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SuperJetShoes 83 points 3 years ago

I'm sorry, I'm stupid and not up-to-date with this.

Taken at face value, Constitutional Recognition for the indigenous population sounds correct.

So what was wrong with it?

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SuperJetShoes 54 points 3 years ago path: 0 4908639 4908911, hotness: undefined, score: 54, children: 6
SuperJetShoes 41 points 3 years ago

I saw this movie at the cinema in 1979 when it was released. I was 14, therefore 4 years too young to see it (UK, "X Certificate), but a member of friend group with a gruff voice went to the ticket office).

Large cinema, packed out, lots of excited mumbling until the film started.

After the face-hugger jump shot, total and absolute silence. And the at the chest-burster scene... absolute chaos. Screams. Real screams, not happy roller coaster screams. A few people leaving, unable to take it.

And it got me. It hit me hard. I had deliberately avoided any description of the movie so had no expectations, and then this happened, ,right there in front of me. The gore, the realistic acting, the pain of John Hurt...oh my...

That set the scene for the rest of the movie and you knew they weren't fucking about.

It traumatized me for weeks. Superb movie.

Edited on request.

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SuperJetShoes 40 points 3 years ago

They've been playing the long game here...encroaching on your Drive storage for years

  • Gmails didn't used to count towards storage
  • Photos didn't used to count towards storage (unless stored in "Original" quality)

I'm wagering "Location Data" will be along soon. Then "number of passwords stored".

Next move will be "number of connected devices", even though that doesn't impact how much they have to store.

Finally they will get round to billing you on your number of individual body hairs (shaving in breach of T&Cs).

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SuperJetShoes 37 points 3 years ago

Android User here. Never owned any Apple device.

But they're fucking good quality. Anyone can see that. So what's the problem?

I like Android 'cos I like dicking about with it. Some people don't want to dick about with their phones, they want to do other stuff that could be more interesting.

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SuperJetShoes 30 points 3 years ago

Does no-one check the damn IDs, ffs? It's a simple matter of typing some numbers into a computer.

I don't know about the U.S. but in the UK where I'm from, "illegally hiring a non-UK citizen" would be a criminal offence for the hiring company. How are they going to tax them?

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SuperJetShoes 30 points 3 years ago

UK here. Can they do the maths for us too please?. Just a few billion would let us employ a few thousand more doctors.. That'd be awesome..Thx.

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SuperJetShoes 27 points 3 years ago

I'm in my late fifties, and my best friend who regularly takes me hiking (he's ex-Coldstream Guards) is a Brexiteer and I'm a Remainer.

We meet maybe once every couple of months, and it's always the first thing he wants to talk about - he's firmly in the "this is not the Brexit I voted for" camp.

I don't want to bad mouth him because he's my dearest of friends but give it a rest mate. I want talk about who's playing at our local dive bar next week, I'm not bothered about Brexit any more.

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SuperJetShoes 23 points 3 years ago

Yep, good. Look at the damage he did. He'll have sufficient funds to have food and shelter. Anything beyond that he does not deserve.

How much divisiveness did he cause?
How many screaming arguments?
How many families did he break up?
How many bar room fights?
How much pain for grieving parents?

Fuck him, he's a cunt.

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SuperJetShoes 20 points 3 years ago

Here's a handy way to tell if something's true or not:

Is it true?

  • Did Vladimir Putin say it's true?
    No: Possibly true, acquire more data
    Yes: 100% categorically not true
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SuperJetShoes 17 points 3 years ago

Thank you. But I'm still not sure I get it. Could you maybe give an example of what kind of lie or fear mongering would make people want to say:

"No, I don't want the constitution to recognise that there were an indigenous people here before us."

That seems like an unarguable fact, isn't it?

I'm sorry, I don't mean to put you on the spot but since you were kind enough to take the time to give an overview, it makes me hungry for more detail!

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SuperJetShoes 15 points 3 years ago

Brit here. I have a couple of questions:

  1. If they aren't firearms, then what are they sold as? Replicas?
  2. If they aren't sold as weapons, does that mean someone could import one into my own country?

(I have no intention of doing this, in case this triggers some GCHQ bot and my home ends up like Waco but without all the tiddies)

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SuperJetShoes 14 points 3 years ago

What and why?

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SuperJetShoes 14 points 3 years ago

"Room for a couple more in there?"
"Yeah but make it snappy"

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SuperJetShoes 12 points 3 years ago

I mean, you couldn't be more right. This is aid-point zero.

This conflict couldn't be more zany if it tried. Russia will be asking the moon for aid next. At least India have got something up there which Russia could steal, melt down and make into an Arquebus or something.

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SuperJetShoes 12 points 3 years ago

I hate that this is even a thing.

  • Godzilla is a metaphor (either intended or simply ingrained in the Japanese psyche) for Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • King Kong is a "Beauty and the Beast" love story

They are from different eras and are important films in their own way.

But we end up getting this shite because monsters must fight monsters, apparently.

It's all a load of fucking shit and devalues the importance of each movies. It should never have been made.

Anyway, I haven't seen the movie but Godzilla would win. Atomic breath. Come on guys, the monkey's dead meat that you can't touch for a hundred thousand years.

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SuperJetShoes 12 points 3 years ago

58 Gen X Brit here. Even I know the correct response. It was a popular tune.

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SuperJetShoes 12 points 3 years ago

It'll be interesting to watch someone establish a bank in a space station.

Inevitable, probably.

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SuperJetShoes 9 points 3 years ago

I'm a Brit. In 2016, my best friend (who's not a betting man) walked into a betting shop and placed a £50 accumulator on Clinton winning the US election and the UK voting to Remain in the EU.

Dead certs, right?

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SuperJetShoes 9 points 3 years ago

He's going down for a long time, and personally I think he's an over-confident, misguided fool.

But I don't think he's a crook, in the sense that he originally set out to be dishonest from day one.

I think his well-intentioned, cocky plans turned to shit when he found himself playing a game of cryptopoly with other people's real money and landed on the "Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass 'Go'. Do not collect £200“ square.

I feel ever so slightly sorry for him. His entire life is now fucked.

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