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    14 hours ago

    Worst one is when they replace an actually goated in house tool for some bloated SaaS nonsense because they didn’t want to spend the extra 10k on some engineer’s salary to maintain it but are willing to spend 50k for a completely new and untested replacement product.












  • It’s pretty indifferent because Hollywood has an excellent track record of screwing up literally every aspect of a foreign country, even with next door Canada and Mexico, so people would rather just see a good movie than a bad depiction.

    As for superheroes, I’ve always made the argument that most people actually don’t care all that much about the current genre outside of fictional entertainment because to them it’s purely fictional entertainment. Especially for 3rd world countries, they would find it dumb for some superhero to battle a supervillain in their hometown when there’s a shitty government/military/cartel/mob right down the street that’s done 999999x worse than whatever a fictional villain can threaten to do.

    One of the reasons the Batman trilogy was so well received internationally is because unlike the rest of the superhero genre, it revolved around Gotham’s decrepit justice system being reignited and actually leading to a systemic improvement in society, which is everyone’s pipe dream.







  • Not really a lie but I’m surprised how little they covered major international events, especially wars like WWI/WWII/Korea/Vietnam, etc.

    All of them were basically a 3 paragraph maximum excerpt before you went back to reading about some random local policy or societal change that didn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.

    Biggest lie though was teaching kids that secondary sources like news publishers were reliable sources of information lol. NYT and the Washington Post sucked a long time before the internet. WP especially was just straight Imperialist propaganda sometimes.

    Just because they’re not a primary source doesn’t mean they can’t be biased or reporting false information.