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13 votes
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How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
12 votes -
Living legacy
4 votes -
RIAA obtains DMCA subpoenas against Cloudflare and Namecheap targeting forty-one domains for YouTube-ripping platforms and pirate sites
29 votes -
The problem with (all) the tech hearings in Congress
7 votes -
The history of peri peri chicken: Originally from South Africa and Portugal, the peppery, lemony dish is now beloved by Texas Muslims. To understand why, you have to go back four hundred years.
7 votes -
Looking back on Major League Baseball's silent season: Empty stadiums, player protests and Covid-19 outbreaks shook up the sport. Maybe that’s a good thing.
6 votes -
Why critics find Brett Kavanaugh's Wisconsin mail-in voting opinion 'sloppy'
6 votes -
Polling 101: What happened to the polls in 2016 — and what you should know about them in 2020
5 votes -
Vincent Neil Emerson - 25 & Wastin' Time (2020)
4 votes -
FBI, DHS, HHS warn of imminent, credible ransomware threat against US hospitals
13 votes -
Rob Cantor - "Shia LaBeouf" Live (2014)
17 votes -
Did the US founders have contemporary exposure to demagoguery?
11 votes -
Dear Dad, please don’t vote for Donald Trump this time
24 votes -
Political philosopher Robert B. Talisse explains his diagnosis and cure for the political polarization ailing America
2 votes -
Since 2016, the Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times newspaper has used aggressive Facebook tactics and right-wing misinformation to create an anti-China, pro-Trump media empire
11 votes -
Borat 2 exposes a racist, sexist, but still ultimately inspiring America
22 votes -
America's Pandemic: In a three-part documentary, the Washington Post explores a failed response to the coronavirus pandemic that’s left 225,000 Americans dead, despite decades of preparation
10 votes -
Jon Stewart will host Apple TV+ current affairs show
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Harvard’s Chetty finds economic carnage for the poorest in the wealthiest ZIP codes
8 votes -
At least twenty municipalities have changed local laws to allow backyard chicken coops since the pandemic started
8 votes -
Boiling point: Want to stop climate change? Look to farms, forests and wetlands
7 votes -
Thoughts on the World Series so far?
I'm a Red Sox fan so don't have much invested in this WS but it has been AWESOME so far! I'm at a point where I really want the Rays to win but wouldn't be bummed to see Mookie and Joe Kelly get...
I'm a Red Sox fan so don't have much invested in this WS but it has been AWESOME so far! I'm at a point where I really want the Rays to win but wouldn't be bummed to see Mookie and Joe Kelly get another ring. Also, redemption for the Astros shenanigans.
My favorite moment is likely a predictable one but I'll say it anyway... the walk-off hit in game four was just an emotional roller coaster.
Anyone else watching? If so, what are your thoughts so far?
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Donald Trump vs Joe Biden | Epic Rap Battles Of History
7 votes -
How the waters off Los Angeles became a DDT dumping ground
12 votes -
2020 Election News and Information (Week of October 18th)
A thread you can easily ignore As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things...
A thread you can easily ignore
As the pace and the quantity of information that his coming out of the election increases. Instead of creating a new post for everything, or not posting things because it is a smaller item, please feel free to post here.
Feel free to break out any information posted here into its own thread if the discussion warrants it.Major news can/should be broken out into its own topic. (use your own discretion)
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Pope Francis appoints first African-American cardinal
12 votes -
How US President Donald Trump ruined political comedy
10 votes -
I was a cable guy. I saw the worst of America.
26 votes -
Stan Lee's last days: A shocking tale of love and abuse
9 votes -
Black players continued a mentoring tradition amid a pandemic
6 votes -
The COVID cruise ship and the Maine fishing town
4 votes -
Geothermal energy is poised for a breakout
14 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
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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 -
The incredible story of the great Cannonball boom
7 votes -
Major League Rugby faces a pandemic, and corrosive politics
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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.
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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
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"Good-looking for an Asian": How I shed white ideals of masculinity
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #2 Discussion Thread
This will be a noisy thread. Please use the ignore feature if you do not want to see it in your feed. Watch on YouTube Other viewing options Debate starts ~90 minutes from the time of this...
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Watch on YouTube
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.
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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
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'I could show you stuff you wouldn’t believe:' Gravediggers speak out about horrifying conditions
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Alice Coltrane ft. Pharoah Sanders - Journey In Satchidananda (1971)
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Epic S&P 500 rally is powered by assets you can’t see or touch
5 votes -
Activists build facial recognition to ID cops who hide their badges
15 votes