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4 votes
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Against child hostages
9 votes -
Counterproductive public-health messaging during the pandemic
9 votes -
Loop Hero | Launch trailer
11 votes -
Alamo Drafthouse files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announces sale to private equity firms Altamont Capital and Fortress Investment
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Do any other US citizens think of emigrating?
I'm a 23 year old male originally from Southern California, and like the title says I'm curious to see if anyone else near my demographic has seriously looked into emmigrating in light of the past...
I'm a 23 year old male originally from Southern California, and like the title says I'm curious to see if anyone else near my demographic has seriously looked into emmigrating in light of the past year and a half.
What factors motivate you to move?
What would be an ideal location for you?
What timeline would are you looking at?One of the main motivators I seek to emmigrate is climate change. As the world continues to progress and evolve I do not think the United States will be able to equitabbly address the changing landscape and ways of life. As for when I would want to move, I'm not sure; currently it seems like a far off probability, but I know it's a choice I will have to make in my own lifetime.
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Version 2 of Google’s Flutter toolkit adds support for desktop and web apps
7 votes -
NASA’s latest Mars rover has the same processor as an iMac from 1998
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Reddit announces online presence indicators
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Jennette McCurdy on why she is no longer acting
4 votes -
Brave has acquired Cliqz and their Tailcat search engine, plans to offer a privacy-oriented search engine
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Work from home expert Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford economist, says office space will get more collaborative, and you’ll still be working from home (just not as much)
4 votes -
The very bad news
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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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The explosive rise of Zoom is creating big opportunities for startups, which are raising millions to build apps and integrations
5 votes -
Just Shapes & Beats
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NENA - 99 Luftballons (1983)
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Katrina’s hidden race war
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Soul superhero: The massive life and tragic death of King Curtis
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These girls just wanted to run, the right wanted a war
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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?
7 votes -
Wisconsin hunters kill over 200 wolves in less than three days
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Hakuho Cup may allow Hakuho to leave indelible mark on sumo from outside ring
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Google to stop selling ads based on your specific web browsing
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What are some of your favorite music videos?
I sometimes feel like music videos get the short stick and aren't appreciated as the unique and fascinating art form that they've become. I think a lot of us got into them back in the heyday of...
I sometimes feel like music videos get the short stick and aren't appreciated as the unique and fascinating art form that they've become. I think a lot of us got into them back in the heyday of MTV/VH1 but they've gone far beyond that in the internet age. I'd like to invite everyone to share some of their favorites in this thread - new or old, popular or obscure, anything goes, and share as many as you like.
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Google-free /e/ OS is now selling preloaded phones in the US, starting at $380
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What is a song that to you sounds like the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYDrQWTQoWY
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The Refreshments - Banditos (1996)
6 votes -
Hanford radioactive sludge removal
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What happened to Jordan Peterson?
16 votes -
Weezer - Zombie Bastards (2019)
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Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut
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A billion years from now, a lack of oxygen will wipe out life on Earth
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Gab removes their public Git repository after it reveals their developers adding (and struggling to fix) basic security issues that led to a 70GB data leak
12 votes -
Epic Games acquires Fall Guys developer Mediatonic
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Europeans get ‘right to repair’ for some electrical goods
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Aliens: Fireteam | Announcement trailer
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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?6 votes -
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.
7 votes -
Sounds of the Mandelbrot set
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Arctic island finds green power can be a curse – Greenland's rare-earth elements are attracting superpowers riding a green revolution
11 votes -
Super Mario 64 review
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Volvo Cars to go fully electric by 2030 – it will phase out all car models with internal combustion engines, including hybrids
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I was a trans comedian. Here’s why I quit
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Does anyone have, or has had, an addiction to music?
It might sound silly to most, but I have had one for years now. I started to really listen to music on my own volition in the early 2010s when I was in my early 10s, and I was really big into EDM...
It might sound silly to most, but I have had one for years now.
I started to really listen to music on my own volition in the early 2010s when I was in my early 10s, and I was really big into EDM at the time (big room house, brostep, electro house, progressive house, etc).
At some point in 2014 I wanted to expand my tastes so I ended up on rateyourmusic.com which is the kinda place you always end up on at some point if you go down this path the way I see it, and at first I just checked the overall charts and shrugged since it wasn't my kind of music at all (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, etc), but at some point it started bothering me; "why is all that crappy old music so highly regarded?" and I started giving the stuff a try. Didn't like it at all, but I somehow starting feeling compelled to try and understand/appreciate it.
Eventually, I fell down a sort of rabbit hole when I started reading discussions on how some music is "objectively better" than others and I completely believed it. Pushed around by the extremely harsh disdain towards the EDM I loved and godly praise of the type of thing I just mentioned, I just kinda felt like I was supposed to move on and basically listened to a lot of stuff like that.
Another while later I eventually realized that the whole "objectively good/bad" thing is one ugly sack of false shit, but I've been really burned out since then, and now I don't even really feel the music I used to like. Problem is, at this point the act of crawling through the charts looking for new music, constantly listening to new stuff, thinking about genres, etc, is so deeply ingrained in my behavior that I can't seem to stop. I have music on at nearly all times, and I force myself to listen to everything in full despite not feeling it at all.
Something that's also gotten me is the whole repeated listening thing, I've always really loved the idea of being able to enjoy something you initially didn't care for or were lukewarm towards by simply repeatedly listening to it. That also caused me to disregard my own impressions and force myself to repeatedly listen to almost everything. I'm mostly out of that phase now, but I sometimes still find myself digging through random stuff I've given low ratings and listening to it again purely to see if I suddenly like it, but it has literally never even worked once. I also think this has been a contributor to me being burned out on music.
At this point I kinda feel like I'll never truly enjoy music again like I used to and it's really sad. Sometimes it does return a little, but if have to explain it with a rating, I can't say I've ever really felt anything above a 7/10 again, most of the time it's between a 3/10 and 6/10. I totally realize I just need to take a break, but I simply can't seem to stop (through a lot of effort I have actually managed to take a full break last month, but I immediately relapsed when I resumed this month, and even without that it doesn't seem like it helped all that much). What a lot of people have with things like gaming and food, I basically have with music.
Does anyone else have anything like this?
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Twitch star quits GTA RP after in-game jobs become too much like real jobs
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An amazing Twitter thread on the use of classical music in classic cartoons
@Vincent Alexander: THREAD: Lots of us learned classical music from watching old cartoons, so I'm going to identify the pieces that frequently popped up.One of the most recognizable is Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2," performed by those great piano virtuosos Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry. pic.twitter.com/SmyKbMpw3e
21 votes -
Why prehistoric humans needed no braces: Crooked teeth are a modern phenomenon and a telltale sign of an underlying epidemic
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What's something you're into that you wish you could share with someone?
We're lucky when we share mutual interests with friends, but often there's that category of things for which there isn't much overlap. Though it speaks to us, we're seemingly alone in appreciating...
We're lucky when we share mutual interests with friends, but often there's that category of things for which there isn't much overlap. Though it speaks to us, we're seemingly alone in appreciating it, yet long for someone to connect with it over.
What's that thing for you?
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Thoughts on running online communities from the creator of Improbable Island
15 votes