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17 votes
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Crownshift – My Prison (2024)
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‘Anaconda’ reboot with Paul Rudd and Jack Black sets Christmas 2025 release date
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like mortality rates, mirror life and hedonic treadmill. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if...
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like mortality rates, mirror life and hedonic treadmill. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was keeping score.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched
offbeat
stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!11 votes -
The first Amiga virus - 'Something wonderful has happened'
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MCON controller announcement video
3 votes -
Revisiting stereotype threat
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What is wrong with our thoughts? A neo-positivist credo.
9 votes -
US Joe Biden administration grants California waiver to ban gas car sales in 2035
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Clothing steeped in history and meaning: Inside the 'Shōgun' costumes
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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Romanian prosecutors face setback in Andrew Tate case
11 votes -
I bought a 1,000,000,000 fps video camera to watch light move
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Steam Replay 2024: Discussion topic
Your Steam Replay for 2024 is now out! If you're on the mobile app, hit Menu > New & Noteworthy > Steam Replay Share your link (if you want to) or summarize your results. Tell us all about your...
Your Steam Replay for 2024 is now out!
If you're on the mobile app, hit
Menu
>New & Noteworthy
>Steam Replay
Share your link (if you want to) or summarize your results. Tell us all about your most-played games, your year of gaming, and any other thoughts or highlights.
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The ghosts in the machine, Spotify and production music
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California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, surprising UC Davis study says
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Have you ever seen your own imagination of a book's world eerily brought to life on screen?
This sounds like a bit of a hyper-specific question, but it's happened twice this year. The first one is kinda easily explained. The FX adaptation of Say Nothing was great. One of the things that...
This sounds like a bit of a hyper-specific question, but it's happened twice this year.
The first one is kinda easily explained. The FX adaptation of Say Nothing was great. One of the things that really stood out to me and some friends was the sense of 'having been here before' - especially some of the specific locations like Divis Flats that reappear. I suppose that's just a question of good production design, but it felt like someone did a brain scan and projected exactly what I was imagining. Which also just means Patrick Radden Keefe is a very, very good author.
The second one is a bit stranger. When I went and saw Alien: Romulus, it was (and I am not kidding) exactly as I had imagined the Corporation Rim from The Murderbot Diaries. And I suppose corporation indentured servitude isn't a scarce topic in science fiction, but again, it was like the production designer did an fMRI of my brain while reading those books. It was eerily similar, to the point where I half-jokingly kept expecting a Murderbot monologue to overlay the stupid humans ignoring good security practice.
It was so jarring that I was going to ping a bunch of Tilders I know have read the series and say 'Did this happen to you too?!'
This doesn't always happen, which is why these two made me go 'oh shit'. As a counterpoint, netiher the 1980 or 2024 adaptation of Shogun were anything like what I was imagining in my head. The earlier one looked very cheap, this year's one was beautiful but... just not what goes through my head when reading that book. To be clear, I don't mean character descriptions or other specific details, I mean the broader... feel? The world, I suppose.
Has this ever happened to you? Either with an adaptation of a book, an unrelated screen work that makes you do Leo Pointing At the TV, or - even weirder - a real world location?
Alternatively, and this is a tangent, am I an outlier in imagining books so that I can 'recognise' them when I see them on screen? I know there's a lot of discussion between whether you hear your own voice when you read. Do other people have an internal cinematographer?
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Starbucks baristas to strike in US on Friday, union says
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Day 20: Race Condition
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/20 Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/20
Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
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A planet-wide solar boom has been beating expectations at every turn. And it’s only just the beginning.
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Bold solutions to end the homelessness crisis
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Parker Solar Probe about to fly into the Sun corona for the first time
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Are there queer animals? Clownfish that change sex, and other species that demonstrate queer behavior.
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TIL: there's a Hot Ones Quebec and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the latest guest
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Do any of you use Hulu? Looking for shows that entertain adults but a 7 year old can be in the room.
Cop shows or mysteries, snarky comedies like Golden girls or Mash, Roseanne or Barney Miller, Simpsons yes, South Park no. Drama is fine if it's not visually problematic for a child. All...
Cop shows or mysteries, snarky comedies like Golden girls or Mash, Roseanne or Barney Miller, Simpsons yes, South Park no.
Drama is fine if it's not visually problematic for a child.
All recommendations are appreciated
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Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
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Goodbye refrigerants, hello magnets: Scientists develop cleaner, greener heat pump
54 votes -
Say Lou Lou – Blue Ruin (2024)
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Storyteller is now on PikaPods!
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Household objects (but extremely close)
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Disney pulls transgender storyline from Pixar’s ‘Win or Lose’ streaming series
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Avicii – I'm Tim | Official trailer
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Tell me about your favorite Minecraft mods!
This other topic got me thinking about all of the mods and modpacks that I've played over the years, some that have come and gone with versions of Minecraft past. So I'm curious: What are your...
This other topic got me thinking about all of the mods and modpacks that I've played over the years, some that have come and gone with versions of Minecraft past.
So I'm curious:
What are your favorite Minecraft mods?
I'm not going to be too restrictive here. It's ok if they are for an older version and no longer supported. I'll even say that server plugins (like for spigot/paper/bukkit) and datapacks are fair game here. Client side? Server side? QoL? Terrain? Entire modpacks? Doesn't matter! Post 'em if you've got 'em. :)
(Information about supported Minecraft version and direct links to the mod pages are appreciated.)
16 votes -
Mercedes have announced that Valtteri Bottas will return to the team as a reserve driver for the 2025 season
12 votes -
Some charts showing all the United Kingdom's taxes and all the tax reliefs
8 votes -
Flesh Machine – Nothing Never Happens (2024)
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Is there a model of computer mouse that will let you easily open it up to clean it OR
is designed so dust, etc will not get in? Preferably a USB mouse as it has to become part of an existing KVM set up.
7 votes -
IKEA names its furniture for Swedish destinations. This American road tripped to visit them.
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Day 19: Linen Layout
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/19 Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it...
Today's problem description: https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/19
Please post your solutions in your own top-level comment. Here's a template you can copy-paste into your comment to format it nicely, with the code collapsed by default inside an expandable section with syntax highlighting (you can replace
python
with any of the "short names" listed in this page of supported languages):<details> <summary>Part 1</summary> ```python Your code here. ``` </details>
6 votes -
Lawsuit reveals how colleges really talk about rich applicants
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For folks who use both Twitter and TruthSocial, I am curious, how is the experience difference?
Since Musk took over Twitter and made it a "free speech" platform, something that has interested me is has that basically render TruthSocial obsolete or is there some niche that Trump is targeting...
Since Musk took over Twitter and made it a "free speech" platform, something that has interested me is has that basically render TruthSocial obsolete or is there some niche that Trump is targeting with TruthSocial that Elon is not with Twitter?
The biggest obv difference is just the reach with Twitter having more people than TruthSocial but with all the headlines I see about how people are leaving Twitter en-masse, I figure it's just a matter of time before it loses mainstream attention?
But beyond the number of users, it is basically the same environment, albeit with different tech stacks?
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Alton Brown eats his spicy dream feast | Heat Eaters
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Kansas City receives new streetcars for Main Street extension
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More riders than expected have used Oklahoma City's RAPID NW bus line
11 votes -
The first US lawsuit against ultra-processed foods
11 votes -
How opioid giant Endo escaped a $7 billion US federal penalty
7 votes