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by oska 4y ago
> If the namedropped authors aren't well known by today's children, why not adjust them? Because 'namedropping' an author that the child may not have heard of is exactly the way they do start to hear of them.
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The more original your work, the less AI will help you(twitter.com)
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> I started getting threatening emails. Cease and desists. If this is true then it further confirms to me that all Luis von Ahn's philanthropic guff was a fraudulent facade and he's always been about the money. And this prompt
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by oska 4y ago
You deserve a ban for this offensive display of aggression
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I really, really hate what Duolingo has become. Agree > It used to be a great app for learning a language. Disagree. I was a very early user and big participant in the forums and in providing error correction on the courses. I watched i
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by oska 4y ago
Gates is definitely not 'god-tier' (I won't argue about any of the others, although I don't know who Cormen is)
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> The fundamental purpose of mindfulness practice in Buddhism is to convince yourself that your sense of selfhood is false. Because we are so strongly attached to the sense of selfhood, achieving that conviction is going to be a wrench.
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He wrote a book about witches . I suggest you go and check out the noses on caricatures of witches if you can't bring any previously seen to mind. Here's one to get you started : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikip
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by oska 4y ago
> Referring to people by noun-ing one of the adjectives that describes them The noun sense of female well precedes (going back to its Latin roots) the adjectival sense of the word. [1] The adjectival sense came from the noun, the exa
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Polly Molly ?
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Ok, I appreciate where you were coming from now, my apologies. Yes, Dahl explicitly talked about Jews controlling the media (although not in his fiction). So yes, I was wrong to jump in on this point.
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by oska 4y ago
You're twisting the words of the person you replied to - you've changed 'heavily involved' to 'controlling'. And regarding The Protocols of the Elders of Zion . The whole point of that book is that it was pass
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A man's car breaks down in the desert; he's rescued and taken back to his rich rescuer's oasis household. The rich man has a beautiful daughter and equally beautiful wife. A female sneaks into his room over two successive nig
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by oska 4y ago
Oh, I agree. It's fine for the author to do it themselves (as long as they are not being forced to). It's quite another thing for others to do it, even as the 'rights holders'. And I would argue, this is another good rea
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> I'm sure there are many topics that if a teacher or librarian presented to your children you would move to remove their discretionary power I would first consult with them, and, if necessary, go to the school board if I thought th
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by oska 4y ago
This is just silly. Fat has two meanings. 1) noun , a type of animal tissue, which serves, as one of its purposes, to store excess energy from consumed food for leaner times. 2) adjective , describing a person or animal who has a lot of t
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by oska 4y ago
I see it as a totalitarian measure, rather than leaving it to school librarians to make those choices, while listening to the expressed feedback and requests from the students and their parents at that school.
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> Great new classics are still being written - it's just that the winnowing function of passing decades hasn't yet run its course, so they're harder to find. This is true, but I also think there are 'golden ages'
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By the by, François Truffaut's 1966 adaptation is amazing, and well worth seeking out
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Ok, I read the article [1] linked in that comment and I think it's mostly junk. To give one example, the author's picking on the large noses and wigs of the witches as somehow mirroring negative portrayals of Jews is a massive str
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This is explicitly censorship. Film censorship boards would demand cuts and sometimes reshoots of particular parts of a film before they would allow its release. Censors of literary works, when those still existed, would do the same. Cuts
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I don't think it will be a minority opinion, given the test of time. I think HP's star is already waning (and no, I don't mean because of the author's views on certain subjects; I think the faddishness of HP itself is al
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by oska 4y ago
> I think that would be more like Roald Dahl doing it himself And Dahl actually did make some changes in new editions himself. Perhaps the most notable being his changes to the portrayal of oompa-loompas. Dahl commented : > I created
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by oska 4y ago
Cheers. I put the word in quotes to indicate my use was not necessarily an endorsement of the term. And even though it is the most commonly used label and probably the one that's going to stick, I do like your alternative. Yours is pro
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> These books arn't consumed by people who are particularly aware of the cultural context of the ear in which they were written Part of reading these books as a child or adolescent is being introduced to the cultural contexts of o
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> that speaks an awful lot about his attitudes as a writer How? Especially when, to my knowledge, there is no anti-Jewish content in his children's books.
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I think it's conceivable Matilda could have been a fan of Austen, but Steinbeck is a very long bow. British children still read mainly British authors and, when taking into account that Dahl is writing from his own experience as a chil
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> and forgot that secular morals can run just as puritanical I'd suggest that it is a new religion being satisfied here, that of 'wokeism'.
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> that I left on to avoid coming home to 85 degree heat My sympathy is with the host here.
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It's entirely reasonable to expect family and friends to properly clean up a place that you have kindly allowed them to use. But that is an entirely different domain (i.e. non-commercial).

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