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5 votes
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To be a responsible citizen today, it is not enough to be reasonable
9 votes -
Salami slicing
6 votes -
The last handoff: How the Obama-Trump Presidential transition led to chaos
7 votes -
We can uphold free speech and hold US President Donald Trump accountable
20 votes -
Nonfiction writing advice
8 votes -
How Rome destroyed its own republic
12 votes -
When Americans committed insurrection: Until 2021, Americans had confronted federal authority with armed aggression just four times
13 votes -
Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution?
5 votes -
The Mexican American border: A tale of two colonies (Part 1/2)
3 votes -
In 1814, British forces burned the US Capitol
9 votes -
How do you convey emotions in text?
It's something I've struggled for a long time to do in text conversations. People will often think I'm mad when talking in a way that I think is perfectly normal or that I'm a brick wall while...
It's something I've struggled for a long time to do in text conversations. People will often think I'm mad when talking in a way that I think is perfectly normal or that I'm a brick wall while discussing disagreements and well, that can't be fun. I often have to reassure certain people that it's not the case.
Sometimes I try to show how I'm feeling through emotions or more "fluffy" language but I feel like that's too excessive and feels kinda fake to me?
It's also something I've more recently struggled with because I'm trying to write personally on my blog and I'm not exactly sure how to convey my feelings other than stating it like a robot like "This makes me mad" or "That's depressing" or "It makes me feel great".
It feels off to me and maybe it's just a me problem but I think that's also because I write the same way I speak and so, it just sounds strange.
I don't know, this post is rambly and I've been wanting to write something like this in the last few days but I just have to push enter at some point.
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Making policy for a low-trust world
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AskHistorians write-up on January 2021 sedition at the US Capitol
23 votes -
How to be rational about rationality
7 votes -
The history of Yellowstone: Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
5 votes -
Joseph Rainey was the United States' first Black congressman
6 votes -
Who named the United States and what alternatives gained the most traction?
5 votes -
Why didn't the Virginias reunite?
4 votes -
The daisy ad and an appeal to fear
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On Marx, Lincoln, slavery and socialism in the years following the Civil War
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The Great Depression explained, globally
3 votes -
The tale of a World War II British submarine that shot down an enemy plane with a torpedo
7 votes -
Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang, China. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.
19 votes -
The break-up of the Soviet Union, explained
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Exceptionally well-preserved thermopolium, a Roman-era fast-food stall, unearthed in Pompeii
16 votes -
It turns out
7 votes -
Is college still worth it?
11 votes -
How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
10 votes -
Anyone willing to teach me ASL?
I'm a sucker for languages and lately I've been wanting to learn a sign language (not specificallly ASL as I put in the title, I'm open to learning any local flavour). And well, with COVID and...
I'm a sucker for languages and lately I've been wanting to learn a sign language (not specificallly ASL as I put in the title, I'm open to learning any local flavour).
And well, with COVID and everything, I figure this may be a good opportunity to do this with someone else and have someone to talk to. So, is there anyone on Tildes who would be willing to have regular informal video chats, where we talk and you try to teach me as we go? (And of course I can accommodate by text if needed)
No hard commitment, this can just be something we try once and if it's boring for either of us we don't have to continue :) But I'm hoping it'll be fun enough to be a regular thing!
PS. I can teach you French in return if you are interested!
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A sea story
7 votes -
Fantasy politics
4 votes -
Why is evil more charismatic than good?
8 votes -
A plane without wings: The story of the C.450 Coléoptère
4 votes -
How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
8 votes -
The Sino-Soviet split: How did Soviet Russia and China become enemies?
3 votes -
How did the Soviet government work?
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Abandoning all hope: The divine comedy by Dante, explained
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The father of modern warfare – the military reforms of Gustavus Adolphus' changed the face of European warfare
7 votes -
How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
3 votes -
A year of spaced repetition software in the classroom
8 votes -
Is computer code a foreign language?
14 votes -
Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95
7 votes -
The best books on The Philosophy of Language
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The world's most important body of water: The history of the South China Sea and four men who helped shape it
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That Downfall scene explained: What is Hitler freaking out about?
8 votes -
Privacy is power
8 votes -
On self-defeating skeptical arguments
3 votes -
Brexit fishing row evokes memories of 'cod wars' with Iceland – four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from 1st January to help protect UK fishing waters
7 votes -
Amid a crackdown on ‘separatism’, how do French Muslims feel?
6 votes