I’ll add to the list The Spy (2019) with Sacha Baron Cohen about Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who infiltrated the Syrian government in the 1960s, and with a deep focus on the human cost for the spy itself.
This! We also discovered out teeny tiny local library has a movie section. Each time I feel like a kid in a video store from the 90’s!
You can even book a title on their webapp and pick it up when available, it really feels great.
Having offline and finite media consumption feels much more satisfying than the modern endless scrolling IMHO.
Totally agree on your P.S. This is the Inverted Pyramid[1] writing stle, commonly used in journalism, and it helps get the points clear even when the reader might just skim the content.
Guzman says he's a better chef for having cleaned pots and pans and worked his way up in the kitchen. “Cooking school doesn’t prepare you for a broken dishwasher,” he says.
In Spain and other LATAM countries we have the concept of "ni-ni" (ni estudia, ni trabaja = neither studies nor works). Although I'm pretty sure a lot of them don't spend all their time at home.
Yes, I didn't notice that this article was that old until I started thinking about the claim that Symbian OS was in over 100 "current" phones. I know that dumbphones/featurephones are making a bit of a comeback with people worried about smartphone addiction, but I don't think there's room for 100 Symbian phones these days.
Just found about it on X[1], and I'm quite impressed for how well it looks and work. A great improvement over Rectangle and other options I've tried at some point.
Because in terms of driving highways are safer (have less accidents) than urban and rural roads, and the most dangerous areas are intersections.
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