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8 votes
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Standardizing tags: Grouping by continent?
Example post. Should we add continent tags? We do it with europe and sometimes with asia or south america. But I've never seen north america alongside with usa or canada. When I searched for it,...
Should we add continent tags? We do it with europe and sometimes with asia or south america. But I've never seen north america alongside with usa or canada. When I searched for it, north america tag was used just once, 93 days ago.
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Texas ex-officer is sentenced to 15 years for killing an unarmed teen
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ANN Exclusive: Interview with the staff of Sword Art Online: Alicization
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Introducing Nuka Dark Rum. Made by Bethesda.
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An update on the FireEye report and Reddit
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LGBTI lawyers lodge complaint over ‘hate speech’ during same-sex marriage survey
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France’s ecology minister quit on live radio due to society’s “complete indifference” to climate change
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Thoughts on male relationships
Right now, the number one post on my personal Reddit feed is this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9bryj8/straight_guys_of_reddit_whats_the_most_intimate/ Reading through this made me...
Right now, the number one post on my personal Reddit feed is this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9bryj8/straight_guys_of_reddit_whats_the_most_intimate/
Reading through this made me feel quite a few different emotions, but I would say that my biggest takeaway is disappointment.
I'm pretty young, being in my late twenties, but I know that the largest Reddit demographic is younger than me. And it terrifies me to see that people who are probably less than 15 years younger than me appear to be far more stricken by toxic masculinity than I was when I was their age. Right now the top response is a story about someone scratching his friend's back during a military deployment. He later mentions that his comrades gave him a hard time for it. Is the idea of machismo so fragile that we cannot take simple actions - even to provide relief to a friend?
I'll be the first to admit that a single AskReddit thread is not going to be an accurate representation of the levels of intimacy men actually give each other. But the simple fact that it's full of jokes, to me, makes it appear that they are using humor as a defense mechanism.
The fact that young men have so many barriers preventing them from building bonds with other men in a society often partitioned by gender deeply concerns me. I worry that this is the beginning of a societal issue in the same vein as racism was for our parents and grandparents and will only cause more problems as we age and gain political sway.
I'm bringing this up here because I would like some perspective on this. I've always been very sympathetic to other people, and my views as a gay man are obviously going to be different from straight men. Where is this toxicity coming from? Is there a way we can stop it, or is it already ingrained in the collective psyche?
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Subnautica: Below Zero
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Latest study reveals sharp rise in essay cheating globally, with millions of students involved
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Show off your Tasker profiles!
I just bought Tasker and it's a pretty amazing app! I just wanted to ask what your Tilders use for useful Tasker profiles.
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Jeff Witscher - I Dare You (2018)
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Go 2 Draft Designs
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Jehovah’s Witness girl could receive blood against her will during childbirth
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Population control is the climate change fix nobody wants to talk about
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Extreme heat is killing America’s farm workers
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Google and Mastercard cut a secret ad deal to track retail sales
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How to teach yourself hard things
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Making C less dangerous
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Wil Wheaton (wilw): This admin is going to suspend my account
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Vive Wireless Adapter launches next month
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Koch Media acquires Timesplitters and Second Sight IP
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The Hugo Awards just made history, and defied alt-right extremists in the process
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The FBI used the #MeToo movement to pressure an environmental activist into becoming an informant
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castling.club: play Chess via Mastodon (ActivityPub)
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While Google is attacked over privacy concerns and perceived bias, DuckDuckGo raised $10M
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Gunhild Carling - "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon"
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition now available
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California lawmakers pass nation’s toughest net neutrality law
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'Secure, open and inclusive': Indo-Australia trade deal to cover almost everything
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NASA sets a grim deadline for saving a beloved Mars rover
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First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin
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The rise of Brazil’s far‑right
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Quiz: Can you guess which of these psychology papers in top journals could be replicated (with a sample size five times as big) by reading a briefly what results they found?
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Nintendo and emulation
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Brazil’s jailed former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva barred from running again by electoral court
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Siddhartha discussion
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Standardising tags: "eu" or "europe"?
Are we using "eu" or "europe" for topics about Europe? I think we need to pick one or the other. I prefer "europe". EDIT The people have spoken, and the vast majority is in favour of "europe" (not...
Are we using "eu" or "europe" for topics about Europe? I think we need to pick one or the other.
I prefer "europe".
EDIT
The people have spoken, and the vast majority is in favour of "europe" (not "eu") for topics related to continental Europe. Topics related to the European Union itself can be tagged "europe.eu" (as per @nothis' excellent suggestion.
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I made some tildes loading .gifs
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Procrastination: It's pretty much all in the mind
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Laszlo - Closer EP (2015)
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What's an album/artist that you love that you'd never expect yourself to like?
The best one that comes to mind for me is the album Brother, Sister by Mewithoutyou. I don't really like any other Post-Hardcore album and I really can't get into most other albums by...
The best one that comes to mind for me is the album Brother, Sister by Mewithoutyou. I don't really like any other Post-Hardcore album and I really can't get into most other albums by Mewithoutyou, but I've probably listened to this one close to a hundred times.
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Write a quick poem!
I'm not going to set a time limit or anything, just going to encourage you to work quickly and spontaneously!
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Black Mirror S2 Special "White Christmas" discussion thread
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode Black Mirror Season 2 Special - White Christmas Three interconnected tales of technology run amok during the Christmas season are told by two men at...
Previous episode | Index thread | Next episode
Black Mirror Season 2 Special - White Christmas
Three interconnected tales of technology run amok during the Christmas season are told by two men at a remote outpost in a frozen wilderness.
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?
Please rate the episode here!
Sorry (again) for being a bit late with this thread!
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React Fire: Modernizing React DOM
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Weekly / monthly obscure books topic?
Edit: Or, preferably, just a "What are you reading this week/month?" sort-of topic, per the suggestion of the commenters. I've just stumpled upon this topic where people shared some "obscure"...
Edit: Or, preferably, just a "What are you reading this week/month?" sort-of topic, per the suggestion of the commenters.
I've just stumpled upon this topic where people shared some "obscure" books they've read. I think that that sort of topic would be nice as a recurring feature. Do you share my view? If yes, how would we go about actually doing it?
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'Is this a red line for us?' $15b European trade deal doomed if Australia dodges Paris pledge.
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The committee that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature is having a public meltdown over allegations of sexual harassment and cronyism
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The myth of a campus free speech crisis
8 votes