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This page provides a great overview of several popular translations of The Odyssey. It lists line-by-line translations as well free translations: https://readtheodyssey.org/best-od…

I don't see this happening, but I really wish that the Mastodon model centered on joining your city's local Mastodon server. Your server is centered on local people and local conve…

Have you tried Bookwyrm? https://bookwyrm.social/ It uses ActivityPub, so you interact with Mastodon and stuff, if you are into that.

Does anyone here handwrite a blog? I've been thinking about doing that, but I'd be interested in how people accomplish it. Personally, I'd like this to be a hobby that gets me away…

If you want to hear the difference between an audio file recorded at 44.1 and 88.2kHZ, then you need slow the audio playback down. Otherwise, a trained ear cannot physically hear t…

I agree, legal immigration is much too difficult and I think that's awful!

Are you proposing a different solution? Or are you content to be a cynic that does nothing?

The USA has never had a leftist president. No president of the USA has ever sought to end capitalism. I think you know that, and that you are alluding to that with quotation marks.…

I don't want to speak for European countries. Never lived there, and I think people living there should be responsible for deciding how they navigate such issues. In the USA, where…

Sorry if I'm being dense, but what parts of the USA? Or, I guess more specifically, what is it that you are needing to clear?

Is your point that taller trucks and SUVs provide considerable benefits over shorter ones? What are those benefits? Or do you mean simply that trucks and SUVs, regardless of their …

Ugh, ok. Most people do not need one. I'm not sure what the need is for a very tall pickup truck that can also hold a family five? But maybe there is one. Perhaps there is also a n…

Nothing in the article is suggesting that we do not need cars and trucks. It does make a compelling case that specifically large trucks and SUVs are causing preventable deaths. And…

I think society only works in a high trust society. Well, maybe something exists functionally in low trust society, but it sounds miserable.

Is the concern that we'd marginalize parents and kids? As a parent of little kids, that's a concern that wasn't even on my radar. I had no idea that that was a major concern of peo…

"Might makes right," you know? I personally control my life by spending almost all of my income, after bills, towards expanding the elaborate tower-defense-like automated weaponry …

Two points on that: 1. This would require hardware to be affordable by mere mortals. That hardware is not financially beyond our reach yet, but AI is making the cost of buying good…

"With luck, it might even help us find methods of reducing their influence and power." If it started to look like that might happen, the ones with influence and power would adjust …

I understand that the war between Russia and Ukraine, and now Iran and Israel/USA has set back the slow progress that was being made on nuclear disarmament. I don't understand your…

Maybe I'm a big idiot, but I think nuclear disarmament is a good geopolitical strategy. The USA has treaties in place pursuing that end on a global scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/…

Yeah, I agree with you! Regulation of that kind of environmental problem works better the more land is covered. National is best, statewide is meaningful (if you are in a geographi…

A lot less people would be mad, yeah. In my own area, the mere rumor of a data center was enough to galvanize activity and get write-ups in the local news. The focus, generally, wa…

Yeah, and it should be. But the USA, at least in this current moment, builds regulations catering to corporations and the rich over people's general needs. So the regulations that …

You're starting with an assumption that AI is, on the whole, a net positive for society. A lot of people would disagree.

You should report that to animal control. In most cities, dogs are not allowed to be running loose off leash and "at large." If they are bothering people, it's clearly an infractio…