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.

not very uplifting innit

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).)

Thorium Reader is what I used, both on Windows and Linux

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

great thing that PM2.5’s been vanquished. don’t the visibility issues mostly come from inner-mongolian winds of the north, though?

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

literally 1984

yet night comes for you

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.

“early morning of the 3rd” and “before dawn of the 3rd” definitely would not become 00:00—8:00 of the 2nd, and that’s all that matters imo for the practical utility of delineating borders between days in the first place. i also like organizing things but i see absolutely no way to define “organized” for this lol

i’ve never seen someone who takes that as “before dawn”. night is after dusk, midnight’s before dawn

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