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Cake day: February 8th, 2024

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  • You’re misremembering.

    The movie showed scenes of the possibility to exploit mass dragnet surveillance “for security” by targeting cell phones.

    It was especially remarkable because it shows this in 2008, 5 years before we learned (from the Snowden revelations) that the NSA was doing this “for security”.

    But the film didn’t champion it, it made it clear that doing it was unethical, and it condemned it. It painted Batman as a villan because he chose to harm innocent civilians in his increasingly maddening obsession to get revenge against the Joker.

    The movie wasn’t subtle about this. When we learned how batman hacked into the phones of everyone at Gotham, Morgan Freedman’s charscter said “this is wrong” and then he resigned.

    Edit: the clip of this dialog is on YT https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Yb7Ps2gA0w




  • Its relevant. Having reduced buying power yet not risking loosing all of your buying power for the rest of your life is generally preferred.

    Most people don’t realize how terrible it is in the US. Lots of migrants to the US searching for better pay, but they don’t realize how miserable life in the US is because most of their paycheck gets eaten by rent, transportation to work, healthcare, etc. And as soon as they manage to save anything, it all gets wiped out by a single hospital visit.

    I don’t think Hollywood (how most people lean about the US) does a good job conveying how most people live in poverty in the US, how miserable they are, and how many of us kill ourselves because of the conditions.