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Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of April 12
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
10 votes -
Jose Mourinho sacked as Tottenham Hotspur manager
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Shadow Gallery - The Dance Of The Fools (1992)
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Williams F1 driver George Russell has issued a public apology following his crash with Valtteri Bottas in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
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Massive container ship stuck in Suez Canal, blocking world's busiest shipping route
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Career Dive: Danny DeVito
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Go proposal: expression to create pointer to simple types
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Dave Grohl - Everlong (Oates Fest, 2021)
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Nickelback - The Devil Went Down To Georgia (feat. Dave Martone) (2020)
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Earthblade: the "vibe reveal" - A teaser poster and snippet of the soundtrack for the next game from the developers of Celeste
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How to understand the universe when you’re stuck inside of it
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Feneas (a non profit provider of open source services), is having problems covering expenses and is at the risk of shutting down, so it is now having a fundraiser
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Minecraft update caves and cliffs is split in two, and a review of snapshot 21w15a
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Why measuring the impact of Lend-Lease is so difficult
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How will plants cope with fewer pollinators?
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Israel lifts outdoor mask mandate and fully reopens schools, leaders stating full reopening of the economy could happen next month
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UN experts condem UK race report
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Solving a Sudoku with no actual digits... at all
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The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall
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The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis
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Previously oldest living American Hester Ford dies at 115
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Goldfinger - Superman (Quarantine version) (2020)
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Edward Snowden NFT sells for more than $5.4 million
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A NASA intern stole $21 million worth of moon rocks. He wanted to have sex on them.
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Exploring the top of the D&D power curve with Vecna
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Misinformation about Permissions Policy and FLoC
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The great work
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How a reckless lie caused huge internet drama for Path of Exile's developer
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5G: The outsourced elephant in the room
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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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Florida’s new transgender sports ban permits schools to require "routine sports physical examination" of the students' genitals, genetic makeup, and testosterone levels
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What game(s) have you tried to repeatedly get into but ultimately could not?
This could be a gaming series that is very popular but for some reason or another doesn't resonate with you, or maybe a weird one-off within a genre that you love. What aspects didn't resonate...
This could be a gaming series that is very popular but for some reason or another doesn't resonate with you, or maybe a weird one-off within a genre that you love. What aspects didn't resonate with you and what could have been done differently that would made it easier to like the game?
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Built-in FTP implementation to be removed in Firefox 90
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Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme
@Nassim Nicholas Taleb: WHAT WE WANT CRYPTO & CURRENCY FOR:1) Currency w/o a government2) Stable/reliable for contracts3) Inflation indexed store of value -- basket of items representative for me.4) Rapid transactionsCan we do it? #BTC failed to be currency, open-Ponzi speculative game. 1/n
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MathBox^2: PowerPoint Must Die
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Forests cover 70% of Sweden, but many argue the model of replacing old-growth forests with monoculture plantations is bad for biodiversity
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More people are being buried in custom-made caskets
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Fact check: Story about organs found on a cargo ship was intended as satire
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What the Museum of 2020 may look like
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Five Nights At Freddy's 3 OST: Bonnie's Lullaby (2015)
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Orbital resonances and the Cassini Division, explained
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Helen McCrory: Peaky Blinders actress dies aged 52, husband Damian Lewis says
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So You Want a Model Railroad, Colorized (1955)
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Björn Ulvaeus: ‘Today's pop industry cheats songwriters – and deters the risk-taking that made ABBA’
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Book review: Progress and Poverty by Henry George
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Banking on bird shit
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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.
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Amazon's 'The Lord of the Rings' to cost $465M for just one season
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Mask off
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