you tell time HH/mm to provide the larger context first, not mm/HH.

Except not everywhere does, at least in speech. Half past ten. Quarter to eight. Five past three.

Although in the US I suppose you do say ten thirty, and seven forty-five? So at least you are consistent!

I don’t have it bookmarked any more, but Slashdot is the grand-daddy of them all, and still going strong. Unlike Ars Technica, I can’t vouch for it’s comments being quite as informative or interesting (not for a few decades now)

In my initial short searches I did earlier, Antonio Gramsci comes up as addressing the issue of “cultural hegemony”, where art and entertainment tends to represent the dominant bourgeois culture, which makes a lot of sense. I’ve heard of Gramsci in passing, but haven’t read anything by him yet. I think it’s a good place to begin regarding a critical analysis.

Also worth reading is Camus’ short piece “Create Dangerously”, on the responsibility that artists have to challenge.

another is the hypertext transfer protocol… (?!)

I can’t believe no one has given this advice yet: https://piped.video/watch?v=vvmpc83nv4A

And meanwhile, in Ireland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheela_na_gig

Around the same time, in Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_inscriptions_in_Hagia_Sophia

In 1976, Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother died. A flight from Israel to Paris had been hijacked by some Palestinian and German terrorists, and flown to Uganda, where they demanded release of prisoners, threatening to kill the Israeli and Jewish passengers (the rest were released). Israel decided to launch a mission on foreign soil to rescue them, and I think Bibi’s older brother was the sole Israeli casualty.

What we are seeing today in Gaza is most likely, mostly, as a direct result of that death. Raw caveman emotion. (with a few decades of carefully layered public relations)

[now I’m going to go upvote all the heart-warming examples of human kindness in this thread]

In Biostatistics - only ever use pi in the variance of the logistic density. Using 3.14 gives substantially equivalent results to using arbitrarily large precision. But I use whatever my calculator or R give me.

Absolutely, imagemap. Extra kudos if you use a pre-v1.0 GIMP, pen and paper.

I’ve heard the socioeconomic differences thing many, many times, and have kids that wear uniform. But I’ve never understood that argument.

It conceals socioeconomic differences. Which in the case of economic differences, is probably not egalitarian, strictly speaking? Ditto for social “class” in the sense of whether the family is historically “monied” and has particular dress style. In the case of cultural or ethnic differences, I do not see how the egalitarian logic follows either, as freely expressing your identity is restrained.

In terms of bullying… in my experience bullies will always bully. They will just do it on your overcoat, or how old your uniform is, or your earrings, or your accent, or the colour of your hair. I don’t know, maybe the uniform helps a bit…

Or when you’re looking for the Chinese consulate.

Unfortunately, no it’s not catastrophic. I think we’ll run out of adjectives before this is over, so we need to ration them now.