Translation is expensive, it needs to not only to translate the story but the author’s style and pun. A niche book won’t be translated, especially in smaller languages (you have a bigger market when you translate in Spanish/French/German than when you translate in Luxemburgish or Nepalese). With that regard, english-language writer have the advantage of using a language that many can read, giving publishing company a glimpse of the translation potential.

With the power of “LLM” and translation app like deepl, it may work better in the future. However, at the moment, deepl is far from giving a professional grade results, especially when you have ambiguous word or a “specific but uncommon context”. It work to share a blog-post/news article, but won’t be sufficient to get fun to read book or an usable technical manual (However, corporate legal department may have a different opinion, it will be an interesting trial the day an accident occur due to an ambiguity in an automated translation)

This is why free university and social sciences are important too. It’s great to have electric car and supra conducting magnet, but we also need people to think about classism, history, sexism and all the rest

Horror RPG taught me about how important it is to take the time to play normality, let the player connect with their character, have fun and light roleplay moment, until that moment when horror steps in.

Player dealing with monsters and having blood up to their knee ends up being epic high fantasy but not horror.

On a more norme activity the movie the descent is a great exemple the first half slowly drift from stressful to frightening, then the second half is girl fighting Gollum in the mud, and turn from frightening to comical

There is topic where I can totally understand why someone would remove them if they fear someone knows their username, and there is also tons of people semi-trolling with more or less real stories. But it’s part of the life of a semi anonymous platform

I am sorry for you OP that you have to go through this. I hope that you’re followed by a mental health professional which can help you. 5 month without leaving the house is entering in the hikikomori territory. I wish I could give you relevant advices, but I assume all the simple advise simply won’t work (Just like you can’t just tell someone with a broken leg to keep running)

If you get better and can go out again, what do you wish to do ? Is there a sport/hobby you want to try ? Is it available in your city ? is there a language you want to learn ?

Bass in music. If the bass play right, you don’t hear it, but if they miss or play wrong there is immediately something missing

Tabletop ?

Alice is missing is a must play if you’re into Narrative RPG, but currently playing a Coriolis campaign, the popular space RPG by free league

Don’t forget that the reason it takes years to understand legal jargon is that each word has a very specific meaning, often jurisdiction related. And that law students spend years understanding this meaning and their limit.

Getting a llm to translate it, may miss the jurisdiction dependencies, and over simplify some parts, let alone the issue with AI Hallucinations

Even in the west that one doesn’t stand. We have systemic unemployment and tons of hard working family owned business lost everything when Amazon took their market share

Considering the Arab empire, the Ottoman empire, the Japanese Empire to name a few a European can name, I would believe that Empire, slavery and colonies are a common problem with humans and not something specific amon European

Did the US ever have an advantage on energy? I thought that they never massively invested in nuclear nor renewable and that the electric grid(s) is(are) a mess with lack of interconnection and frequent blackout (relative to other first world nations)

What are the practicality regarding sport, especially during transition? There is a big trans athlete discussion, but every sport hall I went had ladies/gentlemen changing room with communal showers. People would definitely see the extra/missing bits. Moreover, I see why other people would be uncomfortable with a person suddenly going from one gender space to another.

Not sure whether Germany or Belgium will start the war first, but it sounds like a great way to waste both perfectly good apple juice and perfectly good beer

In the 80’s/90’s there was a huge satanic panic and RPG player were part of it. At the time the hobby was mysterious, many players are neurodivergent, and seen as socially awkward or edgy and as soon as a RPG player committed suicide, it was because of D&D. Not the other way around (depressed kid plays RPG to be with similar people, but still ends up dying from the depression).

To be fair, at the time the hobby also played on this image with games like In nomine Satanis or simply Vampire and it’s only recently that the community add a huge focus on emotional safety and inclusions.

Some instances turned off downvotes. While on the other hands some accounts are mass down voting. For reason I don’t get, upvotes are public but downvotes are private. IMO downvoters name should be available too

I understand most of you don’t go to Church so you don’t really have a proper framework for right and wrong

That one is too big to not be a troll.

This is a cheating one, may be 10% of the physicist have a rough idea on the amount of evidence making it a fact hard to challenge, and max be 100 persons have a deep knowledge of it.

Mbin has nicer default UI, better mastodon integration but struggle with embedded images. The latter point is pretty great with Lemmy, the first one can be mitigated by front ends. However, Mbin is definitely a valid choice

Both side ? Mine open either Up or right

Work less as a society, so finally switch to the 32h weeks and setup the Universal basic income, it would allow to share the work (because someone needs to pick-up the thrash) and leverage on the productivity gains to benefit to everyone.

Provide training, and support life-long education, you should keep your unemployment rights while attending university as an adult for example, but also offer more short training including some level update for people whose skill got rusty in a previous job.

Promote non merchant activities. A volunteer who coaches kids sport or plays amateur theatre in nursing home and hospital does more good to society than a marketing corporate executive, why are the latter seen as more important ?