-
12 votes
-
Inside the Pentagon's secret UFO program
5 votes -
Suffering from lower back pain while visiting a museum? You’re not alone
4 votes -
At the Green Free School in Copenhagen, you're more likely to find pupils repairing a bicycle or doing urban farming than sitting in front of a blackboard
8 votes -
Mabel won the Best British Female Artist at last night's Brit Awards in London – thirty years after her mum, Neneh Cherry, won the same prize
3 votes -
What are the best practices and platforms for an online study group?
This is something I tried before with a Discord group for studying Python, but it was a catastrophic failure. Lots of people showed interest, almost no one showed up at the designated time....
This is something I tried before with a Discord group for studying Python, but it was a catastrophic failure. Lots of people showed interest, almost no one showed up at the designated time. Besides, even the one person hardly interacted.
After that, I started creating an online book/tutorial for beginners (well, anyone that is more of a beginner than me :P), but it was hard to stay motivated by myself — the whole reason for the study group was precisely to avoid that.
The topic is not defined yet (I'm thinking logic...), but I'm inclined to try it again. Streaming video and/or audio is a possibility, but not a requirement. I'd rather avoid it if possible.
Any suggestions on how to make this work?
6 votes -
More than fifty people died under Victoria's euthanasia scheme during its first six months
5 votes -
It’s okay to leave your headphones at home
23 votes -
Yolk (4 pages)
This screenplay is based on a short story I published on Tildes some time ago. If you prefer, you can download the PDF here. YOLK by mrbig Until told otherwise: BLACK AND WHITE. SLOW MOTION. SLOW...
This screenplay is based on a short story I published on Tildes some time ago. If you prefer, you can download the PDF here.
YOLK by mrbig Until told otherwise: BLACK AND WHITE. SLOW MOTION. SLOW AND BEAUTIFUL OPERA MUSIC INT. APARTMENT - NIGHT KITCHEN HAND grabs the egg carton on the fridge. JAMES is 30, thin and shirtless. Smells the eggs one by one. Stops. Smiles. Water gushes from the faucet, foaming abundantly as it goes down the drain. BEDROOM On the wall behind the bed, a painting of two lovers with their heads individually wrapped in sheets. They kiss, but they're mouths do not touch. ALICE, 30, dark hair, black silk nightdress, sleeps. SOUND OF SOMETHING BEING FRIED. She wakes up. KITCHEN James breaks the eggshell, getting his hand dirty. Licks his fingers. Behind him, Alice is watching. Gently throws the egg in the frying pan. THE EGG SIZZLING James sprinkles salt and pepper. Manipulates the frying pan with skill, throws the egg up in the air and catches it in a precise and continuous movement. Extinguish the fire and look back to see COLOR. NORMAL SPEED. OPERA MUSIC STOPS. Alice with the eyes fixed on the stove. ALICE Look. Points at the egg. JAMES What? ALICE Can't you see? JAMES Has it gone bad? She takes a deep breath. ALICE I noticed the way you broke the shell, but I needed to confirm. Can you see how the yolk is soft yet whole, with a small cut in the lower portion slowly leaking a yellow thread at a regular pace? JAMES Yes... ALICE Don’t you get it? JAMES No. ALICE When the yolk leaks like that, it can only mean two things. She hesitates. ALICE You’re either going to murder me... JAMES What you’re talking about? ALICE Or you’ll get a Ph.D. in Physics. JAMES You’re kidding, right? ALICE Nope. HIS EYES HER EYES ALICE The egg doesn't lie. He sits by the table. JAMES I could just choke you. She sits near him, smiling. Leads James' hands to her own neck, and make him hold it. JAMES That's easier. He caress Alice's neck. JAMES I never thought about that before, but maybe, precisely because I love you, precisely because I want you, maybe I should exterminate you. Retracts his hands. JAMES Or maybe I don't love you enough. ALICE The egg... JAMES I know, it doesn't lie. Then why are you still here? ALICE Makes no difference. He stands up and looks at the egg on the stove. Cleans his throat. JAMES Honey? ALICE Yeah, babe. He opens a drawer and pauses for a second. Closes. JAMES I’m terrible at physics. James holds a butcher's knife with a confused expression on his face. OPERA MUSIC RETURNS THE END
6 votes -
Haviah Mighty - Smoke (live @Paste Studio NYC) (2019)
3 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
15 votes -
New exoplanet search strategy claims first discovery
6 votes -
Tell me about your RPG campaign
Hey folks, I haven't posted in a hell of a long time and thought why not get this going again. So when I last posted I think my Paladin had just been basically killed off and I wrote up a druid....
Hey folks, I haven't posted in a hell of a long time and thought why not get this going again.
So when I last posted I think my Paladin had just been basically killed off and I wrote up a druid. Well this one has been amazingly fun to role play, being that he has lived most of his life in solitude he has no social skills and tends to do things that can be a little off at times. Our merry band of misfits had cleared a small towns problem warerats who turned out to be a family of Gnomes who lived there, while trying to console the final member of the family Rolen (my druid) felt the best way to give emotional support would be to congratulate the young Gnome on becoming the head of the family. This actually broke the whole table for about a minute, the DM sat in silence for a moment, laughed, tried to role play the distraught girl but failed epically.
We have also got another campaign going with a few of the same guys as the bigger campaign, this one is mostly homebrew. The first character I made I really wasn't happy with so spoke to the DM and we worked out how to kill her off and introduce the new character I made, completely homebrew this one and it's again been far more fun. He is a Dwaf Shaman whose ancestors speak to him constantly, sometimes good and sometimes not so much.
So what has been happening in your RPGs? anything big, fun or just want to chat about? painted anything cool? got new dice? anything at all.
18 votes -
The outsize, oft-ignored legacy of the original Dragon Quest
6 votes -
France turns to citizen-legislators to craft climate reforms
4 votes -
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world
9 votes -
An overview of the technology behind self-driving cars and some of the issues and concerns that are slowing down their development
6 votes -
Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
23 votes -
Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry
20 votes -
A group of agents rose through the ranks to lead the US Border Patrol, and now they’re retiring and leaving it in crisis
5 votes -
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to address climate change
26 votes -
Walmart employees say they’re preparing for job cuts as retailer rolls out its ‘Great Workplace’ program
9 votes -
Docker for Windows and Razer Synapse won't run at the same time. (Twitter Thread)
@foone: So I learned of an amusing bug today: Docker for Windows won't run if you have the Razer Synapse driver management tool running. But the reason is the funny part...
8 votes -
Upside-down jellyfish lob tiny grenades to kill prey
9 votes -
Why the House of Representatives should be far bigger
13 votes -
Danish social worker accused of stealing 117 million Danish kroner of government funding for more than twenty-five years
5 votes -
F# 5.0 Preview
6 votes -
Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be seen for first time - not displayed before due to homophobia artist encountered
14 votes -
Boy Scouts of America file for bankruptcy due to sex-abuse lawsuits
21 votes -
Arrival of a train at La Ciotat (The Lumière Brothers, 1896)
6 votes -
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
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! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
11 votes -
AZORult spreads as a fake ProtonVPN installer
9 votes -
Angry PM Scott Morrison accuses General Motors of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies
Angry Scott Morrison accuses GM of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies For context: Holden is an Australian home-grown brand. It became a subsidiary of General Motors in...
Angry Scott Morrison accuses GM of letting Holden 'wither away' after taking $2bn in subsidies
For context: Holden is an Australian home-grown brand. It became a subsidiary of General Motors in 1931, but it started manufacturing cars in Australia from 1948. The 1950s FJ Holden is an Australian icon. The Holden Commodore was the family sedan for Aussies all through the 1980s & 1990s. Aussie car lovers fell into two tribes: Holden or Ford. If you ask any Aussie to name a few famous Australian brands, Holden will get a mention.
General Motors stopped manufacturing Holdens in Australia a few years ago, but they assured us that Holdens would continue to be made (albeit overseas) and sold here.
Now the brand itself is being axed, at the end of next year.
14 votes -
Truth and lies: Henrich Schliemann's excavations at Troy | Curator's Corner with Lesley Fitton
5 votes -
Professor loses landmark legal battle after claiming it’s ‘free speech’ to deliberately misgender trans students
23 votes -
The woman shaking up the diamond industry
13 votes -
Norway's Eurovision Song Contest national selection has been plagued by controversy, after an online vote was replaced by a jury
5 votes -
Game Boy Pocket Sonar: Find fish with the Game Boy
3 votes -
Should AFL be rebranded AFLM to reflect equal status with AFLW?
4 votes -
Has anybody changed their first and/or last name (legally or socially)?
I don’t like my name, and I never really have. It has nothing to do with ‘tomf’. My main questions are: How did you go about choosing the new name? How did you manage/roll out the new name? What...
I don’t like my name, and I never really have. It has nothing to do with ‘tomf’.
My main questions are:
- How did you go about choosing the new name?
- How did you manage/roll out the new name?
- What unforeseen challenges came up?
My main concern is that I’ll settle on a ‘cool’ sounding name and that people will think it’s weird. While I want something normal, I do have some parameters:
- The name should be free for the .com and major social media
- I don’t want a main ‘S’ sound, since I don’t like how I say it.
- I am hoping to have something simple to use over the phone. I use ‘Tom’ for Starbucks and reservations because it’s clear, short, and not me.
Anyway, has anybody done this? Any feedback is great, but I am more focused on changing my first name.
Pardon the crappy tags.
18 votes -
How I learned french in twelve months
10 votes -
Sanders, Bloomberg trade insults as Democratic White House race heats up
6 votes -
How would you reduce speeding by car drivers?
I was reading this twitter post and it made me wonder if you have any ideas to stop speeding by car drivers? Have any of these ideas been tried anywhere? I'm also interested in unintended...
I was reading this twitter post and it made me wonder if you have any ideas to stop speeding by car drivers? Have any of these ideas been tried anywhere? I'm also interested in unintended consequences.
https://twitter.com/agnessjonsson/status/1229103764843438086?s=20
Agnes @agnessjonsson
fact of the day: Sweden once experimented with a “speed camera lottery”. Those who drove within the speed limit were automatically entered into a drawing where the prize fund came from fines that speeders paid.
They tested it in a few different cities and I haven’t read the results of each one, but in Stockholm the average speed on the selected road decreased by 22 percent.
17 votes -
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush (2020)
8 votes -
Why JavaScript is eating HTML
33 votes -
How to give California twelve senators and Vermont just one
11 votes -
My teenage life after leaving a cult
5 votes -
American woman's high school class ring, which was lost in Maine in 1973, has been found in a forest in Finland
11 votes -
The term ‘oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist?
5 votes -
Blizzard's long history of manic pixie nightmare girls and fear of women
22 votes