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  1. Comment on Scientists study thousands of giant space shades to cool Earth in ~space

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    Also, who controls the big shade in the sky? Is it some trillionaire? Or an unstable government that occasionally elects sociopaths (if any elections are happening at all)? What are the chances of...

    Also, who controls the big shade in the sky? Is it some trillionaire? Or an unstable government that occasionally elects sociopaths (if any elections are happening at all)?

    What are the chances of extortion, to prevent either full shade or no shade?

    17 votes

  2. Comment on JLPT N5, here i come! Ehm... any suggestions for me? in ~humanities.languages

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    Off topic, but just in case: I just landed in Tokyo (literally taxiing to gate) from USA with my family, headed to Noto/Kanazawa area. If anyone happens to be either from there, or lives there...

    Off topic, but just in case:

    I just landed in Tokyo (literally taxiing to gate) from USA with my family, headed to Noto/Kanazawa area. If anyone happens to be either from there, or lives there now, let me know. I’ll be living there for ~3 years.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on 2026 United States midterm elections megathread in ~society

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    Moving out of the country tomorrow (long planned) with a roughly three year timeline before returning. Glad to have voted and encouraged by results, now just hoping the dems can right the ship...

    Moving out of the country tomorrow (long planned) with a roughly three year timeline before returning. Glad to have voted and encouraged by results, now just hoping the dems can right the ship while not totally estranging everyone that just flipped to blue in the process.

    16 votes

  4. Comment on Amazon Grocery introduces a Thanksgiving meal for $25 in ~food

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    With how midterms are going, this feels a little like old man Scrooge quickly dishing out Christmas hams to avoid an uprising.

    With how midterms are going, this feels a little like old man Scrooge quickly dishing out Christmas hams to avoid an uprising.

    8 votes

  5. Comment on 2026 United States midterm elections distractions topic in ~talk

  6. Comment on Has anyone here experienced a tv show slump? in ~tv

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    I know everyone is different but it’s a peek into some twilight zone to see people here offering tv prescriptions as if this is some medical concern. Just find something else to do? Unplug the tv...

    I know everyone is different but it’s a peek into some twilight zone to see people here offering tv prescriptions as if this is some medical concern.

    Just find something else to do? Unplug the tv and set it in the closet or basement for awhile and then go buy some donuts for a walk in the park. [insert many other things here] etc.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on CSS-Tricks has a new owner! in ~tech

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    I’m interested to hear what Chris Coyier will say about it on the next Shop Talk podcast episode. There was an episode released yesterday but I’m sure it was recorded before this news was public....

    I’m interested to hear what Chris Coyier will say about it on the next Shop Talk podcast episode. There was an episode released yesterday but I’m sure it was recorded before this news was public.

    I’ve used CSS Tricks for a long time, and it’s in my rss feed. What I’d like to see:

    Interactive tools for understanding things, like the Flex and Grid reference pages but as interactive demos. Or an intuitive tool for border-image, anchor positioning, etc. These things exist on other sites, but I think CSS Tricks could do them better and centralize a lot of it.

    I also think the website could use a refresh itself. Honestly on mobile it’s a bit clunky.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Proposal: For sensitive topics, if a thread is intended for a particular demographic, there needs another thread open for everyone to discuss without having to join the targeted thread in ~tildes

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    Off topic, but don’t want to open a topic about it: Once a community starts to have some critical mass of meta topics, it feels like it’s jumped the shark and we are at the beginning of the end....

    Off topic, but don’t want to open a topic about it:

    Once a community starts to have some critical mass of meta topics, it feels like it’s jumped the shark and we are at the beginning of the end. I’m sure these topics are of interest to some people, probably the same people who kill every town hall or caucus with arguing about Robert’s Rules of Order and effectively shut out dissent with the same, but if every meta topics inspires a new rebuttal topic about how the site is run, this place will be a ghost town.

    Time to figure out tag filters I guess.

    37 votes

  9. Comment on Jungle – Someday, Somewhere (2026) in ~music

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    Added to be list of dancing videos to show my 5 year old. Thanks Also, are any major police departments still using Crown Vic’s?

    Added to be list of dancing videos to show my 5 year old. Thanks

    Also, are any major police departments still using Crown Vic’s?

    1 vote

  10. Comment on McDonalds and Star Trek's "Red Alert" sound in ~talk

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    All McDonald’s kitchens sound like hospitals to me. Which is something like ironic. Generally the whole vibe inside a McDonald’s feels like waiting in a hospital hallway.

    All McDonald’s kitchens sound like hospitals to me. Which is something like ironic. Generally the whole vibe inside a McDonald’s feels like waiting in a hospital hallway.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on All eighty books banned in Minnesota last year came from one school in ~books

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    Not just queer, trans. So yeah, I assume everyone did what they could to find some reason to run Krebsbach out of town. North Woods School is a couple miles outside of Cook, MN, which itself is...

    Not just queer, trans. So yeah, I assume everyone did what they could to find some reason to run Krebsbach out of town. North Woods School is a couple miles outside of Cook, MN, which itself is basically middle of nowhere Minnesota. Beautiful area though. If you ever go, check out the Tower-Soudan Underground Mine state park.

    7 votes

  12. Comment on Keeping up a blogging habit while being a dad in ~life.men

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    I'm an at-home dad, and I have been blogging about playground design. Because that is what I've become an "expert" in through daily experience.

    I'm an at-home dad, and I have been blogging about playground design. Because that is what I've become an "expert" in through daily experience.

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Keeping up a blogging habit while being a dad in ~life.men

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    With our first, she slept in her own room from day one, and always has. With our second (4 years younger), she slept in our small room, crib basically right up to the bed. This was because we...

    With our first, she slept in her own room from day one, and always has. With our second (4 years younger), she slept in our small room, crib basically right up to the bed. This was because we didn't want to burden the 4 year old with a baby in her room. But at about 13 months we put them in the same room (again, small) and suddenly everything got much better.

    There is a lot of nuance with these experiences, of course it depends on the baby, the house, the siblings, the pets, the air temperature, cultural expectations, etc. But keeping sleeping babies in another room is great. For us, with a 800 sq ft house, the two bedrooms sharing a wall, we could still hear basically every little noise, but it felt so good to be able to turn a light on or get into bed without worrying about the rustling of sheets waking the baby.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Jungle - Where Are You Now? (2026) in ~music

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    I don’t normally watch music videos and I’m not “with it” in terms of new music stuff, but I like Jungle (one of few live shows I’ve seen) so I clicked into this. Cool dancing, and it was just the...

    I don’t normally watch music videos and I’m not “with it” in terms of new music stuff, but I like Jungle (one of few live shows I’ve seen) so I clicked into this.

    Cool dancing, and it was just the thing for showing my 5 year old dancer. She loves this kind of dance.

  15. Comment on US Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in ~society

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    I'm not totally settled on firing squad being a bad thing. Generally, I'm against death penalties entirely, so I'll just say that up front (if i'm picking a religion, i identify as a pacifist...

    I'm not totally settled on firing squad being a bad thing. Generally, I'm against death penalties entirely, so I'll just say that up front (if i'm picking a religion, i identify as a pacifist Quaker and attend Meeting every week). But, a bullet to the head is probably the fastest death you can have, and I have to believe that the success rate is higher than whatever the hell they did in Tennessee this week. It seems like the lethal dose method has all sorts of problems. It seems to not have great efficacy. It's increasingly difficult to source. The medical establishment wants nothing to do with it, so people outside of that establishment run the process.

    And the other thing: if we are going to execute people, I can see the argument that it should be public. I don't want executions happening behind closed doors. I am not going to watch this, but possibly someone witnessing it will help them understand the gravity of state sanctioned executions. Would more graphic news coverage of war on the TV inflame war, or bring it to an end?

    Those things said, I'm 100% sure these are not the considerations this administration has made. And of course there are people that will wrench their own souls apart taking some sort of joy out of watching this. And of course, broadcasting the execution of someone who hopes to attain martyrdom probably is exactly what you don't want to do. So in this case I don't think a public execution is the right way to go, but I'm not sure I'm deaf to the concepts behind it. Again, I do not support the death penalty at all, but if it's going to happen maybe we should be witness to the horror of it.

    13 votes

  16. Comment on How to get better at academic writing quickly? in ~humanities

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    I think LLMs are likely very capable of stepping outside a single template. They have been trained on more written language than any single could ever be (many times over). It has long been...

    I think LLMs are likely very capable of stepping outside a single template. They have been trained on more written language than any single could ever be (many times over). It has long been trivial to ask for a certain style of writing.

    But like updawg notes, I'm not really suggesting plastering over some armature of a template with your own writing. You can ask probing questions about language, writing, and logic.

    3 votes

  17. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    You should check out Anchor Positioning plus Popover APIs. All built into the browser these days

    You should check out Anchor Positioning plus Popover APIs. All built into the browser these days

    3 votes

  18. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    did you use a library for the onboarding layer and the positioning of those cards? I thought maybe you used Anchor Positioning, but dev tools doesn't show that, so curious if it's library or you...

    did you use a library for the onboarding layer and the positioning of those cards? I thought maybe you used Anchor Positioning, but dev tools doesn't show that, so curious if it's library or you made it work yourself.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on How to get better at academic writing quickly? in ~humanities

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    You can ask an LLM to help you, with the explicit goal of teaching you to write better. Language is something LLMs are actually very good at. You can ask general questions about writing, or give...

    You can ask an LLM to help you, with the explicit goal of teaching you to write better. Language is something LLMs are actually very good at. You can ask general questions about writing, or give it your writing and ask about critiques and suggestions with whatever level of specificity you want, like “is the structure and order okay” or “do I have enough examples” or “is this point sufficiently supporting my thesis”. Don’t have it write your sentences, but you can treat it like a student advisor or writing coach.

    Of course, it does tempt overuse particularly when you get tired, the deadline draws near, or your overall thesis starts to feel weak and you want to plug holes in a sinking ship.

    8 votes

  20. Comment on What is your dream game? in ~games

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    This doesn’t answer your call, but the one that I’ve been watching for last month via dev vlogs. If you watch, the dev starts at very basic levels in videos but has actually already worked on the...

    This doesn’t answer your call, but the one that I’ve been watching for last month via dev vlogs. If you watch, the dev starts at very basic levels in videos but has actually already worked on the game for 3 years. Still very early but has some interesting concepts: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4heM4MqK82w

    4 votes