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Sifu - Live action adaptation | Short film
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Expanding the brain. Literally.
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Wi-Fi routers used to detect human locations, poses within a room
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What are you working on right now?
A project? A personal goal? A big assignment? A new hobby? Your mental health? A 1000 piece puzzle? A relationship? Whatever it is you’re working on, tell us about it. How’s it going so far?
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The Beths - River Run: Lvl 1 (2018)
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Netflix 2023 movie preview
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The five best mobile scanner apps in 2023
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Sundance readies big return as indie film business struggles to survive
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Antoine Fuqua to direct Michael Jackson biopic for Lionsgate
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Wikipedia has spent years on a barely noticeable redesign
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Ron Jeremy found ‘not competent’ to stand trial in serial rape case
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European Parliament votes to take action against loot boxes, gaming addiction, gold farming and more
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Atlas gets a grip
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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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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees
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Church of England bishops refuse to back gay marriage
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Greta Thunberg detained at German coal protest
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988 Lifeline sees boost in use and funding in first months
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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?
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Iceland captain Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir says winning a claim against former side Lyon for failing to pay her full salary during pregnancy is a wake-up call for clubs
6 votes -
Lithium company Ioneer scores $700 million conditional loan from Energy Department for Nevada plant
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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films 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 movies recently you want to discuss? Any films 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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Unpopular opinion: Brands will appear far more trustworthy if they stop all this "narrative feeding"
In this post, I'm going to say something which might seem controversial, politically incorrect or even downright harsh to some of you. Feel free to let me know and express your strong disagreement...
In this post, I'm going to say something which might seem controversial, politically incorrect or even downright harsh to some of you. Feel free to let me know and express your strong disagreement if that's the case. Everyone's world view is different and I'm ever ready to adjust my own in light of new found facts and evidences.
What I'm observing these days is that many big tech companies and large corporations are pushing lot's of content on Linkedin, Twitter, etc. which conveys the idea that these companies are standing up for the rights of supposedly oppressed section of the masses (females, minorities, etc.). 8 out of 10 postings from them are typically about these, a group picture of women employees, retweets or likes of those who have posted on new joining and promotions, etc.
With all due respect, the problem here isn't with the virtues of women empowerment, etc., needless to say these are good things to be celebrated in a society. But the problem is with their approach. When 8 out of 10 posts are only on these topics, the impression or narrative being pushed becomes that the world at large is very cruel and gruesome whereas these large capitalists are the ones who are implementing just rules and ethics on that world. Do you think this narrative or story they're selling is based on any factual reality?
I've seen and experienced a fair part of that "world at large" myself and while there are indeed many problems with it and it's far from perfect, it's a bit rich of these capitalists to make that kind of narrative signaling when, in fact, they're the ones who are partly responsible for keeping it ever poor and oppressed. These companies have the highest privileges of the world and they profit out of a crony system that thrives and benefits from the gates which keep the competition away.
Now, I'm not one of those "ancap" dudes who blatantly cancels capitalism entirely. Oh no, we all do need capitalism, not only because it's a system that pays your salaries and bills but also because the alternative is much worse and we have seen what it did in Russia and Korea and China. I just wish capitalism was more inclusive and of the Adam Smithian Laissez Faire and free competition kind and less of the big tech and surveillance capitalism kind.
This constant narrative pushing by the corporates, in effect, keeps people distracted from this truly bad aspect of capitalism. The masses are gullible, they can't see it, but the people sitting at top positions in these companies should know better. What kind of society are they trying to create with this? These companies have nothing to fear. Even if the masses actually realized and start thinking about this problem, they're hardly in a position to do anything about it. The way our rigid systems are designed and work, I don't see it changing for at least decades, if not centuries. But I wish these brands stop pushing on the narrative front in the meantime. In fact, the only thing that will change is make them more trustworthy in the eyes of wise people in the society, that's what I think.
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Cake in the office should be viewed like passive smoking, says UK food regulator
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It's time to put cancer warning labels on alcohol, experts say
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Baby hippo raised by rhinos meets another hippo for the first time
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Justin Roiland domestic violence charges met with silence from TV partners
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Behind Disney’s activist investor battle: A Marvel mogul’s revenge play
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No, you can’t get a 16TB SSD for a hundred bucks
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The Apple TV expects you to have an iPhone in order to accept new iCloud terms and conditions
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I got some cool drone footage along Lake Superior on a cold winter day
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies
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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?2 votes -
Led by ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ Netflix dominates Annie Awards nominations
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Can you actually survive on D&D 5e rations and foraging for three days? Let's find out
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The secret gay love affair behind Alfred Hitchcock's Rope
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Eli Manning goes undercover as a College Football walk-on
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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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Matteo Messina Denaro: How Italian Mafia boss was caught on a visit to a clinic
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An overview of the substation attack in Moore County, North Carolina in December 2022
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The Mandalorian | Season 3 official trailer
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At Experience Restaurant on a remote farm, chef Kim Sjøbakk takes diners on a sixteen-course culinary tour of the Trøndelag landscape in Norway
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What do you all think about HBO's The Last of Us show? - S1E1 Discussion
The Last of Us episode 1 was released on 1/15. The season has 9 episodes total, releasing one episode per week.
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Al Capone's soup kitchen
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UK government to block Scottish gender bill
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eBikes face safety hurdles
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Netflix and the self-fulfilling cancellation loop
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