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4 votes
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You will soon need a Microsoft account to play Mojang games (including Minecraft Java edition)
31 votes -
Geothermal energy is poised for a breakout
14 votes -
“Would you be willing to ask Siri how to assassinate Trump?” - excerpt from Shelter in Place
6 votes -
Arlo Guthrie retires from touring: ‘It’s time to hang up the gone fishing sign’
6 votes -
Facebook has sent a cease-and-desist letter to two NYU researchers, demanding that they shut down their research into political ads and disinformation on FB’s platform
30 votes -
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 -
First nest of Asian giant "murder hornets" in the US found in Washington state
17 votes -
Meet the 24-year-old who’s tracking every broken McDonald’s ice-cream machine in the US
14 votes -
On our abusive relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
10 votes -
The incredible story of the great Cannonball boom
7 votes -
Major League Rugby faces a pandemic, and corrosive politics
4 votes -
Can a moon base be safe for astronauts? Creating a sustainable human presence beyond low-Earth orbit requires a clear-eyed view of the risks—and rewards—inherent in spaceflight
10 votes -
Seven species which have evolved at hyperspeed, because of us
7 votes -
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut to the Feeling (2016)
6 votes -
‘Addams Family’ live-action TV series from Tim Burton heats up TV marketplace
9 votes -
FEVER 333 - WRONG GENERATION (2020)
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/wrong-generation/1535816008 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0ENzm2HTf7mfFjWZ7CaB5u YouTube:...
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/wrong-generation/1535816008
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0ENzm2HTf7mfFjWZ7CaB5u
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Nm3JIPr3w&list=OLAK5uy_knEEYCSEk8ai9vRtXwRnbrJ_bSVR_5JA8The hardcore meets hip-hop trio FEVER 333 are back to their roots with a new EP called WRONG GENERATION. While their last release, STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS, tended to lose their punk influence in exchange for more nu-metal influences, WRONG GENERATION ditches that side-step and continues from where they first started when the broke on to the scene in 2018 with Made an America. In my opinion, this is a welcome return to form. These guys seem most comfortable when they are making rebellious music that may not appeal to everyone, rather than their attempt at mainstream acceptance by employing more accessible song structure and instruments.
Drummer Aric Improta has never sounded better so far. While he's always been able to dial into a groove a bit, he feels more like the mover you'd like the drummer to be in a hip-hop band, rather than just playing keep up with the melody section. This does mean guitarist Stephen Harrison isn't quite as prominent in the tracks, but that doesn't mean he's not doing great work. Harrison takes more of a cue from Tom Morello in this album, following the rhythm section and getting in the groove. Vocalist Jason Aalon Butler sounds best when he's doing his high pitched screams and spoken word-type rap rather than his cleans (which sound a bit too much like a bad Chester Bennington impression), and he mostly stays away from cleans on this album.
Butler's lyrics still feel a lot more than STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS and are probably the one thing where you can see a through line from the beginning of FEVER 333 to now. His focus on LA culture, black liberation, police violence and more gets shaper with every release.
For fans of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Stray From the Path.
3 votes -
As local news dies, a pay-for-play network rises in its place
7 votes -
Inside the fall of the CDC: How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus
13 votes -
Movie night at the White House: A century of screenings, decoded
7 votes -
A close look at the science of lactic acid fermentation, the process responsible for some of the sour foods we all know and love: sauerkraut, pickles, kimchi, yogurt, and more
4 votes -
Ads improbably sprout on ad averse Substack
4 votes -
"Good-looking for an Asian": How I shed white ideals of masculinity
12 votes -
Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #2 Discussion Thread
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Other viewing optionsDebate starts ~90 minutes from the time of this posting.
Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Belmont University in Nashville
Moderator: Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent and co-anchor of “Weekend Today”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that the moderator has chosen. They are: fighting covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
Trump’s campaign has criticized the topics, saying they thought this was supposed to be a foreign policy debate. The head of the Commission on Presidential Debates said that’s not true.
Trump has criticized the moderator, Welker, as being biased, as he has other moderators. The commission and even a Fox News host have defended Welker’s integrity.
The commission also announced days before the debate that in light of Trump’s frequent interruptions during the first one, it will silence the microphone of the candidate who is not speaking during the two-minute opening segment for each candidate. After each candidate has two minutes, there will be an open discussion where both microphones will be on, but the commission urged civility in a statement: “It is the hope of the Commission that the candidates will be respectful of each other’s time.” The Trump campaign said it still will participate, despite the president criticizing a potential virtual debate as a forum where it would be too easy to silence his microphone.
21 votes -
Six women speak about their fears of bringing a child into a world that feels like it’s teetering on the edge of collapse - and why they’re choosing to do it anyway
14 votes -
I watched my friend dying on Facebook - but it was all a GoFundMe scam
9 votes -
Testing quad GeForce RTX 3090s in a desktop
6 votes -
James Randi, magician and paranormal debunker, dies at 92
22 votes -
The Sound of Sport
6 votes -
The forgotten story of ... the France football captain who murdered for Hitler
7 votes -
Introduction to 'Toward a New Socialism'
4 votes -
How hedges became the unofficial emblem of Great Britain: The ubiquitous boxy bushes have defined the British landscape since the Bronze Age
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[SOLVED] US websites no longer work, at all, in EU (?)
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just...
So, I had an issue with the radionouspace.net website, referenced here. Since then, I've started hitting the exact same issue on a few other sites ... webpage never resolves, the browser just spins its wheels until it times out.
I went thru and systematically shut down all of my add-ons, no joy. Tried other browsers, does not work anywhere ... except, oddly, sometimes, in TOR. On a hunch, I fired up my VPN service and tried to connect thru a US-based VPN server ... and there it is.
I have now confirmed, multiple websites (I'm assuming these are all US-based -- have not checked) no longer resolve for me, here in Hungary. Can anyone, anywhere else in the EU, confirm this?
I'm guessing this is the US response to the latest GDPR ruling against data-sharing across the Pond, but I'm on a "news fast" and haven't been keeping up-to-date ... anyone care to fill me in -- the "in a nutshell" version?
Update: Definitely something local-ish, probably specific to my ISP. VPN thru Hungary works, non-VPN thru Hungary does not.
10 votes -
The contested legacy of the anti-fascist International Brigades, who enlisted from around the world to fight fascism in Spain
9 votes -
Scientists discover new human salivary glands
7 votes -
Is the traditional ACLU view of free speech still viable? Ira Glasser speaks out.
12 votes -
The patchwork city: What gaps and overlaps in city boundaries tell us about values
4 votes -
James Randi: Magician and skeptic has died, aged 92
13 votes -
Streaming app Quibi is shutting down, after raising $1.75 billion and launching six months ago
25 votes -
Facebook's Supreme Court arrives
4 votes -
What's coming in PHP 8
7 votes -
[ UNUM ] An experimental short film in vertical format
9 votes -
Pro-democracy protests in Thailand, in pictures
12 votes -
'I could show you stuff you wouldn’t believe:' Gravediggers speak out about horrifying conditions
8 votes -
Measuring the size of the Earth
3 votes -
Inside a lab in Costa Rica that produces snake antivenom
9 votes -
Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests – funding for the project comes through its International Climate and Forests Initiative (NICFI)
8 votes -
What AWS services should have been called
8 votes -
Alice Coltrane ft. Pharoah Sanders - Journey In Satchidananda (1971)
5 votes -
Notes on my colon cancer
7 votes