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@goodfoodgal No. Forewarned is forearmed. Prediction is hard, but it's not good to walk barefoot into long grass

A third is not enough. They should ALL be sacked.

@ChrisTCollins era coder distinguishing between (original) BASIC and ALGOL, which makes sense because you can simulate 'recursive symbols' in original BASIC, without 'recursion' (in the relevant sense).

@ChrisTCollins So we might be living in a slightly happier world if the gg textbook writers of the 1970s had used Emmon Bach's term 'recursive symbol' (from his 1964 and 1974 books). Chomsky's usages make no distinction between 'recursion' vs 'iteration', as might be understood by a 60s /1

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@wordsaladjones @romanhelmetguy @PrenticePieces make amends.

@wordsaladjones @romanhelmetguy @PrenticePieces who live at ease', and Aphrodite was one of the more enthusiastic ones at doing her job (and also ate her own dogfood, as in the Ares scene). So contemporary Left condemnatory attitudes don't apply that well. There seemed to be an acceptance that a) people screwed up b) could/3

Emily Wilson completely changed the meaning of a key word in the Odyssey to make it seem like Helen of Troy didn't blame herself for starting the Trojan War, when in fact the text makes it clear that she did. In 4.145-146, Helen calls herself κυνώπιδος (dog-faced). This is an insult meaning "shameless." It is commonly used to refer to unfaithful lovers. For example, it is used elsewhere in the Odyssey (8.319) to refer to Aphrodite after she cheats on Hephaestus with Ares. Fagles translates 4.145-146 to: "all you Achaeans fought at Troy, launching your headlong battles just for my sake, shameless whore that I was.” Lattimore translates 4.145-146 to: "for the sake of shameless me, the Achaians went beneath Troy, their hearts intent upon reckless warfare." Wilson completely changes the meaning of κυνώπιδος to "hounded" (she is trying to be cute by translating 'dog-faced' to a word that still relates to dogs, even though its actual meaning is completely unrelated). She then applies this word to the Achaeans, saying that they were hounded, not Helen. Her translation is in the image below. This is obviously an ideological change that she made because she personally believes Helen shouldn't be blamed for the Trojan War. She deliberated distorted the meaning of one of the foundational texts of Western literature to conform with her modern beliefs.

@goodfoodgal @JordanEVGuy They last on average about 20 years, and are made of innocuous stuff (unlike the heavy metals that burning coal produces), and people are working on what to do with them. Power transmission poles and cement being two possibilities that are being looked into.

@JordanEVGuy Why do they need to be recycled? Oh I get it - they’re already at the end of their useful life.

Wind turbines are recycled, it’s not 2014 anymore. One of the internet’s favourite anti-renewable myths is “you can’t recycle wind turbines.” That argument is years out of date, yet the loons still try and use it as some sort of “got ya” to make themselves feel better. Modern wind turbines are largely recyclable already. Steel, copper, aluminium and concrete from turbines are routinely recovered and reused. Even the blades, which used to be the difficult part, are now being recycled into cement, construction materials, playground equipment and industrial products. Companies are also developing fully recyclable blades, with newer designs already entering the market. Meanwhile, fossil fuels are burned once and gone forever. Oil spills, air pollution and billions of tonnes of CO2 don’t exactly get “recycled.” No energy source is impact free, but pretending wind turbines just get dumped in landfill forever simply isn’t true anymore. Technology moves on. The myths just haven’t caught up.

@a_pauper @kevinnbass @richardrohlin That's OK if you are actually puncturing contemporary bs, but the translation of 'eperse' as 'wrecked' rather than 'sacked' in Line 2 Bk 1 is clearly an ideologically driven distortion.

@kevinnbass @richardrohlin Translation: If you are operating from a left-worldview, it is completely normal for translations of historical texts to impose a feminist viewpoint to puncture patriarchal mystification. It is not ideological, because it is simply The Truth™️; only dissenters are ideological.

Emily Wilson: This is a feminist translation, meant to puncture patriarchal mystification. The Right: This is a mistranslation meant to ideologically defile The Odyssey. The Left: No, it's a completely normal translation. There's no ideology. Wow, right-wingers are weird.

@pet50320 @kevinnbass Yep, Circe was clearly his kind of girl. Converted men into physical swine with drugs, while Penelope turned them into moral swine with her attributes. Although, interestingly C resolved not to do that anymore after reconverting O's men to human form. Moral growth.

@kevinnbass If Penelope had been Emily Wilson, Odysseus would have stayed with Circe.

@surfingshreddie @ChristinaBehme4 @JonFraserTF @Newtrailss Legality is a bit over-rated, reputation and 'traditions' are also important, and in some contexts, more important. I call a subtle, not explicitly intended, microaggression.

@ChristinaBehme4 @JonFraserTF @Newtrailss @AveryAndrews Drugs are legal now. Didn't you get the memo? LOL

If only they would issue so many warnings about illegal drugs @JonFraserTF @Newtrailss @AveryAndrews @surfingshreddie

@zdeborova But, even granting this point, it's still reasonable to at least ascertain that the paper exists.

Hallucinated references are a real problem. But the main job of researchers is to make new discoveries and train the next generation to do the same. Pretending every citation in every paper must be read in detail by the authors is simply not how research operates — nor should it.

@JimDMiller @tdietterich @arxiv You don't have to be able to read a citation in order to find out whether it even exists

So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it's beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn't know or concerns technical material he doesn't understand but another author on the paper does?

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

@mearchiavelli @LeviCanuleio The motive is perhaps to present O is idly destructive, like an angry 7yo boy, rather than someone who has an actual goal.

@mearchiavelli @LeviCanuleio Translating polutropos is a very difficult problem under any circumstances, especially the constraints Wilson imposed on her translation. A clearer case of an ideological program is the use of `wrecked' a few lines down, where 'sacked' is fully accurate, and fits the meter. /1

Actually, I studied Ancient Greek in undergrad and I can authoritatively prove that her translation of “polytropos” is not only wrong but is in fact the kind of mistranslation you make when your objective is to destroy Western Culture.

@Fat_Electrician @Jringo1508 Marx might have been an excellent analyst for his time, but if it's science, it progresses. Likely not a good source of prescriptions, especially for a very different tech environment

“Have you even read Marx?” A. Yes. B. Even if I hadn’t, the idea that someone has to read thousands of pages of bullshit before they’re allowed to determine it’s bullshit is retarded. If I write a 3,000-page book explaining why slamming your dick in a car door cures cancer, nobody is obligated to read the whole thing to conclude I’m a fucking moron.

@goodfoodgal More ignorant than racist. Her mom Leda was from NW Greece

Why say this? It’s stupid and clearly racist.

@aliamjadrizvi @EndWokeness Odyssey chars were however mostly NE Mediterranean, so that would be good for most of the cast. But O did have a crewman who, from his description as being dark skinned with very curly the hair, could plausibly be Ethiopian.

@EndWokeness Dear MAGA, Unlike these people, The Little Mermaid isn’t a real person. Neither are Severus Snape, the Odyssey characters, or Jesus (a brown Palestinian refugee).

"Why does an actor's race matter?!" Ok… now imagine it was this:

@ChristinaBehme4 @Brad604 We took some root beer to a student's party once here in Oz and they all the thought it was horrible - like some kind of medicine

@Brad604 Rootbeer for me. When I moved from Germany [where fast food places sell real beer] to Canada I ordered a rootbeer at A&W to go with my burger. Never got over THAT shock... 🤣

Anything Cream Soda. Tf is wrong with you people who like it? 🤮

@WebbDan78442 @EthMajingenie @elonmusk I'd like to know a source for that. There isn't one in Homer afaik. Plausibly, most hearers would have thought of her as of 'middle eastern/mediterranean appearance', since that is what most of them and the people they knew looked like, and her mom was from NW Greece.

@EthMajingenie @elonmusk Except it literally states that she was white with blonde hair and blue eyes. So there’s that…

A glaringly obvious double-standard