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22 votes
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Half-Life 2's downtrodden NPCs have been unable to blink for five years, until now
13 votes -
What do executives do, anyway?
16 votes -
chocolate.
My phone sits, as I, in silence In my room – alone. I hate myself, but seem to lack the energy To dig into my bones. When I was younger I was told that One day God would call me home. Instead the...
My phone sits, as I, in silence
In my room – alone.
I hate myself, but seem to lack the energy
To dig into my bones.
When I was younger I was told that
One day God would call me home.
Instead the coffin calls my name in whispers
And beckons the unknown.
.
Why do I feed a body with a
Soul that keeps depleting?
When all my hopes and expectations come up
Short and keep receding – I
Start alternating between plotting,
Thinking, pleading
That I’ll make a rash decision, they’ll
Give my organs to the needy.
.
Perhaps I’ll drive a stake into my head and chest.
No one should endure this mind or heart.
Meditation never seemed to give much value,
All the medication felt a farce.
I’m an incongruent, uncompleted puzzle
Dangling from a bridge; falling apart.
I watch my pieces sink below into the water,
As this letter dances all about the hearth.
.
I carried out important shit in boxes;
Let the rest behind to be thrown away.
I hid and watched as they threw in the dumpster,
A bed now wrought with chocolate and decay.
As the memories flashed in to my brain,
Of how we chose to spend that final day.
(Of how) even on the best day of the end of my life,
I ended up naked, chocolate-covered, curled up on your chest and crying,
Begging you to stay.
.
The devil is a myth they tell believers;
Hell prevents their chasing earthly dreams.
I will not go to Heaven, and there is no Great Receiver
Who will comfort me and silence my screams.
There is no purgatory in the ether;
The earth is this one act’s final scene.
Fittingly, the water isn’t beautiful here either.
It’s choppy, warm, and a putrid shade of green.
.
Someone use my hands to write a sonnet.
Someone use my eyes to see a better day.
Someone use my legs to climb a mountain;
Use my tongue to find the words to say.
They’ll use my lungs to feel the oxygen.
Use my kidney when theirs is in decay.
They’ll use my heart to feel in love again.
I’ll rest easier that way.
10 votes -
The schools where meat is off the menu for climate reasons
8 votes -
Reinventing Home Directories
23 votes -
From rebellious subculture to school curriculum – Tampere school will offer twenty students spots in its skateboarding programme
3 votes -
Norway does not plan to block China's Huawei Technologies from building the country's 5G telecoms network
5 votes -
US Navy Surface Action Group consisting of a cruiser, three destroyers, and a helicopter strike squadron are operating in the Arctic waters surrounding Iceland
7 votes -
Cancel culture isn't a thing, you snowflakes
16 votes -
Feral horses cause fierce controversy in northern California
6 votes -
Unprofitable companies are raising the most IPO cash since the dot-com era
12 votes -
The whistleblower complaint alleging that Trump solicited foreign interference from Ukraine has been released
29 votes -
Even after fourteen seasons, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia continues to be funny, innovative, and deeply offensive. How does a show so politically incorrect survive for so long?
10 votes -
Special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
5 votes -
New York passes legislation extending the party registration deadline from October 11th, 2019 to February 14th, 2020
@nygovcuomo: Today I signed legislation to move the deadline for party enrollment changes to February 14. This law takes effect immediately. With this action, we continue working to break down barriers to the ballot box & encourage more people to exercise their right to vote. https://t.co/Wm5f5Iu7Ms
8 votes -
ID@Xbox Game Pass - Indie Showcase - Fall 2019
3 votes -
How do we want to handle Podcasts?
So, when we want to link to a podcast , should we link to the webpage or preferred aggregator, or directly to the MP3? Should we have an embedded object for playing audio built into Tildes, or is...
So, when we want to link to a podcast , should we link to the webpage or preferred aggregator, or directly to the MP3? Should we have an embedded object for playing audio built into Tildes, or is that out of scope?
6 votes -
You should know about Beste Zangers
How this show is now in its twelfth season without being more well known baffles me. It's a Dutch reality television show where they collect a group of singers, then send them off to a resort and...
How this show is now in its twelfth season without being more well known baffles me. It's a Dutch reality television show where they collect a group of singers, then send them off to a resort and pamper them. The singers get to know each other and take turns covering songs for each other that have influenced them in some way.
Each episode has one of the singers being serenaded by the rest of the group. The songs are in every language and style you can imagine, most of them being performed by singers who are stepping well outside of their own comfort zones/styles (and native languages in some cases). There are amazing performances on this show.
It's blowing up this season because Floor Jansen is one of the guests, and that means the Nightwish army is pimping it all over the net which is how I stumbled on it. I want to know where I can find the past eleven seasons, and why this hasn't been syndicated all over the globe yet, it's a genius idea for a music television show.
There's a youtube channel that posts entire episodes with english captions so you can follow the conversation.
A couple of highlights so far this season...
6 votes -
The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster
5 votes -
The Soyuz MS-15 launch, seen from above and below
4 votes -
DoorDash data breach - Affects approximately 4.9 million consumers, Dashers, and merchants who joined before April 6, 2018
12 votes -
Book review - Turn Of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Turn of Mind is a mystery. It's for the most part written in journal format. Interestingly it's a journal that sits in the house of a person with Alzheimer's disease. Jennifer White was an...
Turn of Mind is a mystery. It's for the most part written in journal format. Interestingly it's a journal that sits in the house of a person with Alzheimer's disease.
Jennifer White was an orthopedic surgeon in Chicago. Once brilliant, Dr. White is now in the later stages of the disease and the journal is written in by family members and housekeepers to help her remember who she was and who she is. A fractured portrait emerges of a cold and strong minded woman who has had a full life that she remembers in bits and pieces. Amidst the pages is mention of a neighbor, Amanda, who has been murdered. Slowly things come together for the reader while Dr. White's disease progresses into confusion.
Yet she still has moments of lucidity, remembering the details of her profession, where she was considered one of the best and most respected hand surgeons in the country. Her deterioration is something she's at times very aware of, and it is this that makes the book so powerful.
The narrative often lapses into Jennifer's past memories of both her parents and her children. This adds authenticity to her mental condition but also made me impatient for what seemed to be more important details. As Jennifer is interviewed by police officers and pulled into interaction with her grown son and daughter, we can begin to understand the horror of this disease, especially regarding how hard it is to trust people who may be trying to manipulate the sufferer for their own purposes.
I'd put this near the top of my list for books enjoyed in 2019. It brings to mind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, narrated by an Aspberger's spectrum person. Turn of Mind is a hard book to read, but it's even harder to put down once you get into it.
4 votes -
Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
6 votes -
Health insurance that doesn’t cover the bills has flooded the market under Trump
16 votes -
The unhappy millionaire
6 votes -
Schlep blindness
6 votes -
Army warns soldiers about 'incel' threat at Joker movie: Report (It's based on a tip from the FBI)
7 votes -
Centralised DNS-over-HTTPS is bad for privacy, in 2019 and beyond
7 votes -
Kazuko Nakamura, pioneer of female animators in Japan passed away at the age 86.
@otakucalendarjp: Animator, Kazuko Nakamura passed away at the age 86. She is a pioneer of female animator in Japan, worked with Osamu Tezuka and a model of Wato in "The Three-Eyed One (Mitsume ga Toru)" by Tezuka. R.I.P.
7 votes -
Rights Livelihood Awards – Greta Thunberg wins 'alternative Nobel' for environmental work
7 votes -
Programming/software design practice?
So, I've been going through Project Euler and solving problems as a way to brush up on my programming abilities, but it's mostly a math-focused set of problems. Which is cool..they're nice little...
So, I've been going through Project Euler and solving problems as a way to brush up on my programming abilities, but it's mostly a math-focused set of problems. Which is cool..they're nice little puzzles that get the gears turning...
BUT I'm wondering if anyone here has suggestions for a website/course that teaches software design in a piece-wise way. Like... each problem is a nugget of software design that builds off previous problems and eventually you're creating an entire application utilizing different algorithms/design patterns/data structures/etc.
I'd appreciate any resources similar to that idea. Thanks!
7 votes -
Denmark is proposing steps to protect bankers amid evidence they regularly receive threats for exposing clients involved in suspicious dealings
7 votes -
Vox Media acquires New York Magazine
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Have "whispers" been implemented?
I'm really curious if they have, because on this thread, there's a bunch of comments from "unknown user." If whispers have been implemented, how do I use them? I can't seem to find any information...
I'm really curious if they have, because on this thread, there's a bunch of comments from "unknown user." If whispers have been implemented, how do I use them? I can't seem to find any information about them.
11 votes -
WARP is here (sorry it took so long)
13 votes -
Finland regularly tops global rankings as the happiest nation on the planet – but this brings a unique set of challenges for young people struggling with depression
7 votes -
Factorio 0.17 - Now Stable
24 votes -
The unlikeliest cult in history
11 votes -
Introducing hand tracking on Oculus Quest - Bringing your real hands into VR
11 votes -
What are you reading these days? #28
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit. Notes I'm finally going to update the wiki today,...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
Notes
I'm finally going to update the wiki today, hopefully. FYI.
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will beARE listed in the UPDATED wiki!!!as soon as I update it.14 votes -
Ring says it doesn't use facial recognition, but it has “a head of face recognition research”
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What are the Big Problems?
What are the Big Problems? I'm leaving this open-ended, there's no specific criteria for responses. I'm interested in both your list and the reasons why. Submitting your list before reading...
What are the Big Problems? I'm leaving this open-ended, there's no specific criteria for responses.
I'm interested in both your list and the reasons why. Submitting your list before reading others' contributions would be preferred.
Optionally: who is (or isn't) successfully addressing them. Individuals, organizations, companies, governments, other. How and/or why not?
I've asked this question periodically on several forums (G+, Reddit, HN) for seven years now.
I've written fairly extensively on my own views, reasonably findable if you wish, but my interest here is in gaining fresh input, resetting my own biases, and not colouring the discussion overly myself.
34 votes -
Quantum Darwinism, an idea to explain objective reality, passes first tests
11 votes -
Down to seven vets, Pearl Harbor survivors' group in California holds final meeting
15 votes -
Announcements from Amazon's 2019 hardware event: Echo Buds, Frames, Loop, Eero, Studio, Ring camera, and Alexa updates
5 votes -
Bounce Back Postmortem: A Zelda Style Boomerang Game for #JS13k
7 votes -
Inside the process of creating adaptive music for Temtem's score
5 votes -
What are your guilty pleasures?
If I had a really rough day or accomplished more than expected, I make sure to reward myself as such. I've found that I treat myself to a local pizzeria or take a bath in steaming hot water and...
If I had a really rough day or accomplished more than expected, I make sure to reward myself as such. I've found that I treat myself to a local pizzeria or take a bath in steaming hot water and zone out from the world for an hour.
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The Last of Us Part II | Release date trailer
10 votes