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8 votes
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02E10 - "Hegemony" Episode Discussion
What do you guys think about this episode? They really went and hit us with a cross season cliffhanger... I wasn't expecting one of those!
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Pasta Grannies: A discussion on favorite recipes and pasta advice
Greetings ~food! Not too long ago, I posted a topic asking for cookbook recommendations and received a flood of amazing recommendations. Thank you all for sharing your favorites; I have expanded...
Greetings ~food! Not too long ago, I posted a topic asking for cookbook recommendations and received a flood of amazing recommendations. Thank you all for sharing your favorites; I have expanded my collection thanks to that thread! One that has become a quick favorite of mine is Pasta Grannies, although I accidentally grabbed Book 2 and I'm still needing to grab Book 1.
Something that has dawned on me with that cookbook is the desire to make all the recipes similar to how Ash Ketchum wanted to catch all the Pokémon! The first recipe I made was Rina's Capriccio and oh lordy did it blow my mind how good it was and that I made it! My only complaint was the struggle to just pick one recipe to try and I'm aspiring to make a pasta dish every Sunday now.
Since there are several recipes from Pasta Grannies between the two books and their Youtube channel, I'm indecisive on what to do next. To all who have dived into their recipes, what are your favorites that are absolute must tries? What are some that might not be worth the effort? I'd love to hear everyone's experience with pasta making regardless if it's a Pasta Grannies recipe!
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The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained
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What comics books are you reading these days?
Inspired by the recurring thread on ~books. What are you reading currently or have read recently? Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit!
15 votes -
Brain recordings capture musicality of speech — with help from Pink Floyd
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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
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What "lost" web page would you like to find again?
What was your favorite web page back in the day that you would visit religiously and tell all your friends about but have since lost? Did it shutter permanently or did you lose the bookmark when...
What was your favorite web page back in the day that you would visit religiously and tell all your friends about but have since lost? Did it shutter permanently or did you lose the bookmark when switching computers never to find it again?
Back in the days of printed web page yellow pages and search engines you had to submit your page to be reviewed before it was listed, I had found a page about movie easter eggs, errors and insider information. It had factoids about nearly 1000 movies ranging from obscure facts, mistakes in editing, anachronisms, funny on-set stories and the like.
It was fun to read that this character was named after the art directors niece, the stunt car is visible losing 8 hubcaps in the main chase, etc. It was amazing to read how different movies would interact (IIRC, Kim Bassinger's gasp/jump reaction to opening the door in "Batman" was real due to them having a xenomoprh from Aliens there instead of Jack Nicholson since they were filming at the same time). It was also cool to read that certain characters made cameos in other movies (most people caught that Randolph and Mortimer Duke from "Trading Places" were in "Coming to America" but there are so many other not as obvious blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos). I never would have noticed the car visible in the background of Johnny Cage vs Scorpion in the orchard fight in "Mortal Kombat" without this page--and now I can never unsee it when I watch it.
I don't know if I lost the bookmark or if the page shut down so I deleted it but any search I've undertaken for this page in the last few decades only seems to return listicles like "21 obvious anachronisms in modern movies!" but not my all comprehensive target.
Honorable mention to Damn Interesting (although I did find that one again after a few years). Although it's underwent some turbulance and changes since I first disovered it, I would often reread the articles and gleefully looked forward to each new article when I was younger. With article names like Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom it was hard not to be intrigued.
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Did I f-up?
My spouse and I went to dinner with my parents in law tonight. Father-IL can be hard in Mother-IL generally speaking, often picking on her and 'teasing' her. Mostly criticism. It can make things...
My spouse and I went to dinner with my parents in law tonight. Father-IL can be hard in Mother-IL generally speaking, often picking on her and 'teasing' her. Mostly criticism. It can make things pretty uncomfortable, but as mid-westerners do, rarely my spouse or the other family people speak up unless it's to rib back in order to deflect or make it stop. FIL and MIL are both in their late 70's, so aging, and conservative catholic, so daily drinkers. We went to dinner tonight to celebrate my MIL's birthday. FIL is generally stressed out due to drama with his siblings/health issues/he's just a super stressed out person, and he ordered something in a wrap and asked for no onion. Meal came and there was onions. FIL complains passively to us and we say he should say something. He says, "no, no, no."
Server came and asked, "how is everything?"
FIL says "it's fine, it's fine"
MIL starts to say, "well..."
FIL interrupts with, "shut your mouth, MIL!"
Awkward silence...eat dinner when it comes...everyone is trying to act like nothing happened.
We finish dinner and we're finishing our drinks and MIL asks, "myspouse, are you okay?"
My spouse says stilted, "yeah, I'm fine."
MIL says, "world, are you okay?"
And out of me erupted, sternly but not with a yell, towards my FIL, "it's not okay to say 'shut your mouth' yo your wife."
Everyone got quiet. Then FIL tried to defend himself and say, "I've rarely ever said that, something something, I don't need this."
Then he shut me down so I just said, "heared, heard" and left.
He said in the car on the way home, "maybe I over reacted, but..."
And I said, "I shouldn't have said anything, I know you're under a lot of stress."
Now everything is awkward and strained and quiet. I don't need to be adding more to an already stressful life situation for older folk whom I do care about, but I couldn't hold my tongue. How does one strike balance in a situation like that?
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Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes
79 votes -
Grand jury in the US state of Georgia returns indictments in Donald Trump 2020 election case
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Italy's far-right ruling party has been ordered to pay damages to a same-sex couple for using a photo of them with their newborn son without their consent in an anti-surrogacy campaign
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She wasn't able to get an abortion. Now she's a mom. At 13 years old, soon she'll start 7th grade.
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Backward compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
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Undead Girl Murder Farce | Discussion thread - all episodes
Alternative title(s) Undead Murder Farce, Andeddo Garu Mada Farusu Genre(s) Fantasy, Mystery, Supernatural No. Episodes 13 Information MyAnimeList AniList AniDB Synopsis The end of the 19th...
Alternative title(s) Undead Murder Farce, Andeddo Garu Mada Farusu
Genre(s) Fantasy, Mystery, Supernatural
No. Episodes 13
Information MyAnimeList AniList AniDBSynopsis
The end of the 19th century—a vampire's wife is murdered, and the detective known as the "cage user" is called in to solve the crime. But there's more to the detective and the curtained birdcage he carries...after all, when solving a case involving a monster, it might just take one to know one!
(from MyAnimeList)
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Jeopardy! contestants weigh a second shot at glory versus crossing the picket line
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The Babylon 5 animated movie is B5: The Road Home, and here’s what it’s about
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Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision
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Finland's former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb will run as a candidate in the presidential elections – will face the popular former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto
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'Arc' browser is now available to download without a waitlist (for macOS)
38 votes -
How solar has exploded in the US in just a year – in numbers
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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
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I made a little CLI app for backing up my Tildes comments
I made a little CLI app for backing up my tildes comments / topics. $ pip install xklb $ library tildes -h usage: library tildes DATABASE USER Backup tildes.net user comments and topics library...
I made a little CLI app for backing up my tildes comments / topics.
$ pip install xklb $ library tildes -h usage: library tildes DATABASE USER Backup tildes.net user comments and topics library tildes tildes.net.db xk3 Without cookies you are limited to the first page. You can use cookies like this: https://github.com/rotemdan/ExportCookies library tildes tildes.net.db xk3 --cookies ~/Downloads/cookies-tildes-net.txt
It creates a SQLITE file with HTML text in one of the columns. Nothing super fancy. Let me know what you think?
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Marion County Record newspaper raid: the sworn affidavit for the search warrant is essentially just the text of the search warrant
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Tildes Video Thread
To avoid the homepage getting swamped with too many YouTube links, we're doing a recurring thread to gather them up. What are the best videos you have watched this past week/fortnight?
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Boots Riley interview about SAG, WGA Strikes and the future of Hollywood's labor movement
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Juggalo family values: we could all learn a lot from insane clowns
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The history of the Minnesota Vikings | Part one: 1960s
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - August 10
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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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.
6 votes -
The republic of cows: Alaska has given an uninhabited, remote island to feral cattle
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‘His name was Bélizaire’: Rare portrait of enslaved child arrives at the Met
21 votes -
Using artificial intelligence to ban books only makes the problem worse
20 votes -
Prison can be a hostile place. Then the birds came.
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President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage
91 votes -
The superconductor sensation has fizzled - and that's fine
40 votes -
ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip
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The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity - the goal is avoiding a commercial real estate crash
132 votes -
The biggest bank heist in history (and why you've never heard of it)
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US Education Department readies latest tranche of student debt relief but faces new legal challenges to the program
18 votes -
F1’s wet weather problem is proving difficult to solve
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Connecting Amazon Echo Dot to smart TV
I'm wondering if anyone here might be able to help me with this. We've bought a Amazon Echo Dot for my Grandma who's no longer able to see very well. The idea was to connect it to her Smart TV so...
I'm wondering if anyone here might be able to help me with this.
We've bought a Amazon Echo Dot for my Grandma who's no longer able to see very well. The idea was to connect it to her Smart TV so that she would be able to navigate it using voice commands rather than the remote (which she can't see).
I've been able to add the TV as a device on the Alexa app, however I'm unable to get Alexa to carry out any commands on the TV - change the channel, open an app etc.
I believe that what I need to do is connect the TV to the Echo Dot via Bluetooth. Is this correct? Is it functionally a different thing than having something as a device in the app? Currently when I go to the TV under devices and click to manage linked Alexa devices, the Echo Dot is greyed out because it's already paired with a device (presumably the iPad where I've downloaded the app as there are no other devices connected).
If the lack of bluetooth connection is the issue, I'll need to buy a Bluetooth transmitter for the TV has it doesn't have bluetooth capability. So I just wanted to see if anyone had any advice for me before I invest in another piece of tech.
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Starmourn MUD is now in legacy mode
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How wave power could be the future of energy
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Amid streaming chaos, Dropout carves out its own niche
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Besides money, if the was the case, what might prevent you from have a fulfilling life?
I would like to learn for me and my loved ones. In my case is health issues and anxiety about deadly emergencies (I have been there). Also, professional growth potential have declined after...
I would like to learn for me and my loved ones.
In my case is health issues and anxiety about deadly emergencies (I have been there). Also, professional growth potential have declined after certain age.25 votes -
Ex-UFC champion Luke Rockhold to grapple Craig Jones on Sept. 21
9 votes -
Bots can complete CAPTCHAs quicker than humans
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Rockstar Games acquires modding team that it previously banned
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Kyle Gordon - Planet of the Bass (feat. DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica) (2023)
10 votes