100% this. No one is ever taught it as a rule in school. You’re never tested over it. But all native English speakers intuitively know it.

To the point of ‘how the Internet blacked out’ - a lot of what you think of as ‘phone’ today actually goes via IP over data, not analog voice. It would mean we all have to turn back on our land lines, which would take ages and a lot of business and logistics would be pretty rough for a while. Those few places with working phones would have lines of people waiting to use them until it was restored more widely.

I appreciate your generosity, and I want to share it. I’m open to the possibility.

I think it’s far more likely that just as he was on the forefront of the insane right wing unltra-conservative movement when he was on CNN, I think he’s looking a few steps down the road and knows that Trump’s time is coming to an end - either through term limits and/or death from old age and poor health. And possibly effectively sooner if the mid-terms go poorly. So that there’s about to be a massive power vacuum on the right. He’s distancing himself from what is about to be a collapse of the party. He knows it’ll take a couple of years to build up a viable alternative to Trump’s party, so he’s starting those wheels.

Rats from the sinking ship and all that.

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Maybe? I’m not sure, to be honest. I took this on approach a long time ago and didn’t get around to processing them for a while.

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It’s mostly rated TV-PG. The equivalent in TV you a ‘G’ trying is TV-G or TV-Y.

That’s objectively not true. Studios could choose to have a movie rated or not. Many are just “un-rated”.

Many were rated as G because post-Hayes Code but pre-MPAA ratings, most would have earned a G anyway

For a G-rated movie? Imagine watching that as a 5 year old.

But it’s not just that scene. In general, the movie is fairly dark, the story is fairly complicated, and it’s very slowly paced.

I’d still put it in the list of ‘mature’ even if I’m not arguing it should be rated R or anything. It is obviously rated G after all

Star Trek the Motion Picture pretty gnarly transporter death with screaming, very slow ‘think piece’ pace and subject matter

2001 A Space Odyssey Mind bending, bizarre, slow. Mature subject matter and homicidal computers

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) Acid trip of a movie with some bizarre things that have to have killed some kids

It is.

Not sure where you live, but I think basically every state in the USA has an extra tax on alcohol.

Look up “sin tax”

Apparently it’s a UK thing. Never heard of it.

(I’m from the USA. FWIW)

Star Wars?

What are your interests and skills? Like someone else said, who you know matters more than anything else, but depending on what your interests and skills are, you can go out of your way to connect with people in that space.

And get used to finding ways of talking about yourself as a good fit for that kind of job. Brag on yourself.

Also, volunteering is a great way to build up a resume of skills in areas where you have no prior experience. There are jobs at food banks, homeless shelters, etc., but there are also often places like art museums and zoos that need volunteers. Basically, any non-profit you can think of probably runs largely on volunteers. Sometimes it’s in a warehouse or doing trash cleanup, but often they’re in office tasks like filing, misc office work, answering customer service emails, etc., that would be a great stepping stone to getting paid to do those things somewhere.

You’re actually kinda right. My understanding is the very first jpg image was an unlicensed scan of a playboy centerfold (cropped to exclude the nudity). It was copied and redistributed all over the place, before the internet even existed and it wasn’t licensed, but was copyrighted.

How should that work? It’s relevant to all the communities.

I’m honestly not sure about how that should work on Lemmy. Is that on me for posting something the day or goes live to relevant communities, or is it on the user for subbing to ‘redundant’ communities? There really should be a way to have a post have a common ID across communities so it shows up in all the communities but doesn’t spam if the user is following all of them. But even reposts don’t work like that, do they?

Yes. The American Falls as viewed from Canada, specifically.

I think boot (you could also say bonnet/hood, lift/elevator, etc), pants, and knob all do have the same meaning between US and UK, they just have additional slang meanings, but those slang meanings are based on their real meanings.

Chips and Biscuit are better examples of having truly different meaning IMO.

It’s disappointing how much they cut out of his personal journey and replaced it with long sections of goofy gags. Those were ok, but not at the expense of character development. It did still feel indulgent in how long some scenes went.

Overall a good movie though. Just not as awesome an adaptation as The Martian was