Besides Shawshank, the one that comes to mind is Gone with the Wind although that film has some issues.
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I'm one of the moderators of a small / medium community. I've been doing it for around a year, with no prior experience at moderating or helping to foster an online community.
We have a section for jokes and humour, and somebody posted one of those "train dilemma" memes. It gave the choice of letting the train hit one of several groups of people. It was general enough to not name anyone specific. The options were similar to:
Let the train hit:
a) Nintendo developers
b) Sony developers
c) Microsoft developers
Fine. A bit crass, but hardly shocking.
A commenter then replied by stating they don't mind which, so long as x well known developer is shot.
Now that really threw me.
The moderation team have been divided over it, although not strongly so. We are all generally in favour of removing it. But we are concerned about over-stepping and of course the topic of free-speech has arisen.
As it came up with us, I'll also mention that there are no specific rules of the website, or this specific sub-community, to state such humour is disallowed.
Where is the line drawn with free-speech? We would certainly remove anything pro-fascism, racist, homophobic or grossly offensive, but we do have rules that cover those.
I'd be really keen to hear any views on how you would approach this and how you would justify your decision.
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Ever since my diagnosis two years ago, I have had this as an ongoing conversation with my family. I always felt like there was very little accurate representation of ADHD in media. The few examples I could always think of were either very loosely coded as ADHD, or extreme stereotypes. I want to crowdsource some examples of ADHD representation in media, both good and bad.
Doug from Up: This is a common one that comes up a lot. I think it’s a really poor example. The only ADHD symptom is the squirrel joke they use a handful of times. It’s also (for my presentation at least) extremely inaccurate. Random things I see will indeed distract me, but Doug can come back from the conversation without a missed step. I think this one is extra harmful because it gives a false sense of how the ADHD brain works.
Dory from Finding Nemo: This is another common one people bring up. Dory’s intrusive and impulsive thoughts are much more accurate to my presentation, so it’s an improvement from Doug. I don’t like that she is often portrayed as stupid or careless. I’m not against a character with those traits, but with so few examples of ADHD in media, I think people may think it comes from the ADHD.
Evelyn Wang from Everything Everywhere All At Once: This example showed up recently on my Internet searches. I want to rewatch it again with the context of ADHD. I feel like it is probably a decent representation, but I can’t say for sure without a rewatch.
Percy Jackson: This is the only one on my list that is explicitly diagnosed with ADHD (and dyslexia and other issues). I will give them kudos for the explicit diagnosis, but I don’t think it’s a good representation. ADHD seems to just mean that he is bad at school. It seems that it has no impact on Percy outside of that. For my particular case, I was quite good in school, so it is inaccurate for me. I would be interested to hear if other people resonate more with it. Dyslexia seems to come up more in the books, so it may be a better representation for that.
Todd from Bojack Horsemen: I saved my personal favorite for last. I first watched Bojack Horsemen before my diagnosis, and ADHD wasn’t really on my mind. After my diagnosis, I realized how good of a portrayal Todd is. As a bonus, it is the only portrayal I have heard of that includes hyper focus (When Todd hyper focuses on writing the rock opera, and then the hyper focus switches to a video game). With the exception of the rock opera, I think I have had the same exact scenario play out in my own life. I had something I wanted to do, was able to focus on it, but was stolen away into a video game hyper focus.
Are there any other examples you have found?
Lately I've been taking an interest in American westward expansion and trying to get a better understanding of how the lines were drawn on maps in the past. Can anyone recommend a good video or interactive visualization that I can scroll back and forward through time to see the changes in detail?
Things I'm particularly interested in tracking:
I mean I guess that's a lot, this is basically "tell me about all of American history." 😂
I feel like I have a pretty decent grasp of the general political timeline and important events, I'm just realizing lately that I don't have a cohesive mental model of how it all fits on a map and changed over the years. I did find the Wikipedia page on Territorial Evolution of the United States to be interesting but it's a bit overwhelming and not very digestible. It contains this animated gif, which is awesome but I can't scroll through it at my own pace, and it's USA only.
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Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like new years, life hacks and pebble. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was desperate to know.
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!
Soldering/electronics repair enthusiasts: I am in need of a soldering iron/station for electronics repair and wiring, preferred budget is under $150, perfection can raise the budget to $250.
First line of this post is all that's really needed if you just want to provide advice on what to buy (which is just fine, people don't need to know how a car works for me to explain that they probably just need a minivan).
Below is what I have gathered thus far if perhaps there's more that you'd like to know about what I've seen and perhaps misunderstood so far.
At present I have a no-name, non-adjustable, extremely basic soldering iron that is more fire hazard than anything and a Weller soldering gun that is obviously not meant for electronics and small wires. The iron has been good enough for the occasional need to solder a couple of wires together to get something broken back up and working, but is not something I'd use on anything critical.
Started down the rabbit hole of soldering irons with one that got a lot of press in maker circles, iFixIt's hub and station - https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iFixit_Soldering - which seems quite innovative as someone that is new to what's available in the soldering world and it being actually portable is a nice-to-have-but-probably-unnecessary-for-me factor. Reading further, while I applaud the idea of a simple tip interface via the headphone jack method to be interesting, it's too early to see if it'll catch on and I'm not one to buy into a proprietary consumables format. Pencap for the iron and USB-C also seemed innovative at first look, but now realize that USB-C is semi-common in soldering irons already. $250 for the station and iron alone is a harder pill swallow and while the iron is available alone for $75, needing to use my phone or a computer to adjust the temp is dumb, a May ship date puts it out of the running.
Next item found was the Pinecil - https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinecil - which seems to solve many of the complaints about iFixIt's offering in a similar sort of setup even if the barrel jack seems on the pointless side considering EPR. It has the plus side of the TS100-style tips which can be had for brass inserts into 3D prints (giving the soldering iron another use) even if these style of tips appear to have a consensus that they aren't as good as JDC-style tips like C245. However, that opinion may be based entirely around electronics-only enthusiasts and professionals, and not someone that is more multi-disciplinary like myself and there are no heat set insert tips for C245.
Hakko and JDC are the industry standard/old guard and for good reason I'm sure, but seem overly expensive for my purposes and interfaces seem out of date according to many. That said, I'm not willing to jump onto a fly-by-night company that's just waiting for the moment to slash quality for profit, disappear, and rebrand under another name to grift another set of people.
There are other possible brands that people have mentioned elsewhere (Aixun?), but I haven't dug deep enough to know if they're legitimate or not just yet and at this point the "soldering" window I have open to research this is at about 40 tabs and before I spend days digging deeper, I figured I'd just ask someone for advice.
Inspired by a recent thread, and how reticent some folks seemed to be about creating topics or even new groups dedicated to making things, I figured it would be nice to have a topic where we can share these things. Whether it's an electronic widget, a piece of knitting or crochet, retrofitting a bike with a motor, or whatever else, let's share what we've been up to.
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
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