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29 votes
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Rock of ages: How chalk made England
8 votes -
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 is the most difficult or complex thing you have programmed, created, or otherwise made?
I'm mostly just curious what types of in-depth projects you all get up to. The weekly "what are you working on threads" are always full of cool things, so I am curious what people's self-rated...
I'm mostly just curious what types of in-depth projects you all get up to. The weekly "what are you working on threads" are always full of cool things, so I am curious what people's self-rated most difficult or complex projects have been.
26 votes -
Finland's rallying great Hannu Mikkola has died at the age of 78 – the Flying Finn won eighteen world championship rallies
6 votes -
Sarah Moss wins the American Philosophical Association's 2020 Sanders Book Prize for her book, 'Probabilistic Knowledge'
4 votes -
Sabaton – Livgardet (2021)
4 votes -
Why Gothenburg is Europe's most sustainable city – residents and local government have been steadfast in their efforts to reinvent the city's reputation
8 votes -
What did you do this week?
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
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 week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
8 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of February 22
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
9 votes -
Black intimacy at the card table
7 votes -
Anthem development ceases, BioWare to focus on Dragon Age, Mass Effect
9 votes -
Pelé | Official trailer
9 votes -
Techworker.com launches, a new reader-funded site focusing on employees at tech companies
10 votes -
Pokemon Presents - February 26, 2021
8 votes -
Claire and Gaby make apple empanadas | Dessert Person
6 votes -
TERF WARS - Where have all the lesbians gone?
6 votes -
3D-printed guns are getting more capable and accessible
15 votes -
Why this enormous plane really exists: The An-225 Mriya
6 votes -
The Eight Hundred: A Chinese war epic
4 votes -
The rise and fall of white bread
8 votes -
Kena: Bridge of Spirits | Gameplay trailer
4 votes -
Denmark is far from reaching its ambitious target for carbon emission reductions by 2030, the country's climate watchdog said in its annual review of climate policies
6 votes -
An Irish soldier describes World War One (1988)
6 votes -
A new version of the first known on-screen kiss between two African-American actors has been discovered in the collections of the National Library of Norway
5 votes -
Writing Club #2 (March) Discussion
We had a stimulating and moderately edgy trial run with our Valentine's Day submissions thread! Thank you to all who took part. Next up is short stories, chapters, essays. I initially posted this...
We had a stimulating and moderately edgy trial run with our Valentine's Day submissions thread! Thank you to all who took part. Next up is short stories, chapters, essays.
I initially posted this with the wrong date (thanks @eve and @deimos for the help), so I'll put the call out in a fresh post with the correct date.
10 votes -
YOASOBI - Gunjo (The First Take live performance)
2 votes -
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al (1986)
12 votes -
Scientists discover massive 'pipeline' in the cosmic web connecting the universe
7 votes -
Facebook is a global mafia
10 votes -
Erasure of pregnant people
9 votes -
No, Mr Potato Head is not going gender neutral
@farhad manjoo: press release vs reporting. what happened here? They are not at all making it gender neutral. Did they make a quick change or did all the reports get it very wrong? pic.twitter.com/sMPGswjknA
5 votes -
What's something that hasn't aged well?
A few years ago I watched a movie -- can't even remember what it was -- that heavily involved pagers. One character got mad at another for not returning their call, and there was a dramatic scene...
A few years ago I watched a movie -- can't even remember what it was -- that heavily involved pagers. One character got mad at another for not returning their call, and there was a dramatic scene where they yelled something like "I PAGED you like an HOUR ago!" At the time of its release it probably made perfect sense, but from a modern perspective it had some unintentional comedy to it -- not to mention that younger audiences might not even understand what was going on given that pagers have likely fallen out of common understanding at this point.
I'm curious as to other things that haven't aged well, whether that's due to technological changes, shifts of the social or moral landscape, or even things that are fine in isolation but are hard to divorce from a larger context (e.g. They Might Be Giants released a song in late 2011 that jokes about Whitney Houston being the drummer for the band, but Houston died unexpectedly in early 2012).
Really anything is fair game: what hasn't aged well, and why not?
20 votes -
The technological singularity may have already happened, and perhaps bitcoin is the result
16 votes -
The Kenyan Maasai who once hunted lions are now their saviors
4 votes -
Magic: The Gathering announces crossovers with Lord of the Rings and Warhammer 40,000
5 votes -
Reply All is having its own reckoning now
21 votes -
Liat Kaplan - "I was 'Your Fave is Problematic'"
4 votes -
Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
5 votes -
Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good
23 votes -
Crisis in cosmology
4 votes -
The battery invented 120 years before its time
8 votes -
Illinois rep. wants to ban ‘all violent video games’ to curb violence
14 votes -
Yaupon: The rebirth of America's forgotten tea
9 votes -
Three years later: Did the GDPR actually work?
7 votes -
The twenty-five greatest art heists of all time
7 votes -
A female Call of Duty Mobile esports player 'Sol' has reportedly been murdered by a male player 'Flashlight' in São Paulo
17 votes -
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis: Carnage review – vivid visions of apocalypse and absolution
6 votes -
Southwestern Iceland was rocked by a series of earthquakes Wednesday, which have caused increased volcanic activity
5 votes -
TreeToTextile set to build demonstration plant in Sweden – several Nordic pulp makers are part of projects developing new clean ways to turn trees into textile fibre
10 votes