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9 votes
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 7
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.
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Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries
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Community Check-In: How is everyone doing?
Given the current cosmic circumstances – hurricanes, extreme weather, end of the year festivities, moon 2: intergalactic boogaloo, and the never-ending struggle against the forces of evil – it...
Given the current cosmic circumstances – hurricanes, extreme weather, end of the year festivities, moon 2: intergalactic boogaloo, and the never-ending struggle against the forces of evil – it seems like a good time to delve into each others personal realms just a a bit, or perhaps too much.
So... How's it going? How's life? Working on anything? How's the family? How's your friends and loved ones? Any worries? Any triumphs, failures, or any other radical (or not so radical) sensical nonsense? Writing or constructing your magnum opus? or are you just feeling like a massive dope, or even The Massive Dopeness?
Rant, don't rant, just a check-in, choose-your-own-adventure, go to page 85, or go to page 20, your choice.
We already have several recurring threads that scratch the surface of our present experiences, focusing primarily on tech and games and the like2. But, hows your individual journey going?1
Footnotes
1. If this were 2014a I would have thrown a yolo in there, but it's 2024 so it belongs in the footnotes to signify the cognizant cringe of it all.1a. If this were pre-2012 I would have thrown an "inb4" in there, but its 2024 so I've added it to a sub-footnote, and made it smaller hoping most people stopped reading before now
2. We have this recurring mental health thread, but I feel its a bit too targeted (more of a downage than a positive start of a conversation) and sort of dicey to talk about for most people in our public forum, especially on the permanent and entirely ephemeral superhighway of information.
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Duracell PowerCheck: A genius idea which didn't last that long
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Starship Launch 5 successfully caught by launch tower
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HTML for people
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Apple TV+ coming to Amazon Prime Video as an add-on subscription
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Korea and the changing global arms market - Inside Korea's biggest defence exhibition (KADEX)
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The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – a warming tale of gathering eiderdown in Norway
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Jazz band, Generation Y, covers Nirvana on the spot (ft. Ulysses Owens Jr.) (2024)
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SpaceX launches fifth Starship and catches Super Heavy booster
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1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
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Debugging by querying a database of all program state
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The United States of beer, mapsplained - Phil Edwards (former Vox) explains the history of beer in America
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Xbox Cloud Gaming will let you stream your own games in November
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A report, county-by-county North Carolina recovery from Hurricane Helene after two weeks
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Is there actual long-term issues with teens watching movies that are rated out of their range?
something I have been thinking about lately. like any kid being raised as the internet piracy was really taking off, I must have watched countless R-rated movies when I was still in high school. I...
something I have been thinking about lately.
like any kid being raised as the internet piracy was really taking off, I must have watched countless R-rated movies when I was still in high school.
I can see an argument being made that maybe immediately after watching the movie, it excited me too much and maybe I didn't know how to internalize a sex scene or a violent scene. as for the cursing, I didn't need movies to teach me bad words, society took care of that already.
but I have a hard time placing any issues I have now that are cause of watching movies that were not appropriate for me. I care about people, I place great significance on empathy and non-violence, I am a pacifist for goodness sake but I still enjoy a good shoot-em up movie. As for the sex scenes, honestly, the general misogyny and patriarchal nature of western society had a far greater influence on any incorrect assumptions I had made about the bedroom and porn. Imo porn is the only thing that really fucked me up, watched it too way too early and in a conservative-ish (at least with regards to sex) household so not like I could feel safe talking to an adult about it.
But I have a hard time placing any permanent harms that watching R-rated movies in my teens had on me. Then again, I was raised by pretty moral women who instilled a very active conscience in me.
which makes me think the rating system is mostly pointless and just done in response to activist conservative parents who get too worked up about that kind of thing?
Or maybe it does have a long-term effect just only with certain folks?
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Iceland's vertical farm turning algae into food – pioneering entrepreneurs are growing some surprising crops and doing it sustainably
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In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
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Lefties of Tildes: what are some items where the left handed version is most necessary?
Despite everyone else in the family being right handed, my son is a leftie! Very excited for this development, but as we're nearing school age at 5, I'm wondering about the things he uses daily....
Despite everyone else in the family being right handed, my son is a leftie! Very excited for this development, but as we're nearing school age at 5, I'm wondering about the things he uses daily.
Seeing him cutting with right handed scissors, I'm getting him some left handed ones. What are other common items I may not be considering that are just so much easier to use the left handed version of?
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In need of new bedding
I’m looking for some new king size sheets, and likely a new duvet cover as one of the ties inside is ripped. My wife is intrigued by Brooklinen and other brands marketed on social media, but I’ve...
I’m looking for some new king size sheets, and likely a new duvet cover as one of the ties inside is ripped. My wife is intrigued by Brooklinen and other brands marketed on social media, but I’ve read that those are terrible. Do any of you have brand recommendations that aren’t thousands of dollars?
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Summer Eternal - A new cooperative game studio from ex-ZA/UM devs
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It's personal: How your information is being exposed through FOIA
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Slow change can be radical change
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Asinhell – Impii Hora (2024)
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The hidden world of electrostatic ecology
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The Royal Office of Magick Affairs | Sweden Game Conference pitch reel
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Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly
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Diffusion for World Modeling - CS:GO and other games rendered in real time using neural networks
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