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9 votes
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Why Republican voters say there’s ‘no way in hell’ Trump lost
23 votes -
I lived through a stupid coup. America is having one now
19 votes -
Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won’t play his games
9 votes -
The real Hunter Biden story everyone is missing
6 votes -
Republic of Lies (#225 of Sam Harris's podcast)
3 votes -
Why mainstream progressives have a strong incentive to 'sanewash' hard leftist positions
21 votes -
Jamelle Bouie discusses popular explanations for Trump's 2020 election performance
5 votes -
The new $45 billion metro system under construction beneath Paris
12 votes -
The world's first internet bench
5 votes -
Why do political ads love to feature girls instead of women? Defiant young girls have become a political symbol in a country that fears grown women.
15 votes -
Let’s kill the Assembly (Part one of the Jury Democracy legislative series)
4 votes -
Why Obama fears for our democracy
11 votes -
Not every Trump voter is racist or misled. There’s a rational Trump voter too
23 votes -
As the racial gap closes, the Democrat-Republican education gap widens
7 votes -
The polls weren't great this year and that was always a possibility
6 votes -
Is this a coup?
29 votes -
How to use plate tectonics to make realistic fictional worlds
8 votes -
Centre for Applied Eschatology
7 votes -
Abby Shapiro and Modesty | Jack Saint
4 votes -
VR furries are now running around The Four Seasons Total Landscaping
18 votes -
Improving media for fans
I began doing this a few years ago on Reddit where I would visit a subreddit of a musical group that I had appreciated. I'd then ask if there was a particular performance video or any such other...
I began doing this a few years ago on Reddit where I would visit a subreddit of a musical group that I had appreciated.
I'd then ask if there was a particular performance video or any such other media that they'd like to have improved for their enjoyment.
Luckily, I was able to contribute to fans of The Smiths with two versions of four particular performances that have come to be known as 'Silas Remasters'.
Here is a list of media that I have documented along the way.
Is there media that you'd like me to improve upon?
12 votes -
What prevents former US presidents from disclosing national secrets?
I have tried to answer this myself and come up empty handed. When a U.S. president leaves office, they take intimate awareness of many national secrets with them (weapons systems, intelligence...
I have tried to answer this myself and come up empty handed. When a U.S. president leaves office, they take intimate awareness of many national secrets with them (weapons systems, intelligence gathering techniques, etc.). What prevents a former president from selling this information to the highest bidder?
22 votes -
Being with Trump the day he lost
15 votes -
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s win, house losses, and what’s next for the left
25 votes -
American incarceration, in real numbers
14 votes -
Goodbye, anonymous Republican source
20 votes -
Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight
18 votes -
Dozens of socialists were elected to legislatures, while minimum-wage hikes, rent controls, and taxes on the rich to fund schools all won voter backing, even in very red places
16 votes -
Biden wins — pretty convincingly in the end
46 votes -
Trump should have lost in a landslide. The fact that he didn’t speaks volumes
43 votes -
As Biden wins the US election and transitions to president-elect, US allies and other nations react to the shift
17 votes -
The surprising convergence between neo-nazis and jihadis
8 votes -
The Lincoln Project was a giant grift
26 votes -
Hasan Piker's Twitch stream is the future of Election Night coverage
12 votes -
The inside story of how the White House let diplomacy fail in Afghanistan
6 votes -
Japan's jimi ("mundane") Halloween costumes of 2020
18 votes -
What tips or tricks do you use when researching a topic to find actually useful information?
Stop me if you've heard this one before: You get an idea for something you'd like to learn more about. (Maybe you have a question, maybe you want to explore a new hobby, or maybe you want to make...
Stop me if you've heard this one before:
- You get an idea for something you'd like to learn more about. (Maybe you have a question, maybe you want to explore a new hobby, or maybe you want to make a more informed decision.)
- You type something into a search engine.
- You click a result, only to realize that what you're reading is poorly written. It seems rushed, surface-level, and ill-informed. "This doesn't answer my question at all!" you think to yourself.
- You go back, and try another one, and another one, only to give up and put the idea back in your head.
I don't think these webpages are written to be useful in the first place. They seem to be written to attract attention to the website for other reasons (ad revenue, affiliate links, to draw attention to a product or service). Regardless of why it's happening, though, I want to find a better way to search.
The sort of content I'm looking for is written by someone who really cares about the topic. I want to learn from dorks and nerds and passionate people. Once I stumbled across this blog about extra virgin olive oil. The website isn't pretty, and it goes way more in depth than I'll ever need, but I trust the author, and there are some really interesting nuggets of insight on these pages. (e.g. "Another myth debunked: Heating EVOO makes it ‘toxic’")
Do you have any tips or tricks to more reliably find these sorts of sources (whether online or in-person)?
15 votes -
Younger Americans are more likely to report that they've experienced barriers to voting
12 votes -
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
12 votes -
Dear Dad, please don’t vote for Donald Trump this time
24 votes -
The powder keg index and the election from hell
9 votes -
The US eliminated nearly 21,000 Election Day polling locations for 2020
19 votes -
How President Trump ruined political comedy
10 votes -
Sanna Marin, Finland's fearless prime minister, is challenging sexism in politics
10 votes -
The mystery of the immaculate concussion
7 votes -
The real divide in America is between political junkies and everyone else
17 votes -
Gabelstapler Klaus, a gorefilled safety video for forklift operators
4 votes -
Voting
19 votes -
How prepared are these seven battlegrounds for the election? A readiness report
4 votes