I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?
@RickiTarr good parents teach right/wrong, kindness, compassion and how to survive as best we can in this difficult and dangerous world. Lessons should be tailored to each unique child. Hardest job there is.
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I get the same feelings when I read the translations of the early Stoics, Epictitus, Seneca etc. You hear certain cultural biases that are no longer accepted and it can distract you from the valuable elements that remain relevant now.
For my birthday, I'd really like it if my beloved fedi could spread word far and wide of Kitsune Tails. It's a platformer with a heartwarming story featuring queer main characters and personal discoveries in classic SMB3 style. You can find trailer, screenshots, and wishlist links here: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
It's coming out this year and the team and I have been working hard on it for several years now. Most of the team is queer in some form so by boosting you'd not only be making me happy on my birthday, but supporting a bunch of queer creators making queer art as well
This is an industrial designed exercise bike from Lithuania that can store 2KWh of electricity generated by your own exercise.
The electricity can then be used for loads of stuff - it has a bunch of DC outputs, like USB-C (up to 60W) and USB-A, and AC outputs (can output up to 2KW - enough for an oven!)
It can also be fed from a solar panel, or the mains.
It’s about 3K EUR, so not much more than a high end Peloton , but obvs serving a very different market…
@scherzog this is funny to hear considering that monomorphization, which plagues certain kinds of rust code, is already a problem for c++ that is extensively used in windows
@taylorlorenz The article is pretty careful to note that these people are not pro-Israel but rather are opportunists who are there to push a separate agenda entirely. Repeatedly calling them "pro-Israel" in the post seems a bit gratuitous. When Gavin McInnes dressed up as a protester at Columbia he was doing the same thing--acting as an agent of chaos trying to find an opportunity for mayhem, not pro- or anti- Palestinian or Israeli.
@mrtnsnp I’m more bothered as to what it means for the French. Imagine you’re not a digitally skilled person and go to a ticket office - and even there tell you “no, sorry!”
For a bit of Sunday happiness & silliness: tell me about some a book you've recently excitedly told someone about and why!
I've talked about Erin Meyer's "Culture Map" because it opened my eye to a lot of intercultural interactions I have in both, my everyday and my work life.
And about Marcin Wicha's "Things I Didn't Throw Out" because it made me laugh and cry at the same time + made me fall in love with Daunt books because I would not have found out about the book without them.
One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.
People keep forgetting that "by developers, for developers" was a big part of Stackoverflow's initial pitch. It was founded by people who most of the community implicitly trusted. They said all the right things. But as soon as they took VC-funding it was just a matter of time.
I think we know better now than to trust something like a VC-funded community site, but remember that SO was founded in 2008 at the tail-end of the Web 2.0 funding bubble
@baldur Also, if your VC pitch deck contains a section about you as a person being in control of a large and important community project, then is it a community project?
I love retro games, especially SNES/NES/N64 and GB games.
Modern games, except for some titles, do not fascinate me at all anymore.
This lead to being able to run machines that are in the "older" realm. Not having a dedicated graphics card can be a blessing for sure. Energy costs drastically go down and one can run quiet systems.
Besides, playing retro games is not taxing at all to the system - any system will do fine.
I miss the great stories older games told... nostalgia hits again.
Ja, tut mir echt leid, aber wir können uns keine Kindergrundsicherung leisten, wir müssen schließlich noch die Steuern für eines der größten Events der UMSATZSTÄRKSTEN SPORTART DER WELT erlassen. Ach und stellt bitte keine Fragen, ok ciao
@Anikke@Nietzsxhe Alleine für Christian Lindner gehört die FDP auf die Liste der kriminellen Vereinigungen gesetzt und verboten. Dann noch eher die Hells Angels ins Finanzministerium, die Banditos ins Verkehrsministerium und 'Mongols MC' ins Justizministerium. Mehr Schaden als Lindner, Wissing und Marco Buschmann richten die auch nicht an. #FDPschadetunsallen #FDPrausausderRegierung #FDPunterFünfProzent
Aww. #RIP Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Attack of the Crab Monsters” and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98.