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7 votes
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Should the US voting age be lowered to sixteen?
19 votes -
Could renewable natural gas be the next big thing in green energy?
2 votes -
He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly seventeen years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?
8 votes -
What old game would you most want to see remastered/remade?
It can be a remaster (like Resident Evil HD), a faithful recreation (like Spyro Reignited Trilogy), or a complete reboot (like the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake). Which old game do you choose,...
It can be a remaster (like Resident Evil HD), a faithful recreation (like Spyro Reignited Trilogy), or a complete reboot (like the upcoming Final Fantasy VII Remake).
- Which old game do you choose, and why?
- What should they change to make the game more palatable for modern audiences?
- What shouldn't they change so that they can remain true to the original?
27 votes -
San Fermin - Sonsick (2013)
3 votes -
Eight signs that you're a good parent - even if you think you're not
5 votes -
Summer 2019 anime three-episode check-in
4 votes -
Onivim 2 pre-alpha is out!
9 votes -
One day, one city, no relief - twenty-four hours inside San Francisco’s homelessness crisis
7 votes -
HBO Max acquires exclusive streaming rights to Doctor Who, and has licensed 700 episodes of other BBC series
9 votes -
And I Deal With It
A free form poem. You sing the devotion song and your people drink from your font of well-meant falsehoods. They sway in the breeze, roses ripe for cutting, so you reap. And I deal with it. Brain...
A free form poem.
You sing the devotion song and
your people drink from your font
of well-meant falsehoods.
They sway in the breeze,
roses ripe for cutting,
so you reap. And I deal with it.Brain revolting, hands shaking, heart beating
Sweating, aching, freezing, creeping thoughts
that I'm not enough.
I'm a failure. I don't deserve it. What if this goes wrong?
"Sometimes it can take awhile to find the right combination of medications."
And I deal with it.The blood in the streets is cleaned, pristine,
likewise the crimes of an otherwise good man.
Heads shake and hands pray,
repeating robotic platitudes, but I do
nothing.
And I deal with it.The sun shines high and the wind blows cool.
Our future dances and plays in the light.
We watch and her skin is soft, her hair yet softer, and I hold her
against me.
This too shall pass, my gut twists in knots.
And I deal with it.Dark nights, dark thoughts
in front of a washroom mirror.
Lightning thunders, they come and go.
Drinking my hopes to keep them gone,
I tell myself, "This isn't you," but it hurts and it's true and I can't stop the dreaming of passing this down
And I deal with it.7 votes -
Destiny 2's switch to free-to-play and new Shadowkeep expansion have been delayed to October 1 (previously September 17)
5 votes -
Private space race targets greenhouse gas emitters
6 votes -
Tuvalu's fight to stay above the waves
7 votes -
Announcing PartiQL: an SQL-compatible, open source query language intended to work with many different types of data stores
5 votes -
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers
11 votes -
Woodstock 50 was called off two weeks before it was due to start
8 votes -
Anglerfish are increasingly being captured on video, revealing an array of surprising behaviors
8 votes -
Harley Race has passed away
@wwe: WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Harley Race passed away today at age 76. WWE extends its condolences to Race's family, friends and fans. https://t.co/lO4OimLsSd
4 votes -
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has banned Google from listening to Google Home recordings in the EU for three months
9 votes -
Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics, & Planning: Episode 6: Public Housing Part 2
11 votes -
The Global Calculator - an interactive tool for climate change projections
4 votes -
To fight climate change, we should actually add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere: We should convert methane, a more powerful greenhouse gas, into CO2
4 votes -
Ooblets announces Epic Store exclusivity and explains some details of the deal, including that it matched their expectation of sales across all stores
15 votes -
Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
5 votes -
Are Spotify’s shareholders failing to see signs of the early stages of subscriber saturation?
15 votes -
Recent updates - repost warning, topic-tagging improvements, group-specific search, markdown strikethrough formatting, wiki/docs updates
There have been a number of updates over the last week or so, but I felt like none of them really warranted their own post individually: There's now a repost warning/confirmation if you try to...
There have been a number of updates over the last week or so, but I felt like none of them really warranted their own post individually:
- There's now a repost warning/confirmation if you try to submit a link that's been posted before. A list of the previous posts will be shown along with how old they are, and you have the option of re-posting anyway if you want to. Currently, this will warn you no matter how old the previous post(s) were and regardless of which group they were in, but I'll probably restrict it at some point.
- A couple of improvements to topic tagging:
- If two people happen to edit a topic's tags at the same time, there will be an error if there's an edit conflict, instead of just having the second person's changes overwrite like they did previously.
- @deing added a check for people trying to add tags with invalid characters, and it will now show that the tag has an error before you try to submit.
- You can now search inside a specific group by using the search box while inside that group. The search results page will have a note at the top saying that it's only searching inside that group, along with a link to search the whole site instead. If you search from the home page it will still be site-wide.
- Writing strikethrough text in markdown now requires using two tildes on each side of the text:
this text ~~has some~~ strikethrough. Previously, one tilde on each side of the text would work too, but there were some strange edge cases because of us using~when referring to groups as well. Requiring two tildes should be a lot less ambiguous. About 90% of posts with strikethrough were already using two anyway, but this change affected a small number of past posts (sometimes in a positive way by fixing accidental strikethrough). I'll send messages out today to anyone with posts that were affected, so that they can go edit and fix the formatting if they want to. - @Algernon_Asimov has been doing a massive rework of a lot of the official docs/help pages. They're currently all in the ~tildes.official wiki, but I need to work on moving them over to https://docs.tildes.net, which involves making some changes and updates to that site.
That should about cover it for now, let me know if you have any questions or notice any issues with any of this (or anything else).
63 votes -
Twitch streamer Ninja leaves Twitch and will be streaming on Mixer
22 votes -
Mental health support & discussion thread (August 2019 edition)
after a month sabbatical, we're back. this is pretty straightforward, i think: vent your experiences or things you need to get off your chest/share whatever you've found helps you mentally/etc....
after a month sabbatical, we're back. this is pretty straightforward, i think: vent your experiences or things you need to get off your chest/share whatever you've found helps you mentally/etc.
resources that might also be of some benefit to people:
- there is, as always, the invaluable list of country hotlines maintained by /r/SuicideWatch
- https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ ("an online source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance abuse/addiction and/or mental health problems")
- https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/ (probably one of the best resources for finding a therapist)
- https://psychiatrists.psychologytoday.com/rms (ditto, with finding a psychiatrist)
- https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml (covers some of the major mental disorders, their symptoms and treatments, and general topics like that)
- https://www.mentalhealth.gov/what-to-look-for (what symptoms to look for for major mental disorders)
- https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/ (US specific, but also covers ways you can help yourself and a bunch of ways to seek treatment or support)
- there's also some stuff over at /r/SWResources that might be worth checking out which is consistently updated.
and here is the june thread if you'd like to reference/update us on something you mentioned there.
15 votes -
How to answer tricky personal questions at a new job
5 votes -
Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud
8 votes -
What are you reading these days? #25
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. Notes First of all, I'm again having to post the topic...
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.
Notes
First of all, I'm again having to post the topic earlier b/c travel. Sorry.
Seconly, big news! It's already been almost a year that we do these threads! It's been a beautiful time for me, but I've decided that the time has come that I pass the torch on to another Tildista to post and manage these threads. I posted a topic on ~tildes declaring my decision; we held a vote and elected @acdw as the new maintainer of these threads. This is the last one of these topics that I'll post; from the next thread on @acdw will be taking over. FWIW, I'll stay around and comment on these threads when I can.
Hey @acdw, hope you'll have a great time doing this! Good luck!
Previous topics
Previous topics are listed in the wiki.
16 votes -
Third Crusade - The Beginning
5 votes -
What creative projects are you working on? (August 2019 edition)
it's creative thread time, gamers. here you can share/provide updates on some of the projects that you're working on. they can be of any kind--digital, physical, work related, passion project,...
it's creative thread time, gamers. here you can share/provide updates on some of the projects that you're working on. they can be of any kind--digital, physical, work related, passion project, whatever. pretty straightforward, i think.
november thread • february thread • march thread • april thread • may thread • june thread • july thread
12 votes -
Weight loss for older people?
My mom is almost 65 and she's pretty heavy. It has got to the point where it's affecting her life quality - she often has joint pain, heart problems, clogged arteries... She has to lose weight,...
My mom is almost 65 and she's pretty heavy. It has got to the point where it's affecting her life quality - she often has joint pain, heart problems, clogged arteries... She has to lose weight, basically. Problem is, I feel like she has no motivation to do so. She never even tried doing it. I researched a bit online, and it seems like older people have it harder to lose weight, not just mentally, but also physically because they have less muscle mass and stuff. Is there anyone more knowledgeable on this topic?
9 votes -
Nuclear power offers an abundant supply of low-carbon energy. But what to do with the deadly radioactive waste?
12 votes -
What the media get wrong in coverage of LGBTQ politicians
5 votes -
How scientists colorize photos of space
7 votes -
How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm
4 votes -
Twice a year this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm's archipelago
4 votes -
Dispelling the myth of robotic efficiency
5 votes -
US President Donald Trump to be given official state visit to Denmark
4 votes -
Programming Algorithms: A Crash Course in Lisp
7 votes -
Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
12 votes -
Iceland cuts teen drinking with curfews and youth centers
8 votes -
Preserving laptop stickers on MacBooks
10 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.
10 votes -
The nanosheet transistor is the next (and maybe last) step in Moore’s Law
11 votes -
Car-free in Los Angeles? Don't laugh
9 votes