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9 votes
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This boring gray boat patrolling the US east coast is actually a vigilante
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Good manners, obedience and unselfishness: data reveals how UK parenting priorities compare with other nations
16 votes -
The fascinating story behind Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1968 epic War and Peace (2019)
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Poland's crusade against abortion investigates miscarriages, tests blood for evidence of abortion pills, created a national pregnancy registry
66 votes -
Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears
30 votes -
Veilid — a peer-to-peer network and application framework by Cult of the Dead Cow
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Online payment methods, are there significant upsides or downsides of one vs another?
Specifically this week I have to choose whether to create an account with paypal, cashapp or venmo but I am also interested in a broader discussion including other apps. Any advice or information...
Specifically this week I have to choose whether to create an account with paypal, cashapp or venmo but I am also interested in a broader discussion including other apps. Any advice or information would be welcome.
14 votes -
Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server
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Opinion: Why a Navajo leader’s federal conviction gives US prosecutors a road map to take on former president Donald Trump
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How “little tech” is driving workplace surveillance—and what can be done to push back
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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
8 votes -
Jann Wenner removed from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame board after controversial comments about Black and female musicians
14 votes -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a lawsuit Saturday against five major oil companies and their subsidiaries over climate change
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Big Bill Hell’s Cars
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How Columbia ignored women, undermined prosecutors and protected a predator for more than twenty years
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‘American Fiction’ wins Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award
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This Obamacare disaster had a surprising turnaround
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Fresh Album Fridays: Mitski, Nas, Explosions in the Sky and more
Good morning ~ This is a thread to discuss new album releases that have arrived on our doorstep this week. Feel free to share albums and EPs that have caught your eye and interest! Discussion...
Good morning ~ This is a thread to discuss new album releases that have arrived on our doorstep this week. Feel free to share albums and EPs that have caught your eye and interest!
Discussion Points
What are you looking forward to listen to?
Have you listened to any of these releases?
What are your thoughts?
What have you enjoyed from these artists in the past?Why Friday?
Most (but not all) new LPs release on a Friday, as labels want to give the release a full week of sales before entering the charts.
~~ Feedback on the format welcome!
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Underdogs Finland stunned 32-times champions the United States on Saturday to seal their place in the Davis Cup quarter-finals for the first time
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How the feminist consensus that overthrew Spain’s soccer chief was formed
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You say tomato, these scientists say evolutionary mystery
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Little Dragon – NPR Tiny Desk Concert (2023)
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On this day in 1999 the moon was blown out of the Earth's orbit: Space 1999
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Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that?
60 votes -
Ten churches around the world that have been repurposed in interesting and creative ways
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How public pianos decorated by artists came to dot Portland’s streets and parks
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New Mexico Governor bans public carry of guns in Albuquerque
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Collective letter from game development companies concerning Unity's runtime fee
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen sets new European record in men's mile at the Wanda Diamond League Final 2023 in Eugene
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Gauntlet IV: “Game needs port, badly”
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Sweden's right-wing government says it will turn its back on plastic bag tax from November 2024
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Interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark highlights large gift to counter harms of artificial intelligence, other philanthropic initiatives
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Small US cities experiment with grant funded Uber-like microtransit
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Alan Moore interview: ‘I’m giving all my screen royalties to Black Lives Matter’
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US President Joe Biden strongly defends auto workers in first remarks after strike
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UK government vows action after man dies in latest dog attack
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Which board games have you been playing this week? (to 13 September)
Time to share your weekly board gaming. For me it consisted of a game of Aquanauts at a monthly gathering I've only attended for the second time. The host of the group posted about his new group...
Time to share your weekly board gaming.
For me it consisted of a game of Aquanauts at a monthly gathering I've only attended for the second time. The host of the group posted about his new group in a village hall in the middle of nowhere (UK) over on Reddit. Well the middle of nowhere turned out to be not far from where I live so I've been trying to make it when I can ever since.
Aquanauts was published by a UK publisher Inside the Box Games (best known for Sub Terra) but they went bust recently and another company stepped in and fulfilled the Kickstarter. The game is a basic worker placement, where you're sending your robotic submersibles (workers) out to collect or convert resources. What makes it interesting is that the worker spots are linked, and playing a spot linked to another that has a player worker on it scores you both a bonus resource. You can also build tiles on your player board to similarly receive or convert goods during the income phase. Other than that, you're trying to load up a submarine with the correct resources to score contract cards, and there's a degree of hedging your bets as the person who takes the final slot on the submarine gets to choose the order in which the players claim contracts. It's a fairly good game, fun enough on first play but largely unmemorable.
Tonight I got in a game of Carnegie. This is a great game that sees you building up your office with departments, staffing them and sending your workers on missions to build buildings across the map of the USA, linking cities. I royally screwed up my first turn and spent several rounds trying to recover which left me way behind on points. Great game with a lot to think about but which neither takes too long to teach or play.
What have you all been playing?
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Eight in ten women married to men still take husband’s last name, survey finds
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Human alteration of the global floodplains 1992-2019
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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TikTok fined record £300m for putting children’s privacy at risk
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Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches (sexual abuse allegations against Russell Brand)
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We're all living on r/MadeMeSmile's Internet Now
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An oral history of Bank Python
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Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like unity, elon musk and tortillas. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was curious....
Tildes is a very serious site, where we discuss very serious matters like unity, elon musk and tortillas. Tags culled from the highest voted topics from the last seven days, if anyone was curious.
But one of my favourite tags happens to be offbeat! Taking its original inspiration from Sir Nils Olav III, this thread is looking for any far-fetched
offbeat
stories lurking in the newspapers. It may not deserve its own post, but it deserves a wider audience!24 votes -
Experts link LastPass security breach to a string of crypto heists
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Vulture Lists: Eleven recommended books on hip hop music or artists
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Big SUVs become most sold new vehicles in Europe. "Customers feel more safe, they feel more powerful" says car industry executive.
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The world’s first 3D-printed salmon is hitting store shelves
23 votes