My lay-person perspective is Jobs pioneered enshittification. The iPod was not an mp3 player, you had to use proprietary format music, which needed to be loaded with iTunes, a piece of proprietary software that acted almost like a virus once installed on your machine.

Find a way out of the room… is the window a valid option?

Superman comes from a position of absurd privilege wherein he can do whatever he wants without risk to himself, and can put on a pair of glasses to become anonymous afterwards.

Everyone else has occasionally consider a compromise between what they think is right and what is pragmatic or necessary.

Also that straight men sit down to pee. Otherwise they have to hold a penis, and there’s nothing gayer than that.

That all depends on how many bird corpses per hour you’re earning.

I’ll write that down with a Biro.

[then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them

Hey now, to be fair, it says a husband can only strike their wife if they first tried the punishment of withholding their holy peen. All the disobedient wives are clearly crumbling at that point, so what’s the problem? /s

The knowledge is forbidden, for if crabs were to learn to read, they would verily rise up and overcome us all with their supreme carcinised forms.

Surely I wasn’t the only one who tried it immediately after reading the comic?

People seem surprised that Herbert did draw inspiration from real life events. Dune is losely based on Russian imperialism in the Muslim Caucasus region. Which is also a region rich in oil deposits. This isn’t Herbert seeing the future as much as history repeating.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-secret-history-of-dune is an interesting read.

[email protected] is the better option to link on lemmy, as it will keep people in their home instance.

The theory is that the people putting the money into it are the ones taking the risk. If you sign on as an employee you get paid no matter if the film is a flop that never makes its budget back or an unexpected success.

If the rates are low, she could have potentially negotiated a clause in her the contract for a cut of the profits or a bonus. Alec Guiness did that for Star Wars when no one anticipated how big a hit it would become and made millions. But the Art Director in the article is now looking at things in hindsight when it’s easy to say what she should/could/would have done.

It would seem that how much you hate an arbitrary group based on physical characteristics is more important.

No, but I did get a sudden urge to play Knights of the Old Republic.

This is the current head of Israel:

Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, born on 21 October 1949, Prime Minister of Israel at the time of the relevant conduct.

Arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024

Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendants

Starving children is not defending yourself.

“Weak, submissive, pathetic” like the traditional misogynistic view of women? The one that gets applied to men to suggest they are being feminine as an insult?

The government doesn’t determine the amount of the annual wage review. An independent panel of the Fair Work Commission does.

The more I hear about Nauru, the more it feels like a made-up place. Most of the wealth of the nation came from mining bird poo for phosphates.

You missed the point. The police have some discretion in how they prioritise their resources. They tend to place at the top of that list anyone who messes with their shit. What I was suggesting was that messing with the police cars potentially elevated this from “yep, we’ll totally look into this thing, pop it on that pile over there” to “alright kids, you want to FAFO with us?”