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3 votes
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"Xi's world order - July 2024" (Economics and speculative fiction - a sampling from this week's Economist)
7 votes -
Saudi Arabia freezes trade with Canada after gov't tweet urging release of civil and women's rights activists
15 votes -
Unrelated languages often use same sounds for common objects and ideas, research finds
16 votes -
The marvel of LED lighting is now a global blight to health
14 votes -
The OA - has anybody else seen this on Netflix?
I just finished watching The OA. Wow, that was a really unexpected and interesting show. Coming of age / Sci-Fi-ish / Magical Realism, what an amazing show. The ending got this grown ass man...
I just finished watching The OA. Wow, that was a really unexpected and interesting show. Coming of age / Sci-Fi-ish / Magical Realism, what an amazing show. The ending got this grown ass man emotional. Has anyone else watched this? Thoughts? Anything else like this out there?
13 votes -
Bucovina - Carari in Suflet (2015)
4 votes -
Ai Wei Wei's Beijing studio destroyed by Chinese authorities
15 votes -
No NSFW group?
Why not?
15 votes -
The federal government's My Health Record system is capable of storing genomic information, which could turbocharge medical research but has intensified privacy and security fears
5 votes -
The Berkeley Pit is a gorgeous, toxic former mining site in Montana that’s beloved by tourists. But unless it’s cleaned up soon, it could become the worst environmental disaster in American history
8 votes -
The rise of Rome - How Italy was conquered
2 votes -
Learning from terminals to design the future of user interfaces
24 votes -
The erosion of American diplomacy
6 votes -
What are y'all having for dinner tonight?
I'm either going to make a chicken stir fry or chicken pasta. I'm making a big pot of pinto beans right now but that's really just to have around for the next few days.
15 votes -
Neanderthals could make fire – just like our modern ancestors
7 votes -
The age that women have babies: How a gap divides America
10 votes -
Losing Earth: The decade we almost stopped climate change
7 votes -
The phenomenon of spammy Asian accounts on Facebook support forum
That's a mouthful but I'm really curious what drives the situation when you go on the Facebook support forum, on popular threads there's tons of people posting absolutely nonsense comments that...
That's a mouthful but I'm really curious what drives the situation when you go on the Facebook support forum, on popular threads there's tons of people posting absolutely nonsense comments that have nothing to do with the topic, and a lot of them are accounts from Asia... has anyone else noticed this? Are they just spamming to get account visibility?
3 votes -
Fate/Extra: Last Encore - Episode 11 ep released
4 votes -
You have an arch-nemesis. At one point, you manage to capture their sidekick. After you subdue them, they bitterly tell you that your arch-nemesis always speaks of you as the one that got away.
Additional info, only if it helps: you have no idea of your arch-nemesis's secret identity, and seemingly neither does their sidekick.
15 votes -
Music makers thread: who has music they made that they wouldn't mind sharing?
There must be a few people here that write and record. It doesn't even have to be good. If I can be bothered to find some way to put it online, I'll try to find some way to share a goofy (read:...
There must be a few people here that write and record. It doesn't even have to be good. If I can be bothered to find some way to put it online, I'll try to find some way to share a goofy (read: kinda shitty) Monty Python/Doo Wop mashup I made in Ableton a few months ago.
7 votes -
Compassion is power, but I'm power-averse
This is a tricky personal conundrum of mine. I'll try to articulate it clearly. I believe in compassion, and I want to live in harmony with compassionate tendencies inside. But at the same time,...
This is a tricky personal conundrum of mine. I'll try to articulate it clearly.
I believe in compassion, and I want to live in harmony with compassionate tendencies inside. But at the same time, in the act of extending compassion, there appears to be an in-built power gradient: the "giver" is somehow in an "advantaged" position, and the receiver a more disadvantaged one.
An example. I was once in a fast-food restaurant, waiting to order, and I saw the order-taker was obviously new and very nervous and skittish at her job. So after I placed my order I expressed how much I appreciate her service and that I thought she was doing a good job. It was truly what I wanted to say, and I thought she took this well, like, she looked more relaxed as she beamed.
But then there was a power gradient. I gave her something that she wouldn't/couldn't have given me. She was the more distressed one, and this power gradient emphasized that. I don't mean that bystanders were made more conscious of her distress. I mean, it had the potential to make me more conscious of my privilege and her her lack thereof.
And I'm aversive to power. I can be highly sceptical and critical of power. I don't feel easy to have power over someone else. I have had troubled relations with power figures in my life. I easily confuse the natural, benign activation of power with the reflexive, defensive, "shields-up" reaction that I often find myself in. To explain a bit, the latter is really a form of anxiety, perhaps a trauma from experiences of hypercompetition, isolation, and emotional neglect in the past.
In the end, I thirst after commonality, equality, brothersisterhood, close and meaningful contact with others as they are, as human beings, on level ground, side by side, sharing the common condition in our vulnerabilities... But there's this aspect of my character, i.e. the tendency to get tense and look for a "higher ground" and occupy there, just to be on the safe (more powerful!) side. There's this haughty, difficult-to-approach, high-brow me, that I feel get in the way.
I fee sad and somewhat confused about this. I think I'm partly venting, partly asking about your similar experiences. Please consider this topic fairly open-ended. If you have something to say about it, I'm eager to listen to you.
Thanks!
7 votes -
Let's talk about recent good experience
Hi! Would you like to talk about something good that happened to you recently, or something you did, or something you witnessed, for which you felt good afterwards? I'll begin with mine. First of...
Hi!
Would you like to talk about something good that happened to you recently, or something you did, or something you witnessed, for which you felt good afterwards?
I'll begin with mine. First of all, I was happy to receive e-mails from friends. We're keeping long-distance friendships alive. I felt thankful to my friends.
Another things was this. Some time back, I tentatively ordered a book online for international shipping to my home address by plain mail. I then lost the hope of receiving it -- silly me, there were no mailboxes in the apartment building! But today I somehow found the mailboxes and I even re-discovered the key to mine, which I'd forgotten and left among my belongings. And I was really delighted to see the book was resting safely in my mailbox. I was happy to be proven wrong. :)
What about you?
26 votes -
Demonstrators arrested as right-wing rally, counter-protesters clash in Portland, Oregon
6 votes -
Land degradation: A triple threat in Africa
9 votes -
Is there any way to move the text box for topic replies to the top of the page rather than after all the comments?
It took me a while to find where to post a reply to a post, and it was a little annoying to scroll past all the comments to write my own. On the other hand, it does encourage reading the other...
It took me a while to find where to post a reply to a post, and it was a little annoying to scroll past all the comments to write my own.
On the other hand, it does encourage reading the other posts before replying, but I feel like that hopefully won't needed on this site.
7 votes -
Science’s search for a super banana
9 votes -
Killing speech softly: How the world’s biggest tech companies are quietly censoring critical expression in the Middle East
6 votes -
Building "Board Culture" for each separate group through scrapping the 'front page' view
Partially inspired by @Amarok's comment on culture specific to /r/listentothis and some thoughts I've been having: how can we make sure that each group (and sub-, and sub-sub-groups, etc) each...
Partially inspired by @Amarok's comment on culture specific to /r/listentothis and some thoughts I've been having: how can we make sure that each group (and sub-, and sub-sub-groups, etc) each have a sort of identity of their own? In my own experience and opinion having a cohesive identity as a subgroup helps the content quite a bit, as opposed to "just being a subgroup".
And I have a suggestion: If we scrap the front page as is, and we don't show all the subgroups' content mixed through each other, but stick to either a "classic" forum view, or like 4chan's view where you have to click through to a subforum, people would be forced to visit just that subgroup, and do so consciously. Thoughts?
7 votes -
How long do you think Western civilization will last?
And of course, why? The more detailed the answer the better. What systematic weaknesses are we currently facing and what can be done to mitigate them?
9 votes -
Feature Idea - Notify users when a comment which they had interacted with is edited.
Mockup - see the top item. I would love to be notified when a comment which I had interacted with has been edited. I have seen it mentioned by others a while back as well. My suggested...
Mockup - see the top item.
I would love to be notified when a comment which I had interacted with has been edited. I have seen it mentioned by others a while back as well. My suggested implementation is a pretty minor UI change.
On https://tildes.net/notifications/unread there would be an additional listing type which begins with "Comment was edited on "
Any comment which the current user has replied to, or has upvoted, and has been edited would appear here.
I am experimenting with a simple survey below using comments, please upvote the one that best reflects your view. Of course, also feel free to discuss anything further in a normal comment, just trying to keep things organized.
22 votes -
US Lawmakers pressure Google over "deeply troubling" China censorship project
9 votes -
Beyond the NRA: Maria Butina’s peculiar bid for Russian influence
7 votes -
Unsurvivable heatwaves could strike heart of China by end of century
12 votes -
Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies
The study published in Nature.com: Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies An article about the study: How did Christianity spread?
5 votes -
The James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's culture of optimism
14 votes -
Google struggles to contain employee backlash over China censorship plans
26 votes -
How 'fat shaming' from doctors is leading to misdiagnoses for obese patients
19 votes -
Bangladesh students attacked during Dhaka protest for road safety
18 votes -
Venezuela leader 'survives drone attack'
11 votes -
Given our Non-Profit nature, wouldn't having a "Gold" option make sense?
Forgive me if this has been posted before, I am still pretty new here. Coming here having the option to "Gild" was something I kinda just assumed would be a thing. Obviously it wouldn't need to be...
Forgive me if this has been posted before, I am still pretty new here.
Coming here having the option to "Gild" was something I kinda just assumed would be a thing.
Obviously it wouldn't need to be call "Gold" or "Gilding", those are just terms from some other site that I know all of us will understand.
I have always liked the idea of users buying made up medals for topics and comments they felt the need to reward. It gives the users a sense of accomplishment/reward and gets the devs little micro donations.
Currently the most valuable material in existence is antimatter, so maybe a little "AM" medal?
EDIT: Something I also meant to mention, but forgot, was the badge system on DeviantART.
dA has always had these little pixel llama badges that I thought were really cool. The basic concept was/is that you can gift someone a little llama if you think they or their art is cool or for any reason you want. These llamas stack on your profile. People can additionally gift gear for existing llamas and the site occasionally gives out rare llamas (and other badges) for milestones, events or promotions.
I think a hybrid of reddit's gilding system and a badge system (like dA's) could be really cool.
27 votes -
Struggling to find a new TV show to watch? Check out my Google doc detailing shows I've watched, shows I'm currently watching, and shows I want to watch. All with IMDB links and ratings.
Link to Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hc-Ti6Pff_qUZLAfzzL7WjhFNh2m_XPvMkdYBL6mLzI/edit?usp=sharing I created this document a while back and update it every couple months....
Link to Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hc-Ti6Pff_qUZLAfzzL7WjhFNh2m_XPvMkdYBL6mLzI/edit?usp=sharing
I created this document a while back and update it every couple months. There's an Introduction tab with guidance on how to browse the spreadsheets, which I've copied below for reference:
(1) This document outlines various TV shows and is broken up into 3 tabs: Watched, Watching, and Want to Watch.
Watched: Shows I've completed through series finale or given up on. Some of these were canceled early.
Watching: Shows I'm actively watching day-to-day or shows in between seasons that will air new episodes in the future.
Want to Watch: Shows I haven't started and want to watch. Many of them are recommendations I jotted down to avoid forgetting, so this list will sometimes be unalphabetized.
(2) Certain columns of information were exported directly from IMDB, and the page for each show is linked in the rating from the IMDB column.
(3) On the Watched and Watching tabs, there are columns for Recommend? and Notes to provide background that will help decide what to watch. Don't let any of my negative comments stop you from watching a show you're interested in.
(4) The Recommended? column is divided into the following categories: Must Watch, Yes, Maybe, No. These are all based on personal opinion with extra discussion/information in the Notes column.
(5) I've shared this with most people using View Only permissions, so download the Excel file (or copy to your Drive account) to filter columns by genre, rating, and personal recommendation.
Disclaimer: not everyone will have the same tastes as me - that's okay. I welcome any disagreement about how I've rated shows and hope to get some discussion going.
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What shows have I missed that I need to watch?
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What shows did I strongly recommend that you didn't like?
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What shows did I give up on too early?
I expect to take some heat for quitting Brooklyn 99 around season 3.
- What shows haven't come out that I should keep an eye out for?
Like Jack Ryan which debuts this month.
- How can I improve the document?
I considered including a column with the show's network or where it can be legally streamed, but this is pretty tedious given the nature of broadcast rights.
35 votes -
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What are your favorite movies of 2018 so far?
For me it's Blindspotting, Eighth Grade, Hearts Beat Loud, Isle of Dogs, Ready Player One, and of course Infinity War.
8 votes -
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Are you ignoring the warning signs?
6 votes -
A pragmatic guide to Climate Change
19 votes -
Mother Mother - Verbatim [2007]
2 votes -
Cuba invites exiles to take part in debate for proposed changes to island’s Constitution
7 votes -
sometimes in life its enjoyable to take a step back and realize that everyone is a protaginst in their own little world.
I notice this from time to time. That mailman? He probably is holding this job to feed his family. Same with the 40 year old man at your local grocery store. Its just mind boggling, the scale and...
I notice this from time to time. That mailman? He probably is holding this job to feed his family. Same with the 40 year old man at your local grocery store. Its just mind boggling, the scale and scope of this world; we retreat into our own little world at times yet the world is not small, its huge.
also i spelled protagonist wrong oops
21 votes -
Duumu & Stereo Cube - Couch Dreams (2017)
3 votes