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15 votes
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What are your favorite sports, how they're different from other sports, and what do you like about them?
Here, I am asking you to talk about the sports you love. They may be either obscure or popular and well-known. What is their place in your life? Have you practiced those sports, or are you simply...
Here, I am asking you to talk about the sports you love. They may be either obscure or popular and well-known. What is their place in your life? Have you practiced those sports, or are you simply a fan and an expectator? What people don't get about the sport you love? What are some common misconceptions you would like to dispel? How would you convince someone to learn more about those sports?
15 votes -
Slush Idea Bin
Here's something I want to try, a sort of here's an idea thread for things you want to write down or think that are a good idea, but have no intention of exploring. All top level posts should be...
Here's something I want to try, a sort of here's an idea thread for things you want to write down or think that are a good idea, but have no intention of exploring. All top level posts should be similar to shower thoughts in spontaneity, but allow you to further explore them should you choose to. Effectively, it's an Adopt a Thought!
22 votes -
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the US
104 votes -
The greatest quest in World of Warcraft
8 votes -
Looking for resources about AI development
Hello, I'm looking for resources on how to develop AI, aimed at people who already have experience with programming. They don't have to be free, I would just like to aggregate different type of...
Hello,
I'm looking for resources on how to develop AI, aimed at people who already have experience with programming.They don't have to be free, I would just like to aggregate different type of resources to pick from.
Thanks!
14 votes -
What was your favorite older social media site/app? What did you like or dislike?
+1 for slashdot, mainly because of intelligent topics and conversations about science, technology, scifi, games and all that fun stuff. Community participation and quality discourse made it...
+1 for slashdot, mainly because of intelligent topics and conversations about science, technology, scifi, games and all that fun stuff. Community participation and quality discourse made it interesting.
Everything on popular social media "out there" now is about click bait and sound bites, even comments and replies. Posts (and communities) are reduced to nothing more than grabbing a few seconds of attention.
69 votes -
Why Runa Indigenous people find 'natural parenting' troubling
13 votes -
Just use QWERTY! ("my plea to anyone who has to display a virtual on-screen keyboard")
35 votes -
Money is the megaphone of identity
6 votes -
What are your easiest vegan meals?
I specifically say "easiest" not "best", because sometimes we're tired after work and just want a five/ten minute thing. I'm currently eating a bowl of my easiest salad, consisting of: Ingredients...
I specifically say "easiest" not "best", because sometimes we're tired after work and just want a five/ten minute thing.
I'm currently eating a bowl of my easiest salad, consisting of:
Ingredients
Can of chickpeas
Bunch of roquette (aragula for the Americans here)
Couple of handfuls of green beans
Couple of tomatoes
Alfalfa if you have itDressing
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
Olive oil
Swish of red wine vinegar (white wine vinegar would work as well, as would balsamic probably)
Salt/pepper
Lemon juice
Dried dill (optional)Looks like a lot, but if you have the ingredients it's super easy.
- Drain the chickpeas, put in a bowl, add all the dressing stuff.
- Stir, and also maybe mash some of the chickpeas for texture (I just use a fork and do both at the same time)
- Roughly chop up the tomatoes and green beans, add them and the roquette/alfalfa to the chickpeas, then eat.
Takes like five minutes.
What are yours? I am so so often lazy and hungry. I need easy recipes.
45 votes -
A brief thought on “prestigious” employers and “career downgrades”
I currently work for a “prestigious” company (you’ve heard the name) and have for a few years now. As a college student, my peers, friends, and my parents friends kept telling me how jealous they...
I currently work for a “prestigious” company (you’ve heard the name) and have for a few years now. As a college student, my peers, friends, and my parents friends kept telling me how jealous they were of me for getting into such a great company.
I am quickly finding out that the “prestige” this company has was in reality really great marketing and that I do not particularly enjoy working there. I work way too much (12 hour days, 5am - 5pm are not uncommon) and I don’t like the toxic culture. It makes me anxious and depressed.
Is it really worth it? Should I apply to the local government jobs that pay $20k less but offer actual pensions (not 401k), are chill (my friend does Azure/AWS trainings and scrolls Reddit, and 40 hours a week if that? Everyone I bring this up to says it’s a total career downgrade and a bad idea.
43 votes -
Feature(?) request: Free talk thread
The ? means, it doesn’t really need to be coded. Technically I could just do it. But i wanted to check in first. I really like the community here, amd sometimes want to share or ask something...
The ? means, it doesn’t really need to be coded. Technically I could just do it. But i wanted to check in first.
I really like the community here, amd sometimes want to share or ask something really small. I can and have started a whole thread for it, but we might be better served by a short comment in a larger thread.
What do yall think?
13 votes -
Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says
50 votes -
Is it time to do away with “good taste?”
8 votes -
Military AI’s next frontier: Your work computer
16 votes -
This is why it’s so hard to find mental health counseling in the USA right now
56 votes -
Behind the road tools | Developer insights #1 | Cities: Skylines II
11 votes -
US Coast Guard to have a press conference to discuss the apparent debris field of uncertain origin found near the Titanic at 3pm EST
42 votes -
Secret of Boris - Room 101 (2023)
7 votes -
Coheed and Cambria - The Pavilion (A Long Way Back) (2019)
21 votes -
Anchor text at the top to reply without scrolling?
Edit — thanks to all who replied and educated me on this. I thought I'd do this rather than pollute the thread with single thank you posts while I learn the ropes here. Hi, I'm brand new here so...
Edit — thanks to all who replied and educated me on this. I thought I'd do this rather than pollute the thread with single thank you posts while I learn the ropes here.
Hi,
I'm brand new here so this could well be answered and I'm just being stupid. Very probable tbh!
I'm on a macbook and iphone and one thing I noticed was it's a bit of a trek scrolling down to comment. Not that I've done that much.
Now I love, really love, the lightweight and speedy nature of this site (and incidentally looking forward to brushing up on my Markdown) and am hoping that with the influx feature bloat doesn't happen but would a small anchor text link somewhere up top be in order to quickly get to the comment field?
Let me know how idiotic I am and why or.. if I'm lucky.. how much of a genius I am!
Thanks,
Rodney
6 votes -
Should retail businesses be required to accept cash?
inspired by a law my local county council has been debating (local news article, press release from January from the sponsoring councilmember, and actual text of the proposed law) from the press...
inspired by a law my local county council has been debating (local news article, press release from January from the sponsoring councilmember, and actual text of the proposed law)
from the press release:
During and even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses in the Seattle area and beyond began shifting to cashless operation, leaving people who rely on cash with fewer options to purchase goods and services. Research, however, shows that cashless businesses most impact communities of color, seniors, people with disabilities, undocumented residents, refugee and immigrant and communities and low-income communities.
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At least 2.1% of Washington residents are unbanked, meaning they don’t have bank accounts, credit cards or other typical financial services, according to the 2021 FDIC Household Survey. Five-year estimates put that number even higher – at 3.1%. More than 17% of residents are underbanked, meaning they might have a bank account but often rely on alternative financial services, such as money orders, check-cashing services and payday loans.
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The legislation would require businesses in unincorporated King County to accept cash for most retail transactions, and to not charge higher prices than for another form of payment. It would allow for retailers to only accept up to $250 in cash payment for single transactions larger than that amount. It would allow for civil actions to be brought by someone whose cash payment was refused.
what do you think about requiring this?
(especially interested in responses from around the world and not just the US, since I think cash vs. card reliance varies considerably by country)
51 votes -
Turning off reply notifications would be a really nice feature
I didn't see it in feature requests or planned features. Has there been discussion on this before? For the most part, I want to receive notifications of replies to my topics. But recently I made a...
I didn't see it in feature requests or planned features. Has there been discussion on this before?
For the most part, I want to receive notifications of replies to my topics. But recently I made a topic that took off a bit and many days later there are replies still dropping through. At this point I would prefer to stop getting notifications and or would be great to have a button on the topic to disable replies most for that one.
30 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match
27 votes -
Seven rules for internet CEOs to avoid enshittification
39 votes -
Seattle plans to extend and upgrade Third Avenue transit mall in 2024
16 votes -
That time Josh Daniel broke the judges. Especially Simon. (2015)
5 votes -
Just One's "land mine" cards
My friends and I have been striving for the perfect score of 13 in Just One, and there's almost always one or two cards which make it seemingly impossible unless you're very lucky. Just One if...
My friends and I have been striving for the perfect score of 13 in Just One, and there's almost always one or two cards which make it seemingly impossible unless you're very lucky.
Just One if you're unfamiliar, is a game where your teammate wants to guess a word -- and you each independently give a one-word clue, "Donkey", "Dreamworks", "Ogre". If two or more players write the same word, all those clues get hidden -- so your clues can't be too obvious.
The words vary absurdly in difficulty from words like "Wine" and "Snake" where you can basically break the game by listing wines and snakes -- to words like "Mexico" and "Strawberry" where you can come at them from a few directions. ...But about 10% of the words are things like "Grotto", "Couscous" and "Ramses" where honestly, you could possibly sit down with someone for 30 minutes describing them in excruciating detail, and they might still not come up with those particular words. Could you describe "Couscous" to your 10-year-old nephew who lives on Chick-fil-A and Mcdonalds? Could you disambiguate a "Grotto" from a cave, cavern, bunker or lair? Sometimes it's a vocabulary thing but more often, it's just words with a lot of synonyms.
I call these "land mine" cards and I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this phenomenon. Have any of you gotten a perfect score in Just One? If so did you randomly dodge these land mines or did you overcome them with a really perfect clue?
5 votes -
Inside the AI factory: The humans that make tech seem human
14 votes -
Annie Jones: Shy 12-year-old Aussie girl slays "Dance Monkey" on America's Got Talent
12 votes -
Moog bought by inMusic
8 votes -
How can an operations manager break into tech?
I'm a few years out of college and just landed my first "career" job last fall as an operations manager at a non-tech company. I enjoy the work and am learning a lot, but the work/life balance...
I'm a few years out of college and just landed my first "career" job last fall as an operations manager at a non-tech company. I enjoy the work and am learning a lot, but the work/life balance leaves a bit to be desired with very limited PTO days. My girlfriend and I want to move to the Denver area about a year from now and I want to try to get a job in the tech industry doing operations or project management.
Have any of you been in my position before? What kind of jobs can someone with about 2 years of operations management experience find to get them on the project manager track at a tech company?
7 votes -
EABS + Jaubi -- Strange Love (2023)
6 votes -
Any suggestions for getting into DnD?
I've been interested in getting into it for the last few years but haven't managed to get started, no one I know personally is into it, and within online communities I'm a part of I sometimes miss...
I've been interested in getting into it for the last few years but haven't managed to get started, no one I know personally is into it, and within online communities I'm a part of I sometimes miss dates for campaigns, often due to my work schedule.
18 votes -
Cities: Skylines II - Feature update schedule, new features
21 votes -
Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760 (2023)
14 votes -
Dumb Money | Official red band trailer
7 votes -
Series finales and a lack of closure
I just finished a show, and it, like a lot of shows that I've watched recently, ended rather abruptly. As soon as "the point of the show" concluded, so did the show itself. I don't know if this is...
I just finished a show, and it, like a lot of shows that I've watched recently, ended rather abruptly. As soon as "the point of the show" concluded, so did the show itself. I don't know if this is a more recent trend or just something I've noticed recently, but I find nine times out of ten I really dislike it. It feels like they just don't give the viewers a chance to sit with the ending and this universe they've come to love. No time to sit and enjoy the view from the peak, no last drink with the friends you made along the way, no five years later "where are they now?". Just a kind of ambiguous ending that can be taken either way and a feeling of "there's gotta be one more episode right?"
Do people actually enjoy this? I feel like they must because how often I see it in movies and TV, but at the same time, I sorta just feel like it's a cheap way to add some depth to the ending without actually pinning yourself down to actually ending the show/movie. If people wanted it to end with A they can read into the ending that A happened, if they wanted B, same case.
19 votes -
Green energy is cheaper... so why aren't we using it?
24 votes -
Cannon fodder: The US judge in the Donald Trump documents case sets an early trial date, but that's not happening
18 votes -
Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey
57 votes -
Super Mario RPG - Nintendo Direct 6.21.2023
87 votes -
The story behind last week's Let's Encrypt downtime
16 votes -
Classical music for working out? (Also, ambient/trance recommendations?)
What's your classical music playlist when you hit the gym? Lately, I've been enjoying classical minimalist composers for my workouts. I like that the pieces are long and build gradually, which...
What's your classical music playlist when you hit the gym? Lately, I've been enjoying classical minimalist composers for my workouts. I like that the pieces are long and build gradually, which matches the energy and intensity I feel in a cardio workout. Also, the minimalist pieces I select have no rubato, so I can get in a groove. They often lack variety in dynamics, which is good because I want to be able to hear the music over gym noise. Most importantly, they are droning and repetitive in a way that doesn't demand constant attention. They allow me to enter a meditative state.
Here's my playlist these days:
- John Adams - Phrygian Gates
- Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint
- Steve Reich - Variations for winds, strings, keyboards
- Philip Glass - Pruit Igoe (from Koyaanisqatsi)
More than suggestions, I'm just curious to hear what classical music is on your playlist. But also I'm curious about ambient/trance suggestions, as I suspect that there's a lot in those genres that might fit my criteria, but I'm ignorant on the topic.
7 votes -
Ghost – Jesus He Knows Me (2023)
12 votes -
Naafiri: The Hound of a Hundred Bites | Gameplay trailer - League of Legends
6 votes -
Can you create topics or groups in here?
I am sorry if it's a dumb question, but I don't seem to get it. Is it possible to create topics/subreddit like things here?
18 votes -
What is Flowpilot?
3 votes -
Windows 98 icons are great
17 votes