that infamous Ctrl+Alt+Del strip was drawn up for a reason

https://books.google.com/books?id=4Sg5sXyiBvkC&pg=PA438 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532992/

It is estimated that as many as 26% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage and up to 10% of clinically recognized pregnancies.

some people would like to buy them

I’m not sure what film of which you can’t claim specific lenses would color them contrary to their intentions.

I would compare the action scenes in Saving Private Ryan to the “action scenes” of Schindler’s List. It tells you how hard all of this is, how everybody’s confused, how nobody knows what they’re doing, how it’s all a hellhole. I would not describe Schindler’s List as “glorifying” the plight of the Holocaust victims. It tells you how horrid this all is, not that you should be part of it.

(FWIW, Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line are often put in the same category of “glorifying the people who fought in WWII”. But in my opinion, “glorify” here means “elicit sympathy for their effectively-forced situation”, and not “glorify”, which I would say is something like La Grande Vadrouille (1966).)

pretty much every war movie

the classics have got Saving Private Ryan, Nolan’s got Dunkirk, Best Cinematography’s got 1917, Ghibli’s got Grave of the Fireflies (released same day as Totoro even)…

for anti-war that’s not depressing, there’s also AFAIK the over-the-top Helldivers

for things that feel “clean” instead of bloody there’s the elegant video game Nier: Automata

to be precise: not exactly shut down, but made it really expensive

literally 1984

ah i have had that happen before lol. it does copy spaces but it doesn’t overwrite your main clipboard so i don’t have qualms about it. every app you’d expect to support middle-mouse drag except notepad/gedit/kwrite/etc supports it instead of pasting unless you use chromium without the relevant extension or remain static over a textbox.

interesting; how does one copy from an empty field by accidnet? /geniunely curious and oblivious

but it’s quite intuitive to realize what it does

It’s not just about digital privacy. It never talks about data privacy. It’s about consumer protection and social media’s nature being harmful. The only European law violations mentioned are anti-scamming + “𝕏 refuses to make its public data available to researchers”. It’s also explicitly in favor of KOSA, which lets the FTC ban anything it wants from children’s eyes online. It’s quite implied that the article supports banning social media for youth.

Is comparing social media to a dangerous drug over the top? Not according to the U.S. Surgeon General’s office, which in 2023 released an advisory titled “Social Media and Youth Mental Health” (download it now before RFK Jr. suppresses it!), which summarized extensive evidence of mental health damage to children and adolescents who consume excessive amounts of social media.

Okay, that comparison’s still wayyyy over-the-top.

most of my friends who grew up there never noticed the absence of the e until a spellcheck pointed it out, same might go for you too

it’s not just legal usage; in AmE it’s supposed to not have an e anywhere

interesting. a quote from the oxford style guide mentioned (for BrE, of course):

• judgement (moral, academic etc)
• judgment (legal decision only)

the guide’s own wording also says “… moral judgement”. so according to oxford legal decisions can be called “judgments” but everything else should be called “judgements”?

i thought it was just an AmE thing. apparently it’s also common in some british regions. outside of these regions (including the entire commonwealth) it’s “judgement” which is also what my phone keyboard gives me.

I know metric time is largely forgotten but at least have a basic understanding if you want to talk shit.

The “second” as we know it today is an SI, aka metric, unit. Modern time calculation is designed and revolved around it. The exact words “metric time” as SI knows it is for intervals, which is a domain completely different to the time of day you’re talking about. A metric system for time of day is either exactly what we have or nonexistent. There is no such things as imperial time; US customary units are only for length, area, volume, mass, and weight (and that’s all the metric activists are asking to replace). If you’re going to be pedantic about something at least be right about it. And here I expected to find interesting discussion over decimal time… (which, I’ll still note, is neither what you’ve sent which appears to be invented randomly in 2024, nor ever part of the metric system.)

So you see science and some can bottlers using liters and kilograms while the other things are imperial quarts and pounds. How the heck is that better? Now you’ve got to convert when you want to add some bottled water (lead pipes, anybody?) preparing your cookie bowl unless you’re up to buying two different sets of measuring cups, and mental physics and chemistry that involve any sort of calculation are impossible.

You also might want to learn about all the different units of length, area, volume, mass, and weight that the metric system thankfully completely replaced and thus harmonized. Read about why Columbus thought the Earth was that small—he thought the mile was as long as a mile. US customary is simply yet another local set of units that happen to be American with British names. The only reason the imperial countries haven’t made a change is they gained capital and Western influence without being ruled by France or the Soviet Union.

@kyonshi@dice.camp as long as it conforms with the subreddit rules

let’s use your example of firefighters. the obvious subjugation is the government, when looking at its budget, diverting funds away to pet policies and luxuries (not to mention Robert Moses–style redlining), which is how you have volunteer firefighters that cease all activities at night when you needed them to handle a 4AM electrical backyard fire where i grew up.

the less obvious subjugation is capitalism itself. when the firefighters walk home under this “socialism”, their problems of survival are not solved. they have to take their capital into the nearest grocer and be subject to the horrors of the market: the nearest walmart, the #1 shrink on communities today, replacing the mom-and-pop of memories and community gatherings with a well-oiled, prices machine that runs at a loss until it becomes the only shop (or only competing with similar price machines) in town, at which point it maximizes its profit margin and sells the same cheap items at a markup just enough to be purchasable under welfare assistance. firefighters, historically poorly compensated for their public service, are forced to limit themselves to walmart’s stale options and other working class horrors. this sticks you with the difficult choice of either increasing regulation—risking further government discrimination and costs that burden firefighter funding—or maintaining the status quo. you’ve got every industry risking safety, health, and quality to do things cheaper, and the people relying on regulation and inspection that can never get through every nook and cranny to defend the consumer instead of eliminating the perverted incentive that is capitalism. the final alternative to combining firefighter socialism with capitalism here is to distribute food and other essentials instead of salary, which uh i don’t think is a good idea if legends of government rations and their poor variety hold. maybe when the government is run by omniscient telepaths…

i agree with your last sentence, though. i support syndicalism, which needs to go further—into governance—than just membership. i’ll admit that you could call a syndicalist society capitalist which isn’t something i’ve thought of before

welfare capitalism is still capitalism as even firefighters are still subjugated by class and capital