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11 votes
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World champion Magnus Carlsen shares his motivational struggles before an intriguing showdown with his old rival Ian Nepomniachtchi
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Ahmaud Arbery’s killers convicted of murder
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Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (November 2021)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
19 votes -
The entire Soviet rocket engine family tree
8 votes -
The sticky issue of consent in street photography
11 votes -
The best espresso machines in 2021
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Why I'm tired of hearing about wokeism
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Microsoft unveils 'Super Duper Secure Mode' in latest version of Edge
6 votes -
The invisible horror of The Shining
9 votes -
Dollar Tree makes it official: Items will now cost $1.25
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Norway has expressed outrage after two television journalists were detained in Qatar ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup
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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!
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Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives speaks to a homesick America
8 votes -
In Nebraska, a 151-year-old family farm struggles to survive
6 votes -
Ridley Scott says pilots for ‘Blade Runner,’ ‘Alien’ TV spin-offs are written
7 votes -
Aftermath of Constitution DAO/'Buy the Constitution'
8 votes -
He created The Oregon Trail and he didn’t make a penny
11 votes -
Marvel Unlimited - Free month
4 votes -
Five books I loved reading this year
11 votes -
Sudoku experts “Cracking the Cryptic” play Baba Is You
18 votes -
Harmonix acquired by Epic Games
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California lawsuit against PlayStation alleges gender discrimination
5 votes -
How a New Hampshire libertarian utopia was foiled by bears
26 votes -
Microsoft Edge’s new ‘buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware
18 votes -
The animation of "Arcane" (Interview with the Director of Animation)
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
5 votes -
Disney’s FastPass: A complicated history
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~nature or ~earth group?
I have a nice video about butterflies to post. It's not really ~enviro material because although there is a little bit of mention of climate crisis I want to post it mostly because "aren't...
I have a nice video about butterflies to post. It's not really ~enviro material because although there is a little bit of mention of climate crisis I want to post it mostly because "aren't butterflies awesome look at these awesome butterflies and how cool they are"
Sure it could go in ~misc but it seems odd there's a group for ~space and not one for down here on ~earth. I prefer ~earth to ~nature because I think there's human earth stuff which is cool too (I know, I know, humans are part of nature but you know what I mean). Also because it balances with ~space.
Anyway, was just a thought. Not going to lose sleep over it.
Additionally, in the sidebar, putting group descriptions in the title attribute might be useful - so I don't have to click into each group to see what it's criteria is when I'm trying to find where to post something non-obvious.
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Longstanding discourse w/ my SO about the phrase "a couple of..."
#couple Defined as: noun: couple; plural noun: couples 1. two individuals of the same sort considered together. "a couple of girls were playing marbles" a pair of partners in a dance or game....
#couple
Defined as:noun:
couple;
plural noun: couples
1.
two individuals of the same sort considered together.
"a couple of girls were playing marbles"a pair of partners in a dance or game.
MECHANICS
a pair of equal and parallel forces acting in opposite directions, and tending to cause rotation about an axis perpendicular to the plane containing them.
2.
two people who are married, engaged, or otherwise closely associated romantically or sexually.
"in three weeks the couple fell in love and became engaged"3.
INFORMAL
an indefinite small number.
"he hoped she'd be better in a couple of days"
verb:
couple;
3rd person present:
couples
past tense:
coupled
past participle:
coupled
gerund or present participle:
coupling
1.
combine."a sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss"
join to form a pair.
"the beetles may couple up to form a pair"2.
mate or have sexual intercourse.
"as middle-class youth grew more tolerant of sex, they started to couple more often"
#Discourse of the use of the word/phrase in this particular case
You
"how many would you like?"
Them
"just a couple."
When someone requests 'a couple of...' I respond with something similar to: 'How many do you want specifically?', which leads to the discourse of, 'A couple is two, a few is >2, several is <x' and so on.
I agree with the first two clearly stated definitions of 'couple', but in the informal use of a couple (eg. a depiction of a quantity) is not specifically two...nor is 'a few' three. How many specifically is several..?
I understand the semantics within the conversation. But, the expectation of understanding that two, and only two, is implied in the use of the phrase 'a couple' in a request; is ambiguously stating what one party desires. I'm the asshole now, just tell me how many you want.
And now...your thoughts, please.
12 votes -
How road barriers stopped killing drivers
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?
3 votes -
Ratchets in software development
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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
9 votes -
Six indigenous Greenlanders taken as children to Denmark in a failed social experiment in 1951 are demanding compensation from the Danish state
8 votes -
Dart: Mission to smack Dimorphos asteroid set for launch
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Monophonics - It's Only Us (2020)
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Ten years of... whatever this has been
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Riot Games' ’Arcane’ renewed for season 2 by Netflix
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Rust Moderation Team resigns
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What did you do this weekend?
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 weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
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 weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
7 votes -
Where the humanities aren't in crisis
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
3 votes -
Introducing River, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
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Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390
10 votes -
The Expanse | Season 6 official trailer
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Ace week 2021: Ace men
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Cowboy Bebop - Discussion thread
I hadn't seen anyone suggest this, so I'll start it!
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Why Dune's visual effects feel so different
11 votes -
The ancient origins of glass
4 votes