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6 votes
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Office of Management and Budget—Withholding of Ukraine security assistance
11 votes -
Norway's government risks splitting after a coalition partner threatened to pull its support over the repatriation of a woman who joined Islamic State in Syria
6 votes -
SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy
15 votes -
Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
6 votes -
How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing
7 votes -
What’s behind the iconic floor plan of London
7 votes -
Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to September
18 votes -
Five reasons why software testing needs humans
6 votes -
Drug gang violence in Sweden linked to 60% increase in bomb blasts – last year 257 bomb attacks were reported to police, up from 162 in 2018
4 votes -
Two gay Chinese dads. One long and winding trip to fatherhood
9 votes -
What ‘livability’ looks like for Black women in the US
10 votes -
I make jewellery from wood - here's how I make one of my designs
17 votes -
When Minneapolis segregated
4 votes -
Would capping office space ease San Francisco’s housing crunch?
4 votes -
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. Previous topics Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
15 votes -
Previously unseen footage of David Bowie has been released. The thirty minutes of experimental film was for a hologram.
5 votes -
Etran de L'Aïr - Music from Saharan WhatsApp (2019)
5 votes -
What is a good free alternative to Wordpress that requires little coding?
I have basic notions of HTML and CSS, but nearly zero JS knowledge. I can perform simple customizations and I know how to follow instructions. It is not my intention to create anything from...
I have basic notions of HTML and CSS, but nearly zero JS knowledge. I can perform simple customizations and I know how to follow instructions.
It is not my intention to create anything from scratch (so the platform should have plenty of free themes), nor do I want to become a webdev or webdesigner. This is not a technical project for me, my main concern is the content.
I currently have a blog that uses Wordpress with a purchased theme. It's good enough, but a bit slow to load. Besides, simpler platforms might be easier to understand and manipulate.
This alternative would also need to be FOSS and easy to self-host.
As a plus, it would be awesome if I could manage the blog/website from within Emacs/Org Mode.
Any ideas?
14 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?
6 votes -
Privatizing public services: Does it work?
5 votes -
What's your favourite live album?
I've been listening to Iron Maiden's Rock in Rio album on loop for a couple of days (I'm learning a bunch of the songs), and it's such a great album. Really wide selection of their hits from...
I've been listening to Iron Maiden's Rock in Rio album on loop for a couple of days (I'm learning a bunch of the songs), and it's such a great album. Really wide selection of their hits from across their career, some classics, loads of new stuff, some deeper cuts (the Blaze tracks). It sounds amazing, to say it was all recorded on a single night. Absolutely amazing album, I can't think of a live effort that I enjoy more.
What's your favourite live album?
15 votes -
Doctor Who S12E03 'Orphan 55'
What did you think of this week's episode of 'Doctor Who'? Previous discussions: Doctor Who S12E01 'Spyfall'
6 votes -
"Github Based Jobs Listings": a GitHub repo where IT jobs (mostly US and Canada-based) may be posted for a bounty
8 votes -
A Maine paper mill’s unexpected savior: China
6 votes -
Anyone here running a Pleroma instance?
11 votes -
Nocturnal Awareness
I lie awake Your smell lingers on my hand Bringing quiet contentment While you sleep
6 votes -
Critical Windows 10 exploit discovered which allows arbitrary software to be installed under the guise of Windows updates
20 votes -
Incredible, secret firefighting mission saves famous Australian 'dinosaur trees'
5 votes -
What are some games that exceed expectations?
I'd love to hear about some games that are surprisingly good, deep, or different. As in, the premise or the presentation of the game does not bode well or looks weak, but the game itself rises...
I'd love to hear about some games that are surprisingly good, deep, or different. As in, the premise or the presentation of the game does not bode well or looks weak, but the game itself rises above those preconceptions and limitations to be greater, richer, or more interesting than you expected. Think games like: a surprisingly good movie tie-in, a really great edutainment experience, a well-executed corporate mascot platformer, etc.
What is it about the game that sets your expectations low, and how does the game overcome that low anchoring?
16 votes -
Close your open tabs - Sometimes, information overload has its limits
14 votes -
An examination of over 4700 clinical trials found that less than 45% of them reported their results on time, despite it being a legal requirement
7 votes -
What happened to the news?
8 votes -
Election security at the chip level – or, why your electronic voting options might not get better any time soon
5 votes -
Big data+small bias << Small data+zero bias
5 votes -
Ray tracing, VRS, and DLSS in id Tech 6 and Wolfenstein: Youngblood
6 votes -
Mozilla lays off seventy as it waits for new products to generate revenue
27 votes -
Denmark's 'ghetto plan' and the communities it targets – residents of largely Muslim neighbourhoods face increased penalties for crimes and 'Danish values' lessons for children
12 votes -
Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
7 votes -
Lane 8 - The Rope (feat. POLIÇA)
4 votes -
The story of how Microsoft's Kinect grew from a skunkworks motion-controller project into a company-wide effort with massive resources, and was eventually abandoned
6 votes -
Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?
6 votes -
The afterlife of Android: Netrunner - The community taking a beloved card game's future into their own hands
9 votes -
The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser is out of preview and available for download
19 votes -
For the movie The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers built a 19th-century ‘lighthouse’
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!
7 votes -
Resident Evil 3 Remake | Official Nemesis trailer
8 votes -
US electricity generation from renewables surpassed coal in April
8 votes -
What's your daily routine like?
I'll start (for reference, I am a 14 year old Brazilian in a presumably poor house , also in retrospect this reminds me of what they tell you to do at the beginning of most English courses, which...
I'll start (for reference, I am a 14 year old Brazilian in a presumably poor house , also in retrospect this reminds me of what they tell you to do at the beginning of most English courses, which makes me feel like a cringy kid):
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Wake up (6:15, praised be alarm clocks)
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Put on the school uniform (takes 5-10 minutes)
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Have breakfast (takes 10 minutes)
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Brush my teeth (takes less than 5 minutes)
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Walk to school (6:45)
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Reach school (less than 100 meters from my home thankfully) and enter a classroom (7:00 plus a few minutes for teachers to set stuff up)
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stay in school until 12:17 (every time the subject changes, we pack our stuff and go to the classroom the teacher of the subject is in. There is also a break between 9:30 and 10:20.)
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Leave school and go home
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Get home by 12:45
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Have lunch, usually rice and beans with either meat or chicken meat in some flattened form I can't describe, usually at 1-1:30 PM.
Do... whatever on the phone (as of recently be here or in discord, along with reddit and YouTube for longer unless it runs out of battery) Edit: see here for details.
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Have dinner (usually at 8:30-9:00, same food as lunch)
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Pack the books for the subjects they teach tomorrow
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Go to sleep at 10.
During vacation/weekends I can wake up from 5-10 AM depending on how well I slept the previous night. The rest is the same, except for Saturdays my parents go and buy some esfihas to break the monotony of lunch and dinner.
29 votes -
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From their balloons, the first aeronauts transformed our view of the world
5 votes