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7 votes
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Is the Roadmap still useful?
Clicking on "Roadmap" at the bottom of any Tildes page brings up an issue board. I'm wondering if that's still being maintained and whether it's worth keeping? The items listed under "in progress"...
Clicking on "Roadmap" at the bottom of any Tildes page brings up an issue board. I'm wondering if that's still being maintained and whether it's worth keeping?
The items listed under "in progress" don't look like they are actually in progress. For example, "Add sticky / pinned topics" is marked as "In progress" but in fact it's a year old and there's been no activity for four months.
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Five top designers imagine the workplace of 2040
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Stockholm has been named 'smartest city in the world' for its innovations on the environment, digital technology and residents' wellbeing
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Is sex work bad?
Prompted by a recent tildes post about vice, and also this from the bbc, and a conversation with a colleague who just went to a strip club, I keep thinking about this issue. I have a stake in...
Prompted by a recent tildes post about vice, and also this from the bbc, and a conversation with a colleague who just went to a strip club, I keep thinking about this issue.
I have a stake in this, despite being cis male: I have mother, sisters, wife, and most importantly young daughter. And I am a feminist, on simple moral grounds.
My baseline position is that whether a woman chooses to engage in sex work is, and should be legally and socially supported as, entirely her own choice.
The only question I have any business answering, or participating in finding an answer, is whether my patronage of sex work is inherently exploitive, to either the woman whom I am patronizing* or to other women individually or to womanhood and general issues of gender.
And I just can’t come up with a good answer. I do look at porn, but increasingly, as with meat, the potential ethical problems of it are reducing the enjoyment. I have tried to ease my conscience by limiting myself to cartoons and stories, but those wouldn’t stop the harm that is caused by the mere existence of porn, if any exists.
As a purely practical matter, the existence of the industry leads to opportunities for exploitation of individuals, and the advancement of a culture of gender exploitation. But as the war on drugs has so ably demonstrated, any attempt at prohibition only increases the level of exploitation, while smart regulation decreases it. Regardless, though, there’s plenty of exploitation to go around the world, I heard there’s thing called #metoo.
I come from a sex-suppressing, fundamentalist “Christian” background. The quotes are there to indicate that I think much of the practices were anything but christ-like. The principles there swirl through the culture around me in varying degrees of intensity, and they inform and direct my choices (sometimes against my will and my better hopes and ideals). I have to be open to the notion that any objection I have to sex work, or my participation, is entirely a cultural construct. And while I don’t think it is true, I cannot dismiss the notion that morals themselves may have no possible objective existence, having relevance and utility (if at all) only in very time and space limited scopes.
It is what I believe the sociologists call a “wicked” problem. It involves really complicated normative stances, and there’s no data analysis that can provide any guidance. For myself, I expect my participation to continue to wane as I mature. I only hope that whatever I do only further enables and empowers the women in my life and everywhere.
- I almost stopped myself from using this word when I realized potential implications, but ultimately left it in because it (and the fact it was my natural inclination to select it) really highlights the issue for me and hopefully others
Bonus hypothetical: If porn is somehow wrong and harmful, even drawings and writings, are sex fantasies also wrong?
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Why Gazprom, a Russian oil company sponsors soccer teams
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Desktop Goose
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The launch of the Green Flyway research project between Røros, Norway and Östersund, Sweden marks a world-first test area for electric flights
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What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
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Why religion is not going away and science will not destroy it
15 votes -
A Russian "inspector" spacecraft now appears to be shadowing an American spy satellite
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The annual assessment of Lockheed Martin's $428 billion F-35 program includes 873 software flaws and a gun that can't shoot straight
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Durov: Recent events showed once again that all WhatsApp users are at risk
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Something is broken in our science fiction
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South Dakota House passes bill which makes it a misdemeanor for doctors to provide puberty blockers or other treatments affecting gender expression to children under sixteen years old
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KFC to sell Beyond Meat's plant-based 'fried chicken' in the southern US
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US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross said in an interview on Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak could bring back jobs to America
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Unexplained drones are swarming by night over Colorado
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I propose a new group--Occult
Hello, I was invited by my friend, Z. It would be nice to have a home for occult topics. I am testing my magical prowess. I wish to have a space for the occult.
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Facebook’s Clear History tool is now available to everyone
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The UK has one of the most equitable health care systems in the world. Here’s how.
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Oscars spotlight: The 2020 nominations for Best Screenplay
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E. Jean Carroll, who accused Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s, has made a legal demand for a DNA sample to compare against male DNA on her dress
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Bethesda never understood Fallout
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Overwatch Developer Update - Starting in March, "Hero Pools" will be introduced to competitive play, where different heroes will be disabled every week to encourage players to change strategies
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Do you think a ~community would be helpful?
I personally think it could be helpful as a group for us to attempt guiding ourselves to cooperate and do stuff like timasomo. Alternatively it could end up being swallowed by petty drama and be...
I personally think it could be helpful as a group for us to attempt guiding ourselves to cooperate and do stuff like timasomo. Alternatively it could end up being swallowed by petty drama and be really horrible.
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Some way of organizing bookmarked topics?
If you bookmark enough content, it can become really hard to navigate without some type of sorting. Currently you can't even search your bookmarks!
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Utah wanted all the tourists. Then it got them
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Coronavirus declared global health emergency by World Health Organization
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How to Actually Personally Fight Climate Change
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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Reflecting on 25 years in tech: Aperture, Senior QA (2004-2005)
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Lorne Lanning discusses his journey to become a game creator, and how the mind-control mechanic solved Oddworld's narrative problems | War Stories
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Chris Morocco recreates Roy Choi's Carne Asada Tacos from taste | Reverse Engineering
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Thunderbird's new home
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Tycho - Outer Sunset (2020)
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The history of Scottish independence from the Roman era to the Jacobite revolts, the 2014 referendum, and Brexit
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CDC confirms first instance of person-to-person spread of new coronavirus in the United States
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Ignorance, a skilled practice
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Cooly Skunk: An unreleased Super Famicom game miraculously recovered twenty-four years later via a romhack of a satellite-downloaded demo
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I worry for my teenage boys – the beauty standards for young men are out of control
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Who else gets concerned about random things at inappropriate times?
This question really came to mind to me about last week when I was hanging out with some friends. I always noticed it as a part of my personality but I never really thought about it as in depth as...
This question really came to mind to me about last week when I was hanging out with some friends. I always noticed it as a part of my personality but I never really thought about it as in depth as I have recently. That night I immediately got concerned to the point of it ruining my evening about the following things:
- We're running out of helium in the world
- Where is my birth certificate
- The old VHS tapes of my childhood and important moments in my family are slowly degrading but I can't digitise them until I go home to my parents and that's not for at least half a year, will they hold up that long?
- There's too much space junk
- I used so much plastic just cooking dinner this one evening for my friends, imagine how much gets bought and consumed worldwide
- Some languages are going to die out and there's nothing I can do about it
- Are the rhinos doing ok?
- What's my blood type and am I allergic to anything?
Does anyone else suffer from this idiosyncracy? If so, what are some things that concern you or what are some other things that I can be concerned about?
EDIT: This turned dark, I thought I was just sharing some lighthearted fun and now I have schizophrenia, OCD and should talk to a therapist... jeez louise
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Where can I find collected wisdom from Silicon Valley?
I am talking about advice such as "make incremental improvements" and "ship the minimum viable product." Is there a name for this kind of advice - advice related to software and tech. I am looking...
I am talking about advice such as "make incremental improvements" and "ship the minimum viable product."
Is there a name for this kind of advice - advice related to software and tech.
I am looking to make a compilation.
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Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her
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Famed Medallion Fund “Stretches . . . Explanation to the Limit,” Professor Claims
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Amateur astronomers have helped discover a new kind of northern lights, known as dunes
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Why Republicans are suddenly in a rush to regulate every trans kid’s puberty
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From Danish dinner to Inter Milan move – how Tottenham Hotspur lost control in the Christian Eriksen transfer saga
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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How 'namaste' flew away from us
8 votes