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5 votes
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How the queer community can embrace the asexual spectrum
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What are you reading these days? #25
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Notes First of all, I'm again having to post the topic...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Notes
First of all, I'm again having to post the topic earlier b/c travel. Sorry.
Seconly, big news! It's already been almost a year that we do these threads! It's been a beautiful time for me, but I've decided that the time has come that I pass the torch on to another Tildista to post and manage these threads. I posted a topic on ~tildes declaring my decision; we held a vote and elected @acdw as the new maintainer of these threads. This is the last one of these topics that I'll post; from the next thread on @acdw will be taking over. FWIW, I'll stay around and comment on these threads when I can.
Hey @acdw, hope you'll have a great time doing this! Good luck!
Previous topics
Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
16 votes -
The Installation: A dystopian science fiction short that imagines the future of big pharma
4 votes -
Everybody in the place: an incomplete history of Britain 1984 - 1992
4 votes -
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock
10 votes -
The high bandwidth memory standard, HBM2E: The E Stands for Evolutionary
6 votes -
Why is modern web development so complicated?
17 votes -
JuliaCon 2019 | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski
5 votes -
Living off grid? Can you share your living situation?
I've written about my living situation previously but am curious as to whether there are any other tilderinos living off grid. What sort of accommodation do you live in? What do you do for a...
I've written about my living situation previously but am curious as to whether there are any other tilderinos living off grid. What sort of accommodation do you live in? What do you do for a living (if anything)? Are you self sufficient to done extent? How do you use technology to improve your lifestyle?
17 votes -
Who are your favourite female YouTubers?
It occurred to me a few days ago that my YouTube subscriptions are heavily weighted in favour of men. I follow a lot of video essayists and educational YouTubers, and when the algorithm surfaces...
It occurred to me a few days ago that my YouTube subscriptions are heavily weighted in favour of men. I follow a lot of video essayists and educational YouTubers, and when the algorithm surfaces new ones to check out, 99 times out of 100 it's a man talking. Same with musicians, gamers, and tech heads...
I feel like I'm missing out on some valuable perspectives, insights, and just all around good content. So please hit me up with some recommendations!35 votes -
How San Francisco’s wealthiest families launched Kamala Harris
8 votes -
A transgender man in Tennessee was suspended from his Christian college just hours after getting top surgery
11 votes -
Currently, slaughterhouses in the US are allowed to process a maximum of 1,106 hogs per hour. Pork producers want to do away with the speed limit and reduce the number of federal inspectors.
9 votes -
From ball pits to water slides: The designer who changed children’s playgrounds for ever
4 votes -
The FBI and CDC datasets agree: Who has guns—not which guns—linked to murder rates
8 votes -
Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level
5 votes -
How a progressive populist plans to win a rural Republican district: J.D. Scholten almost took out Steve King in 2018. Now he’s back—stronger than ever.
7 votes -
Many properties in rural Sweden are simply abandoned as more people move to the towns and cities
7 votes -
Who will pay for the huge costs of holding back rising seas?
6 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
A few of the other groups have been doing recurring topics like this, and I think we should really do it more regularly in ~games too. So, what have you been playing lately? (Please don't just...
A few of the other groups have been doing recurring topics like this, and I think we should really do it more regularly in ~games too.
So, what have you been playing lately? (Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game as well.)
31 votes -
Why I’ve stopped coming out to my mum
8 votes -
Security researcher successfully used false GDPR "right of access" requests to obtain extensive personal information about someone else
8 votes -
If you build it ... White Sox and Yankees to play at 'Field of Dreams' movie site in Iowa
7 votes -
Rangers beat FC Midtjylland 4-2 in Denmark in the first leg of their third qualifying round
5 votes -
The wrong man: The Facebook friend request that led to three years in jail
7 votes -
Norway's krone hit its lowest level since the 2008 financial crisis as global trade tensions drive down the price of oil
7 votes -
As warming temperatures dramatically reshape Iceland's landscape businesses and the government are spending millions for survival and profit
4 votes -
Cloudflare is terminating service for 8Chan
69 votes -
The Finnish Environment Institute Syke is developing drone imaging and mapping to detect invasive species
4 votes -
Is it possible to stop a mass shooting before it happens?: Somewhere in America, an investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in the country
16 votes -
Soviet living: a gallery of 272 photos of ordinary life in the Soviet Union
28 votes -
Is anyone actually happy they were born?
I just feel like I've been thrown into an up to 80 year long game where I have to manage various hardships and difficulties in the hopes of getting the highest score possible when the real outcome...
I just feel like I've been thrown into an up to 80 year long game where I have to manage various hardships and difficulties in the hopes of getting the highest score possible when the real outcome is the same no matter what I do. Sure, there are some fun times too, but nothing really matters in the end.
27 votes -
Forty-eight male patients say a USC doctor sexually abused them — and the university was warned
9 votes -
Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters
10 votes -
Let us predict whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican
18 votes -
The surprising history of copyright and what it means for Google
4 votes -
Why speed kills cities: US cities are dropping urban speed limits in an effort to boost safety and lower crash rates. But the benefits of less-rapid urban mobility don’t end there
7 votes -
Python challenges or projects with just the standard library?
I've been slowly learning python for some months already. I used the Python Crash Course book from No Starch Press, it teaches the basics and then goes on with some projects with pygame,...
I've been slowly learning python for some months already. I used the Python Crash Course book from No Starch Press, it teaches the basics and then goes on with some projects with pygame, matplotlib, etc.
However, I feel that my Python skills aren't very good yet, and before learning to use libraries I would like to have a better command of the standard library.
I have been looking for some book with projects or, even better, challenges using just the standard library, but haven't found any good ones. Most of them either are for absolute beginners, or use additional libraries, or are very technical and without focus on practice.
Do you know of any good book or resource with challenges or projects that don't depend on additional libraries? Or, do you have any idea for a project or challenge using just the standard library?
Thanks in advance!
14 votes -
'Something needs to be done': A conversation about guns and race in America
3 votes -
Spot the psychopath: Psychopaths have a reputation for cunning and ruthlessness. But they are more like you and me than we care to admit
6 votes -
The Great Hack: A Netflix documentary on Facebook & Cambridge Analytica sheds light on one of the most complex scandals of our time
18 votes -
What does Amazon want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision
4 votes -
‘Vehicle ranching’ in Seattle: Inside the underground market of renting RVs to homeless people
6 votes -
No Man's Sky: Beyond update including major multiplayer updates and VR support will release on August 14
15 votes -
A conversation with the team that made bread with 4500-year-old yeast from ancient Egyptian pottery
13 votes -
Covet - Glimmer (Acoustic) (2019)
3 votes -
What are your favorite short games?
I don't have nearly as much time to game as I used to, and as such, I tend to prioritize games that are quick to finish over those that want my attention for a long time. Thus, I'm curious to...
I don't have nearly as much time to game as I used to, and as such, I tend to prioritize games that are quick to finish over those that want my attention for a long time. Thus, I'm curious to know: what are the best short games you've played?
I'm going to arbitrarily set "short" at a threshhold of 3 hours or less.
Furthermore, I'm referring to games that have a defined start and end, rather than potentially infinite play sessions. That means a game like The Binding of Isaac wouldn't count despite the average play session being much less than 3 hours, but a game like Gone Home would.
If you're not sure about a game's length, check HowLongToBeat for crowdsourced runtime data.
Here's a table of recommendations mentioned in the thread, and their approximate time to complete from HowLongToBeat (using the "Main Story" category).
Game Length (hours) 140 1 1979 Revolution: Black Friday 2 A Dark Room 3.5 ABZÛ 2 Another World 2.5 The Beginner's Guide 1.5 Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons 3 Cave Story 7 Digital: A Love Story (1) 2 Analogue: A Hate Story (2) 3 Distance 2 Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist 0.5 Firewatch 4 Flower 2 Gone Home 2 Gunpoint 3 Her Story 2.5 Hexcells 2 High Hell 1 INSIDE 3.5 Into the Breach 5 Jazzpunk 2 Journey 2 Kamiko 1 LOVE (1) 0.5 kuso (2) 0.75 Membrane 3.5 Moss 4 My Friend Pedro 4 NaissancE 4 A Normal Lost Phone 1.5 Papers, Please 4.5 Portal 3 Refunct 0.5 Rez 2 The Room 2.5 The Room 2 3 Rumu 3 Sagebrush 2 Samorost 0.25 SEPTEMBER 1999 0.09167 Spirits of Xanadu 3 The Stanley Parable 1.5 Stories Untold 2.5 A Story About My Uncle 3 Subsurface Circular (1) 2 SUPERHOT 2 Quarantine Circular (2) 2 To the Moon 4 The Unfinished Swan 2.5 What Remains of Edith Finch 2 Xeodrifter 3 22 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.
12 votes -
Ahoy vegans; do you make yourself breakfast every morning? If so, what is it?
Lately I've been trying to be better about cooking a decent breakfast for myself every morning instead of grabbing sugary stuff at a coffee shop, blowing money for something fancier, or wolfing...
Lately I've been trying to be better about cooking a decent breakfast for myself every morning instead of grabbing sugary stuff at a coffee shop, blowing money for something fancier, or wolfing down a breakfast bar.
I'm also trying to be a boring adult and limit my sugar intake, avoid gluten on account I'm apparently at risk for celiac disease, and would like to try and be vegan whenever possible.... couple this with me being incredibly lazy and us not having a dishwasher in our apartment, and I've got what feels like very few options.
For the past two months, every weekday I've been crumbling firm tofu over a heated pan set to medium, throwing in some paprika, turmeric, salt, garlic & onion powder, nutritional yeast, stirring that up a bit for five minutes, and then ripping up a cup of pre-packaged kale/spinach leaves over it before taking it off the heat and tossing in a tablespoon of oat milk. I'll then eat half and leave the other for my wife.
It's been OK, but I'm trying to look into other options just to add some variety, and was curious if someone else has found something that works for them that I might be able to piggyback off of for inspiration.
10 votes