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    4. Black Mirror S1E02 "Fifteen Million Merits" discussion thread

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      Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 2 - Fifteen Million Merits After failing to impress the judges on a singing competition show, a woman must either...

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      Black Mirror Season 1 Episode 2 - Fifteen Million Merits

      After failing to impress the judges on a singing competition show, a woman must either perform degrading acts or return to a slave-like existence.

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      Warning: this thread contains spoilers about this episode! If you haven't seen it yet, please watch it and come back to this thread later.

      You can talk about past episodes, but please don't discuss future episodes in this thread!

      If you don't know what to say, here are some questions to get the discussion started:

      • How does the title relate to the episode itself?
      • Are there any similarities between real life events and the episode?
      • Are there any references or easter eggs in the episode, such as references to past episodes?
      21 votes

    7. Concatenated tags - how do they work?

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      I have a question about the technicalities of tagging, now that this ability is going to be spread around. I don't understand how concatenated tags work. I've seen occasional instances of tags...

      I have a question about the technicalities of tagging, now that this ability is going to be spread around. I don't understand how concatenated tags work. I've seen occasional instances of tags that look like "abc.xyz", and I've seen technical discussions about tags like this, but I've never really been clear about what this does. What does a tag like "abc.xyz" mean? How does it work?

      7 votes

    11. Make a statement about yourself, run it through Google translate 1 or more times and translate back into English. Post the final result.

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      Example: I enjoy eating a bowl of cereal after everybody goes to sleep. (English to Albanian. Albanian to Chinese. Chinese to English.) “After all, I like to eat a bowl of cereal after going to...

      Example:
      I enjoy eating a bowl of cereal after everybody goes to sleep.
      (English to Albanian. Albanian to Chinese. Chinese to English.)
      “After all, I like to eat a bowl of cereal after going to sleep”

      (I stole this from /r/threadgames, by the way. Apologies for my lack of creativity.)

      23 votes

    46. How will Tildes work with bans?

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      Basically, with groups being admin controlled rather than the reddit system of mods, will all bans be site wide or should group bans be possible? Let's say somebody is harassing or being an...

      Basically, with groups being admin controlled rather than the reddit system of mods, will all bans be site wide or should group bans be possible? Let's say somebody is harassing or being an asshole on ~LGBT, should they be banned from ~LGBT or from the website?

      21 votes

    49. How malleable are personality traits, if at all?

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      Under the right inputs opinions and worldviews can be changed relatively easily, but what about the more subtle stuff underneath? Can a workaholic with a strong drive later in life become...

      Under the right inputs opinions and worldviews can be changed relatively easily, but what about the more subtle stuff underneath? Can a workaholic with a strong drive later in life become lethargic? Can an innately introverted person later in life become innately extroverted?

      Those aren't the best examples, but that said my intuition would be that these tendencies are too deep rooted to be significantly altered and can only be superficially mitigated against one way or another.

      If this is to a degree incorrect I'd love to hear some anecdotes.

      10 votes