tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org

@kevinrothrock
Trying to steal thunder from Biden meeting Bibi? Or maybe Bashar is the more respectable one these days?

@TarkabarkaHolgy
I assume you mean the casual link goes Fatima -> DnD?

Certainly possible depending on how you decide how diluted a story can be before it stops counting as influential.

Maybe a fun PhD cross-domaim project? Not done any literature work myself so I'm not very confident in the implied estimate of the amount of work needed.

@j_bertolotti
Sure, the appropriate number probably varies by subject, and I suspect also by author, which likely muddies the discussion even further.

But that's not an observation that means the number of pages to read is useless in principle, simply that in practice it might not be any good.

That does however bring up the question of what the number is supposed to be good for anyway? The answer, assumed from the context you gave, is that it helps lecturers plan their course, which is not an insignificant good.

However, what of you saw it as a way for _students_ to plan their work? It is certainly common enough that a student takes several courses at the same time, and thus need some way of estimating how much work is needed for each course ahead of time. Pages per day is a very concrete work unit, and likely to be more accurately estimated than some estimate of how much time in total they need to spend.

In any case, the discussion is probably better held in these types of practical terms rather than at some abstract level with absolutes. Going concrete does have the side effect of severely atomising the discussion, since everyone has their own course specific to them

@j_bertolotti
Minimum pages per day is important purely as a practical matter for anyone relying on textbooks for support: if students can't read books at all (the limiting case) the model with short lectures complemented by a book falls apart.

I suppose that these days a student might be able to get by just by searching for further lectures on a subject using the internet, but I'm not that hopeful: the lecture+book model is dominant across (theoretical) subjects and as far as I know also across space and back a few hundred years in time.

That said, I suspect there might be some unstated disagreements about what counts as "read" ...

@w7voa
Full judgment here: https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/186/186-20240719-adv-01-00-en.pdf

Among the findings is that Israel practices racial segregation within territories it controls. Formally written as "constitutes a breach of Article 3 of CERD" where CERD is their abbreviation of "International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination", a treaty Israel has signed.

@Mabande
Att en polis är ogrundat säker på att någon har begått ett brott är väl ganska stereotypt?
@thanius

@CiaraNi
"Because it's Summer in Denmark, the sea and sky are black and rain-soaked" so much personal pain in the image description 😭

@sidereal
I guess this is talking about background characters? Because the mother and the human maid don't look the same, the witches don't really count as "side characters" and then I think that's the full list of female supporting characters in the movie.

The female background staff in the inn do all look pretty similar, but so do most of the men if you discount the moustaches and hats. Maybe there's more to it, but to me this quote seems to mostly be about pragmatic prioritising of animator effort for crowd scenes.

@erikdelareguera
Märkligt, min förort ska den fackla sig igenom den 22:a vad jag förstår, så trodde de skulle köra någon utifrån och in princip, men den är alltså nästan klar med centrala Paris nu?

@erikdelareguera
Bara en annan professionell fotograf i bild? I Paris är att Följa olympiska elden uppenbarligen inte lika poppis som eld vid demonstrationer!