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6 votes
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X-Men '97 | Trailer picks up where the previous series ended
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Tildes Minecraft Survival Bi-Weekly Thread
Server host: tildes.nore.gg Dynmap: https://tildes.nore.gg Playtime counter: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html Verification site: https://verify.tildes.nore.gg Tildes website extension (shows...
Server host:
tildes.nore.gg
Dynmap: https://tildes.nore.gg
Playtime counter: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html
Verification site: https://verify.tildes.nore.gg
Tildes website extension (shows online status & location): Firefox (Desktop and Android) - ChromeThe server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access.
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The US pepper that was nearly lost
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Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (February 2024)
This is a recurring topic for the Three Cheers for Tildes mobile app, which is currently in alpha testing. I'll summarize the previous month's updates at the start of each topic, so people can...
This is a recurring topic for the Three Cheers for Tildes mobile app, which is currently in alpha testing.
I'll summarize the previous month's updates at the start of each topic, so people can read the updates and then hit Ignore if they don't care about more frequent updates and user feedback.
Known bugs
iOS v0.9.1 crashes when tapping a Details block in a topic OP.Fixed in v0.10.0.
Recently:
Android and iOS v0.10.0 (Feb 15, 2024)
- View and send private messages
- Added button to send private message from a user's profile
- Added "Tap to refresh" when a feed is empty
- Show posted time in topic OP
- Renamed bottom tab to Inbox (instead of Notifications)
- (Android) Removed animation when using bottom tabs
- (Android) Fixed crash when replying from a user's profile
- (iOS) Fixed crash toggling Details in topic OP
- (iOS) Fixed layout bugs with markdown tables
- (iOS) Fixed UI bugs when replying in a user's profile
- (iOS) Fixed minor UI bugs and crashes
Android v0.9.1: Fixed crash double-tapping comment in profile, and other rare crashes and minor bugs.
iOS hotfix v0.9.1: Fixed a possible crash opening the Notifications tab.
Android and iOS v0.9.0 (Jan 22, 2024)
- View user profiles ("all posts" feed; more options like bios coming in the future)
- Tweaked app theme colors
- Fixed various layout bugs
- (Android) Fixed crash tapping links in comment reply preview
- (Android) Fixed missing Share button on topic OP if logged out
- (Android) Fixed black background setting on Android 9 and earlier
iOS hotfix v0.8.1: Fixed keyboard blocking the Exemplary prompt dialog.
Android and iOS v0.8.0 (Jan 9, 2024)
- Apply comment labels (Exemplary, Offtopic, Joke, Noise, Malice)
- Tap an Exemplary label you've received to see messages
- Added Reply to text selection context menu
- Quote selected text when replying
- Fixed app incorrectly treating user as logged in after restoring a Google Drive or iCloud backup
- (Android) Added Share button to OP in comments section
- (Android) Support Android 14
- (Android) Fixed rendering non-breaking spaces
- (iOS) Fixed logout bug if no connectivity
- (iOS) Fixed markdown table layout and CPU idle bugs
- (iOS) Fixed rare crash collapsing a comment
Last month's topic: January 2024
Where to get it
Android version on Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.talklittle.android.tildes
iOS version on TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mpVk1qIy
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Advice for Guatemala and possibly nearby?
I will be spending a few months in Quetzaltenango/Xela Guatemala but I will have weekends free and have reserved some time at the end of my trip to be a tourist. I'm thinking about Antigua, the...
I will be spending a few months in Quetzaltenango/Xela Guatemala but I will have weekends free and have reserved some time at the end of my trip to be a tourist.
I'm thinking about Antigua, the Copan ruins in Honduras near the border, possibly a trip to San Sebastian in Mexico. My strenuous hiking days are behind me but I like views, nature, animals, birds, architecture, history, good food and nice people.
I am very open to suggestions. People who know the region or have visited, what advice can you share? I am somewhat budget conscious.
Edit, my concerns about Yellow Fever were assuaged by @occlude
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Guyana is trying to keep its oil blessing from becoming a curse
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CMV: Once civilization is fully developed, life will be unfulfilling and boring. Humanity is also doomed to go extinct. These two reasons make life not worth living.
Hello everyone, I hope you're well. I've been wrestling with two "philosophical" questions that I find quite unsettling, to the point where I feel like life may not be worth living because of what...
Hello everyone,
I hope you're well. I've been wrestling with two "philosophical" questions that
I find quite unsettling, to the point where I feel like life may not be worth
living because of what they imply. Hopefully someone here will offer me a new
perspective on them that will give me a more positive outlook on life.
(1) Why live this life and do anything at all if humanity is doomed to go extinct?
I think that, if we do not take religious beliefs into account, humanity is
doomed to go extinct, and therefore, everything we do is ultimately for nothing,
as the end result will always be the same: an empty and silent universe devoid of human
life and consciousness.I think that humanity is doomed to go extinct, because it needs a source of
energy (e.g. the Sun) to survive. However, the Sun will eventually die and life
on Earth will become impossible. Even if we colonize other habitable planets,
the stars they are orbiting will eventually die too, so on and so forth until
every star in the universe has died and every planet has become inhabitable.
Even if we manage to live on an artificial planet, or in some sort of human-made
spaceship, we will still need a source of energy to live off of, and one day there
will be none left.
Therefore, the end result will always be the same: a universe devoid of human
life and consciousness with the remnants of human civilization (and Elon Musk's Tesla)
silently floating in space as a testament to our bygone existence. It then does not
matter if we develop economically, scientifically, and technologically; if we end
world hunger and cure cancer; if we bring poverty and human suffering to an end, etc.;
we might as well put an end to our collective existence today. If we try to live a happy
life nonetheless, we'll still know deep down that nothing we do really matters.Why do anything at all, if all we do is ultimately for nothing?
(2) Why live this life if the development of civilization will eventually lead
to a life devoid of fulfilment and happiness?I also think that if, in a remote future, humanity has managed to develop
civilization to its fullest extent, having founded every company imaginable;
having proved every theorem, run every experiment and conducted every scientific
study possible; having invented every technology conceivable; having automated
all meaningful work there is: how then will we manage to find fulfilment in life
through work?At such time, all work, and especially all fulfilling work, will have already
been done or automated by someone else, so there will be no work left to do.If we fall back to leisure, I believe that we will eventually run out of
leisurely activities to do. We will have read every book, watched every
movie, played every game, eaten at every restaurant, laid on every beach,
swum in every sea: we will eventually get bored of every hobby there is and
of all the fun to be had. (Even if we cannot literally read every book or watch
every movie there is, we will still eventually find their stories and plots to be
similar and repetitive.)At such time, all leisure will become unappealing and boring.
Therefore, when we reach that era, we will become unable to find fulfillment and
happiness in life neither through work nor through leisure. We will then not
have much to do, but to wait for our death.In that case, why live and work to develop civilization and solve all of the
world's problems if doing so will eventually lead us to a state of unfulfillment,
boredom and misery? How will we manage to remain happy even then?
I know that these scenarios are hypothetical and will only be relevant in a
very far future, but I find them disturbing and they genuinely bother me, in the
sense that their implications seem to rationally make life not worth living.I'd appreciate any thoughts and arguments that could help me put these ideas into
perspective and put them behind me, especially if they can settle these questions for
good and definitively prove these reasonings to be flawed or wrong, rather than offer
coping mechanisms to live happily in spite of them being true.Thank you for engaging with these thoughts.
Edit.
After having read through about a hundred answers (here and elsewhere), here are some key takeaways:
Why live this life and do anything at all if humanity is doomed to go extinct?
- My argument about the extinction of humanity seems logical, but we could very well eventually find out that it is totally wrong. We may not be doomed to go extinct, which means that what we do wouldn't be for nothing, as humanity would keep benefitting from it perpetually.
- We are at an extremely early stage of the advancement of science, when looking at it on a cosmic timescale. Over such a long time, we may well come to an understanding of the Universe that allows us to see past the limits I've outlined in my original post.
- (Even if it's all for nothing, if we enjoy ourselves and we do not care that it's pointless, then it will not matter to us that it's all for nothing, as the fun we're having makes life worthwhile in and of itself. Also, if what we do impacts us positively right now, even if it's all for nothing ultimately, it will still matter to us as it won't be for nothing for as long as humanity still benefits from it.)
Why live this life if the development of civilization will eventually lead to a life devoid of fulfilment and happiness?
- This is not possible, because we'd either have the meaningful work of improving our situation (making ourselves fulfilled and happy), or we would be fulfilled and happy, even if there was no work left.
- I have underestimated for how long one can remain fulfilled with hobbies alone, given that one has enough hobbies. One could spend the rest of their lives doing a handful of hobbies (e.g., travelling, painting, reading non-fiction, reading fiction, playing games) and they would not have enough time to exhaust all of these hobbies.
- We would not get bored of a given food, book, movie, game, etc., because we could cycle through a large number of them, and by the time we reach the end of the cycle (if we ever do), then we will have forgotten the taste of the first foods and the stories of the first books and movies. Even if we didn't forget the taste of the first foods, we would not have eaten them frequently at all, so we would not have gotten bored of them. Also, there can be a lot of variation within a game like Chess or Go. We might get bored of Chess itself, but then we could simply cycle through several games (or more generally hobbies), and come back to the first game with renewed eagerness to play after some time has passed.
- One day we may have the technology to change our nature and alter our minds to not feel bored, make us forget things on demand, increase our happiness, and remove negative feelings.
Recommended readings (from the commenters)
- Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World by Nick Bostrom
- The Fun Theory Sequence by Eliezer Yudkowski
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- Into the Cool by Eric D. Schneider and Dorion Sagan
- Permutation City by Greg Egan
- Diaspora by Greg Egan
- Accelerando by Charles Stross
- The Last Question By Isaac Asimov
- The Culture series by Iain M. Banks
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
- The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom by Martin Hägglund
- Uncaused cause arguments
- The Meaningness website (recommended starting point) by David Chapman
- Optimistic Nihilism (video) by Kurzgesagt
23 votes -
Air Force OKs autonomous cargo flights across California after successful test
20 votes -
The price is wrong: How error-riddled scores get in the way of promoting music of marginalized composers
12 votes -
'Dune: Part Two' first reactions from the premiere: “Jaw-dropping masterpiece”
31 votes -
The spiralling cost of insuring against climate disasters – rising home premiums are a de facto ‘carbon price’ on consumers as extreme weather events become more frequent
30 votes -
Nurses in Denmark shift to cosmetic care despite hospital staffing crisis – DSR believes shift is due to salary and working conditions
23 votes -
Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets. Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
5 votes -
What do you all think of taking Swords out of white commander decks
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Word processing like it's 1993
I thought younger people may find it interesting to experience what older, very popular, word processors were like. Here's WordPerfect 6.0, emulated in the browser:...
I thought younger people may find it interesting to experience what older, very popular, word processors were like.
Here's WordPerfect 6.0, emulated in the browser: https://archive.org/details/msdos_wordperfect6
Here's a link to the instruction manual: https://archive.org/details/wordperfectversi00word/mode/2up
Here's a bit of history: DOSDays - WordPerfect $495 in 1983 is roughly $1500 today.
Here's the recommended specs (not the minimum specs)
Personal computer using 386 processor
520k free conventional memory
DOS 6.0 or memory management software
Hard disk with 16M disk space for complete installation
VGA graphics adapter and monitorF1 is the default help key.
Page 409 of the manual talks about menus. This is version 6 so they give you a drop down menu. To get an idea of how version 5 and earlier would appear by default (without the menubar, just the blue screen), hit alt v, then p. T (To get the menu back hit alt =, then V, then P) People might find it weird but those drop down menus first appeared in 5.1, and were a bit deal: "On 6th November 1989 WordPerfect released what would be their most successful version - WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, selling for $495 in the U.S. This was the first version to support Macintosh-style text-based pull down menus to supplement the traditional function key shortcuts and mouse support."
I'd be interested to know how easy people find it to use. At the time I had the keyboard overlay (example for WP5) and the muscle memory, but that's all gone now.
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Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
68 votes -
The 355 million dollar US civil fraud ruling against Donald Trump, annotated
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of February 12
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
10 votes -
This is why we don’t recycle wind turbine blades
15 votes -
The day I put $50,000 in a shoe box and handed it to a stranger
25 votes -
What is India's "uniform civil code" and why does it anger Muslims?
17 votes -
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within twenty days
37 votes -
Fake grass, real injuries? Dissecting the NFL’s artificial turf debate.
14 votes -
Too Many Zooz x Moon Hooch - Nowhere Else to Go (2024)
15 votes -
The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US and cost over $1 billion
18 votes -
Defeat Clintin the mini-boss in new ‘Epstein’ island game on Steam
6 votes -
Should pay be more transparent? Policies that force companies to reveal the pay of peers have unintended consequences.
25 votes -
Alexei Navalny, galvanizing opposition leader and Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, died in prison, Russia says
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What are you reading these days?
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.
23 votes -
Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
24 votes -
The best game animation of 2023
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Seventeen behind-the-scenes stories from 'Galaxy Quest'
12 votes -
Fanatics has finally pissed off the wrong people
16 votes -
OpenAI releases Sora: Creating video from text
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A peer reviewed journal with nonsense AI images was just published
@🔥Kareem Carr | Statistician 🔥: It's finally happened. A peer-reviewed journal article with what appear to be nonsensical AI generated images. This is dangerous. pic.twitter.com/Ez54H6l7iZ
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Humble Choice - February 2024
February 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games. Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Life Is Strange: True Colors 81...
February 2024's Humble Choice is now available with the following eight Steam games.
Steam Page Opencritic Steam Recent/All Operating Systems Steam Deck ProtonDB Life Is Strange: True Colors 81 89/90 Win ✅ Verified 🟨 Gold Scorn 68 77/82 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Destroy All Humans! 2 - Reprobed 68 78/73 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Beacon Pines 81 98/97 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum There Is No Light: Enhanced Edition N/A 74/81 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Children of Silentown 70 87/81 Win ✅ Verified 🎖️ Platinum Oaken 77 81 Win, Mac, Linux ❓ Unknown ✅ Native Snowtopia: Ski Resort Builder N/A 65 Win 🟨 Playable 🎖️ Platinum Does anyone have experience with any of the games and, if so, would you recommend them? Is there anything in here that you're particularly excited to play?
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The 2023 Hugo Awards: A report on censorship and exclusion
19 votes -
Jarmo Kekäläinen relieved of his duties as general manager
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Sweden has consistently reported some of the lowest rates of maternal and child mortality in the world – unfortunately these achievements don't extend to foreign-born mothers
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Demonstrators claim lack of affordable housing in Gaeltacht region threatens the survival of the Irish language
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Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
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Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of February 11
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week! Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle...
Add awesome game deals to this topic as they come up over the course of the week!
Alternately, ask about a given game deal if you want the community’s opinions: e.g. “What games from this bundle are most worth my attention?”
Rules:
- No grey market sales
- No affiliate links
If posting a sale, it is strongly encouraged that you share why you think the available game/games are worthwhile.
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Ocarina of Time speedrunning glitch discovered - Ganonfloor
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nginx forked by co-founder - new fork will be freenginx
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Alexei Navalny: Vladimir Putin critic dies after 'losing consciousness' at maximum security prison
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Two waves of mass death hit prehistoric Denmark, with farmers wiping out hunter-gatherers and pastoralists later wiping out the farmers, genetic study reveals
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What is the horrible phrase my wife learned from her grandpa?
Hello! My wife's grandfather would say the phrase "ʃɛkrɛplj jɛɽɛ" from what I can decode from the phonetic alphabet on Wikipedia, or my best English estimation "shikrepple yere" with a flipped r...
Hello! My wife's grandfather would say the phrase "ʃɛkrɛplj jɛɽɛ" from what I can decode from the phonetic alphabet on Wikipedia, or my best English estimation "shikrepple yere" with a flipped r if that makes no sense. He would say this when he lost a hand in poker, when she repeated it as a kid got chewed out and told not to say it, and he died without having ever said what it meant. He was stationed in Germany during the Korean War, so our best guess is something Polish..? But we can't find much that matches.
Tilderinos, can you translate what horrible phrase my wife has been casually repeating to people trying to figure it out and what language it's even in? Apologies if this is a slur or something... And thanks!
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California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
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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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