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The film, in the words of its creators, strives to convey “in the most direct manner possible” the sheer slowness of physical freight that undergirds our ostensibly lightning fast, digital reality. It’s the inhuman watch time that makes Logistics truly sing. This is no trite documentary about oceanic commerce, no scold’s warning about the consumer’s responsibility for ethical shipping. It’s an attempt to encounter the thing itself.
I Watched an 857-Hour Movie to Encounter Capitalism’s Extremes
readpassage.com
My feeling is that all fiction is both false in the overall factual sense, and also true in terms of being a genuine expression of something that’s intrinsic to the author, and will thus hopefully resonate with the reader. That’s the sort of accuracy to aim for: the larger truth of being the best expression you can create for the particular tale you’re telling. Authenticity in fiction has little to do with veracity, and nor should writers feel shackled to facts.
Any Similarity
Matt Gemmell
Apple defines those metrics separately. For the purgeable space given in the Get Info dialog and Disk Utility, it writes that “purgeable space” is “space that macOS can free up when needed by removing files from your computer (you can’t manually remove the files that are designated purgeable, but macOS removes them as space is required)”.
What Is Purgeable Disk Space?
eclecticlight.co
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