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United States House subcommittee releases coronavirus task force reports kept secret by the White House
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Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud related to "We Build the Wall" crowdfunding campaign
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That US Air Force B-52 flying over the Black Sea was bait for the Russians
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Weekly thread for news/updates/discussion of George Floyd protests, racial injustice, and policing policy - week of August 24
This thread is posted weekly - 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 weekly - 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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Bad Religion - Faith Alone 2020 (2020)
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2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
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ErasedByCovid
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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres.
7 votes -
Kludgeocracy in America
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Judge voids 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa county
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Republicans win two US House special elections
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Washington University develops COVID-19 saliva test
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Erra - Snowblood (2020)
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/snowblood/1525855907?i=1525855910 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/393HU6oEXQybzous3p0NC5 YouTube -...
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/snowblood/1525855907?i=1525855910
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/393HU6oEXQybzous3p0NC5
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruGgo1MkUj8New track from one of the pioneers of progressive metalcore, Erra. The band is known for its crunching hardcore riffs combined with singer/songwriter Jesse Cash's technically impressive lead guitar work that feels more like traditional metal. The band has been often praised for great live performances and song writing, but many feel they haven't had the best engineering and mixing in their recordings.
Snowblood is their first album with new label UNFD and it seems to have unlocked the last piece of the puzzle, in my opinion. This track feels grand and open in a way Erra hasn't yet in studio. Drums feel like they are failing from the sky, JT Carvey's snarling unclean vox punch through the insanely busy guitar and bass lines. Cash's vocals still feel a little thin, in my opinion, but they seem free of over digitization, which is an OK trade off.
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NBA players stage playoff strike days after police shoot Jacob Blake
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Heartless Bastards - Revolution (2020)
5 votes