acargitz
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6·1 month agoThe US history of not reckoning with slavery is highly problematic in countless respects.
Frankly, I wish they took a page from the Israelis of the 1960s and kidnapped him to bring him to trial in Tehran. Give him a fair trial and a lawyer. Then hang him.
It’s a private solution to a social problem, so by that definition antisocial. We need better and more humane schools for every child, not people retreating to private cocoons.
We need the ambition to completely rethink schooling, as part of deep social reform: https://jacobin.com/2020/06/red-vienna-children-childcare-public-health
2·5 months agoOO Impress
I like you ask in hypotheticals.
Resist now.
Yup. It should not be a thing.
Vodka 25 years ago.
One of the most interesting explanations I’ve seen is that Western Europe was politically fragmented just enough so that big enough entities were competing with each other for dominance. So there was no central authority strong enough to pacify it, and the individual states were powerful enough to mobilize resources, creating a competitive power race. It was in trying to beat each other that they reached out and colonized the rest of the world.
Edit: I’m thinking now how during the apex of pax Americana, space exploration really subsided for example. When the US and the USSR were competing it was on. Now that US hegemony is declining, it’s seems to be on again. Too strong of a political unification keeps the centrifugal forces in check.
The demonization of the Romans is silly.
Lost third spaces, hanging out with other kids and helicopter parenting/stranger danger.
I thought it started on October 7.
13·1 year agoLet me guess, nobody batted an eyelid when Netanyahu used the phrase to assert Jewish supremacist sovereignty “West of the Jordan”. Like you can say from the river to the sea as long as your extremist statement has the opposite of the proscribed polarity.
Yes, however scientific papers aren’t always linearly formatted PDFs (eg 2-columns), so pdftotext tends to be brittle.
If you only mean reading a file from a specific selection of text, I’ve never seen something that,
Okular actually does that, and with Pied I can use nice Piper voices, but the controls are very basic (start at the stop of the page, pause, stop).
ReadAloud sort of does but it requires sending the pdf to their website, which is obviously not ideal.
A screen reader reads what’s on the screen. What I’m describing is reading a document. ReadAloud does exactly that for Firefox, I am just asking for standalone applications.
As a native greek speaker, I find anything other than “octopuses” to be silly. In greek we don’t say (any more) octopodes, we say “chtapodia” (the “ch” is the canonical (ELOT) transliteration of the letter χ).