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In deeply nested discussions, it's frequently hard to know to which comment someone is answering
IDK if this is just me, but, in some cases, the dotted lines are not enough. I become easily lost, and have to "manually" retrace the discussion. I'd like to suggest for Tildes to use even more...
IDK if this is just me, but, in some cases, the dotted lines are not enough. I become easily lost, and have to "manually" retrace the discussion.
I'd like to suggest for Tildes to use even more colors on these lines, kinda like color-schemes do for Org Mode on Emacs.
I could go even further and suggest a major "Org-Modization" of Tildes: IMHO, Org Mode has nailed this kind of structure. I know it's a bold suggestion, but there it is! ;)
Cheers!
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Joni Mitchell - Live Studio - 1970
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'You don't have to settle': the joy of living (and dying) alone
10 votes -
SoftBank seeking to take control of WeWork through financing package
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The 'glass floor' is keeping America's richest idiots at the top
10 votes -
How the women of Standing Rock are building sovereign economies
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A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions
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Ava DuVernay: Real people aren’t seeing most movies
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What are you doing this weekend?
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend. If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't...
This topic is part of a weekly series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss their weekend.
If you have any plans, things you want to get done, things you have done, things you haven't done, or even if you just want to talk about how you're doing this weekend, this is a place for casual discussion about those things.
A list of all previous topics in this series can be found here.
So, what (or how) are you doing this weekend?
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Why you never see your friends anymore
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I think I may be out of the loop
I wasn't sure if there had been some changes lately or if it was my head, but I thought there used to be a politics group within Tildes. Regardless, it seems that I've noticed a culpible decline...
I wasn't sure if there had been some changes lately or if it was my head, but I thought there used to be a politics group within Tildes. Regardless, it seems that I've noticed a culpible decline in the number of posts that are related to politics and especially US politics. I also noticed that it seems that some more prominent users got banned or left? Obviously I can understand if the people here were tired of hearing about it and wanted to give other groups some more room for the front page, but I just wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke or my imagination. I don't come here as often as I should, but it just seemed a little different. Hopefully this doesn't spark any massive outcry or anger or anything, I'm just out of the loop, and don't want to cause any trouble. I like this place. I like you all.
Edit: Wow this seems to have really gotten out of control and spread to discussions about moderation logs and how much we should pay attention to US politics in relation to world politics or even how much we should catastrophize over recent political developments. I almost feel like I shouldn't have brought this up and I apologize. I really didn't intend on causing any ire for those in charge or for massive debates.
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Twelve hours. Four Syrian hospitals bombed. One culprit: Russia.
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Lasers reveal 60,000 ancient Maya structures in Guatemala
10 votes -
The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
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Joker - Discussion thread
Seeing as there's no discussion post about this movie yet, and especially in the light of the hype (both positive and negative) I was curious to hear everyone's thoughts on the movie.
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Who are the best and worst members of your game group and what do they do?
People you are most happy to have in your group of players vs. "that player". What are the things people do that you like the most? What things are just insufferable?
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Land without bread: The Green New Deal forsakes America’s countryside
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‘A Civil Rights Issue’: Groups Hope Courts Will Toss Out Canada's First-Past-the-Post Voting System
Article: https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/04/25/First-Past-The-Post-Civil-Rights-Issue/ (April 2019) Press release (October 9th, 2019) about the court filing: Court challenge against Canada’s unfair...
Article: https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/04/25/First-Past-The-Post-Civil-Rights-Issue/ (April 2019)
Press release (October 9th, 2019) about the court filing: Court challenge against Canada’s unfair voting system to be filed today
Tweet confirming the filing: https://twitter.com/Challenge4FV/status/1181992387394113536
(Sorry about the weird format but I couldn't find a recent news article and I wanted to provide more info than just the press release.)
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Nutty Putty: ‘I really, really want to get out’
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What games would you consider "hidden gems"?
A "hidden gem" is a game that is considered to be great but not well-known at all. It's something you believe deserves far more recognition and reach than it currently has. A diamond in the rough....
A "hidden gem" is a game that is considered to be great but not well-known at all. It's something you believe deserves far more recognition and reach than it currently has. A diamond in the rough.
Though a hidden gem certainly can be a highly polished experience, the term also allows a bit of roughness, leaving room for clunkiness or flaws on account of the game's scope and production values (hidden gems are rarely, if ever, big-budget). It also seems to place a slight premium on novelty and innovation, favoring but not requiring games to be fresh or experimental for their time.
With this in mind, I'm curious to hear people's opinions and hopefully get some new stuff to check out for when I find myself needing to take a break from Crash and Spyro.
- What games would you consider "hidden gems"?
- Why do you feel they fit the criteria?
- Why do you think they aren't more widely known?
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Official Blizzard statement about Blitzchung's punishment at the Hearthstone Grandmasters tournament
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Floor Jansen & Henk Poort - Phantom Of The Opera (2019)
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Alan Smithee - the director who doesn't exist
I just found out about this and it's something I guess I should have known about before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used...
I just found out about this and it's something I guess I should have known about before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smithee
Alan Smithee (also Allen Smithee) is an official pseudonym used by film directors who wish to disown a project. Coined in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000,[1] it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when a director, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film. The director was also required by guild rules not to discuss the circumstances leading to the movie or even to acknowledge being the project's director.
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Blitzchung's personal statement on Blizzard and his ban after voicing support for HK
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Long shot: The story of a Kurdish sniper
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Mac DeMarco - Chamber of Reflection (2014)
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An overview and ranking of the seventeen available Ticket to Ride maps
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The moment of relief I felt was followed by guilt and yes, pity
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The Left Rights - I'M ON CRACK (2010)
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Steam LGBTQ+ Games Sale
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I’m convinced we found evidence of life on Mars in the 1970s
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 has been awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali
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From failures in Europe to Finland great, the fall and rise of the Norwich striker Teemu Pukki
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Eighty years on, the debate over electro-convulsive therapy continues
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MI6 accused of thwarting efforts to solve the 1961 killing of UN chief Dag Hammarskjöld
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A good discussion, deleted, *again*?
I've noticed a trend (with Reddit, but I don't exclude the possibility it could be happening elsewhere) that people post a topic, then a day later they delete it. I've always been of the opinion...
I've noticed a trend (with Reddit, but I don't exclude the possibility it could be happening elsewhere) that people post a topic, then a day later they delete it. I've always been of the opinion that the best use of a discussion forum is to leave an answered topic for future posters to find. Especially when a community is hardcore anti-repost.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed by this, or have others come across this too?
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The Good Place S04E03 - "Chillaxing” discussion thread
So, anyone have any thoughts on yesterday's episode?
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Planting tiny spy chips in hardware can cost as little as $200
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Christian right tactics to fight trans rights: seperate the T from LGBT
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Eliud Kipchoge breaks two-hour marathon mark by twenty seconds
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Please tell me what you think about this idea for a text editor/Linux Distribution combo
I know there are similar products I could buy in the US that would give me this experience, but I'm not in the US and I don't have much money. In the old days, my father had some kind of machine...
I know there are similar products I could buy in the US that would give me this experience, but I'm not in the US and I don't have much money.
In the old days, my father had some kind of machine that was not a proper laptop and not a proper typewriter. It opened instantly to a text editor. As far as I remember, there was no noticeable boot time. It had a keyboard and an entry for a floppy disk. You typed your stuff, saved it to the floppy disk, probably to send via email or to print in another machine. I loved that machine.
I love these little gadgets that do one thing and one thing only. And, as someone with severe ADHD, they're often a necessity. If my Kindle had Youtube I would never read a book. If my PS4 had Emacs I would never play a game. The list goes on, but the principle is this: a lot of things are useful to me precisely because of what they cannot do.
And that is why I wanna recreate my father's crazy computer-typewriter.
Because I know how to use the command line, it really needs to be in total lockdown: I open it up, it shows a very simple text editor (with a few handy features that make it works even more like a typewriter) that I cannot configure, tinker or alter in any way. It's focused on writing (not editing) literature because that's what I need and other kinds of writing require an internet connection.
It would save and back up automatically (like a typewriter) to one or more drives at your choice.
There would need to be a few options because of different screen sizes, the number of screens etc, with an interface to make it easier.
So the idea is an ultra-minimal, kiosk-mode Linux distribution that can either go on a flash drive or be installed on an old laptop. No package management, no internet connection, no access to the command line, no configuration files, no distractions whatsoever. I wanna forget I'm even using Linux. I wanna recreate my father's typewriter/computer that he never let me touch.
How do I do this?
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Mortiferum - Archaic Vision Of Despair (2019)
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Meet the satellites that can pinpoint methane and carbon dioxide leaks
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Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
@juliacarriew: Elizabeth Warren is now running FB ads with a false statement about Mark Zuckerberg and FB endorsing Trump for president, to draw attention to FB's controversial policy allowing politicians to make false statements in ads. https://t.co/hulwrb3cc3
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On finding the freedom to rage against our fathers
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Jeff Bezos’s master plan - What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us
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SEC files emergency action and obtains a temporary restraining order to halt Telegram's cryptocurrency token offering
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Where do you get your sense of community and belonging from?
I watched this talk with David Brooks and I was blown away. It was an eloquent talk with strong words on how we need to find our sense of community again at a variety of levels (local to...
I watched this talk with David Brooks and I was blown away. It was an eloquent talk with strong words on how we need to find our sense of community again at a variety of levels (local to national).
So I'm curious, what communities are you involved in? If you don't have a sense of belonging, where would you like to belong?
I suppose online communities would count, but I think the point is to have away-from-keyboard interactions because of the additional layers of intimacy.
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What astronomers can learn from hot Jupiters, the scorching giant planets of the galaxy
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