> is the 2-hour feature film simply an outdated format for the current generation?

Movies are getting longer, not shorter. I wish we could go back to the 2 hour feature.

We're not talking about random people pulled off the street and asked to watch Lawrence of Arabia. We're talking about film students. So I don't see how your post is relevant at all. It's like excusing poor literature students because your brother in law struggled with Moby Dick.

Maids are paid a VERY low wage in exchange for being able to take on an almost unlimited list of general tasks, from folding laundry to managing kids to mopping stairs. We are decades away from robots with that capability, and they are intended to replace people who are often not making even minimum wage? Please. Get real.

Diverting?

In Italian divertente is entertaining. Parent probably speaks a Romance language and got hit by a "false friend".

That's actually a valid (of old fashioned) usage in English too, it's just a bit weird to value in a voice assistant for your car.

Many of us play with friends and don't dictate every game in the rotation. My time with my friends is more important to me than operating system purity.

Well said. People like to conveniently ignore the realities and real reasons people do things when trying to push an ideology.

> it's been my experience that even well informed people from around the world do not understand a lot of American news

I do not care to understand American news. I don't give a fuck. I follow your politics in the same way I watch a circus, but I do not need to "understand" it.

I don't even want Android on my phone. I cannot imagine a universe where I want it on my computer.

I find it very hard to believe you can't boycott Amazon completely. They don't even exist in my country and it has never been a struggle to find anything you might get there.

But what if you want Amazon Basics brand batteries or counterfeit health products?

Amazon UK is the only reliable source of Pentel Energel 0.7 Green rollerball pens. For everything else, there's other places.

> They don't exist in my country ... it has never been a struggle to find anything.

Amazon absolutely crushed a lot of physical brick-and-mortar stores. Drove them out of business.

Yes, please tell me about how it's my personal responsibility that a corporation that has millions of employees took over so much.

Was it the laws I passed to make them more profitable? Did I just start burning down the neighboring bookstores?

Absolutely not. In fact, if I were never even born, Amazon would be just as big and powerful today.

Wait, maybe it was all the time they bought out a small company and I told them they could!

Data migrations, new staff permissions and policies, merging AWS or other cloud accounts and their complex IAM policies, enrolling devices into new corporate networks, Okta setup, corporate firewalls. There are hundreds of reasons that moving to a new corporate ownership can cause technical problems.

which of these do you think is most likely? I thought they were already using usa-based cloud infrastructure

All of these will be happening as well as hundreds of other moving pieces (domain name transfers, DNS changes, adjusting compute resources to maximise existing contracts with providers, migrating metrics systems impacting alerts and infra scaling etc etc etc). It's impossible to say from the outside which of these are causing issues.

> I thought they were already using usa-based cloud infrastructure

Unless they were already using the same provider on the same account with the same IAM policies as their new owner (they were not, obviously) this is irrelevant.