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  2. Comment on Tildes Video Thread in ~misc

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    Zeldoom: Echoes of Wisdom: A kind of haunting short animation about Zelda’s duplication powers

    Zeldoom: Echoes of Wisdom: A kind of haunting short animation about Zelda’s duplication powers

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Five killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes over government jobs quota in ~news

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    At least five people were reported killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh on Tuesday as student protests against a government jobs quota led to violence around the country, media reports said.

    Student protesters clashed with pro-government student activists and with police, and violence was reported around the capital of Dhaka, the southeastern city of Chattogram and the northern city of Rangpur. At least three of the dead were students, one was a pedestrian and one was not identified, media reports said, citing officials.

    Protesters are demanding an end to a quota reserved for family members of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971, which allows them to take up to 30% of government jobs.

    They argue the quota is discriminatory, and should be replaced with a merit-based system. They also say it benefits supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, whose Awami League party led the independence movement. Ruling party leaders accuse the opposition of backing the protests.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us (2024) in ~music

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    A music video for Not Like Us which released yesterday

    A music video for Not Like Us which released yesterday

    4 votes

  12. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    Preparing for finals this week. This year has been super busy, so I haven't interacted with Tildes as much as I would have liked. Also my gaming laptop seems to have finally kicked the bucket, so...

    Preparing for finals this week. This year has been super busy, so I haven't interacted with Tildes as much as I would have liked. Also my gaming laptop seems to have finally kicked the bucket, so I'm looking into building a PC for the first time.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Publishers sue Google over pirate sites selling textbooks in ~tech

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    Anna’s Archive is useful because it goes through most of the other sites listed here (libgen, scihub, etc) and is accessible all on one site

    Anna’s Archive is useful because it goes through most of the other sites listed here (libgen, scihub, etc) and is accessible all on one site

    12 votes

  14. Comment on The case for NYC's congestion pricing in ~transport

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    Original title: New York's Governor Just Stupidly Killed all Future Transit Expansion This video is a bit more vulgar than the type of video I'd typically post to Tildes, but hey if its what it...

    Original title: New York's Governor Just Stupidly Killed all Future Transit Expansion

    This video is a bit more vulgar than the type of video I'd typically post to Tildes, but hey if its what it takes for US governments to actually prioritize good public transit, I'm all for it

    If you'd like to send a message to Governor Hochul yourself about instating congestion pricing, and thus funding MTA expansion, click here

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Biologists discovered a widespread protein that abruptly shuts down a cell’s activity — and turns it back on just as fast in ~science

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    The original study for anyone interested in reading it

    The original study for anyone interested in reading it

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Disney's new Star Wars series The Acolyte is excellent in ~tv

  18. Comment on Mike Tyson in 2:00.00 (World Record) in ~games

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    Also worth considering that the vast majority of attempts probably end before he beats Tyson, since getting hit immediately dooms the run, like in the beginning of the original clip

    It’s actually a ~1:20 segment. The seconds in MTPO are shorter than real seconds.

    Also worth considering that the vast majority of attempts probably end before he beats Tyson, since getting hit immediately dooms the run, like in the beginning of the original clip

    6 votes

  20. Comment on UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pitches mandatory national service at eighteen in ~news

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    Britain’s Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if it wins the national election on July 4, comprising military or community participation, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday.

    Young adults will be able to choose between spending one weekend a month volunteering over the course of a year, or take up one of 30,000 spaces to spend a year in the armed forces, Sunak said.

    Sunak’s Conservatives lag Labour by a wide margin in opinion polls, which have shown little change in fortunes for the prime minister since his surprise election call last Wednesday.

    10 votes