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8 votes
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Central America parliament expels Taiwan as permanent observer, adds China in the same role
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
16 votes -
Mapping arctic foxes’ spectacular solo journeys
8 votes -
Rebel Moon | Official teaser trailer
5 votes -
Eliminate elections for a better US democracy
25 votes -
An announcement regarding Kris Nóva
23 votes -
How wealthy "super emitters" in the US are disproportionately driving the climate crisis — while blaming you
34 votes -
Why Bill Watterson vanished
45 votes -
Italian singer, songwriter, and musician Toto Cutugno dies at the age of 80
7 votes -
Exposed: Slum photography was at the heart of progressive campaigns against urban poverty. And it was a weapon against poor people.
5 votes -
LCD, Please: A free game celebrating ten years of Papers, Please
32 votes -
Feature highlights #10: Game progression | Cities: Skylines II
12 votes -
What's your method for shopping for laptops?
Just wondering how other technically inclined individuals go about this. For my daily driver machines I usually buy Macs and build towers, which are simple enough — on the Mac, figure out needs...
Just wondering how other technically inclined individuals go about this.
For my daily driver machines I usually buy Macs and build towers, which are simple enough — on the Mac, figure out needs and slightly overbuy, and on towers put some research into parts to find those with the best reviews and bang for buck. Pretty straightforward.
I also keep around a generic x86 laptop though, and I might be replacing the one I have currently in the coming months. Shopping for its replacement unfortunately is not so clean and simple. There is to my knowledge no laptop-shopper analogue of PCPartPicker for laptops for instance and retailer search tools are terrible (especially Amazon's), which makes filtering out the noise practically impossible. It gets even harder if you're looking for certain features and especially less tangible things like build quality, QC, and battery life. Review sites often aren't of much help, with skin-deep reviews that frequently miss major points and pay little mind to things that may become issues in long-term usage.
And yet clearly, plenty of people are buying laptops, which brings me back to the topic question. How does everybody go about their laptop shopping?
26 votes -
As offshore wind based energy production ramps up, scientists flag potential impacts, costs and benefits
10 votes -
Germany vs USA showcase highlights
6 votes -
Huey P. Newton, the misunderstood visionary behind the Black Panther Party
9 votes -
Ecuadorians reject oil drilling in the Amazon, ending operations in a protected area
13 votes -
Why do Japanese games handle trans characters so differently?
17 votes -
What is something that, surprisingly, worked?
An odd suggestion from a friend. A dubious lifehack you read online. A “well I can’t make the problem any worse, so I might as well try something” moment. Whatever it was, you didn’t expect it to...
An odd suggestion from a friend.
A dubious lifehack you read online.
A “well I can’t make the problem any worse, so I might as well try something” moment.
Whatever it was, you didn’t expect it to work, but, against all odds, it actually did.
- What was the problem?
- Why were you doubtful about it in the first place?
- How well did the novel “solution” work in the end?
79 votes -
My city bus just had an onboard computer crash and shutdown while travelling
Title says it all. Panels went dark and motor shutoff while bus was still in motion. Driver did a great job and brakes did not fail. No injuries. I tried to capture reboot sequence but fumbled my...
Title says it all. Panels went dark and motor shutoff while bus was still in motion. Driver did a great job and brakes did not fail. No injuries.
I tried to capture reboot sequence but fumbled my phone :(. Mildly distressing that this is a thing that happens…
Edit
Note this happened twice in a row. The first time eveything powered down completely. The driver stopped the bus, waited a minute, rebooted and off we went. The second time, lights stayed on, but everything else blipped. Deiver restarted engine (presumably for ac) and radioed for help.
31 votes -
Ask fashion advice and product recommendation - a thread
If you have an ask and don't feel like making a full post, shoot here and somebody may help you out. Makeup and skincare welcome too (I'm not sure if they're already counted as part of fashion :p)
12 votes -
Texas has quietly changed its abortion law - explicitly allowing abortion for premature ruptured membrane and ectopic pregnancy - how it happened
31 votes -
On this day nineteen years ago, Edvard Munch's 'The Scream' was stolen in broad daylight from an Oslo museum
14 votes -
Why do we hesitate to say “I love you” to our friends?
30 votes -
Cambodian Parliament approves longtime leader’s son as prime minister as part of generational change
4 votes -
BRICS leaders to meet and discuss expansion
12 votes -
I, HATE, I, ROBOT - a video about the 2004 "adaptation" of 'I, Robot' suggested by Isaac Asimov... and nothing else.
18 votes -
Charles Martinet no longer voicing Mario
57 votes -
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 release date potentially leaked
13 votes -
Saudi Arabia moves ahead with its largest solar power project
14 votes -
What sort of traps would Kobolds set up around a brewery? (new DM)
I recently got some superb advice here on making a fun brewery adventure, and I had a few more questions for the more experienced DMs out there. To reiterate, I am DMing a group of lvl 3...
I recently got some superb advice here on making a fun brewery adventure, and I had a few more questions for the more experienced DMs out there. To reiterate, I am DMing a group of lvl 3 characters for only 1-2 sessions so I can learn the ropes, and I would like to include some fun traps they need to look out for. I'd love to also make sure that everyone gets a chance to contribute, and not just have the rogue (our most experienced player) do all the detection and disarming.
What sort of things would be fun to set up so that players would all need to watch their step, but could also contribute a bit?
Party has a bard, ranger, druid, and rogue.
23 votes -
The last campfire in Swedish society – Sommar i P1, the radio show that unifies a nation
11 votes -
Daniel Ståhl lands second discus world title with a championship record-breaking throw at World Athletics Championships 2023 in Budapest
6 votes -
Nebulous: Fleet Command
Anybody else play? Nebulous scratches a very particular itch that I didn't know I had. It's sort of like The Expanse meets The Hunt For Red October. The learning curve is fairly long - it doesn't...
Anybody else play? Nebulous scratches a very particular itch that I didn't know I had. It's sort of like The Expanse meets The Hunt For Red October. The learning curve is fairly long - it doesn't take much to get the basics, but mastering EWAR, missiles, etc takes some work.
8 votes -
Blocklayer - A compilation of homebuilding and construction calculators and templates
18 votes -
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with five consciousness-raising albums
20 votes -
Power generation and distribution at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica
16 votes -
How Putin fooled the Western left
12 votes -
New Jersey Portal North Bridge project 25% complete, on schedule
15 votes -
I’m making tteokbokki for the first time tonight: any tips?
I’m going purely on YouTube vids for the technique. They all seem to agree to soak in water and then cook the rice cakes in stock, then add gochujang, gochugaru, soy sauce, sugar, cook until...
I’m going purely on YouTube vids for the technique. They all seem to agree to soak in water and then cook the rice cakes in stock, then add gochujang, gochugaru, soy sauce, sugar, cook until thick, top with spring onion and optionally add cheese. (I’m skipping the fish cakes).
Some recipes start by frying some garlic, some fry off the gochugaru etc for a minute, some add the white part of the spring onion much earlier… I’m not sure whether any of these steps are necessary/make a big difference.
Anyone who is familiar with the dish - is there anything extra you do to elevate this dish? Anything I should know about the cooking process?
30 votes -
Four hour mix of 200 "futuristic" songs from around 1980
22 votes -
Louisiana to devote $20.5 million to New Orleans-Baton Rouge rail project
25 votes -
What should I (a total Minecraft noob) do in the Tildes Minecraft Server?
Hey everybody! I joined the Tildes Minecraft server last week and had an absolute blast building my house. I've barely played any Minecraft before (only early-game wandering around and mining) and...
Hey everybody!
I joined the Tildes Minecraft server last week and had an absolute blast building my house. I've barely played any Minecraft before (only early-game wandering around and mining) and it was super fun to wander the town and see everyone's builds and to build my own house based on stuff I looked up online. Also the bit where part of my house started burning down and everybody online came to help put it out (I did not know how to put it out myself guys so y'all were lifesavers there) was unironically super fun.
However, my house is more or less finished for now, and since I'm not very experienced with Minecraft I have no idea what to do next. There are already tons of cool farms in the town (legitimately super impressed) but I don't know enough about the game to feel comfortable trying to fill any gaps there, and I certainly don't feel comfortable trying to gather resources in more difficult areas like the Nether or The End given my extremely low skill level (others can attest I was repeatedly killed by the same skeleton over and over on more than one occasion lol). So now I'm wondering... what do I do next?
In a singleplayer game I'd just look up what my options are online, but since this is a multiplayer server it feels more like something I should ask the community about. What can I contribute to the server as a total noob? What are things that I can do that won't interfere with other people's projects or get ruined by me not having the experience with Minecraft to implement it properly? Is there anything that people are really itching to have done that is within my skillset?
In addition to this, any more general advice about how to play the game, particularly in a multiplayer setting like this, is super appreciated. Everyone I've chatted with on the server has been super nice and I'm really loving the environment y'all have created.
Also unrelatedly can someone please tell me how the public transit works. I do not know how to ride it lol.
I also was wondering whether there's any dedicated space to discussing and planning things on this server yet, like a Discord server or something. Obviously tildes itself exists, but I figure someplace for more transient discussions and planning would also be handy and I wondered if someone had already made one.
30 votes -
Beer-drunk raccoons terrorize Germany, chaos reigns
47 votes -
More Amtrak Airo trainsets ordered to meet surging US demand
19 votes -
Both parents agree: The child is being harmed. Which one will the US court believe?
26 votes -
Tulsa, Oklahoma introduces on-demand "micro transit" service
36 votes -
How the richest country in the world has allowed its poor to remain poor
34 votes -
Carbon removal should be a public good
30 votes