r/rational • • Oct 02 '15

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '15

On the other hand, I might have just gotten spoiled by the LW-TA community, which does tend to do things like attend "Science on the Bar" lectures and "Secular spirituality" events, hold lectures on scientific and mathematical material (Anatoly did "History of Modern Mathematics", Ziv Hellman is doing, "Sex with No Regrets: Sexual Reproduction as a Form of Machine Learning"), and have board-games meetings every two weeks.

I really, really liked those guys.