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How Texas barbecue found a home in rural Sweden
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European Broadcasting Union fines Iceland for their band's display of Palestinian scarves during the contest's final in Israel
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Willie Mabon - Poison Ivy (1954)
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French court says Valve must allow Steam users to resell games
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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!
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Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)
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Melodicka Bros - Through The Water And The Waves (2017)
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You might not want to eat bugs. But would you eat meat that ate bugs?
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LGBT+ women face “significant barriers” when it comes to accessing healthcare, according to a pioneering new report.
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Human hearts evolved for endurance — and they need it to stay healthy
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Unhappy meals - How 'food science' made us unhealthy
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Pronunciation help - Latin
I'm starting school this coming Monday with the intent on getting a degree in horticulture. My classes include botany and plant identification. Something I struggle with is knowing how to...
I'm starting school this coming Monday with the intent on getting a degree in horticulture. My classes include botany and plant identification. Something I struggle with is knowing how to pronounce words with Latin roots. Not knowing how to pronounce words makes it harder to commit words to memory, which of course makes it more difficult to recall. For example the words Leguminosae / Fabaceae - I know they are legumes, but have no idea how to pronounce it. It makes reading difficult because I find myself skimming. Does anyone have any resources that can help me pronounce the words I am reading.
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Netflix acquires global streaming rights to Seinfeld for five years, starting in 2021
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American connoisseurs have traditionally stayed away from German wine. A new generation of producers — and global warming — is changing that
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Roll20 Blog - Conclusion of 2018 data breach investigation
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As a disabled woman, my abortion wasn’t questioned—but my pregnancy was
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Privacytools delisted Brave from their website
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WeWTF : A look into WeWork S1 filing and business model
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The lies behind Area 51
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How decades of LA smog led to California’s war with Trump over car pollution
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The hardest effect I ever pulled off, by forty-two filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists
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Pentagon will deploy US forces to the Middle East after Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia oil facilities
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'The men who plundered Europe': Bankers on trial for siphoning €60bn
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Blindfolded Tasting Challenge - Recreating Maangchi's Dakbokkeumtang (Spicy Braised Chicken)
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Allen Stone - Sunny Days | Junk Jams (2019)
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The secret gay history of Islam. In Muslim cultures, homosexuality was once considered the most normal thing in the world – so what changed?
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Interview with Andrew Yang - H3 Podcast
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Eclipse 1 - Prelude
Before time was time, nights were dreamless. No one narrated the hunts, and death was just a cessation of the body. Births were joyful but meaningless. Statements were nothing more than intentions...
Before time was time, nights were dreamless. No one narrated the hunts, and death was just a cessation of the body. Births were joyful but meaningless. Statements were nothing more than intentions among roaring, shouts, and racket. Sometimes two sounds came together in funny ways, but meaning was still far away from our primitive cogitations.
In these times of monotony, the Shadows entertained the primitive men. With no timbre or elocution, they came from the deepest layers of Earth’s mantle to tell stories under the moonlight. They lived in harmony, feeding on each other. The Shadows came to life with the laughter and the souls of the Men, and the Men lost the fear of the night with the histories told by the Shadows in a primitive symbiosis.
One day, a man died after eating a tasty looking fruit. Hunting was a gamble, and eventually, men needed to eat potentially dangerous elements. Another, more intelligent man, noted that the juice from his mouth indelibly marked the rock with a pattern that was pleasant to the eyes. He collected more of that fruit, avoiding to put it in contact with sensible areas. This man did not have a proper name. None of them did. They just knew that there was "The Boss", "The Hunter", "The Large" and "The Delicate".
Some men had soft lumps in their chests and above the thighs. Eventually, their bellies got big and other men came out from them. "The Delicate", who discovered painting, was of this kind. In secret, he drew their hunts in the cave. He made everything bigger and more menacing than it was: the spears, the beast, the joy, the moon, and the flames, that reached the sky.
It took some gestures and vocalizations for The Delicate to make The Hunter understand that that set of traces was him and that the thick line with a pointing end penetrating The Beast was his spear. But soon they understood and had great silence. Followed by a great laugh.
The Hunter imitated the muffled sound of the Beast’s steps and learned to use this sound to talk about the Beast even when it wasn't there. War shouts, death songs, the cutting of the meat, the crackle of the fire, the crickets, the frogs and all animals soon had their sounds, their own "words".
Men stories gained life by their own making.
The Shadows never came back.
Weakened, they returned to the depths. And, in the emptiness of their soulless existence, felt profound pain.
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Call me crazy, but Windows 11 could run on Linux
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Norway delivers rate hike that most economists weren't expecting
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A decade later, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has left an abyssal wasteland
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In the Spirit of South African Jazz ... (from 70's up to present day) by Nicky Vour (2019)
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Løvtag cabin is built around a tree – part of a new treehouse hotel on the Als Odde peninsula in Denmark
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Unofficial Weekly Discussion #3 - Argument de-escalation and disengagement brainstorming session
IMO one of the major issues with online debates, arguments and heated discussions is that they often tend to escalate rather steadily over time, and as each side gets more frustrated with the...
IMO one of the major issues with online debates, arguments and heated discussions is that they often tend to escalate rather steadily over time, and as each side gets more frustrated with the other they also tend to slowly get more personal as well. I am admittedly guilty of falling into this trap occasionally myself too, which has got me thinking about ways that Tildes (the site and the users here) can potentially help deescalate unproductive arguments and allow people to disengage more effectively from them. To this end I thought it might be a good idea to have a brainstorming session regarding that.
To start things off, here are most of the ideas I could find related to this issue that have previously been proposed and are already on Tildes Gitlab (click ▶ to read the full details):
Add community based thread locking
We have labels now, which help moderation and can help hide comments that hurt the discussion. But maybe we need some sort of similar function for locking or temp-locking threads when they get out of hand due to drama or something. As long as we only really have Deimos doing the moderating, that can help avoid things blowing up when he is unavailable.Add "block user" feature
This would more effectively allow people to avoid arguments but has some potential downsides worth considering as well, e.g. users getting trapped in a filter bubble. However, other than for moderators, that is probably not a major drawback compared to the benefits, IMO.How deep the block goes is also something that probably needs to be investigated and discussed. E.g. Does blocking a user just prevent PMs? Does it prevent their replies from notifying the user? Does it hide their comments/topics, and if so does it hide all the replies to those hidden comments as well? Etc.
Add "unfollow" feature, allowing users to turn off notifications for replies to their comments/topics
This would allow users to more effectively disengage from arguments. It should probably be something disabled by default and only enabled on a case-by-case basis, not a global user setting though, IMO.edit: Feature also requested again, but for a slightly different reason (avoiding getting spammed on busy topics)
Add placebo comment labels
Related to the other "disengage" feature suggestions, I think a "placebo" comment label could also potentially help the culture of the site. What I mean by that is perhaps adding some comment labels that have no effect, or only an effect for the person that applied it. e.g. A "Disagree" comment label, that has no effect whatsoever, or perhaps makes the comment collapse (like a "noise" labeled comments), but only to the user that applied the "disagree".Add "argument/bickering" label for users to apply on unproductive arguments
This label, once it reaches a certain threshold could even have effects applied to it, E.g. imposing a forced time delay on replies between all involved parties, adding a delay before the replies even show up (to give time for people to cool off), or even simply locking that particular thread entirely if enough labels are applied.Show whether a comment has already been replied to in users' /notifications/unread page
I suspect that people often reply directly from their /notifications/unread page, which can lead to needless repetition in the comments. It also potentially further escalates arguments as well, since a user may feel obligated to reply since they do not realize that someone has already addressed the comment effectively. Embedding the other replies somehow, perhaps by using a `details` like expando, might be nice as well.Feel free to voice your support or criticism regarding the above suggestions, offer up ideas to potentially improve them, or even propose your own brand new ideas related to this issue in the comments here as well.
p.s. Once again, the point here is to open up the conversation and get ideas flowing freely, so let's please try to keep things positive, and keep any criticism purely constructive and friendly so as not to discourage people from participating.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would invest an additional 600 million euros into its Hamina data center next year
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'Terrifying' New Climate Models Warn of 6-7°C of Warming by 2100 If Emissions Not Slashed
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Stieg Larsson and the unsolved murder case of Olof Palme
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Zelda: Link's Awakening tech analysis: A simply stunning Switch remake
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Recently discovered neutron star is almost too massive to exist
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Cube World | Release trailer
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Facebook’s suspension of ‘tens of thousands’ of apps reveals wider privacy issues
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iOS and iPadOS 13: The MacStories review
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Who is "John Smith" in your country?
In English-speaking countries, the name "John Smith" is often used as a placeholder name because it's boring and common: John is one of the most common first names among English-speaking men, and...
In English-speaking countries, the name "John Smith" is often used as a placeholder name because it's boring and common: John is one of the most common first names among English-speaking men, and Smith is the most common surname/family name among English-descended people. Together, they make a very boring and bland name.
What's the equivalent in your country? What's the most boring, common name? What do people use as a placeholder when they need to use a name that isn't a real person but looks like it could be a real person?
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MAKEOUT VIDEOTAPE - Only You (2012)
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Making Them's Fightin' Herds: The story of Mane6 and what goes into making an indie fighting game
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How I learned to cycle like a Dutchman
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