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In 2003, Mark Gardiner wrote a once-in-a-lifetime story about a heroic motorcyclist at the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire. Revisiting the event on its 20th anniversary, he discovers the story was false
9 votes -
How Facebook's hour of inaction enabled the Christchurch video to spread
8 votes -
With sword fights and martial arts, Sikhs in India celebrate annual 'Hola Mohalla' festival
With sword fights and martial arts, Sikhs in India celebrate annual 'Hola Mohalla' festival Hola Mohalla
7 votes -
The Digital Antiquarian: Darklands - The first CRPG ever released by MicroProse Software
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!
11 votes -
Tickling
19 votes -
I need a good text editor on Windows 10
Disclaimer: I'm on Windows 10 I keep hopping between text editors because I can't find one that suits my needs. I need something simplistic, non-bloated, beginner friendly, open source, and...
Disclaimer: I'm on Windows 10
I keep hopping between text editors because I can't find one that suits my needs. I need something simplistic, non-bloated, beginner friendly, open source, and preferably with Dracula theme. I'll list off the ones that I've tried that I don't like too much:
- Atom
- Vim
- Emacs
- Notepad++
- VS Code
Honestly, I'd really like something that's like very similar to Sublime but FOSS. Is there one like that?
10 votes -
Florida State University and Stanford are developing an "online polygraph" that detects lies in text — without the contextual clues that can hint at deception in a face-to-face conversation.
9 votes -
YouTube face-off: Berlin police break up mass brawl
5 votes -
The alt-right playbook: Always a bigger fish
14 votes -
Elizabeth Warren calls for eliminating the US electoral college
20 votes -
"I didn't have control": A 14-year-old on why she quit social media
21 votes -
Racist violence threat keeps Charlottesville schools closed
10 votes -
Ukrainian kidnapped by FSB in Belarus, given six-year jail term
5 votes -
US President Donald Trump's EPA head said climate change is not a top threat because it's 'fifty to seventy-five years out'
18 votes -
Nazis have always been trolls
12 votes -
Ad fraud scheme drained users' batteries and data by running hidden video ads in Android apps
5 votes -
Is Elsevier helping or hurting scientific progress?
6 votes -
Radio Jakarta 012: Kaaha - Hooyo's archive (Mother's archive)- Music from Somalia by Jakarta Records
6 votes -
Eight ways sci-fi imagines data storage
8 votes -
When 80 famous writers published their first (and last) books. OR: who has had the longest career.
4 votes -
User bios added: you can write a short bio that will be visible on your user page
This is something that's been discussed a number of times (recent example), and has now been added by an open-source contribution by @what, who's contributed multiple significant features now,...
This is something that's been discussed a number of times (recent example), and has now been added by an open-source contribution by @what, who's contributed multiple significant features now, thanks again!
It's totally optional, but if you want to, you can now write a short bio for yourself through the "Edit your user bio" link at the bottom of the Settings page (by the way, I also added a link to the Settings page at the bottom of the home page's sidebar). The bio supports markdown the same as topics/comments, and is currently limited to 2000 characters (about 300 words). I'm not particularly attached to that limit, but it seemed like a reasonable starting point.
If you write a bio,
there will be an expandable "View <username>'s bio" block at the top of your user pageokay, okay, I'm convinced that it belongs in the sidebar. You can see an (unimaginative) example on my user page. I'm not particularly attached to this method of displaying it either, so let me know if you think something else might be better.I don't know if we need particular guidelines for what's appropriate to put in a bio, but please be reasonable about what you use it for. A link to your site or accounts elsewhere is definitely fine, as long as it's not done in a spammy/misleading way, not too much different from posting on the site itself.
Also, I've topped everyone back up to 10 invites again. As always, these are available on the invites page.
85 votes -
Doctors face two enemies in fight against Ebola
6 votes -
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2019
4 votes -
What do you think about the problem of unreachability of decision makers?
Businesses, especially in tech industry, sometimes have some okay support for clients, but in general the crucial things are walled off. A simple example: someone in a company decides to place an...
Businesses, especially in tech industry, sometimes have some okay support for clients, but in general the crucial things are walled off.
A simple example: someone in a company decides to place an ad and does that, people see that ad on YouTube, find it obnoxious, but cannot confront the original decision maker directly - they are unknown, unreachable.
Another example: many people used Google Inbox app and then Google discontinued it. Users are unsatisfied. Someone in Google, a person, made the decision. But they are unknown. A user cannot come up and ask them, "Hey you, why did you do that?" and at least get a clear honest answer. There are sugary press releases and damage control in such cases.
I understand that if many of us started a business we would want to wall our decisions off the external environment (users) too. It's a dilemma. But still, what do you think about that? How would you deal with this problem in a different way?
12 votes -
The role of mastodon.social in the Mastodon ecosystem
22 votes -
Jair Bolsonaro's approval rating plunges as Brazilians lose confidence
7 votes -
State of Play: PlayStation’s new video showcase debuts Monday
3 votes -
EU leaders have agreed on a plan to delay the Article 50 process, postponing Brexit beyond 29 March
17 votes -
Electric cars won't shrink emissions enough - we must cut travel too
6 votes -
The Neoreactionary movement - The alternative alt-right
Someone posted an article on a subreddit I frequent. It was an extremely long and rambling hit piece against antifacism, littered with long academic words, written for a completely fake Sociology...
Someone posted an article on a subreddit I frequent. It was an extremely long and rambling hit piece against antifacism, littered with long academic words, written for a completely fake Sociology college in London. While checking the source's reputability, I found out that it's part of what is known as the Neoreactionary movement.
Here's an article about it: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/behind-the-internets-dark-anti-democracy-movement/516243/
Here's a more "fun" write-up from RationalWiki: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Neoreactionary_movement
It's the most bizarre thing. They are basically a pseudointellectual alt-right who quite literally advocate for a monarchy. They are very secretive of their identities and write contrived "theses" under pen names (which, strangely enough, seem to be stolen from actual published academics both living and dead). They think they are a secret society attempting to overthrow existing governments, but in reality they are little more than a collection of fanfic authors.
Has anyone else come into contact with any of them? I am particularly interested if any of our Reddit moderators have anything to say.
19 votes -
One of the best drug candidates for Alzheimer's, aducanumab, just failed to demonstrate efficacy
5 votes -
The Happy Hob officially put a wrap on the entire Soulsborne series yesterday, just in time for Sekiro's release
@the_happy_hob: We Did It!!!!! All 5 Soulsborne games back to back, No hits taken. Just in time for Sekiro. #destinyrun @sekirothegame @DarkSoulsGame
6 votes -
'Before you know it, it's not a big deal to kill a man': Norwegian black metal's murderous past
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Fallacy of "Just because _ doesn't mean _"
I see this a lot on the internet these days. The phrase "just because [some agreed-upon statement], it doesn't mean that [contested statement]." That's fine when used correctly, but I've seen a...
I see this a lot on the internet these days. The phrase "just because [some agreed-upon statement], it doesn't mean that [contested statement]."
That's fine when used correctly, but I've seen a lot of cases where it's used in a questionable way and people just jump on board with the phrase anyway.
I saw it again today in a conversation about video games, and one game in particular that everybody loves to hate. Someone said "I enjoy this game though," and someone else said "Just because you enjoy a game doesn't mean it's good."
Now, the impulse is to agree with the second statement because agreeing that there might be hidden subtlety in a matter is almost always safe, and nearly everyone involved in the conversation upvoted/reacted positively to that statement.
But the statement was really used to say "your opinion is wrong because there might be hidden subtleties that make me right," which seems like a fallacious position to me, or at least a pretty meaningless one. And when you stop to think about what was said, you realize that in fact, enjoying a video game might indeed be the most important, if not the only, metric in assessing its quality.
But the inclination to agree with anyone using the "just because, doesn't mean" format is definitely there I think. I'm not sure if that falls under the category of some other identifiable fallacy or not, but I thought I'd see what others thought.
8 votes -
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 announced for March 2020
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvWfDxhm_s Website: https://www.bloodlines2.com Up until the announcement an hour ago, Paradox Interactive were doing a fake "Tender" app...
Official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYvWfDxhm_s
Website: https://www.bloodlines2.com
Up until the announcement an hour ago, Paradox Interactive were doing a fake "Tender" app teaser/promo thing. There was some kind of countdown involved which ended with this announcement, entertaining to watch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/399100804?t=03h52m54s
13 votes -
Programmer migration patterns
9 votes -
My backup routine (and why I keep it simple)
7 votes -
Harvard sued by 'descendant of slave for profiting from photos'
7 votes -
Lumotive says it's got a solid-state lidar that really works
5 votes -
Patreon announces upcoming tiered "creator plans" with different fees and features - current creators can grandfather in with lower rates
18 votes -
Tacoma free on Humble Bundle for a limited time
14 votes -
Just wanted to talk about Dracula theme
I just recently tried this theme out on Tildes and I love it! It's not too light and not to dark and the colors are great. Now I want it on everything! Any other stuff that has it?
23 votes -
Facebook's war on free will
2 votes -
At 45, Ichiro Suzuki concludes a pioneering career in Japan
5 votes -
New Zealand Opposition MP Judith Collins tells US lobby group NRA to 'bugger off' over bipartisan New Zealand gun reform
10 votes -
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.
19 votes -
A journey to the "Disappointment Islands", a remote area of Polynesia that hasn't had a visitor in decades
16 votes -
Two devs automated the process of generating and publishing "garbage" mobile slot machine games on Google Play, and made over $50,000
28 votes