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The Lounge / My eyes are broken

« on: June 15, 2023, 04:52:26 AM »

Hey, so remember that tech support thread I made because I misread the bottom? And how I accidentally debated in Q&A because I thought I was in Debate?

I went to the optometrist yesterday, turns out my sphere was off by like 0.5 on both eyes. I'm getting new lenses next week. Do y'all have any eye-based woes?

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Technical Support / The forum stats on the main page are broken

« on: June 14, 2023, 09:09:04 AM »

Earlier, I made a post, and went back out to the main page. I wanted to check some forum stats, so I went down and saw this:

That's the thread I had just posted in! So, I click the link, and it brings me back to my own post, with nothing beneath it.

Weird. I went back to the forum stats several minutes later, and the same username was there. Clicking it brought me to a profile with 0 posts, despite the bottom of the page claiming they had just posted.

It looks like this issue is currently affecting all posts. Here's another one, with the post actually being from DataOverflow:

I'm not sure if it's malicious or random though. The one that got Data's post looks like another one of the hacker profiles that pops up in general , but stormtrooper is just a blank profile, registered yesterday. They have no links on their profile or anything.

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The Lounge / Canada's on fire

« on: June 07, 2023, 05:31:41 AM »

Smoke's hitting my area, but not as hard as it's hit others. I CAN FEEL IT IN MY EYES.

Anyone else here stuck in the haze?

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Arts & Entertainment / Hamilton (The Musical)

« on: May 29, 2023, 10:50:22 PM »

Given AP testing has just ended, my AP World History teacher had us cool down by doing a HIPP analysis (Historical Context, Intended Audience, Point of View, Purpose) and give a review, and I wanted to hear y'all's thoughts. Personally, I enjoyed it, with two caveats. 1: It's historically iffy. It's one sided in a lot of ways, and paints especially the British as purely tyrannical and greedy douches. 2: Lin Manuel Miranda is an amazing songwriter, but he just can't sing. His acting is fine, but his singing ability is well below that of everyone else in the cast. Dear Theodosia especially shows this, with Burr being much more emotional than Hamilton. I say this as someone who is currently in two choirs.

So, what are your thoughts on this musical/opera from 8 years ago?

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Flat Earth Debate / Thoughts on this video?

« on: April 23, 2023, 04:06:34 PM »

A YouTuber recently made a video on how the Minecraft Earth is flat, and I was wondering how y'all would react to it, assuming we applied its arguments to the real world.



The main flaw I see with his final conclusion is that these tethers would have to be stronger than anything we currently know of to withstand these forces.