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3 votes
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Sinners | Official trailer
5 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
7 votes -
Are DAOs still a thing?
Early last year, there were some rather heady predictions within my company about the potential/future of decentralized autonomous organizations. (That a DAO would be running a real company, that...
Early last year, there were some rather heady predictions within my company about the potential/future of decentralized autonomous organizations. (That a DAO would be running a real company, that a DAO would play an important role in an election somewhere, etc.) They have not come true. From my perspective, the same generally seems to be the case for nearly all Web3 components.
That led me to wonder, though - are DAOs still a thing? Is there quiet potential there and the hype machine has simply moved on to LLMs... or was hype all there ever was?
Have any of you seen any actual uses of a DAO? I would love to hear about it if so.
16 votes -
Malaysian Palm Oil Council urges EU to delay implementation of deforestation law
16 votes -
How did Scandinavian Airlines flight 751 survive after losing power in both engines just one minute after takeoff?
10 votes -
Aug 2024 - "America isn’t ready for the wars of the future" by Mark Milley (ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) and Eric Schmidt (ex-CEO of Google)
13 votes -
Hezbollah is hit by a wave of exploding pagers that killed at least nine people and injured thousands
79 votes -
How Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters put actual lives at risk
23 votes -
US prepares to sue Visa for alleged anti-competitive behaviour
29 votes -
Covert racism in AI: How language models are reinforcing outdated stereotypes
20 votes -
Speed puzzlers from sixty-eight countries battled for glory at Spain's World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships – Kristin Thuv from Norway took the individual title this year
10 votes -
The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant
8 votes -
Kanonenfieber - Waffenbrüder (2024)
4 votes -
SpaceTraders — A unique multiplayer game built on a free Web API
62 votes -
Patrick Sergeant was a titan of old school financial journalism
1 vote -
How do I sync my dotfiles between PC and laptop?
I've been struggling with this for a long time. I want to keep my workflow consistent independent of my "workstation", and have identical dotfiles (like .bashrc, .vimrc etc.) on different devices....
I've been struggling with this for a long time. I want to keep my workflow consistent independent of my "workstation", and have identical dotfiles (like .bashrc, .vimrc etc.) on different devices.
So... How you personally deal with this issue, and what should I do?
Thanks!
12 votes -
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek hopes his latest brainchild, the Neko Body Scan, will revolutionise healthcare
20 votes -
How the Islamic State weaponizes imitation in its propaganda
4 votes -
Moments of Pride
I thought this might be a nice thread for folks to share some happy LGBTQ things, more personal things than news but if it impacts you personally, go for it. I was just sitting on the porch...
I thought this might be a nice thread for folks to share some happy LGBTQ things, more personal things than news but if it impacts you personally, go for it. I was just sitting on the porch wearing my Totally Gay shirt thinking we needed a happy thread.
Share moments of Pride, queer joy, winning against those who would discriminate, whatever strikes you.
24 votes -
Mexico's Senate just approved changing the constitution
18 votes -
The return of Ta-Nehisi Coates
12 votes -
More powerful mods coming to Dwarf Fortress via Lua
9 votes -
India is home to six visa temples where many NRIs got visa boons to live American Dream or work in other countries
2 votes -
Canada's second-tallest freestanding structure is slated for demolition
15 votes -
Why is this bread Germany's most famous TV character?
7 votes -
Thunderbolts | Teaser trailer
13 votes -
That collective feeling - The rise and fall of New York clubbing
7 votes -
SS7: A mobile network operator protocol with scary vulnerabilities
29 votes -
Telegram to disclose phones, IP addresses at authorities' requests
15 votes -
Star Rekt - Logical (2024)
2 votes -
11th Circuit rules in favor of forced trans sterilization for drivers licenses in Alabama
23 votes -
What's this new mystery Nintendo device?
18 votes -
Gods with anuses
11 votes -
Wrecked rain gauges. Whistleblowers. Million-dollar payouts and manhunts. Then a Colorado crop fraud got really crazy.
19 votes -
'I don’t want to die.' He needed mental health care. He found a ghost network.
30 votes -
Jessica Valenti (Abortion, Every Day) has a book coming out next week
5 votes -
Norwegian Cor Dekker hits an incredible nine-darter at the 2024 Hungarian Darts Trophy in Budapest
4 votes -
Who migrates from developing countries?
15 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
29 votes -
Negotiators have one week to save US east coast from long shore workers strike and import disruptions
9 votes -
Battery giant Northvolt to cut 25% of workforce in Sweden as part of a major cost-cutting drive – roughly 1,600 employees, including 1,000 positions at its factory in Skellefteå
13 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of September 16
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant Israel-Hamas war content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant Israel-Hamas war content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
Please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
16 votes -
Parent on deathbed? Go or not?
My only living parent has between one and five days left to live. The parent is unable to speak now and has had dementia for the last 5 years and will not recognize who I am if I go visit now in...
My only living parent has between one and five days left to live. The parent is unable to speak now and has had dementia for the last 5 years and will not recognize who I am if I go visit now in these final hours.
They live a few thousand miles away from me; it would be expensive to go and money is painfully tight right now with my partner unexpectedly unemployed and struggling to get a job comparable to the job just lost.
I’m somewhat estranged from this parent. The short version is this parent is a narcissist and really didn’t show up when I was growing up, or at any point in my adult life, or really at any point when it mattered. Despite this person being a really crappy parent, they exerted a massive gravitational pull in my life through many decades—basically, this parent loomed very large for far too long given the extreme narcissism, albeit much less so in the last decade or two. (Dementia and my coming to terms with it all and caring less and time and my having my own kids and my starting my own family all being some sort of salve.)
I have one very close friend who is telling me that it is critical to go before this parent dies because being present while they are still living will give me a kind of closure and unexpected resolutions that I cannot even anticipate now. This friend is quite adamant that going is critical for personal growth.
A different close friend says that going while the person is still alive is a complete waste and that I should go for the funeral instead where I can see other relatives and connect with my sibling and other relatives and deepen those relationships which (the friend says) will be a momentous transition point for us all, creating a better sense of family than any of us could have ever had while this person was alive. This friend insists that the healing and closure is identical pre-death and post-death, but that the extra emotional burden of seeing someone dying will derail me and never be able to be “unseen.” This person thinks spending money on two trips is foolish, so the one trip to go on is for the memorial. FWIW, My sibling is only going for the memorial.
Even if money were no object, I’m not sure I could emotionally handle going twice. I suppose I can, but that’s very time intensive and I have young kids myself who need me and for whom it would be a strain if I were gone for too long. I’ve already said it, but I have to say it again: money is really tight Going twice feels possible, but extremely difficult
I guess what I’m really trying to understand, if my feelings for this parent are presently ambivalence that grew over a decade or two from what was formerly extreme anger and hurt, is there something meaningful about going while the parent is still alive? Is there something important that happens before the person dies that is in someway healing or transformative or valuable? Is it more important to instead go when my sibling is going? Should I max the credit card and go twice? Should I risk infuriating and deeply damaging my relationships with my extended family and not go at all to save money? (This last option seems wrong, but it is a possibility, so I feel like it at least deserves considering.)
Friends of Tildes, what did you gain or lose from seeing a relative in hospice? What thoughts and wisdom do you have to share around moments like these?
Thank you in advance for sharing your stories. I’m sure your collective wisdom will help me make a better choice.
28 votes -
Valve appear to be testing ARM64 and Android support for Steam on Linux
34 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
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.
8 votes -
Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
16 votes -
California fails to track its homelessness spending or results, a new audit says
21 votes -
Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 16
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
20 votes -
Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
18 votes