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5 votes
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Legends of Runeterra announced - A strategy card game set in the world of League of Legends
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What is something for which you feel unfairly judged?
We've all felt it: the idea that something about us or something we're into is subject to unnecessary, invasive, or hurtful scrutiny or skepticism from others. Sometimes it's something small ("You...
We've all felt it: the idea that something about us or something we're into is subject to unnecessary, invasive, or hurtful scrutiny or skepticism from others. Sometimes it's something small ("You like licorice? Really?!"), and sometimes it's something big ("You don't want to have kids? Really?!"), and each of us likely has faced both within our lives. I'm interested to know what other people's experiences are with this.
- What do you feel unfairly judged for?
- What, in particular, makes it so unfair?
- How do you handle it when you encounter it?
- Do you find yourself changing your behavior or pressured into dishonesty in order to avoid encountering the judgment in the first place?
- Why do you feel this sentiment exists in others and is widespread/shared?
Also, it probably goes without saying, but on a post centered primarily on people's feelings and experiences, potentially very difficult ones, it's probably best to do more listening, empathizing, and asking than explaining or rationalizing.
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I dare you to try OpenStreetMap!
I dare you to try OpenStreetMap but also (probably most importantly) contribute! But first, some introduction, What even is OpenStreetMap? Okay well, OpenStreetMap is a database, licensed under...
I dare you to try OpenStreetMap but also (probably most importantly) contribute!
But first, some introduction,
What even is OpenStreetMap?
Okay well, OpenStreetMap is a database, licensed under ODBL, to create maps basically.
It's kind of like Wikipedia with how the data is crowdsourced from well, anyone. The data can then be used for well, basically anything.
Research? Sure.
Wanna make your own map? Sure.
Wanna just use it for navigation without relying on anyone else? Hell yeah you can.Basically anything you want as long as you share people's work under ODBL and well, attribute them of course.
How do I use it?
Well, for navigation, on desktop :- Gnome Maps
- GraphHopper
- Qwant Maps
On mobile :
- OSMand
- Maps.me
- Maps (on F-droid)
- Navmii
You can also find other choices on the OSM wiki
Okay so now that you know how to use it for yourself, let's get contributing!
For this, since it's most likely going to be new users editing, we will use iD, it's available right under the edit button on OpenStreetMap's website!
Well, I would explain how to use it and all but thankfully, since iD is pretty userfriendly, there's a walkthrough to get you started.
Please DO NOT copy data from Google Maps or other services, it would violate their licenses. Only add information you personally know from local knowledge or aerial footage which you can use, iD thankfully lets us use most of the available ones which we have the rights to use for OSM.
If you need any kind of help,
the wiki is there which has tons of information but which also has links to mailing lists, IRC, Discord and other services. Oh and of course, feel free to comment below too.If you're already using OSM or contributing, feel free to talk about your experience below too!
Happy Mapping!
46 votes -
Amnesia: The Dark Descent released nine years ago - lessons about designing horror games from Frictional's creative director
7 votes -
Introducing Launcher, a new section covering video games and e-sports from The Washington Post
7 votes -
Democratic Debate #4 - October 15 2019
This debate will start at 8pm EST. From CNN's website: It will air exclusively on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and will stream on CNN.com's homepage and NYTimes.com's homepage. The...
This debate will start at 8pm EST. From CNN's website:
It will air exclusively on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español, and will stream on CNN.com's homepage and NYTimes.com's homepage. The debate will also stream live on the following Facebook Pages: CNN, CNN International, CNN Politics, CNN Replay, AC360 and Erin Burnett OutFront.
In addition, the debate will be available across mobile devices via CNN's and New York Times' apps for iOS and Android, via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire, Chromecast and Android TV, SiriusXM Channels 116, 454 and 795, the Westwood One Radio Network and National Public Radio. You can also ask Amazon's Alexa to play the debate, and the voice-controlled assistant will play the audio of the debate.
19 votes -
Stellaris: Galaxy Command launches on mobile, is immediately taken down after players discover it's using Halo 4 concept artwork
6 votes -
xEMU - A next generation spacesuit for the Artemis generation of astronauts
5 votes -
Forager - Combat Update now available
4 votes -
2,500 more MS-DOS games playable at the Internet Archive
13 votes -
Loop quantum gravity explained
8 votes -
You can now search your own topics and comments, and a theme preview page is available
Two updates today: Theme Preview page This is another contribution from @deing, who's been working on this one for a while. It ended up being more complicated than it originally seemed and still...
Two updates today:
Theme Preview page
This is another contribution from @deing, who's been working on this one for a while. It ended up being more complicated than it originally seemed and still has a few minor oddities, but I think it ended up coming out quite well.
When you're on the Settings page, there's now a "View theme previews" link just below the theme-selection dropdown near the top. That will take you to this new Theme Preview page. The blocks with the theme names at the top give you a quick idea of each theme's color scheme, and you can click them to change the whole page's theme and see what it looks like on the example topics and comments below.
I should also mention that Gruvbox themes (with Light and Dark variants) were added about a month ago by @lugubris. I don't think I ever announced those being added, but you can easily check them out here now.
Search your own posts
@mrbig's recent post with multiple suggestions reminded me to work on this one. You know the drill: it's minimal, the interface is a little weird, etc. but you can now search your own topics and comments (separately).
To use it, go to your own user page and click into either "Topics" or "Comments" from the top, you can't still be on the default "All posts" view. When you go into either of the individual post types, there will be a search box at the top, and you can use that to search your own posts.
Just like the overall site search, the search always works as "look for all of these words", so only include multiple words if you want to find posts that contain all of them. I'm hoping to upgrade the PostgreSQL version that I'm using fairly soon, which should make for some easy enhancements to search, so hopefully soon we'll have some more capabilities there.
Let me know if you notice any strangeness with the search results.
And as usual, I've given everyone 10 invites, accessible on the invite page
40 votes -
"March to Protect The Sacred" against tar sands pipeline in Clearbrook, MN
5 votes -
We Found a “Staggering” 281 Lobbyists Who’ve Worked in the Trump Administration
6 votes -
Area-focused narrative design
4 votes -
Firefox’s New WebSocket Inspector
12 votes -
Disco Elysium | Launch trailer
4 votes -
Songlink (song.link) has changed name to Odesli
People have been using song.link links on Tildes a lot as a way to effectively link to the same album/song on all the different streaming services. It looks like, as of today, they've changed...
People have been using song.link links on Tildes a lot as a way to effectively link to the same album/song on all the different streaming services.
It looks like, as of today, they've changed their name to "Odesli", and their site is now https://odesli.co.
This tweet is about the only information I can find so far, I don't know if there's anything more anywhere: https://twitter.com/songlink_/status/1183919368058499073
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Is Tolkien's prose really that bad?
Recently I was reading through a discussion on Reddit in which Tolkien's writing and prose were quite heavily criticised. Prior to this I'd never seen much criticism surrounding his writing and so...
Recently I was reading through a discussion on Reddit in which Tolkien's writing and prose were quite heavily criticised. Prior to this I'd never seen much criticism surrounding his writing and so I was wondering what the general consensus here is.
The first time I read through The Lord of the Rings, I found myself getting bored of all the songs and the poems and the large stretches between any action, I felt that the pacing was far too slow and I found that I had to force myself to struggle through the book to get to the exciting parts that I had seen so many times in the films. Upon reading through The Lord of the Rings again recently my experience has been completely different and I've fallen in love with his long and detailed descriptions of nature, and the slower pacing.
Has anyone else experienced something similar when reading his works? Are there more valid criticisms of his prose that extend beyond a craving for the same high-octane action of the films?
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Fortnightly Programming Q&A Thread
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads. Don't forget to format your code using the triple...
General Programming Q&A thread! Ask any questions about programming, answer the questions of other users, or post suggestions for future threads.
Don't forget to format your code using the triple backticks or tildes:
Here is my schema: ```sql CREATE TABLE article_to_warehouse ( article_id INTEGER , warehouse_id INTEGER ) ; ``` How do I add a `UNIQUE` constraint?9 votes -
Announcements from Google's 2019 "Made by Google" event
14 votes -
Welsh Male Voice Choir flashmob - Bread of heaven (2015)
7 votes -
Белое злато - Beyond the quiet river (2013)
7 votes -
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.
14 votes -
Crunchyroll and WEBTOON team up to co-produce new animated content
4 votes -
Why US cities are banning new fast food drive-throughs
8 votes -
A site to randomly stumble on to new and unique webpages - stumblingon
27 votes -
Matpakke – How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world's most boring lunch
15 votes -
If we have to choose between compromise and genocide, we will choose our people (Op-ed by commander-in-chief of the Kurds)
10 votes -
Is the F-35 worth $115 million?
6 votes -
Men and women will compete against one another, for the same prize money and trophy, in new golf event Scandinavian Mixed in Sweden next year
5 votes -
Ways to create a more environmentally sustainable world
5 votes -
Set to rights – Iceland's new Gender Autonomy Act
7 votes -
Meetup.com pricing changes: Up to $3 total per RSVP to free events
@securestep9: If you are using #MeetUp it's time to look for an alternative provider: from November they will charge you $1 per RSVP of a FREE event, so if you have 1000 attendees RSVP-ing to your FREE meetup you as the organiser will be charged $1000 per meetup https://t.co/eq78hPRW2b
17 votes -
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019
5 votes -
Denmark will fast-track legislation to strip foreign fighters of Danish citizenship
6 votes -
Dragon Quest XI (dunkview)
4 votes -
Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
4 votes -
Chinese-British citizen posts detailed explanation of reasoning behind Chinese views on Hong Kong/China/Blizzard situation
20 votes -
What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
6 votes -
Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
23 votes -
Is there a reason I cannot have a tag people.doing.something
I usually don't mind my tags getting erased and someone putting a more appropriate tag, but I want to know what is wrong with people.doing.something, or someone doing something, or...
I usually don't mind my tags getting erased and someone putting a more appropriate tag, but I want to know what is wrong with people.doing.something, or someone doing something, or someone.doing.something. I tried various ways today, and each one got removed, and I would like to know why.
5 votes -
With more rocket launches comes more pollution cleanup
8 votes -
California is banning the tiny bottles of shampoo in hotels
11 votes -
Every bus in the US deserves its own lane
9 votes -
Introducing "Double Trouble", an upcoming free, co-op-focused DLC for Wargroove
5 votes -
Renewable electricity generation overtakes fossil fuel generation in UK for first time
8 votes -
Python 3.8.0 has been released
26 votes -
Sudo flaw lets Linux users run commands as root even when they're restricted
18 votes