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42 votes
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Name change?
Will we ever be able to change are names?
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David Brooks: Nikki Haley is the best Donald Trump alternative
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Why I don't criticize Israel - Sam Harris - transcript from a 2014 podcast
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Joe Biden outperformed because he won US voters who decide late
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Twitter, Elon Musk and the Indigo Blob
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Why Republican voters say there’s ‘no way in hell’ US President Donald Trump lost
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What we need, is a chatroom
i think google might have some extras. is there a Tildes IRC channel anywhere? edit::::: freenode#tildes
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Who's running for US president in 2024? Meet the candidates — and likely candidates — vying for your vote
27 votes -
Why is there so much right-wing media?
67 votes -
What was the best piece of content that came out as a result of the pandemic?
What's the best thing you've read, watched, heard or other that was created as a result of the pandemic. In your opinion of course.
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US trade group asks VP Mike Pence to ‘seriously consider' invoking 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump
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Why the House of Representatives should be far bigger
13 votes -
America's love of sanctions will be its downfall
12 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump demands Republican rivals pledge to pardon him … or else
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Joe Biden's campaign has released an ad attacking Pete Buttigieg's record and experience
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Trump/Biden 2020 Presidential Debate #2 Discussion Thread
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Watch on YouTube
Other viewing optionsDebate starts ~90 minutes from the time of this posting.
Info from The Washington Post:
Location: Belmont University in Nashville
Moderator: Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent and co-anchor of “Weekend Today”
Details: The debate will be 90 minutes long and have no commercial breaks. It will be divided into six 15-minute segments that the moderator has chosen. They are: fighting covid-19, American families, race in America, climate change, national security and leadership.
Trump’s campaign has criticized the topics, saying they thought this was supposed to be a foreign policy debate. The head of the Commission on Presidential Debates said that’s not true.
Trump has criticized the moderator, Welker, as being biased, as he has other moderators. The commission and even a Fox News host have defended Welker’s integrity.
The commission also announced days before the debate that in light of Trump’s frequent interruptions during the first one, it will silence the microphone of the candidate who is not speaking during the two-minute opening segment for each candidate. After each candidate has two minutes, there will be an open discussion where both microphones will be on, but the commission urged civility in a statement: “It is the hope of the Commission that the candidates will be respectful of each other’s time.” The Trump campaign said it still will participate, despite the president criticizing a potential virtual debate as a forum where it would be too easy to silence his microphone.
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The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
31 votes -
In Cold War II, the US risks playing the Soviet role
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By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
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Is this a coup?
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Fermi problem game thread
I thought it might be fun to make a little game out of asking Fermi problems and trying to work out solutions to others'. What is a Fermi problem? A Fermi problem is (to quote wikipedia ): an...
I thought it might be fun to make a little game out of asking Fermi problems and trying to work out solutions to others'.
What is a Fermi problem?
A Fermi problem is (to quote wikipedia ):
an estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis or approximation, and such a problem is usually a back-of-the-envelope calculation. The estimation technique is named after physicist Enrico Fermi as he was known for his ability to make good approximate calculations with little or no actual data. Fermi problems typically involve making justified guesses about quantities and their variance or lower and upper bounds.
Basically, these are questions that would be very difficult to calculate exactly without looking up the answer. The goal is to arrive at a good estimate by making justified assumptions. As such, looking up facts and statistics should be minimized or outright avoided (e.g., if the question is "What is the mass of the water in Lake Michigan?", you shouldn't look up Lake Michigan's volume to aid your answer. This should be estimated from things you know off the top of your head).
The way this thread works
- If you have a Fermi problem, post it as a top level comment.
- If you have a solution to an already posted Fermi problem, post it as a reply to that comment. Be sure to post your reasoning and thought process.
Fermi problems can be fun to come up with, and fun to answer. Examples of Fermi problems might include:
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How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? (this one is apparently one that Fermi came up with himself)
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How many keystrokes occur worldwide, daily?
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What is the mass of the water in Lake Michigan?
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How many cars are there in New York City on a given day?
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How many blades of grass are there on the National Mall?
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How many eggs are consumed in the US each day?
Since many of these have no definitive answer, it is not always possible to score the 'correctness' of an answer. Nonetheless, others can judge when an answer makes reasonable assumptions, so feel free reply to answers with suggestions of which assumptions can be refined or further justified.
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President of Niger: My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage
91 votes -
Watch live: Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate hearing
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Ukrainians contemplate the once unthinkable: Losing the war with Russia
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Researcher calls out misuse of research in book on American white rural rage - suggests resentment over rage
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Mike Huckabee: 2024 will be last US election ‘decided by ballots rather than bullets’ if Donald Trump loses over legal cases
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Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Donald Trump’s vision
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Tildes Video Thread
So, quite a few people don't like/watch video content, and don't like seeing the homepage filled with videos. Let's try something new, see if it sticks. What are the best videos you have watched...
So, quite a few people don't like/watch video content, and don't like seeing the homepage filled with videos. Let's try something new, see if it sticks.
What are the best videos you have watched this past week/fortnight?
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We need to speak honestly about the GOP’s evolution into a conspiracy cult
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Eliminate elections for a better US democracy
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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency (US House of Congress hearings)
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Will American ideas tear France apart? Some of its leaders think so.
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Tildes instance of yourworldoftext
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The meaning of Donald Trump’s crazily damning self-defence
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Meet the anti-woke left: ‘Dirtbag’ leftists Amber A’Lee Frost and Anna Khachiyan on populism, feminism and cancel culture
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Canada bet big on immigration. Now it’s hitting the brakes.
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Police pulled fake ‘Antifa’ list from neo-Nazi site and used it to target random people who’d signed an anti-Trump petition
33 votes -
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’
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What Israel should do now: Israel’s current approach is clearly wrong. Here’s a better way to fight Hamas — and win.
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The case for abolishing elections
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Trump & Biden 2020 US Presidential Town Halls Discussion Thread
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This will be a noisy thread. Please use the ignore feature if you do not want to see it in your feed.
Watch Trump's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for one hour.
Watch Biden's Town Hall on YouTube
Begins approximately ~2 hours from the time of this posting. Runs for an hour and a half
More information from CNN.
In case you're wondering why there are two separate town halls happening instead of Debate #2 tonight, @3d12 has the recap here.
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Department of Homeland Security publishes memo with several Nazi/white supremacist dogwhistles
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The growing toxicity of fanbases
So, it might just be that I'm older and notice these things more, but it really seems to me that fan groups are becoming more and more toxic overall. It feels like over the past 5-8 years...
So, it might just be that I'm older and notice these things more, but it really seems to me that fan groups are becoming more and more toxic overall. It feels like over the past 5-8 years specifically fanbases are reaching toxic levels faster and faster.
I remember when bronies became a thing, it took them like 3-4 years before the dangerous, threatening, and assholeish behavior really began to become common. Then Steven Universe came out and it only took them like 2 years to start sending death threats to people who didn't support their head-cannons. Rick and Morty went toxic in under a year and a half.
Then there's the shit in long-running franchises. Star Wars has had multiple of the actors shutting off social media from the toxic bile being shot at them. Chris Pratt is getting hate for what Star Lord did in Infinity War.
There's memes too, weirdly enough. Calarts is the biggest example I can think of. People made a dumb joke about how all the cartoons look a like today and someone pointed out how a few of the artists went to this one school in California and it became a catch all term for the shitty artstyle, and then within like 4 weeks the school has to go into lockdown because someone made a tongue-in-cheek threat of shooting the school up. A few years ago trolling attempts would be things like ordering a bunch of pizzas to the school or something annoying and dickish but overall harmless like that.
I know toxicity amongst fanbases has always been a thing, but it really seems to me that they're reaching unseen levels and doing so faster and faster. I mean Rick and Morty fans rioted over fucking dipping sauce, there are the aforementioned Steven Universe death threats, the directed attacks of actors on social media, fucking joking about shooting schools up because you don't like the art-style a few of their graduates used in a time where we've seen like 6 school shootings in half a year, there was that whole Voltron incident where a fan stole storyboards or something and threatened to release them to the public unless the creators of the show made their favorite gay ship a thing.
I guess what I'm getting at is what the fuck is happening that's poisoning every single community online? It's like everything has suddenly devolved into Youtube comments. How did we get to this level of toxicity? Or am I just more aware of this shit now and it's not really all that different from how it used to be?
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Michigan Republican fake elector for Donald Trump outlined Jan. 6 plan to present Mike Pence with "dueling electors" in December 2020 US radio interview
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Norwegian left-wing party leader Bjørnar Moxnes resigned on Monday after stealing a pair of luxury sunglasses from Oslo airport
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Reply All is officially dead. What to listen to now?
Reply All was consistently one of my favorite podcasts on my player. I've been a listener for years, and while risking sounding parasocial, I felt a huge loss when the show finally ended. There's...
Reply All was consistently one of my favorite podcasts on my player. I've been a listener for years, and while risking sounding parasocial, I felt a huge loss when the show finally ended. There's something about the consistency of some content, and the nostalgia for the rough patches where that content helped make things easier, whether it be a podcast, TV show, or blog.
It was that right mix of personality, investigative journalism, humor, and weird internet culture. I have a lot of alternatives in my player, but none of them seem to fill that RA-shaped hole. Here's what I'm listening to nowadays:
- Underunderstood
- You're Wrong About
- Endless Thread
- Darknet Diaries
- Crypto Island
Basically, I'm begging for podcast recommendations from shows you consider to be your favorite. Preferably, if you can include a recent, really good episode to get started with, I'll give it a listen and report back. Thanks!
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Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by the US government
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Selling subversion
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Former US President Donald Trump heading to trial in seven civil and criminal cases: A calendar of dates and what to expect
56 votes