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Are there any good collections of books that are available via torrent?

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  • Everything written by Greg Egan for the first decade or so of his writing career

    • Teacher who gave birth to 13-year-old student’s baby started molesting him when he was 11, court docs allege

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    • Teacher who gave birth to 13-year-old student’s baby started molesting him when he was 11, court docs allege

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  • Laura Caron

    • You read an article, written by somebody you never met, accusing a person you never met, citing evidence you never saw. Now you feel angry at the accused person. What does that make you?

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  • Sure

    • [controversial] nature be freaky like that

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  • If we could do emotional memory transfer then we wouldn't need movies anymore.

    Movies are an indirect way of evoking emotions.

    • Paying attention is actually ignoring because when you pay attention to one thing you ignore everything else.

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  • Ever tried to play a difficult video game while also baking a batch of cookies and discussing Christmas plans with your parents?

    You see how it works.

    • Baking requires total fearlessness

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  • Mmm

    • What big tropes are found in the movies of some cultures but pretty much absent in others?

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  • Godzilla (Japan). In one zap of the breath weapon takes out 100,000 people. No pause for reflection or comment on the meaning of it. Just immediately cut to next scene.

    We don't do that in USA

    • What big tropes are found in the movies of some cultures but pretty much absent in others?

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  • Immortal 2004. (A very kickass movie if you haven't) (French). Horus (The egyptian god) has this relationship with Nickopol (badass poet/politician). It's hilarious. Horus sees humans as at best children or pets or disposable tools. There's no aside or smirk or "yeah but..". No, they just go with it 100%. 100%! That's something you don't see too often.

    • Neuters of Lemmy : Do you enjoy romcoms?

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  • What I'm asking is, if you have none of those sexual urges coloring your consciousness, would you find romcoms boring?

    • Did social media made people unable to properly chat?

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  • It might set a certain mood. You feast upon the global conversational banquet, yet you still feel hungry.

    • Paying attention is actually ignoring because when you pay attention to one thing you ignore everything else.

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  • That's an excellent one :)

    • Did social media made people unable to properly chat?

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  • One thing I think about is the incredible poverty of text.

    When you look at a word you get a meaning. But that meaning, it comes mostly from your entire life's experience, your memory, what you've been taught. That's huge. And the word is very very small, comparatively.

    So when you're reading, 99% of the content is coming from you. So reading is basically you just talking to yourself. And social media is a million people talking to themselves.

    And that's pretty weird.

    • If you had to teach a subject in school, what would it be and why?

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  • I would teach arts and crafts to grade school kids. I'm really good at that stuff (I even have a degree). And I have a good course plan worked out.

    Everybody tells me I'd last about an hour tho. I am not good with stress. Grade school kids have like 3x normal energy.

    • After you blow your nose, do you look in the tissue?

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  • Every single time. I just like it.

    • What is the legitimate use-case for generative AI?

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  • making roguelike content. Mazes, monsters etc

    • You read an article, written by somebody you never met, accusing a person you never met, citing evidence you never saw. Now you feel angry at the accused person. What does that make you?

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  • It's one example of a common disease. So I figured it bore discussion. Now put it back in your pants and zip up.

    • I want to spend a half hour this evening reading an essay that contains ideas I have probably not considered before. What can you recommend?

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    • You read an article, written by somebody you never met, accusing a person you never met, citing evidence you never saw. Now you feel angry at the accused person. What does that make you?

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  • I said that the word of an authority that I respect would do it.

    And by "do it" I meant (in reply to TootSweet@lemmy.world) that it would justify anger at the accused.

    That's pretty far from truth. It's putting my trust in an authority.

    • You read an article, written by somebody you never met, accusing a person you never met, citing evidence you never saw. Now you feel angry at the accused person. What does that make you?

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  • But to address your point.

    To treat fiction and reality as equally real. And treat our responses to either as having equal substance. Seems deranged to me.