I don't think Foster is portrayed as heroic.

Sure, he picks fights with people/things many viewers would like to be fought, from street gangs to Nazis, from corporate bullshit to inflating prices. But he's also shown to be unstable and dangerous even when he doesn't want to be.

His very reason for being in the traffic jam that makes him start off on his rampage is that he can't face the fact that neither his company nor his family want to deal with him.

The more the movie goes on the more it drives home the fact that Foster is not someone to look up to. He's always been unstable and entitled and now he's finally snapped.

The cop is shown as more heroic but is really just used as a vehicle for suicide by cop. A suicide that is clearly Foster telling the easy way out of a life he can't handle anymore.

I take Falling Down as a deconstruction of the kind of power fantasy we get when things piss us off. Sure, we think it'd be great to just blow up what we don't like but the movie shows what kind of person we'd have to be to actually do it.

It's not quite "more every week"; the numbers seem to be roughly stable since April. Of course it's still a lot.

One question that occurs to me is whether they can actually sustain this. Missiles aren't that cheap or fast to produce so it's possible that they're throwing out more than they can sustain in an attempt to wear down Ukraine at the last moment.

I'm not an expert on the weapon systems involved so maybe I'm way off base.

I went to a university without entry exams or numerus clausus. They instead used the first two semesters to filter out the unskilled (plus the general requirements for attending university in Germany).

Of course if first semesters are counted they'd show up in this statistic even if those students would be almost guaranteed to be gone a year later.

I'm happy with slightly slower and non-free shipping if it buys me the knowledge that I get a genuine product. That's not a given with Amazon.

I think they finally stopped commingling items between different sellers but there still enough dodgy shit floating around that I'd rather go to the manufacturer or a dedicated retailer for anything expensive or commonly faked.

Especially for expensive stuff. Lenient return policy or not, I'd rather not wait for my new phone twice because the first time some fulfillment center worker "accidentally" put something else in the box. And yes, that has happened to me.

This is the same party that had their MPs launch more than 7000 "small inquiries" into defense topics such as NATO logistics routes. While simultaneously having an effectively permanent presence in Moscow.

They're not being very subtle.

A business is under no obligation to ensure that employees in underperforming departments get the star treatment. If agriculture-oriented rural towns generated as much money as grifting the stock market with AI does they'd be treated accordingly. As it is they're a cost center and will be neglected or cut entirely.

That's not how a country is usually run but for a business it's very much on par.

Now if we could please proceed to do this with the member parties... The aren't doing too hot on core democratic values either.

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My company uses a third-party deployment platform that gives you dialog with a 60 minute countdown and a button to start immediately. And I think the deployment dialog can't pop up if you're not on the computer. Because nobody likes nonsense like five minute countdowns that can start while the screen is locked.

In Stuttgart they would've cooled someone's eyeballs directly.

Has been since Dubya, Obama just tried to convince everyone it was a fluke.

German here. Same. How could you even tell it's the new year without everyone on your street setting off a dozen rockets plus various assorted low altitude fireworks each?