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4 votes
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Time to decolonise the internet
25 votes -
Dirty birds: In Dutch Harbor, Alaska, bald eagles are as common as pigeons
6 votes -
Cambridge Analytica did not misuse data in EU referendum, says UK watchdog
5 votes -
Let's play and win our own game
6 votes -
St. Matthew Island is said to be the most remote place in Alaska
3 votes -
Steam Game Festival: Autumn Edition - Runs until October 13, with hundreds of demos, developer interviews, gameplay streams, Q&As and more
6 votes -
Europa Clipper inches forward, shackled to the Earth
3 votes -
The pros and cons of software crowdtesting
3 votes -
Protest erupts in Orthodox Jewish community over NYC's new coronavirus restrictions
4 votes -
Post-politics and the future of the left
5 votes -
Escargot: A custom, reverse-engineered server to bring back MSN Messenger
8 votes -
One resolution to rule them all: Lord of the Rings trilogy coming to 4K Blu-ray
13 votes -
Free / No IAP / Open Source Puzzle Games for iOS
I play a good deal of Simon Tatham's puzzles (iOS version) and Ordinary Puzzles (which is only one type.) I've spent a good portion of the night trying to find some other open source / free / no...
I play a good deal of Simon Tatham's puzzles (iOS version) and Ordinary Puzzles (which is only one type.)
I've spent a good portion of the night trying to find some other open source / free / no IAP puzzle games, but for the most part I've come up empty.
Anybody know of some treasures out there?
6 votes -
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
13 votes -
Thousands of DC renters are evicted every year. Do they all know to show up to court?
10 votes -
Teenage girl becomes Finland's PM for the day – Aava Murto is taking over for the day as part of a campaign for girls' digital rights
12 votes -
How private militias/mercenaries are reshaping the battlefields
8 votes -
Like Moths To Flames - Selective Sacrifice (2020)
5 votes -
Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Dune’ movie is moving to Oct. 1, 2021
16 votes -
From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, grapefruit is one of the weirdest fruits on the planet
24 votes -
Why do women still change their names?
25 votes -
Volunteers wanted: NASA's Planet Patrol wants your help to find alien worlds
7 votes -
US President Donald Trump abruptly scraps stimulus talks, punting on economic relief until after Election Day
26 votes -
Meet the customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to talk to you
29 votes -
Ten Meter Tower (short movie)
5 votes -
What is a 'cool' birthday gift for a fifteen year old girl?
Hey folks, since I'm completely out of the loop regarding trends but totally interested in being a 'cool uncle', I am asking you (maybe people having kids around this age) for help! What is a...
Hey folks,
since I'm completely out of the loop regarding trends but totally interested in being a 'cool uncle', I am asking you (maybe people having kids around this age) for help!
What is a 'good' present for a 15 year old girl?
I don't know much about her interests or activities and since she is quite new to the family, I haven't had the chance to talk to her.
Is there anything 'universal' today that might work? 😅
Thanks for your thoughts and discussion.
21 votes -
New podcast name
My friends and I are starting to work on a gaming focused podcast. It will cover news and provide our commentary and stories for anything related to games. It will be primarily about video games,...
My friends and I are starting to work on a gaming focused podcast. It will cover news and provide our commentary and stories for anything related to games. It will be primarily about video games, but we will also cover board games and a little D&D. We've narrowed down the list of names we like and would like to get a little feedback. What do you think of these podcast names? Any feedback is appreciated, thanks!
- DOT - Dialogue Over Time
- Our Alts Have Day Jobs
- Best in Slot
- Theory Crafting
- Data Mined
7 votes -
Eddie Van Halen dead at 65
31 votes -
A doctor gave me an inept diagnosis for a neurological problem. I should know: I’m a neurologist
13 votes -
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.
14 votes -
Colonial life and the burning of wood
6 votes -
Spartan black broth | Melas Zomos
4 votes -
2020 Nobel Prize in physics awarded for work on black holes – an astrophysicist explains the trailblazing discoveries
9 votes -
US House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
18 votes -
The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England
28 votes -
Meet 'Lady Ninja,' the 67-year-old who beat up a man attacking her friend — and saved her life
9 votes -
Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year
7 votes -
The "Proud Boys" hashtag on Twitter has been taken over by photos of gay men celebrating their lives and their love
31 votes -
What do you daydream about?
Whether it's thinking about a videogame, fantasizing your future, a new workout, pondering existence, etc. What do you spend your free time thinking about? I like to spend a lot of my free time...
Whether it's thinking about a videogame, fantasizing your future, a new workout, pondering existence, etc. What do you spend your free time thinking about?
I like to spend a lot of my free time defining what a human is and what it means to be one, and I always enjoy watching as my ideas progress over time. So what is something you muse about in your free time? What do you like to sporadically think about and what questions do you often return to?14 votes -
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (1965)
4 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 -
13MW GE-built Haliade-X turbines confirmed for the world's largest wind farms off the UK coast—the 3.6GW Dogger Bank project
6 votes -
Nvidia replaced video codecs with a neural network
18 votes -
Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders
10 votes -
Silly set up; creative response
I've been re-watching Avatar: Legend of Korra, and I've always thought Bumi's crazy stories would be super interesting to go into more depth on how they actually happened (if his descriptions were...
I've been re-watching Avatar: Legend of Korra, and I've always thought Bumi's crazy stories would be super interesting to go into more depth on how they actually happened (if his descriptions were indeed true to life).
Then I thought it would be fun to have a sort of creative thinking exercise where the set up is provided and you have to come up with the details of how the characters got to it. Can you make it work?
Top level submissions will be the end state. You should reply to those top level submissions with how the subjects / characters got to that point while using the information provided in the set up.
Example:
"Yo Johnny, you remember that time we talked our way out of getting arrested using my pet rabbit and a dead cell phone?"
Reply:
"Yea dude, that was wild. I was shitting bricks when he walked up to my window with all that weed we had in the trunk. If Fluffy Jorge hadn't been in the back and your allergy pills hadn't wore off that you wouldn't have been all glassy eyed and looking like you were crying. I don't think he would have bought my fake ass story about your family being in a tragic car accident earlier that day."
I'll provide a couple to get y'all started with, but if you have any good one's feel free to submit those as top level entries!
7 votes -
Thoughts on feeling like you're posting too many links when there is not enough content
It seems like there are not that many new topics posted on Tildes, and that we could post a lot more. But I sometimes find myself reluctant to do so. Don't I post too much already? Recently there...
It seems like there are not that many new topics posted on Tildes, and that we could post a lot more. But I sometimes find myself reluctant to do so. Don't I post too much already?
Recently there was a survey and apparently many people think Tildes is too tech-oriented. I don't think it's all that tech oriented, not like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but that makes me a little more reluctant to post tech links. (Though, really, other people should post more of the kind of links they want to see.)
I suspect it's not just me. Periodic topics sometimes get a lot of comments. Periodic topics have been started specifically to avoid having too many top-level topics on one subject.
But, why are we avoiding this? What's wrong with posting more links? If this were a social bookmarking site, I'd be saving more links. Maybe I'd save a bunch of accordion links, without any regard for whether people are interested?
It seems like we need something like folders. When new links are posted in a folder, they don't get listed individually at top-level. You could drop a bunch of links in a folder if you felt like it, without feeling like you're monopolizing conversation, because people would have to open the folder to see what's there. Or maybe instead of folders it would be something like creating a playlist. You could start a topic that's basically a list of links, and then anyone can add links to it if they want.
It seems like groups don't really do this, somehow? They feel a bit too open and exposed. Everything shows up on the front page regardless of group. (I mean, you can filter or unsubscribe from groups, but many of us don't. Partly because they're too broad. Who's going to unsubscribe from music just because they aren't interested in some music?)
So instead we use topics and post links as comments. It sort of works, but it's given me a lot of practice at writing markdown-formatted links on a mobile keyboard, and they appear differently in search and aren't tagged.
It seems like links posted within a topic and posted top-level should be more similar in the UI. Maybe if there's some conversation about a link within a topic, a moderator could promote it to top-level? Maybe a lot of topics would start that way, and then the site would feel a bit more full.
25 votes -
Friends and loss
If applicable: how & why have your lost friends? I'll start. One: I was terrible and certainly deserved some alienation. Though, I mostly self-pariahed. Beyond that, though... I worked with...
If applicable: how & why have your lost friends?
I'll start. One: I was terrible and certainly deserved some alienation. Though, I mostly self-pariahed. Beyond that, though... I worked with friends and they sucked so bad it was hard to continue liking them.
Well, how 'bout you??
13 votes -
Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas.
13 votes -
Come back with a warrant for my virtual house
8 votes