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2 votes
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The world's most liveable cities in 2018
2 votes -
Why there’s no such thing as a civilisation
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Nazi fan wins Republican Primary in Missouri
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Why 'Some Like It Hot' is the greatest comedy ever made
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How millennials killed mayonnaise
16 votes -
The Underpopulation Bomb
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Buffy's Spike: Death as redemption
For most stories, when you have an evil or otherwise irredeemable character, death is the only form of satisfactory redemption. Anything less is simply not convincing for most audiences. I'm sure...
For most stories, when you have an evil or otherwise irredeemable character, death is the only form of satisfactory redemption. Anything less is simply not convincing for most audiences.
I'm sure a lot of people can write novels on Spike's character arcs, but I just wanted to discuss a little bit of his redemption arc.
Interestingly, his sacrifice at the end of Buffy season 7, is the beginning of his actual character. Sure, he's helped out Buffy before that, but he was far from "the greater good" until then. So death, and boom - character redeemed.
So how's the redemption arc when he's brought back in Angel. It's harder now because now he's up and walking and possibility doing things that negate his redemption. He now has to live the life he supposedly wanted to when he made his sacrifice.
Not saying that's what happened, but I think the writers went out of their way to show this.
(Going off memory now, so please feel free to correct me, if I get any details wrong...)
Not long after he's ghost-Spike, he starts feeling like he's pulled to "Hell", and develops a friendship with Fred, who ultimately saves him from that fate. This establishes his "goodness" for the rest of Angel.
Thoughts? Other characters that share something similar you want to talk about? How would Spike feel without this episode? Anyone just want to gush about Spike in general?
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Things Fall Apart
9 votes -
The death of the electric guitar
9 votes -
An Essential Guide to Image Compression
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The simple change that could save patient lives
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Born sexy yesterday
22 votes -
Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
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I saw the big dipper tonight
I live somewhere with relatively little light pollution, so on every clear night all the stars come out. I'm not a very good astronomer though, the big dipper is the only constellation I know. I...
I live somewhere with relatively little light pollution, so on every clear night all the stars come out. I'm not a very good astronomer though, the big dipper is the only constellation I know. I don't usually go out at night, so seeing it is still a pretty neat thing for me. I also saw the north star by following the tail(?) of the spoon, it's a bit dim and hard to see.
Any amateur or professional astronomers here? What do you like to look for at night?
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Secret Israeli report reveals armed drone killed four boys playing on Gaza beach in 2014
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The dehumanization of human resources
I realize that businesses want to draw talent from the largest pool possible, and to do so available positions are often advertised simultaneously across several job market websites with audiences...
I realize that businesses want to draw talent from the largest pool possible, and to do so available positions are often advertised simultaneously across several job market websites with audiences larger than what almost any company could reach on their own. Certainly some steps of the application process must be automated when dealing with, what I can only imagine, is a relatively high number of applicants. Websites like Indeed.com have even automated the phone interview process, having applicants take a robo-call and recording their responses to questions selected by the employer. The result, in my own experience, is an often bleak, one-sided, discouraging and depressing bout of dysfunctional online dating, except the relationship you're looking for is with your future employer.
Are there any HR people on Tildes? If so, I'm curious what this whole process looks like on your side and how it differs from say, twenty years ago. Is the process better? Are the people you hire better? How, on your end, could this process be improved? And most importantly, do you have any advice for getting through this increasingly frustrating first step?
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not
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Niger suppresses dissent as US leads influx of foreign armies. The western presence in one of the most militarised countries in Africa has sparked frustration and fear in locals.
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Google has kicked Ahoy! the anti-censorship app from the Chrome store
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The Tech Industry’s War on Kids: How psychology is being used as a weapon against children
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to give recs or dicuss anything about each others'...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something!
Feel free to give recs or dicuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
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Saudi fund in talks to invest in Tesla buyout deal
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The spy who licked me: Inside the CIA’s cat espionage fail
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Antifa clashes with police and journalists in Charlottesville and DC
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'I wish Canada had protected him': Friends mourn man who died while being deported
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has secured the support of an overwhelming majority of Liberal and Nationals MPs for his energy policy.
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Using FOIA data and Unix tools to identify confusing parking signs and cut the number of parking tickets in half
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Exclusive: Hacked emails take us inside the billionaires’ club around Vladimir Putin
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~music Listening Club 8 - Exuma
Hello all you good people, week 8 it is! Here we've got this week's user-voted record: Exuma by Exuma! Taking @leech's original pitch: I think it's probably one of the most legendary spiritual...
Hello all you good people, week 8 it is! Here we've got this week's user-voted record: Exuma by Exuma!
Taking @leech's original pitch:
I think it's probably one of the most legendary spiritual albums recorded, a look into some Junkanoo, Carnival, and Calypso music with a raw, ecstatic energy behind each song. His music is truly unique and nothing has quite reached it.
The story of Exuma's music is really captivating and later on in his career he toured with some big namesHere's the place to discuss your thoughts on the record, your history with it or the artist, and basically talk about whatever you want to that goes along with Exuma. Remember that this is intended to be a slow moving thing, feel free to take your time and comment at any point in the week!
If you'd like to stream or buy the album, it can be found on YouTube here or purchased physically here.
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Nebraska set to become first US state to use fentanyl in execution
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How UNH Turned A Quiet Benefactor Into A Football-Marketing Prop
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It started as a fairly routine tweet from an inoffensive source - Canada's foreign affairs ministry. But in just a few days it escalated into a world-class diplomatic clash.
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Underwater fiber-optic cables could moonlight as earthquake sensors
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Vanguard warns of worsening odds for the economy and markets
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Parents break teen out of Mayo Clinic
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newsboat: a console-based RSS/Atom feed reader
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Right after a period, women have better spatial awareness. Three weeks after, verbal skills peak. It turns out the monthly cycle does change the brain – but not in the ways you think.
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NVIDIA SIGGRAPH 2018 Keynote Live Blog
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Why American farmers are hacking their tractors with Ukrainian firmware
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Elon Musk’s Tesla funding wasn’t quite ‘secured’ after all
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"Dungeons & Dragons" and other TTRPGs are pretty misunderstood. What questions about the hobby would you like answered by those who play?
Since D&D gained prominence in the late-70s, it's been a game that outsiders to the hobby don't really understand. It has held the stereotype as that weird maths game where kids play as wizards in...
Since D&D gained prominence in the late-70s, it's been a game that outsiders to the hobby don't really understand. It has held the stereotype as that weird maths game where kids play as wizards in basements, or to some: a game that trains you in black magic to be devil worshippers.
D&D is experiencing a boom right now in popularity as the nerdy is becoming cool and many people who would never have dreamt of playing have found themselves with a new hobby. Whether you hold one of those views previously mentioned or are otherwise curious: What would you like to know about D&D and by extension - Tabletop Role-Playing Games?
-LTADnD
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How do you tag comments?
I see in the documentation that we are supposed to be able to tag comments, but I see no way to do that. Is this feature yet to be implemented?
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Working four-day weeks for five days’ pay? Research shows it pays off.
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Democrats should get real with White working-class voters
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Where even Walmart won't go: How Dollar General took over rural America
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One-Punch Man anime Season 2 unveils teaser, JAM Project's return, April premiere
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Markdown for strikethrough and tables is now enabled
Previously, the only way to do strikethrough or tables on Tildes was by using HTML. I've updated the markdown parser now so that it supports the methods of doing them through markdown. The...
Previously, the only way to do strikethrough or tables on Tildes was by using HTML. I've updated the markdown parser now so that it supports the methods of doing them through markdown. The Formatting help page on the docs has been updated as well with info about how they work.
I don't think there should be any conflicts between strikethrough and linking to groups, but it's possible that there are some weird edge cases, so please let me know if you notice anything. Generally, strikethrough requires you to have two tildes both before and after the text you want to strike out, whereas group links will only have one before. So something like
This ~~should work~~ doesn't work
will result inshould workinstead of a link to a group named ~should.69 votes -
Need advice about Tomboy notes and note apps in general
I'm looking for some advice on what note programs people recommend. Not a basic text editor, but something capable of doing some basic categorizing, chronological sorting, that sort of thing. I've...
I'm looking for some advice on what note programs people recommend. Not a basic text editor, but something capable of doing some basic categorizing, chronological sorting, that sort of thing. I've used Evernote most recently, but I'm becoming less and less of a fan. I don't need cloud sync necessarily, although device sync could be handy. A pleasant UI (not fettered with extraneous crap) would be nice, but aesthetic appeal takes a backseat to navigation and stability. Target OS is mostly likely going to be windows 10.
What are you experiences with note apps, what are your favorites?
(A bit of context for anyone interested)
Years ago, I used tomboy notes in Ubuntu for keeping track of timesheets/daily logs. It seemed like a good program to set up for my step dad to use as well. A few years later, Tomboy notes petered out without much fanfare. I've kept his laptop running with that setup for as long as I could, but the hardware is just getting worn out (it's about 10 years old now).So! Time to get him an upgrade. This time around, I don't think I'm gonna set up up with Linux. He isn't really up to the task of doing his own troubleshooting in linux (i.e. when an automatic update breaks something), and I haven't even been keeping up on Linux for the past few years myself. So I'm probably going to set him up on a Windows machine.
I should be able to export the tomboy notes database fairly easy, but it would be a huge load off my mind if I could settle on a decent program to migrate to first.
Thanks in advance for any input!
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The Fictional Foods We Wish Were Real
7 votes