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Charitably I would assume "historically accurate" refers to things like sets, clothing, etc - even with the inclusion of supernatural elements, an attempt to portray the Odyssey as something Greeks of the time might imagine while
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So what? That doesn't affect the morality of slavery one bit. Subjective and relative moral questions do exist, but slavery isn't one of them. Likewise, Ben Franklin being a founding father doesn't somehow balance the scales
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Slavery was immoral during Franklin's time too, Walter. Many, many people of the time understood this. Even Franklin himself, hypocrite though he was, came around to it.
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No it isn't. Again, this is just how language works, the meaning of a word is what people decide it is. And if people have been using a word a certain way for several centuries, then that's how it's used. End of story.
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That isn't misuse, it's how language works. "literally" has been used to mean "figuratively" since at least the 1700s. Insistence to the contrary is a modern prescriptivist meme. https://blogs.illino
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> Keeping an older interface around extends vulnerabilities and generates ongoing maintenance costs. For the backend, sure. But HTML is HTML. HTML doesn't have "vulnerabilities" (unless you want to count javascript, which
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99.9% of Western vtubers do exactly what streamers do, including being charismatic and entertaining, just behind a computer generated avatar. The "lore" and design of their avatar is mostly just aesthetics, a bit of branding and a
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Regarding the Zizians, I recommend the Behind the Bastards series on them and the rationalist community. People involved with the rationalists will want to distance themselves from it of course, but the series makes a decent argument that t
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An HTML document is also an interactive application - that's what hyperlinks and forms are. The script tag has been a part of HTML since the late 90s, the original intent was that it supported multiple scripting languages. The distinct
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I have to push against this slightly. HTML is human-readable and writer friendly. Humans - not even all of them CS students - were reading HTML,JS and CSS on websites and writing it all by hand in text editors for years before the "p
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>It's a really unfair stereotype to apply to those you're disagreeing with, and I see you do it repeatedly here; characterizing those you disagree with, or the HN community in general, with terms like anti-humanity and anti-hum
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>Sure, boot out the fascists if you feel that is keeping you un-clean. But in so doing, you will establish your own totalitarian-authoritarian personality. The key is not to resist - it is futile - but rather, instead, replace. The solut
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>Just call them what they are: totalitarian-authoritarian personalities, whose roots lie deep in the desire to be free of the perceived "filth of others". The word for that is "fascist."
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Activists are terrorists if they're leftist, not white, or not Christian. Otherwise they're patriots.
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I feel like people are being purposely obtuse here. OK. If you want to believe that satire and parody only consist of blindly showing things mentioned in the lyrics in order to imply that these AI generated videos are equivalent in art and
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I respect this in theory, I do like the premise of hosting your own identity in a simple text format. I think Nostr does something similar, and it's definitely a flaw that AT Proto and ActivityPub don't do the same. But in practic
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The Trump administration did bomb Libya. https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/24/politics/us-strikes-libya-tru...
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I liked Angela Collier's video essay about the Odyssey[0] (ostensibly about casting a Muppet version but more generally about the issues involved with adaptations in general), where she points out that modern audiences want the Odyssey
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It's Riding Dirty but it it's about a guy who does anything but. It's a song about how white people find black culture cool but are themselves stereotypically uncool. It's a song about nerd culture and celebrating that,
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Most of the "professional" AI generated content I've seen isn't much better than this. It all lacks in the same dimensions, it's all the same sort of mediocre and uncanny. Claiming "it's a tech demo, actua
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No one is criticizing the photorealistic video generation. Yes, AI has gotten very good at that, I don't think anyone is disputing that. At some point you have to move past your astonishment at the technical achievement alone and judge
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Someone must not have told Iran that Trump is the great peace president who ended all wars, united the Middle East and brought about world peace. They really need to get with the program or we'll have to win the war a few more times.
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Wierd Al videos are a parody of an existing property. "White and Nerdy" is a parody of "Riding Dirty" by Chamillionaire, but the lyrics are about nerd stereotypes (as an intentional contrast with black culture as present
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We entered a war in Iran in February.
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Few if any of the people playing D&D actually thought they were elf wizards, or that they were doing magic, or communing with eldritch gods. Meanwhile many if not most of the people who have chatbots as their significant other actual
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As far as I know, it's contested whether Homer even existed as an individual at all. "Homer" might be a collective title for various unknown authors.
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With extreme prejudice.
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It is still true. People with money and state actors have always had unprecedented control over what ordinary people are allowed to see... before the internet they were the ones controlling all of the corporate media. You don't think
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So all platforms. Unless you have a definition of "influencer" more rigid than "person with some degree of influence." Because that includes Hacker News.
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Tobacco wasn't "invented" any more than was marijuana, both are naturally occurring plants which have been cultivated and used for thousands of years.

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