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3 votes
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Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou -- Malin Kpon O (2009)
6 votes -
End the tyranny of Arial: The big internet platforms use the same fonts and backgrounds. Let’s make it interesting again.
15 votes -
Why Bernie Sanders should give his millions away
5 votes -
Secret report reveals Saudi incompetence and widespread use of [NATO] weapons in Yemen
6 votes -
YouTube's "fact-checking AI" intended to counter misinformation was attaching info about the 9/11 attacks to Notre Dame fire videos
13 votes -
Climate change is perhaps the defining challenge of our era. Scientists are tackling it with the help of AI.
5 votes -
Hackers tricked a Tesla, and it's a sign of things to come in the race to fool artificial intelligence
13 votes -
Entrance is free: meet the St Petersburg community redefining the DIY music scene
4 votes -
Google Tulip
4 votes -
Aljans - Na zare (At dawn) (1987)
5 votes -
Yalla - Uchquduq (aka Tri Kolodtsa, aka Three Wells City) (1980)
4 votes -
Linguists found the weirdest languages – and English is one of them
16 votes -
Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections
5 votes -
Summer Games Done Quick 2019 schedule (June 23 - 30)
11 votes -
Apple and Qualcomm settle all disputes worldwide
11 votes -
The cataclysmic break that (maybe) occurred in 1950
7 votes -
I just visited a retail marijuana store that uses Litecoin to accept debit cards
After all this time watching cryptocurrency from a distance, I have finally seen a real world use case. Marijuana is legal in this US state, however national banks are not allowed to service the...
After all this time watching cryptocurrency from a distance, I have finally seen a real world use case.
Marijuana is legal in this US state, however national banks are not allowed to service the marijuana industry due to federal law. Therefore all card processing is not available to the retail outlets. It’s only cash transactions at the retail level.
Until today. Today I was asked if I wanted to pay with a debit card. When I asked how, he said they used litecoin. So I imagine that the card is being run by a company which then converts it to litecoin to pay the merchant. Anyone have any clue on what that might cost the merchant as far as percentage?
I thought I would share this because after hearing all hype rollercoaster regarding cryptocurrency, I have finally seen a somewhat legitimate use of it in the real world.
Do you see any other use cases of crypto out in the wild these days?
13 votes -
Mental health support / discussion thread.
it's apparently been awhile since we had a proper one of these on tildes (we've had a few mental health related topics but nothing direct like this), and seeing as the site has grown a bit (to say...
it's apparently been awhile since we had a proper one of these on tildes (we've had a few mental health related topics but nothing direct like this), and seeing as the site has grown a bit (to say the least) since the last one there's probably some utility in a new one of these. share your experiences/whatever you've found helps/etc. i think this is pretty straightforward.
20 votes -
Guantánamo’s darkest secret - The US military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.
14 votes -
Amazon’s slow retreat from Seattle: Amazon has long fancied itself an urban enterprise. Is its pivot to smaller communities a way to avoid messy politics?
5 votes -
What are you playing this week?
Inspired by @Whom's music and anime threads What have you been playing to this week? You don't need to be playing the latest games, nor do you have to write gigantic essays. This is just a space...
Inspired by @Whom's music and anime threads
What have you been playing to this week? You don't need to be playing the latest games, nor do you have to write gigantic essays. This is just a space to talk games!
Feel free to give recommendations, thoughts, opinions. Chat about playstyles and habits! Reminisce about games and mechanics long gone, or coming back!
20 votes -
The Iranian spider-tailed viper preys on birds by luring them with a spider-shaped bulge on its tail
11 votes -
To help voters put the election issues into context, the Grattan Institute compares Australia's performance on a broad range of indicators with nine comparable countries.
7 votes -
Washington Utility Eager To Branch Into Hydrogen Fuel Production
8 votes -
Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 1 discussion thread
Wanted to start a discussion for us GoT fans and give our thoughts on how the first episode played out and what we expect to come. Please delete if unnecessary/unwanted. This is a spoiler zone so...
Wanted to start a discussion for us GoT fans and give our thoughts on how the first episode played out and what we expect to come. Please delete if unnecessary/unwanted. This is a spoiler zone so you've been warned
38 votes -
Colorado could be the next state to let its employees collectively bargain
8 votes -
Mod annotations for removed comments
I just came across this field of 13 admin-removed comments and frankly it left me feeling rather unsettled. That's a lot of content to just nuke all at once. Contextually, the thread up to that...
I just came across this field of 13 admin-removed comments and frankly it left me feeling rather unsettled. That's a lot of content to just nuke all at once. Contextually, the thread up to that point was genial and non-controversial, so it seems especially odd that there's just this black hole there. What struck me mostly was how opaque the moderation was. There is no indication of what kind of content was removed, why it was removed, or specifically who did the removal or when it happened.
Then I scrolled down and at the very bottom I found what I guess is meant to address these concerns, a comment from Deimos:
Sigh, I saw this thread was active and thought it was going to have an actual on-topic discussion in it. Let's (mostly) start this over.
It's not always clear online so I want to say that I'm not rage-posting or bellyaching about censorship or any of the usual drama that tends to crop up on sites like Tildes from time to time. I trust Deimos' moderation and give this the benefit of the doubt. What I'm actually doing, I guess, is making a feature request about better annotation for removed comments.
Would it make sense to show a note (like Deimos' comment) in-thread at the position of the deleted content? Instead of down at the bottom of the page or unattached to anything relevant? In my opinion some kind of "reason" message should always be provided with any moderation activity as a matter of course. Even if it's just boilerplate text chosen from a dropdown menu.
Also, would a single bulk-annotation for all of the related removals make for better UX than 13 separate ones? I think that would be both easier to read, and easier for Deimos to generate on the backend.
I feel like we may have had this conversation previously, but I couldn't find it. Apologies if I'm beating a dead horse.
13 votes -
Mahavir Jayanti 2019: Date, history, significance of the Jain Festival
4 votes -
Feature request: Use "/t/" in alternative to "~" in the url of a tilde.
My title sucks, couldn't word it better. So, I hate having to use the tilde char. Doing tildes.net~tildes is much harder for me than tildes.net/t/tildes. It would be cool if tildes also supported...
My title sucks, couldn't word it better.
So, I hate having to use the tilde char. Doing tildes.net~tildes is much harder for me than tildes.net/t/tildes. It would be cool if tildes also supported using "/t/". I am not suggesting to remove the "~", but make one redirect to the other.
22 votes -
Fact checking Tesla's "impact report"
4 votes -
A high school expelled a girl for kicking a boy who entered the girls' bathroom to "protest" against a trans student
14 votes -
A big jump for Wolfram Language and Mathematica: Version 12
9 votes -
Insights from new MH370 tracking data
6 votes -
The vanishing of flight 370
15 votes -
The source code for all Infocom text adventures/interactive fiction is now on Github
8 votes -
Keybase ♥'s Mastodon, and how to get your site on Keybase
14 votes -
Suggestion: Notify topic submitters on Topic Log–related changes
I suggest that if a user other than the topic submitter makes a change to the topic that is reflected in the Topic Log (e.g., tag/title/group change), then the topic submitter receives a...
I suggest that if a user other than the topic submitter makes a change to the topic that is reflected in the Topic Log (e.g., tag/title/group change), then the topic submitter receives a notification.
This may or may not apply to topic deletion and/or topic locking—to be discussed.
19 votes -
Disney and the Future of TV
6 votes -
Some high-profile male tech executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances
4 votes -
What are you reading these days? #17
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it. Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 ·...
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk a bit about it.
Past weeks: Week #1 · Week #2 · Week #3 · Week #4 · Week #5 · Week #6 · Week #7 · Week #8 · Week #9 · Week #10 · Week #11 · Week #12 · Week #13 · Week #14 · Week #15 · Week #16
26 votes -
Don’t blame the babies
13 votes -
The legend of Keanu Reeves
8 votes -
Life and death in West Virginia
9 votes -
The logistics of the International Space Station
7 votes -
Far infrared radiation (FIR): Its biological effects and medical applications
5 votes -
State Duma passes law ‘isolating’ Russian Internet
7 votes -
Is coffee essential? Switzerland says no.
19 votes -
Fire at the Notre-Dame cathedral
73 votes -
Comedian Ian Cognito dies onstage – and the audience think it’s part of his act
18 votes