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  1. Comment on ‘Sell America’ returns to Wall Street after Donald Trump ups the ante against Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve in ~society

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    While this is extremely depressing I don't see any significant dip in my stocks as of yet... Which might mean Trump is even more emboldened to push on this latest insanity. I hate this timeline.

    While this is extremely depressing I don't see any significant dip in my stocks as of yet... Which might mean Trump is even more emboldened to push on this latest insanity.

    I hate this timeline.

    6 votes

  2. Comment on "Ai ni, laoji": China's Gen Z is breaking tradition by learning self-love (English) in ~health.mental

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    Some good cultural context provided already, so I just have one other relevant thought: It's really interesting to me to see the current mood/shift in culture of younger Chinese and contrast it...

    Some good cultural context provided already, so I just have one other relevant thought: It's really interesting to me to see the current mood/shift in culture of younger Chinese and contrast it with the much older concern of Little Emperor Syndrome. My gut says that instead of a dramatic cultural shift we're simply talking about two different demographics: the Little Imperials who are the children of the rich (and still seen around the Western world with their absurd flaunting of riches while 'attending university'), and the rest of the younger generation in China.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on The city where free buses changed everything in ~transport

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    With a previous post discussing the reasons why Free Buses could be a bad idea, I really loved this article showing some successful case studies. Key point: You gotta fix a whole lot of other...

    With a previous post discussing the reasons why Free Buses could be a bad idea, I really loved this article showing some successful case studies. Key point: You gotta fix a whole lot of other things to improve usage beyond just cost.

    Also, for those of us looking for more positive news in their life, this is a great website. @DefinitelyNotAFae

    12 votes

  5. Comment on What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? in ~society

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    I don't agree with everything he says, but Scott Galloway is one of the few men doing this. The Good Men Project is another one that's been around for a while, though I can't say I've followed it...

    I don't agree with everything he says, but Scott Galloway is one of the few men doing this. The Good Men Project is another one that's been around for a while, though I can't say I've followed it much.

    Overall, I agree with you. It's a massive problem - we see it also with boys falling far behind girls in school statistics now. We see it with, as you say, increasing radicalization of young men largely due to the vacuum of positive alternatives. I've been musing about how if I ever have time I need to join big brothers or otherwise find a way to promote healthy masculinity. I do think that the concern you have - that you can't talk about this without being labelled a sexist/misogynist - is thankfully decreasing. It's still there, but the problem that boys are being left behind is starting to be recognized more broadly.

    8 votes

  6. Comment on Integrity Index of US Congress members in ~society

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    Very interesting! With a quick skim of the site I couldn't find it - how do they calculate the score? Is it just dollars from big money interests?

    Very interesting! With a quick skim of the site I couldn't find it - how do they calculate the score? Is it just dollars from big money interests?

    2 votes

  7. Comment on NASA’s science budget won’t be a train wreck after all in ~space

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    Wonderful news! Still disappointing to see cuts but given the catastrophe we were looking at this is much better.

    Wonderful news! Still disappointing to see cuts but given the catastrophe we were looking at this is much better.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Request for help: Backing up NASA public databases in ~space

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    Hello, thanks for checking in! For our own needs, we're looking good. The government shutdown didn't impact PDS much and NASA funding looks more likely to be partially restored than when I posted...

    Hello, thanks for checking in!

    For our own needs, we're looking good. The government shutdown didn't impact PDS much and NASA funding looks more likely to be partially restored than when I posted this. We're close to in the clear.

    Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make much progress on backing up PDS as a whole. I'm embarrassingly not fluent in IRC to follow some of the suggestions in here and I had a lead to be introduced to someone at NASA that could help but hasn't yet panned out. I still intend to keep trying but life is always on fire and I have to just hope that my prioritization is correct and my assessment that we have some breathing room is right.

    Other than the linked suggestions in this topic, I don't know of any other efforts unfortunately. Archive Team in particular is the one that I wanted to reach out to.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk

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    +1 for appreciating @DefinitelyNotAFae as a positive influence on Tildes. My biggest accomplishments are: Also surviving, lol. Getting actual funding to work on my crazy space start-up for the...

    +1 for appreciating @DefinitelyNotAFae as a positive influence on Tildes.

    My biggest accomplishments are:

    1. Also surviving, lol.
    2. Getting actual funding to work on my crazy space start-up for the first time ever. Been four years of working for no pay to try and make this happen. Next step is to turn it into enough revenue that I can quit my day job.
    6 votes

  10. Comment on Report shows bike lane initiative positively impacting traffic in Boston in ~transport

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    While this is heartening data, I'd personally like to see numbers on average door to door commute time, ideally broken down between cars and cyclists. You could very easily have decreased numbers...

    While this is heartening data, I'd personally like to see numbers on average door to door commute time, ideally broken down between cars and cyclists. You could very easily have decreased numbers of cars on the road but increased commute time for drivers due to the reduced lanes worsening traffic. This would still be a net win for the environment but not accurately show that bike lanes improve the drivers experience. And, given that they're needing to be persuaded that this isn't bad for their driving experience, that's pretty crucial information.

    Anecdotally, I've lived in cities that introduced bike lanes poorly and my commute times absolutely increased and parking was made much harder.

  11. Comment on 2026 World Juniors thread in ~sports.hockey

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    Great tournament so far! Really happy to see McKenna show up in the games so far. Now he has to show it vs the stiff competition. I'm more annoyed than I should be about all the criticism he's...

    Great tournament so far! Really happy to see McKenna show up in the games so far. Now he has to show it vs the stiff competition. I'm more annoyed than I should be about all the criticism he's getting for a relatively mundane draft year for him. If he stayed in the WHL he'd be still top of all the boards.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Cory Doctorow: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39c3 talk) in ~tech

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    Count me in among the skeptical but hope I'm wrong crowd. I see his point, I just seriously doubt our collective ability to make actionable change.

    Count me in among the skeptical but hope I'm wrong crowd. I see his point, I just seriously doubt our collective ability to make actionable change.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on How do you keep your life organized? What tools & systems do you use? in ~talk

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    Oh, maybe you're right! I've always had to share with at least one person and they hooked us with a free trial so I haven't looked into downgrading.

    Oh, maybe you're right! I've always had to share with at least one person and they hooked us with a free trial so I haven't looked into downgrading.

  14. Comment on How do you keep your life organized? What tools & systems do you use? in ~talk

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    I currently mostly rely on similar tools to what you describe: a mixture of unread emails, my calendar, post-it's, a notes app, tabs, and google docs that I date with my thoughts every work day....

    I currently mostly rely on similar tools to what you describe: a mixture of unread emails, my calendar, post-it's, a notes app, tabs, and google docs that I date with my thoughts every work day.

    That said, given that you mentioned colour and openness to try other tools, here are two my teams use that work fairly well:

    • Asana, a kanban board type interface which I personally find quite intuitive and is easy to colour and edit. A lot like a virtual sticky-note wall.
    • Notion, which has no free tier [EDIT: it has a free tier I've never used! - see below], is generally pricey, has been adding annoying AI prompts all the time BUT also has really, really impressive integration in linking pages in multiple formats automatically. For example, for my company I use it to create meeting notes, which I can then quickly link to both a list of meetings past and future and then display that information in a calendar format. I then tag those notes with relevant persons, organizations, and topic flags as needed. Those flags are then automatically collected in separate "persons" "organizations" and "topics" lists. WARNING that this takes a lot more effort to set up fully, but if you want something more complex and holistic, I do recommend notion despite my complaints.
    6 votes

  15. Comment on Montreal’s new rail line is the future in ~transport

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    Whoa! An actual transit success story? In CANADA?

    Whoa! An actual transit success story? In CANADA?

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 | Announce trailer in ~games

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    I have still not forgiven them for breaking Three Kingdoms TW with a patch and then immediately abandoning the fucking game.

    I have still not forgiven them for breaking Three Kingdoms TW with a patch and then immediately abandoning the fucking game.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 | Announce trailer in ~games

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    Whoa we have really similar taste in games, lol. I don't even have time to play with my current friends these days but it'd be great to fire up a campaign with you sometime! p.s. I really...

    Whoa we have really similar taste in games, lol. I don't even have time to play with my current friends these days but it'd be great to fire up a campaign with you sometime!

    p.s. I really appreciated your EU5 write up and just realized I forgot to thank you or respond.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 | Announce trailer in ~games

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    As a swords and bows purist type of TW fan, I'm most excited for a new engine tbh lol. But the short gameplay alpha looks fun - like Dawn of War on steroids. I'll definitely give it a whirl. But...

    As a swords and bows purist type of TW fan, I'm most excited for a new engine tbh lol. But the short gameplay alpha looks fun - like Dawn of War on steroids. I'll definitely give it a whirl.

    But for real this engine is so stale. The fact that they had to remove naval combat from the majority of the games is just silly. And the pathing and cavalry mass calculations is STILL worse than medieval 2! So I'm really hopeful they've learned and improved in this case. The zoom into and out of that planet at the end is intriguing but probably just cinematic nonsense.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Whatever happened to _____? in ~talk

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    In addition to the backtrack (which is indeed the primary point but I, too, do not trust Wizards anymore), it led to a ton of publicity and proliferation of other creative commons licenses for...

    In addition to the backtrack (which is indeed the primary point but I, too, do not trust Wizards anymore), it led to a ton of publicity and proliferation of other creative commons licenses for different systems, which I loved to see.

    Most notable (to me at least):
    Paizo (Pathfinder etc): https://paizo.com/licenses
    MCDM (Draw Steel): https://www.mcdmproductions.com/draw-steel-creator-license

    IIRC the Paizo ORC license in particular got picked up by a bunch of companies and creators that make DnD content.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Does anyone use Ground News? in ~talk

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    I don't use Ground News myself - I prefer to just pick my sources and email subscriptions - but I have a friend who swears by it as a great way to get sources. For a more bite-sized form of kind...

    I don't use Ground News myself - I prefer to just pick my sources and email subscriptions - but I have a friend who swears by it as a great way to get sources.

    For a more bite-sized form of kind of the same idea, I've enjoyed kagi news - it's sanitized summaries of what they estimate as the day's top stories. Here's the introductory blog post if you missed it when it was posted to tildes.

    8 votes