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  1. Comment on Bubbles monitors thousands of independent, personal blogs via RSS. Every new post appears on Bubbles automatically, and you can vote on them. in ~comp

  2. Comment on The global fertility crisis is worse than you think in ~society

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    Whenever the topic of declining fertility comes up, it’s often framed as something that mainly affects first-world countries. In reality, the situation is much broader. In this podcast, guest...

    Whenever the topic of declining fertility comes up, it’s often framed as something that mainly affects first-world countries. In reality, the situation is much broader.

    In this podcast, guest professor Jesús Fernández-Villaverde explains that it is a global issue. He highlights how regions like Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa are experiencing some of the fastest declines in birth rates, and explores the underlying factors.

    16 votes

  8. Comment on Jet Lag Season 17: Taiwan Rail Rush | Trailer in ~hobbies

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    Ep 6 - Taiwan Rail Rush I’m watching it on YouTube, and I know the season hasn’t ended there yet, but I really ended up disliking it. In my opinion, they should have scrapped it. I’m pretty sure...
    Ep 6 - Taiwan Rail Rush I’m watching it on YouTube, and I know the season hasn’t ended there yet, but I really ended up disliking it. In my opinion, they should have scrapped it. I’m pretty sure they’ve done that with another game in the past. What’s the point of watching to see who wins if the only deciding factor is who stayed in the north?
    1 vote

  9. Comment on "Why was I invited to Beast Studios?" - A comprehensive investigative analysis of YouTube's biggest channel in ~tech

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    There’s an unintended third video that I find more interesting than the addendum. In it, a well-intentioned but unprepared and naive Mr. Beat (without the “S”) tries to defend MrBeast. As a...

    There’s an unintended third video that I find more interesting than the addendum. In it, a well-intentioned but unprepared and naive Mr. Beat (without the “S”) tries to defend MrBeast. As a result, Dan goes into more detail about what happened behind the scenes, including the company’s financial situation, its obsession with being the biggest, how it hides technicalities for the sake of appearances, and the actual reason they gave Dan for inviting him.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6aL9C3jk1k

    6 votes

  10. Comment on No-stack web development in ~tech

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    I tried to do something similar, I even wrote a no-config static site generator that takes a directory full of Markdown files and outputs a website, with optional templating. But at the end, I...

    I tried to do something similar, I even wrote a no-config static site generator that takes a directory full of Markdown files and outputs a website, with optional templating. But at the end, I think running your website as a server that can handle tasks in the background, gives you more liberty to experiment in the future.

    I still kept the stack small. Right now I'm only using Wagtail, HTMX and a Markdown editor, but I'm planning on adding TailwindCSS in the future.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on The center has a bias in ~tech

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    Honestly, is even possible to find a job as a developer where you're not asked to use AI. If there are, I imagine they will go the same way as open source jobs: few and far between.

    Honestly, is even possible to find a job as a developer where you're not asked to use AI. If there are, I imagine they will go the same way as open source jobs: few and far between.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Why Portuguese is the most underestimated global language on Earth in ~humanities.languages

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    In my case, yes. I associate countries with their languages. Maybe not explicitly, but in a way where the language feels inseparable.

    In my case, yes. I associate countries with their languages. Maybe not explicitly, but in a way where the language feels inseparable.

    5 votes

  15. Comment on France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed in ~society

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    As someone currently unemployed, this news fills me with dread. There go my hopes of finding a good job in the near future.

    As someone currently unemployed, this news fills me with dread. There go my hopes of finding a good job in the near future.

    10 votes

  16. Comment on A mathematical analysis of M. C. Escher’s art in ~science

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    Seems like is AB testing at play, the title is still This picture broke my brain for me, but I'm sure it was the other one when I watched it yesterday on another device.

    Seems like is AB testing at play, the title is still This picture broke my brain for me, but I'm sure it was the other one when I watched it yesterday on another device.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on A mathematical analysis of M. C. Escher’s art in ~science

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    Title editorialized not only because the current title "This picture broke my brain" is extremely clickbaity, but also because it doesn’t describe its content at all.

    Title editorialized not only because the current title "This picture broke my brain" is extremely clickbaity, but also because it doesn’t describe its content at all.

    10 votes

  19. Comment on Is fascism back? in ~society

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    Given how emotionally taxing the topic is with the current state of the world, can I get a TL;DW?

    Given how emotionally taxing the topic is with the current state of the world, can I get a TL;DW?

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Fix your hearts or die: The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism in ~life

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    I’m a man, but I’ve never felt very connected to the more traditional “man” side of things. Because of that, it’s always been hard for me to relate to a lot of the modern discourse around men. At...

    I’m a man, but I’ve never felt very connected to the more traditional “man” side of things. Because of that, it’s always been hard for me to relate to a lot of the modern discourse around men.

    At the same time, I consider myself an extremely lonely person. Last year I told two of my closest friends that I felt really lonely, and they looked at me like it was my problem, something I needed to fix on my own. I’ve been trying. I’ve gone to therapy, meetups, and improv classes with the goal of improving my social skills, but I feel like I’m reaching the point where I want to give up. It feels like I’ll never be able to connect like a “normal” person.

    And I know there’s something contradictory about saying I’m lonely while also saying I have at least two friends. But the truth is they’re there because I message them first. Nobody ever takes the initiative to reach out to me. That’s what really messes with me. It makes me feel like I could die at any moment and that would be it. In the best case, people might take weeks to notice something happened.

    What I want to say is that both men and women have internalized expectations about how men should behave. When men don’t meet those expectations, they get ostracized. One of those expectations is that you’re never supposed to talk about how hard it is for you to connect with people. Society also needs to think about how little room it gives men to express themselves, but nobody seems willing to have that conversation. It's easier to just blame them for struggling and let them fall behind.

    33 votes