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

what does that mean

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

literally 1984

Okay, so the software’s technical debt just stays there, forever piling up bugs

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2024-2025/Budget_Details

It’s doing the same thing it did 10 years ago

Have you been following Wikipedia’s development of its own software, and the massively increased amounts of transparency and dialogue with editors (the people who actually create Wikipedia’s content) under the outgoing CEO?

(I agree, but for what it’s worth, the 3.4M number which is actually 3.5M does include all WMF web hosting, not just Wikipedia.)

laddies and gents we’re going back to afghanistan

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.

Apparently I was wrong: Most heart attacks are caused by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronary_artery_disease . The article says that Bernie Sanders doesn’t have heart disease nor familial history of it, though. Hope you live long!

A heart attack is not an ailment. It’s like getting bruised: certain people in certain situations are more likely to get it, but it’s not a disease or condition and just randomly happens. everybody gets heart attacks

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.

shooting from the hip

they’s gone wide 🚨🚨

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