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8 votes
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Anyone out there looking for a health community?
Hello hello! Not sure if this is going to gain much traction but I thought I might as well give it a try. Is there anyone out in Tildes who is looking to start making a lifestyle change that would...
Hello hello!
Not sure if this is going to gain much traction but I thought I might as well give it a try. Is there anyone out in Tildes who is looking to start making a lifestyle change that would benefit from having a sense of community? Trying to make diet changes (cutting back on sugar, no more fast food)? Starting a new diet? Starting going to the gym? Cutting alcohol out of your life? Trying to start sleeping more (because not getting sleep is real bad )?
I'm trying to gauge if there is interest in a weekly (or maybe more frequent?) discussion thread for people to talk about what changes they are making to live a healthier life, have people to talk about and discuss their struggles with, and just form a community to help us all succeed.
For example, I'm sadly am quitting my current gym membership. I have been boxing with the same coaches for 3 years now, but with my new job the gym is now 30 minutes out of my way rather than along my commute home, and at $120 a month I can't make it there often enough to justify the cost. My company has a gym in-building that is really solid, and I met with a trainer to get a workout plan made tailor-made to my goals. However, I am SO LAZY without a community of people keeping on me. I really relied on my gym friends and coaches to call me out when I wasn't going to the gym and when I was half-assing classes. Mostly what I'm looking for is people to talk to about working out, the struggles of forcing yourself to go when you don't want to, struggles of being an ex-athlete and losing all the structure your use to your workouts having, and how people are fueling their bodies to succeed. But I recognize that my health issues aren't universal, so I don't want this post to be just what I want/need. I want to hear if there is interest, and try to build something for the community, not just me.
15 votes -
If anyone can see the morally unthinkable online, what then?
5 votes -
“Get off my lawn” goes digital: Home surveillance apps and community social networks aren't making anyone safer. They're allowing paranoid jerks to harass their neighbors.
12 votes -
On letting people enjoy things
9 votes -
Epic Games Store - Mega Sale - Up to 75% off and $10 off every game $14.99+
Making this as a text post because the Epic Store interface isn't very good, and I want to be able to highlight particular sales. Here's a better interface for browsing on gg.deals First: this is...
Making this as a text post because the Epic Store interface isn't very good, and I want to be able to highlight particular sales.
Here's a better interface for browsing on gg.deals
First: this is a bizarre sale and clearly another case of Epic effectively subsidizing something that wouldn't be possible normally. As a really blatant example of what's crazy about it, I posted the announcement trailer for John Wick Hex last week. It got announced 8 days ago, there isn't even a vague release date, and they don't even know which consoles it's coming to yet. Even with that, it's on sale here now for $8 instead of $20 - 60% off, a week after announcement!
So because of that, here's some of the sales that seem most ridiculous due to being unusually large discounts, especially on games that aren't even out yet or just came out. Let me know if you spot more, all prices USD:
Game Sale Price Normal Price Discount John Wick Hex $7.99 $19.99 60% Satisfactory $19.95 $29.95 33% Shakedown Hawaii $9.99 $19.99 50% Slime Rancher $4.99 $19.99 75% Subnautica Below Zero $9.99 $19.99 50% 18 votes -
alyaza is unbanned
A couple of days ago, I loudly banned alyaza. After investigating it more, I no longer believe that DearDeer was their alt account, so everything I accused them of doing in that post was not true,...
A couple of days ago, I loudly banned alyaza. After investigating it more, I no longer believe that DearDeer was their alt account, so everything I accused them of doing in that post was not true, and they've been unbanned.
There are a lot of justifications and excuses I could give for why I got it wrong, but in the end it doesn't really matter. I made a somewhat-rushed decision, but I was confident about it at the time. Yesterday I spent more time looking into it, including following the invite chain and managing to get in contact with the person that sent the invite that DearDeer used to register. Between talking with that person (who was remarkably helpful) and some other info, I found more evidence that DearDeer wasn't alyaza than I had used to originally decide that it was, and realized that I was wrong.
This is a good example of why I don't like publicizing bans. Without me making that post about it, I'm sure this still would have been noticed by some people, but it could have been a relatively quiet temporary ban that lasted for about a day while it got sorted out. Instead, it ends up as a multi-day unnecessary spectacle. I'm not bothered by the effect on me because of that—I screwed up and deserve the embarrassment and criticism that comes from it, and I fully accept that. But it was unfair and cruel to alyaza to be falsely accused of things publicly, and that can't be reversed.
Decisions like this (and moderation in general) are often judgment calls that have to be made quickly and with incomplete information. Sometimes, like in this case, you make the wrong call, and more time, information, or an appeal leads you to reverse it. There can be value in having that happen in public, but there can also be harm, and I think this case absolutely leaned more towards the harmful end.
Anyway, I'll leave the comments open this time so that you can berate me appropriately. Please avoid commenting on alyaza personally though—I've already done enough damage and we don't need to continue that.
90 votes -
Bones UK - Creature (2019)
4 votes -
The long and lucrative mirage of the driverless car
4 votes -
The night the lights went out
8 votes -
‘Women have only one way to survive--learning to fight’: Boxing in the DRC
4 votes -
Taiwan's government legalize same-sex marriage in first for Asia
15 votes -
Steam Client Beta Update - May 15th, 2019
7 votes -
Hiker, lead developer of SuperTuxKart, steps down after 13years of development
13 votes -
‘They have free rein’: Rio residents fear police violence under far-right rule
4 votes -
From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn: Fifty great thrillers by women
5 votes -
Israel Folau's rugby union contract terminated as punishment for players' code of conduct breach
5 votes -
Trump Administration to LGBT couples: Your 'out of wedlock' kids aren't citizens
27 votes -
Truly progressive policies to support stable, affordable rental housing for all are a golden political opportunity
11 votes -
The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution | Trailer 1
5 votes -
Necrobarista | Gameplay trailer - PC release on August 8, 2019
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Why do people not like telemetry?
I often see people complaining about telemetry in things like Firefox and the like, but I've never understood why it was a big problem for your privacy. If it's anonymous and helps the developers...
I often see people complaining about telemetry in things like Firefox and the like, but I've never understood why it was a big problem for your privacy. If it's anonymous and helps the developers do their job, what's wrong with it?
26 votes -
Missouri HB 126 - "Right to Life of the Unborn Child Act"
9 votes -
How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send thirty students to an Ivy League institution?
9 votes -
Piezoelectricity - Why hitting crystals makes electricity
7 votes -
Retired oil rigs off the California coast could find new lives as artificial reefs
4 votes -
CPU.fail - Multiple attacks against modern Intel CPUs disclosed (ZombieLoad, RIDL, Fallout)
43 votes -
The making of 21 Savage's "a lot" video with Aisultan Seitov
3 votes -
The Teacher Shortage is Real, Large and Growing, and Worse Than We Thought (Part 1)
22 votes -
The human antivenom project
5 votes -
Affordable housing crisis: Why are US cities struggling?
5 votes -
What is your note taking workflow?
Hi, I'm wondering how and if you're taking notes and how you manage them. I feel like I can't get to the right solution. I want something open and own my data, so I tend to prefer plain text /...
Hi,
I'm wondering how and if you're taking notes and how you manage them. I feel like I can't get to the right solution. I want something open and own my data, so I tend to prefer plain text / markdown files and I want to manage them on my own for privacy reasons but still be able to sync and edit them on my mobile device (iOS), desktop (macOS) and ideally online and also have full text search.
I know about Microsoft OneNote, Google Docs/Keep, Evernote - but I just can't overcome myself to use them since it's hard to impossible to get data out of there.
Right now I'm hosting my own git repository with gitea.io and I'm able to edit my notes on the web, on my desktop (using git clone/pull/commit/push) and with a git client (working copy) on my phone. The downside: I need to manually commit and push my changes and also pull them, it's not really in sync.
26 votes -
Was RTX a big scam? – Performance & image quality analysis
4 votes -
Can car-crazy Dallas learn to love bikes?
7 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!
8 votes -
Feminisms in Mexico: From particularism toward a concrete universalism
4 votes -
Paolo Nutini - Scream (Funk My Life Up) (2014)
5 votes -
The struggles of an open source maintainer
10 votes -
"Breakfast food" is a lie - Americans eat a narrower variety of foods for breakfast than anyone else
6 votes -
As commercial spaceflight takes off, the US aviation industry gets protective of airspace
4 votes -
Zero Symphony Battalion (Hiroki Kikuta) - Never Ending Night (feat. Jillian Aversa) (2018)
5 votes -
The trade secret - Firms that promised high-tech ransomware solutions almost always just pay the hackers
9 votes -
Going critical - an interactive essay demonstrating how things move and spread through networks
4 votes -
Why WhatsApp will never be secure
16 votes -
How the promise of a $120 billion Uber IPO evaporated
10 votes -
Facebook, Google, Twitter sign 'Christchurch Call' to cull terrorist content
Facebook, Google, Twitter sign 'Christchurch Call' to cull terrorist content And here is the Christchurch Call itself.
10 votes -
New HIV map offers most detailed look yet at the epidemic
9 votes -
Uh, who decided to let Mel Gibson star in a movie called ‘Rothchild’?
7 votes -
Polynation - Toba
5 votes -
Uber’s plans include attacking public transit: documents filed for IPO reveal plans to privatize transportation, getting riders off public buses and trains and onto "Uber buses."
14 votes