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9 votes
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The world's first happiness museum opens in Denmark – the Nordic country is consistently ranked among the planet's happiest
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Dj Jules - Vaping in the Hood (2016)
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Pink Floyd – Us and Them (Piano Cover by Josh Cohen) (2017)
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Unity Technologies announce 'Open Projects', building games in Unity that are open source
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Movie theater rescue called for by top filmmakers, NATO, MPA, DGA in letter to Congress: “Theaters may not survive”
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The legacy of Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics
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G. E. Moore’s hands vs. radical scepticism (on the simulation hypothesis)
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The school
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Winning an argument
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The race to redesign sugar
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Lemon Demon - Redesign Your Logo (2016)
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The Online Content Policy Modernization Act is an unconstitutional mess
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Reflections on the Pierce Brosnan era of James Bond films
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Discussion Thread
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Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. (This was originally scheduled to be held at the University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame withdrew, saying the fact that it would have to limit student attendance and volunteer opportunities because of the pandemic erased the reason to host a debate at the university.)
Moderator: Chris Wallace, anchor of “Fox News Sunday”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. There will be no opening statements. Wallace will dive right in with the first question to Trump. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that Wallace has chosen. They are:
- the Trump and Biden records
- the Supreme Court
- the coronavirus pandemic
- the economy
- race and violence in cities
- the integrity of the election
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Nelchael Nelchabarren - Painful retribution (Disbelief hard mode phase 5) (2017)
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The new Chromecast with Google TV won’t officially support Stadia at launch
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Amazon's internal records show that it deceived the public on rising injury rates among its warehouse workers
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What is a tuned mass damper?
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Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres
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Microsoft announces new Surface Laptop Go and Surface Pro X
I couldn’t find a good roundup that covered both of these and didn’t want to add clutter to the front page with two posts. From The Verge: Microsoft’s new $549 Surface Laptop Go aims to compete...
I couldn’t find a good roundup that covered both of these and didn’t want to add clutter to the front page with two posts.
From The Verge:
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Microsoft’s new $549 Surface Laptop Go aims to compete with Chromebooks
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Microsoft’s updated Surface Pro X has a faster processor and new platinum color option
The Surface Pro X seems like just a spec bump, so there isn’t too much interesting there. But the Surface Laptop Go is interesting. The base model is absolute garbage (4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of EMMC storage) but the other models are somewhat decent.
The overall design of the Surface products is really striking. I honestly think they look much more modern and clean than Apple’s laptops. I also really love that they are offering colors. I wish Apple would offer more colors than just gray, silver and pink/gold on their laptops.
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The rise and fall of Britain's bedroom coders | Design Icons
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Thinking of getting an HD antenna
I wasn't sure if this should go in ~tech or ~tv. Feel free to move if it's more appropriate over there. I am planning to cut the cord soon and get rid of cable TV. I have an older TiVo Premiere...
I wasn't sure if this should go in ~tech or ~tv. Feel free to move if it's more appropriate over there.
I am planning to cut the cord soon and get rid of cable TV. I have an older TiVo Premiere that's rarely over 5% full. I'd like to get an indoor HDTV antenna to connect it to for those rare occasions when we want to watch something live, or record something off broadcast TV. I know next to nothing about HDTV antennas, though. I see that BestBuy carries them for prices from ~$20 to ~$120. I'd like one that works well and can be kept out of sight. (I've read some can even be painted over!) Does anyone have any recommendations or any things I should be aware of in getting one?
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Simple anomaly detection using plain SQL
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KRS-One and DJ Kid Capri - The Block Party (2020)
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German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has selected the Norwegian launch facility Andøya Spaceport for a 2022 maiden flight of the company's RFA One vehicle
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Recommend a self-host, open source URL Shortener
At my day job at a non-for-profit, I direct the digital services and platforms (among other things). One thing that I've seen in my org. is the widespread use of the Bitly URL shortener (free...
At my day job at a non-for-profit, I direct the digital services and platforms (among other things). One thing that I've seen in my org. is the widespread use of the Bitly URL shortener (free plan/tier) for the sharing of our many online and offline campaigns. The myriad departments in the org. for the most part operate quite autonomously, though I can influence the use of digital platforms (at least the majority of the time). I'd like to get away from using Bitly. Would anyone kindly recommend alternatives to Bitly? Self-host and open source options would be preferred, but not required if the price is right (read: low enough for a non-profit).
I've used YOURLs many years ago, and it worked great; did everything that I needed and was straight-forward to install and use. (The only cost was a cheap $5/month Digital Ocean droplet, that I happened to run other things on too.) However, I have also heard of - but never used - the following other options:
So...Are any of the above worth considering (or avoiding)? Are there any other, perhaps better alternatives not listed here? I'd appreciate any suggestions and recommendations! Thanks in advanced!
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Berlin Brandenburg (BER) airport to finally open after nine-year delay
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Boxplot - Voicemail Poems (2019)
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WARGASM - Backyard Bastards (2020)
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/backyard-bastards/1532748158?i=1532748159 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5pdpC268ZugcBl48WGVe4j YouTube -...
Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/album/backyard-bastards/1532748158?i=1532748159
Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5pdpC268ZugcBl48WGVe4j
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Rnppk23jIAt the risk of just posting every new Wargasm single as they drop, UK duo Wargasm is back with a new single that continues their genre mash-up goodness. Backyard Bastards evokes feelings of Treats era Sleigh Bells. Like Sleigh Bells, the programmed drum beats sound like the fall out of the sky as the punctuate some super distorted guitar riffs. But noise rock is just one layer of this track, which includes Sam Matlock's growls and shouts along side Milkie Way's super smooth cleans.
Lyrically, the band seems to take a step into politics just a bit rather than just the general rage of their past efforts with selections like
When you're tired of living for these bastards
I'll teach you how to kill your gods
and hunt your masters
I'm sick of feeling but this feeling's too strong
I wanna kill somebody but I know it's wrongA section that may speak a lot to fellow young people like them, who feel they've been dealt a raw hand by a generation that swam in comfort in excess in pervious decades.
For fans of Sleigh Bells, My Ticket Home and Papa Roach.
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Neil Cicierega - Mouth Dreams (2020)
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Phil Ochs - When I'm Gone (1966)
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CDC coronavirus testers pulled from Minnesota after hostile and racist encounters
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What are your go-to websites and apps for desktop and mobile wallpapers?
My personal favourites are wallhaven for desktop wallpapers and Walli for mobile ones. I also like Wallpaper Flare for desktop and sometimes Unsplash for both desktop and mobile.
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Samuel L. Jackson to play Nick Fury in new Marvel Disney Plus series
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Azerbaijan announces military mobilization amid clashes with Armenia
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Why footbinding persisted in China for a millennium
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The Turkish century; Part 3: New beginnings
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
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File Syncing Software in 2020
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On the infestation of small-souled bugmen
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Esports tournament organizers ESL and DreamHack have merged
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Industrial literacy
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The rise of the rational do-gooders
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Who are your favorite LGBT musicians/bands?
I'm in a bit of a personal musical renaissance at the moment and am actively seeking out new music after having listened to the same albums for years, effectively playing them out. One of the...
I'm in a bit of a personal musical renaissance at the moment and am actively seeking out new music after having listened to the same albums for years, effectively playing them out.
One of the areas I'm interested in exploring is LGBT artists out there making good music, especially because it seems like so many have entered the scene in recent years. Let me know if you have any recommendations! I'm open to any genre.
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K: The overlooked variable that's driving the pandemic
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Here’s how Cornell kept low covid-19 rates on campus
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The non-voter
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Newcomer Iman Vellani to play title role in Marvel’s ‘Ms. Marvel’ series for Disney Plus
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Seattle approves minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers
9 votes