But it’s the other way around. The focus point of the artist is the erotic depiction. Can you really blame the artist for making this kind of art with otherwise amusing situations and humor?
That’s the thing with comic strips. They can be self-contained entertainment, but you lose some context nonetheless.
Yikes! I caught myself making the assumption that this was an “official” mod’s post in response to the existing discussion…
I hope you don’t mind a non-US-American comment on this one. I see this kind of statement/question quite often and I have a few things to say about it:
It’s not rare to find people who speak more than 3 languages around the world. However in most countries schools just cover the languages you are expected to know in your country/region and the most common lingua franca(e). You guys simply need less languages in your daily business. If anything, there should be a bigger emphasis on Spanish in your education, at least in some states.
The truly foreign languages we learn at school do not stick with most of us. On the one hand, we had to pick a language that we may have not been interested in. On the other hand, you need to spend much more time beyond and after school to get beyond the basics for real life communication - even if the common reference level says otherwise. Even English or the respective lingua franca for the given region is mostly learned from real day-to-day communication. The school lessons serve more or less as a frame.
Sure, learning a foreign language is naturally useful for traveling, job prospects and educational value. But when you rewire/extend your brain a language beyond some basics for traveling, you have a bigger understanding how different languages can be, how much gets lost in translation and how little you understand of the world.
I’m not sure, if Spanish in the USA can be as important as e.g. English in many European countries (as an outsider I get the impression that it should be even more important :D), but I think treating it that way would be a much bigger benefit for the entire USA. Oh and 4) most bilingual Europeans who are yapping about dumb Americans on the internet have no idea how ignorant they are themselves. Greetings from an immigrant child from Germany! <3
People who only ever think within their country and, related to that, don’t know any geography beyond their borders exist everywhere. Hell, that’s the majority of the world. You just don’t see their gaps in world knowledge in the English-speaking world, because, well, they don’t speak English. And in my opinion, as long as you don’t have any responsibility towards the world, it shouldn’t be reprehensible to be ignorant towards the world.
However, I can imagine that the average European has a higher minimum knowledge about world geography than the the average American. And I think the biggest reason for that is the worldwide reach of US mainstream media. In European countries you passively get more exposure to the rest of the world - especially US music, movies, etc., but not only that. E.g. football fans will at least hear about countries and cities all around the world. The US media on the other hand, although it is definitely widening, is still much more egocentric, again, especially because they are the mainstream.
The video series that is now labelled as a podcast
I don’t have any cloud backup. If I had to, I’d probably use a self-hosted solution.
/e/os on Fairphone 4
Kudos for the Fight Chat Control initiative! But I wonder, if providing a template ready to be sent to MEPs isn’t counterproductive?
This joinfediverse wiki page lists some fediverse replacements. Here is a bigger overview and the descriptions are usually enough to understand what kind of “traditional” social media it’s based on.
So the Grimreaper saga continues…
Some people probably think that Ladar Levison suspended Lavabit, because he accidentally pressed the self-destruction button.
Unfortuantely I only found this German heise news from Feb 2024. But both Signal and Threema won’t lower their security and privacy standards to be interoperable with WhatsApp.
Great question and I think it is.
Regarding tools, there is for example the ClamAV toolkit, which is easy to setup for the average Linux user, but probably not for the most vulnerable users that need these tools the most.
But in general the biggest problem might be how we treat the biggest vulnerability - the user. With more freedom and control in Linux, we also have more responsibility. And I’d argue that welcoming new users with bad practices is getting overly normalized, e.g. executing commands/scripts that you don’t understand or depending too much on something like the Arch-user repository.
“than expected” - what? Not sure what kind of magic DW is attempting here, but the gravity of this problem of an already over-aging population has been known for a long time, taught in schools and already factored into political decisions - just not successfully.
“With 26 years people averagly leave their parent’s home in Europe”
For legal protection you register your script (e.g. in the USA with the WGA or USCO) or you maintain evidence. Whether or not you should worry about it is debatable. And it might be different everywhere. But first time movie writers, especially in Hollywood, should rather worry about getting into the industry in the first place. And for that, no matter what some scammy gurus, who teach you the 3 act structure like some form of deep complex science, tell you, your screenplay matters very little.