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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here. Please just try to provide fair warning of...
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
7 votes -
Texas woman wins round one in lawsuit challenging SWAT team’s destruction of her home
14 votes -
New cancer therapy from Yibin Kang's lab holds potential to switch off major cancer types without side effects
6 votes -
Something in the Air - an ode to radio
4 votes -
Rise of the (fast food) robots: How labor shortages are accelerating automation
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Why do we use Tildes?
I'm not sure if this goes here or in ~talk, so if it needs moved, that's fine. I've been thinking a lot, lately, about why I use Tildes. As noted in my bio, I left Tildes for an extended period of...
I'm not sure if this goes here or in ~talk, so if it needs moved, that's fine.
I've been thinking a lot, lately, about why I use Tildes.
As noted in my bio, I left Tildes for an extended period of time, after getting embroiled in some heavy arguments that, in the scheme of things, didn't matter. Such arguments consistently make me feel worse; I get into them on this account, too, though I do try to use uBlock Origin and the tag filter to keep out of the threads that will most obviously affect me.
But I can't seem to leave Tildes entirely. Even when I log out on all devices, I keep opening the site. Even when I had no account, I kept typing
til<Enter>
in the address bar and coming back.So, why?
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First, Tildes is what I love about the web. It's complete but uncluttered; it's featureful but not bloated; it uses client-side interactivity to improve the experience but does not break or reimpement default browser functionality. Overall, it's a good piece of software, designed to create, catalog, and discuss documents, like
GodTim Berners-Lee intended.Second, and more important, Tildes is a community. It's a community like my college dorm was a community; I know people here, and while I definitely don't like all of them, I recognize the personalities behind the names. Leaving, and diving mostly back into the world of Twitter and Mastodon where conversations are short, ephemeral, and deeply restricted, feels like losing relationships, no matter how damaging and negative some of those relationships are.
I don't know if gaining this understanding means I'll be able to - or even want to - drop the site again. We'll see. But I would love to know why y'all use it. Is it a community for you, too?
43 votes -
Magdalena Andersson voted in as Sweden's first female prime minister – parliamentary vote putting her in the top job was very tight
12 votes -
Ocarina of Time's source code has been reverse engineered
19 votes -
QAnon now as popular in US as some major religions, poll suggests
14 votes -
"Narrative equity" in game design
6 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!
8 votes -
Turning buildings into batteries? Concrete battery storage explained.
3 votes -
Is weed now legal in Germany?
4 votes -
Real-time alerting system for COVID-19 and other stress events using wearable data
6 votes -
Amazon workers in Alabama to get another union election
8 votes -
HeroQuest returns! Comparing the 1989 and 2021 versions
4 votes -
Construction work has begun on the German side of an underwater tunnel connecting Germany and Denmark – €7 billion project set to be completed by 2029
6 votes -
The inside story of the Pfizer vaccine: A 'once-in-an-epoch windfall'
6 votes -
Kyle Rittenhouse: Murder or self-defense?
14 votes -
Inside the US funeral industry’s 2021 national convention
10 votes -
Has anyone got rid of their PayPal account?
I used to rely on PayPal heavily for eBay purchases and the odd purchase outside of eBay. But it seems now eBay allows you to use a credit card directly on the site, and most other online stores...
I used to rely on PayPal heavily for eBay purchases and the odd purchase outside of eBay. But it seems now eBay allows you to use a credit card directly on the site, and most other online stores if they accept PayPal payments, they also accept credit cards directly. Maybe its safe to say I can delete my PayPal account and not look back? It seems like an unnecessary middle man.
5 votes -
Jack Dorsey resigns as Twitter CEO
@jack⚡️: not sure anyone has heard but,I resigned from Twitter pic.twitter.com/G5tUkSSxkl
20 votes -
I can't ride a bike. How fast can Mike Boyd teach me?
11 votes -
Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
12 votes -
My current Oscar predictions
I know that there aren’t a lot of film buffs here, and that a lot of you don’t care about awards. I love awards. The oscars are actually a really important thing that got me watching more...
I know that there aren’t a lot of film buffs here, and that a lot of you don’t care about awards. I love awards. The oscars are actually a really important thing that got me watching more interesting movies. And I make it a point to watch all the Best Picture nominees every year.
I spend a lot of time on trying to predict what will get nominated and will win at the Oscars. I’m pretty okay at it. I average about a 76% correctly predicting what gets nominated and an 80% what wins. Things change as more award shows happen. And the closer we get to the Oscars.
But, I wanted to share with y’all what I thought would get nominated at the Oscars this coming year.
In no specific order:
Best Picture:
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
The Last Duel
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog
Belfast
West Side Story
Dune
Being the Ricardos
House of Gucci
Best Director:
Adam McKay - Don’t Look Up
Paul Thomas Anderson - Licorice Pizza
Kenneth Branagh - Belfast
Ridley Scott - The Last Duel
Denis Villeneuve - Dune
Best Lead Actress:
Jodie Comer - The Last Duel
Jennifer Lawrence - Don’t Look Up
Penelope Cruz - Parallel Mothers
Nicole Kidman - Being the Ricardos
Lady Gaga - House of Gucci
Best Lead Actor:
Will Smith - King Richard
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio - Don’t Look Up
Javier Bardem - Being the Ricardos
Adam Driver - The Last Duel
Best Supporting Actress:
Kirsten Dunst - The Power of the Dog
Ariana DeBose - West Side Story
Meryl Streep - Don’t Look Up
Aunjaune Ellis - King Richard
Caitriona Balfe - Belfast
Best Supporting Actor:
Jamie Dornan - Belfast
Bradley Cooper - Licorice Pizza
Mark Rylance - Don’t Look Up
Jared Leto - House of Gucci
Jon Bernthal - King Richard
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Power of the Dog
The Last Duel
House of Gucci
Dune
West Side Story
Best Original Screenplay:
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Being the Ricardos
Best Cinematography:
Dune
West Side Story
Licorice Pizza
The Last Duel
The Power of the Dog
Best Costume Design:
House of Gucci
The Last Duel
West Side Story
Dune
Being the Ricardos
Hair and Makeup:
House of Gucci
Being the Ricardos
King Richard
Dune
West Side Story
Best Production Design:
Licorice Pizza
The Last Duel
Dune
West Side Story
Belfast
Best Sound:
Don’t Look Up
West Side Story
Dune
No Time To Die
The Last Duel
Best Original Score:
Dune
The Power of the Dog
The Last Duel
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Best Original Song:
No Time To Die from No Time To Die
Be Alive from King Richard
Down to Joy from Belfast
Dos Oruguitas from Encanto
Just Look Up from Don’t Look Up
Best Film Editing:
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
The Last Duel
Dune
Belfast
Best Visual Effects:
Black Widow
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Dune
No Time To Die
Don’t Look Up
That’s what I have for now.
If this list is worth anything, it’s to let you guys know what films have a lot of buzz. The only films I think are certain of getting a Best Picture nomination are Belfast, King Richard, The Power of the Dog, and Don’t Look Up.
If you haven’t watch Belfast or King Richard as of yet, I highly recommend checking them out.
9 votes -
Critiquing D&D cards in MTG
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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.
6 votes -
The town where holding fireworks over your head is a tradition
6 votes -
Tool assisted speedrun: Chef Stef's NES Arkanoid "warpless" in 11:11.18
12 votes -
A new publishing platform for comic books will give creators a greater stake
6 votes -
Imagine Dragons & JID - Enemy (Arcane soundtrack) (2021)
5 votes -
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
5 votes -
Mel Brooks writes it all down - The comedian will publish his memoirs at the age of ninety-five, and is at work on “History of the World, Part II”
9 votes -
Possibly the worst user interface I've seen all year
This is a webpage for a courier company. This screengrab is the whole page as served to me. If I want to track my parcel I have to enter the details into the pretend phone on the right and pretend...
This is a webpage for a courier company. This screengrab is the whole page as served to me. If I want to track my parcel I have to enter the details into the pretend phone on the right and pretend to use it like a phone, complete with tiny screen and fiddly controls.
I get that they would like me to install their app but this is almost offensively user-hostile design, and pretty much ensures I'll never install anything of the sort. I might consider installing the app of a company who deliver to me regularly and have a good track record of being good at their jobs, if that app offers useful functionality which can't be offered via a web page - but even that's unlikely. But these guys who I have never heard of until today and are pulling this nonsense? No way.
29 votes -
Iceland's governing parties led by Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir of Vinstrihreyfingin–grænt framboð agreed on Sunday to continue their working coalition for another term
6 votes -
Why wind power ships may be the future of transportation
5 votes -
Good news on climate change
17 votes -
A group of crypto enthusiasts named Krause House DAO are raising money to buy an NBA team
9 votes -
What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
6 votes -
The melancholy decline of the semicolon
17 votes -
What’s something you’re trying to be better about?
Big or small, significant or insignificant, meaningful or mundane — what are you trying to be better about, and why?
11 votes -
‘I am not gonna die on the internet for you!’: How game streaming went from dream job to a burnout nightmare
16 votes -
Omicron: Vaccine nationalism will only perpetuate the pandemic
11 votes -
Blade Runner: Black Lotus - S01E01: City of Angels
5 votes -
Beyoncé - Be Alive (2021)
1 vote -
What free, ad-supported Uber rides might look like. Mockups, economics, and analysis.
9 votes -
The McDonald’s ice cream machine hacking saga has a new twist
22 votes -
‘Am I even fit to be a mom?’ Diaper need is an invisible part of poverty in America
11 votes -
Auto Torus - Generative Artwork
3 votes