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34 votes
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
11 votes -
Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp
44 votes -
My remix of Kx5's Eat Sleep
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This is the first crash test dummy modelled on the female body. Will it make cars safer for women?
42 votes -
Strike and Robin return – but JK Rowling really needs an editor
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - September 21
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes | Official trailer
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How Santiago, Chile builds effective transit, the fastest in the Americas
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There's a belief that some form of cider was made by Vikings in Norway, and today, its growing popularity has people convinced it's the country's national drink
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All of Us Strangers | Official trailer
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India suspends visa services for Canadians amid heightened tensions
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Tired, overworked and underpaid: Why doctors in Europe are going on strike
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New York City pension funds sue Fox Corporation Board for breach of fiduciary duty in connection with defamatory broadcasts
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Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions
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Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
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French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims
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Designing content for people who struggle with numbers
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The ragtag team that saved Darryl Strawberry’s career
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What are your thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077 update 2.0?
I had been waiting for this game since 2012, when it was first announced. I bought it day one, without reading any reviews, and it was an instant refund for me. Now that update 2.0 supposedly...
I had been waiting for this game since 2012, when it was first announced. I bought it day one, without reading any reviews, and it was an instant refund for me.
Now that update 2.0 supposedly makes the game better, I'm thinking of giving it another shot. Has anyone tried this update? What do you think about it?
31 votes -
Meeting bloat has taken over corporate America. Can it be stopped?
46 votes -
Intel's next-gen Meteor Lake CPUs: A game-changing 40-year architectural shift to rival Apple
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Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work. This maybe fine for PCs but could be bad for android.
26 votes -
Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action
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I drive the Microlino for the first time. A reimagined electric Isetta.
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Confessions of a McKinsey whistleblower
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My dad is dying soon
Title says it all. I'm only in my late 20s and I've been his primary care taker for most of my adult life. There isn't any other person I've spent more time with in my entire life. I'm trying to...
Title says it all. I'm only in my late 20s and I've been his primary care taker for most of my adult life. There isn't any other person I've spent more time with in my entire life. I'm trying to prepare myself for when the moment he's gone and I know it's going crush me all the same.
This will be my greatest loss in life so far. I know everyone goes through something like this. What did you do when a moment like this came? What did you do when it felt like you couldn't get up? I have know idea how I'm going to get through this, I just have to believe I will.
EDIT: Thank you for all your kind words and we'll wishes. My dad passed away September 23, 3:30 PM local time with his boys by his side. I'll love him and miss him every single day.
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Recent neuroscience research suggests that popular strategies to control dopamine are based on an overly narrow view of how it functions
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The gruesome story of how Neuralink’s monkeys actually died
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Is Finland the best place in the world to be a parent – Alexandra Topping travels to Helsinki to find out why the UK pre-school system lags so far behind
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UN chief calls for an end to $7 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies
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Just finished reading The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, and wondering what to read next
For context I did not grow up reading books, came to it in my early twenties and found I preferred historical, academic or social books. Therefore reading really felt like a chore and I struggled....
For context I did not grow up reading books, came to it in my early twenties and found I preferred historical, academic or social books. Therefore reading really felt like a chore and I struggled.
Read what I would consider my first novel/story book last year which was The Iliad and found that I quite enjoyed it, decided I was going to try something else. The Lord of the rings came to mind as I have rewatched the movies countless times, I researched recommendations on editions and how to read, therefore I started with the Hobbit back in June.
I just finished reading the last book of the trilogy today, which compared to my previous reading habits is lightening fast. And I am a little sad, I will read the appendices but am uncertain what to do next. I'm thinking unfinished tales and then the silmarillion.
Wondering if anyone has any suggestions, also about any other series or universe to read about after these, preferably with movies that I can watch before hand as it helps me with imagining what I'm reading.
Edit:
First of all I wanted to thank everyone for sharing your ideas, it has been immensely insightful and I feel like there are a lot of possibilities for me to pursue even if not immediately but in the near future.I've decided I'm not quite ready to leave middle earth yet and so I will be persuing the silmarillion, and then unfinished tales. Any thoughts on tom bombadil?
After this the following quite interested me:
- prince of nothing
- the resurrection OST
- dune
I feel like I might actually start with dune as it will be a foot in the door into sci-fi but let's see
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What have you been watching / reading this month? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this month? 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 month? 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!
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OpenAI announces DALL-E 3: better text, coherency, ChatGPT integration, and artist safeguards
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Tildes Video Thread
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you. It...
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you.
It could be one quirky video that you feel deserves some eyeballs on it, or perhaps you've got a curated list of videos that you'd love to talk us through...
Share some of the best video content you've watched this past week/fortnight with us!
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Copying US president Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Biden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps
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Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3-million Breakthrough Prize
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Pineapple ONE: RISC-V CPU built out of discrete components
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Wyze security breach: Why we’re pulling our recommendation of Wyze security cameras
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Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure: dating back half a million years and predating the evolution of our own species, Homo sapiens
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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US national debt tops $33 trillion for first time
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Signal adds quantum-resistant encryption to its E2EE messaging protocol
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E-reader purchasing advice
So for various reasons I can't use paper books very well. I've been reading almost exclusively on epaper for... 15 years or so now? My current reader is a Kobo Aura One which has done very well...
So for various reasons I can't use paper books very well. I've been reading almost exclusively on epaper for... 15 years or so now?
My current reader is a Kobo Aura One which has done very well but is starting to get a bit tired - the screen is a bit scratched up and the battery life is measured in days rather than weeks (at around 1hr/day reading with the frontlight on low). Plus the usb socket has done that annoying thing where the cable needs to be at the exact right angle in order to charge.
So I'm in the market for a new one. I'd like it to be >7 inches, 300ppi (same spec as the Aura One or better). Overdrive support is nice but not essential. EPub support is a must, as is orange/red frontlighting. Linux slightly preferred over Android. Battery life in weeks. Waterproof doesn't matter. Cloud sync, bluetooth, audiobook support, apps (other than a decent reader), note-taking - I don't care about. It's for reading books, nothing else. Budget is not a huge issue but I don't want to spend more than I have to.
I have had zero time for the last few weeks to look into what the market is doing now and it's been many since I paid much attention to the world of ereaders, so anyone who is more up to date than me who can offer some suggestions would be much appreciated.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Official trailer 2
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Microsoft leaked its own Xbox documents, court says
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Neuralink is recruiting subjects for the first human trial of its brain-computer interface
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'We are really struggling with space': Amsterdam pushes more cars off its streets but is it enough?
31 votes -
We need cheap protein — but it doesn’t have to be meat
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Opinion by Brian Merchant: I’ve always loved tech. Now, I’m a Luddite. You should be one, too.
69 votes