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Wow! That actually sounds doable. If employers in the cities provide a benefit like that, I think that is a happy medium between convenience, not havi...
January 28, 2024 at 02:53
I think in the rural area mass transit is not practical. I think the OP meant the cities full of cars -- that's why the evil reference. But you are co...
January 26, 2024 at 02:45
This is only true on paper. In actuality, one wonders why at any given day of the week and at any given time, there are so many people "not at the wor...
January 25, 2024 at 05:54
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Avoid getting any virus -- you may think that it's just like a common cold: everybody gets it and it goes away. Viruses are different. They actually h...
January 23, 2024 at 04:23
I read something about when the Ford model T cars came out and a family went out for a ride at 25 miles per hours. They got into an accident and one o...
January 23, 2024 at 04:00
Some certainly did save up for it. But we're talking about the mass produced cars whose buyers didn't have the time to save up. 1919 was the first tim...
January 23, 2024 at 03:52
This quote is attributed to Publilius Syrus: The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
January 22, 2024 at 04:24
Despair is alive and well in philosophy. I found out about Lev Shestov. This is his take on despair: People who read much must always keep it in mind ...
January 22, 2024 at 04:19
It's an economic fight -- it would be hard to get rid of private vehicles in favor of public transport. But humans could get used to not having a gara...
January 21, 2024 at 23:02
There were societies where loans are unheard of, let alone mortgage loans. Guess what? They built their own homes and did not buy a vehicle and used t...
January 21, 2024 at 22:56
The production of automobiles was a result of capitalism. How to sell those cars if not enough people are wealthy enough to buy all the cars produced....
January 21, 2024 at 22:49
For sure it would have been a totally different world without the mass produced automobiles. Not rare. That isn't the word you want. I believe you mea...
January 21, 2024 at 22:28
Absolutely!
January 14, 2024 at 20:35
Understood. :up: Good luck with the party.
January 14, 2024 at 20:00
It is already implicit in the authorship and submission of an entry. It doesn't have to be explicit in the rules.
January 14, 2024 at 19:57
You've just supported my point. The children weren't harmed in the making of a grade. They are naturally not going to limit their lives to scores and ...
January 14, 2024 at 19:55
No fresh basil leaves?
January 14, 2024 at 19:38
:grin: I was lazy to elaborate. I'm sorry. Judging from what I experienced, there are things they say that give away how they feel about certain issue...
January 14, 2024 at 19:33
You are :100: on point. We can never know for sure if the entries have been enhanced by using an AI. To me that would be cheating. That is why scoring...
January 14, 2024 at 19:06
To a certain point, yes. I was actually speaking of people I actually do meet in person and spend time with. The philosophy forum is probably very lim...
January 14, 2024 at 19:03
Good idea! Please implement that the next time -- remove the polls in the story posting. One thing you might want to address is the uneven number of v...
January 14, 2024 at 18:59
Fictional biography. Not sure if it was written by an AI. I gave it a 2. Score to date is 45.
January 14, 2024 at 18:43
:up:
January 14, 2024 at 03:00
It was a promising write -- but the point of the story (the fifth stage) landed flat because now it became a debatable point between the author and th...
January 14, 2024 at 02:57
The focal point of the story is the haunted mansion, which was conveyed, rather unfortunately, in ambient deafening sounds of a long ago past. I think...
January 13, 2024 at 23:49
This is how I understand the story: The narrator committed a crime or murder grave enough to be sentenced to death. Then they burned down her family's...
January 13, 2024 at 23:27
Cheers! :up:
January 12, 2024 at 03:35
This piece made me chuckle in several parts. The Wings poem, this below, ( I laughed at this) and catfish incantation -- repeated like a rosary prayer...
January 12, 2024 at 03:30
It couldn't hold my attention after the first two paragraphs. After awhile, I couldn't care less about the narrator or anybody else in the story. One ...
January 12, 2024 at 02:53
Okay, I'm sorry. I realized that you might not have understood what is to be "effortless". It means not exerting much to accomplish something which ot...
January 11, 2024 at 06:32
Did you read my last comment before this? I am trying to explain that when something is effortlessly done, while not easy to do, it's because someone ...
January 11, 2024 at 06:07
"Effortlessly written" -- the author is a natural born writer.
January 11, 2024 at 05:37
Effortlessly written, and clever. I can relate to the college age uncle telling the little narrator about the wax hand whose owner lives in the attic....
January 11, 2024 at 04:50
I respect your disagreement with my comment.
January 10, 2024 at 05:24
No. You're misreading what I meant. He needs to write for a more mature audience. Abandon this bubble gum genre.
January 10, 2024 at 05:14
A good storytelling. A twist in a crime drama. The hero is the villain, but I cannot call Lawrence a villain, unfortunately. In this story, repressed ...
January 10, 2024 at 05:12
It reads like a teenage paperback. It is lighthearted, but that's where it remains. I couldn't write something like this because it is not my type of ...
January 10, 2024 at 04:13
Are you really just going to literal-ass this? Obviously, the outward appearance is "obvious". When I said closely, I meant you would need to ignore t...
January 10, 2024 at 03:55
Again another story that has a lot of potential to be crappy or captivating. It's actually good, but it leaves the reader wondering if Danny should ha...
January 09, 2024 at 04:15
Sorry, it reads like it. Score to date.
January 09, 2024 at 03:36
STD: 36 This, to me, is a musing, not a short story. This could have been my type of fiction. However, not only is the use of low cap off-putting, but...
January 09, 2024 at 03:34
Duly noted, Sir. Thank you.
January 08, 2024 at 07:22
Yes, I am currently under the influence of your petty interference.
January 08, 2024 at 07:19
and where's @"Bella fekete"? Did you make her disappear, too?
January 08, 2024 at 07:15
Look who's talking. The voting is there and the scores are there. I just made it a compilation. If I make the rules for myself, and I'm not interferin...
January 08, 2024 at 07:13
Keep in mind also that I am doing speed reading on the stories. Nitpicking is an art, but there's a limit.
January 08, 2024 at 07:10
I am doing it already. Are you and Benkie twins?
January 08, 2024 at 07:05
And I don't appreciate the OCD reference. I am germophobic, true. But also have a strong sense of justice.
January 08, 2024 at 07:05
Well, you need to be patient, or actually looking for my posts. And I don't appreciate the "it doesn't make sense". When you open the thread for the p...
January 08, 2024 at 07:02
:smile:
January 08, 2024 at 06:55