It was possibly on Reddit, but you can imagine the rhetoric. I actually do think it was on Lemmy. I believe I said that the Oompa-Loompas being literal African Pygmies was a bit much, and could remember feeling that way even as a young child. I think even Mr Dahl himself might have come to the same conclusion in later life.
You can grade it, but rewriting it to fit a limited word and character list would be handy.
Absolutely.
I think it's a bad thing, and those are the words I would use. Or something along those lines.
Easily done, genuinely. Nearly the same name.
That was the sanitisation of Roald Dahl's books, which already happened and was likely celebrated on Lemmy.
Yes, as everybody else has said, if you could make this produce graded readers you'd be onto a winner, but it would need to be limited to words from a frequency list. If they could get this to work for Chinese I'd be very happy, it would be amazing to be able to dial up the language complexity so you constantly maintained n+1 comprehensible input. The application they're hinting at here is a bit silly though.
I studied plant signalling/phytohormones during my MSc, it's genuinely fascinating but it doesn't imply consciousness. Cows have a central nervous system. Beyond that, it's magical thinking. You are making an unfalsifiable claim, and that's fine, but please acknowledge that you are adopting a faith-based position here. I could claim the sentience of crystals and be similarly obstinate when challenged.
Plants do have incredibly impressive defence mechanisms, but that doesn't mean onions are crying when you cut them. There's no central nervous system, you are anthropomorphising. That is very common whenever this topic comes up, but it really is magical thinking, and the garden is already magical enough without imagining fairies at the bottom.
Did 10km with 20kg yesterday.
Terrible time, and my hip flexors are smashed to bits today.
So how do I get better?
Should probably mention this was the first time I've ever tried rucking!