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seems that anon would rather the killer HAD gone free due to accusing someone of racism, because that would support their theory that accusations of racism are a sort of win button that will let you get away with murder (while racism itself barely exists, of course--how could it when everyone's so keen to avoid being accused of it!)

the race war quadrant of twitter does believe that the greatest crime is accusing someone of racism and that racism is natural and good, the equivalent form of denialism to the idea that the holocaust didn't happen but it should have.

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This Mexican military college is watching its cadets. Fun fact: used as film set for Total Recall (1990)

Agustin Hérnandez: Heroico Colegio Militar, Mexico City, Mexico, 1975

Photo: Wikimapia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

wonder if Google will end up benefiting more from Claude than Gemini

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one thing (among others) that makes no sense in Total Recall is they go to so much effort to give Quaid a new life with fake memories instead of just quietly killing him, but then as soon as he shows even a hint of recovering his memories they're happy to start uziing an entire subway of people to try and take him down, like why not just kill him earlier or maybe leave his memories alone and keep him in a prison cell.

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huh the early scenes were filmed in Mexico City, I was wondering where all that brutalist architecture was.

one thing (among others) that makes no sense in Total Recall is they go to so much effort to give Quaid a new life with fake memories instead of just quietly killing him, but then as soon as he shows even a hint of recovering his memories they're happy to start uziing an entire subway of people to try and take him down, like why not just kill him earlier or maybe leave his memories alone and keep him in a prison cell.

The core part of the Henry Nowak murder (the part we must not forget and must seriously engage with) is that his killer and family instinctively thought to fabricate a racism narrative because they knew it would give them an immediate advantage and invert the roles at the scene. And it worked exactly as calculated.

It has struck a raw nerve because it makes visible in the most repulsive way imaginable what many have long sensed, that accusations of racism have become a powerful, paralysing force in modern Britain eventually leading to a dying boy being sidelined while the system instinctively prioritised accusations of racism.

the killer was arrested and convicted of murder and sentenced to life, this seems to be one case where the justice system did exactly what it's supposed to do, false accusations of racism didn't do anything, but actual racism is causing riots in the streets.

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can we all express thanks there are no animatronics in the driver’s seat of driverless cars

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hope you enjoyed the ride!!

Arnold Schwarzenegger can't act but he puts in the effort and that counts, gotta respect effort.

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it's interesting to watch this movie again thirty years later, I think Ebert nails it with:

The subtext of “Dave” resembles the messages of many of the Capra movies: If people in power only behaved sensibly and with good will, a lot of our problems would solve themselves. Of course, it’s not that simple. But watching “Dave,” there were moments when I found myself asking, why isn’t it?

the movie leans into the mystique of the Royal Presidency and the president as a larger than life figure who just needs to do the sensible thing and guarantee a job for every American -- the classic program in movies -- and of course it has a political corruption scandal that would be barely a footnote today.

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oh yeah and it's Kevin Kline but it totally could have been Robin Williams, he says Robin Williams lines with a Robin Williams intonation, honestly it could have been Robin Williams in In & Out too.

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I keep forgetting what I was actually going to say about this movie, the way it raises this Rental Family scenario where maybe someone performing the role of president can do a better job than the actual president, in much the same way that someone pretending to be a good parent or a good spouse might do a better job.

of course, anyone can choose to perform a role! in But I'm A Cheerleader they tell liberated young Natasha Lyonne that she is free to be herself, but she's still a kid, she doesn't know who she is yet! it takes time to try on different roles for size, and you want to choose roles that lead you to be a better person and have a better life.

I never actually watched this show before but it's excellent, much more entertaining than The Office I'd say (British or American).

I think it captures Real Life Cops better than most reality TV shows.

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this kind of riot police behaviour is exactly what we saw in the US in 2020, when even entirely peaceful protests against police brutality would be met with beatings and tear gas, riot cops tripping over each other in their eagerness to get a blow in at the back of a fleeing journalist or shoot a beanbag round at someone just standing in the street.

and it's similar to what we saw in Hong Kong in 2019, when protests against the extradition law quickly became protests against the heavy handed response to the first protests; while policing norms differ across the world there's definitely a commonality once the helmets and shields and batons come out.

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deadgenerations said: tbh: group violence feels awesome especially when you are pwning n00bs. I don’t think people are good at being restrained in those situations

yeah, and there have been enough leaks of cops psyching each other up about what they're going to do to protesters, much like messages that came out during investigations of them beating the crap out of someone who turned out to be an undercover cop.

this kind of riot police behaviour is exactly what we saw in the US in 2020, when even entirely peaceful protests against police brutality would be met with beatings and tear gas, riot cops tripping over each other in their eagerness to get a blow in at the back of a fleeing journalist or shoot a beanbag round at someone just standing in the street.

and it's similar to what we saw in Hong Kong in 2019, when protests against the extradition law quickly became protests against the heavy handed response to the first protests; while policing norms differ across the world there's definitely a commonality once the helmets and shields and batons come out.

I’m serious, do you have any modern examples of British cops doing a terrible job? It seems you support all their actions

you're a fucking moron who can't read, so there's not really any point in me writing this, but then I can be an idiot too I guess.

this is one that sticks in my mind, when London's top cops on the hunt for terrorists blew away a Brazilian guy catching the tube on his way to work in a classic bungled operation.

most British policing blunders are similar to the typical ineptitude displayed by police worldwide, but their long-running campaign against "ninja weapons" seems worthy of the derision it attracts; we have something similar here now trying to discourage teens from carrying "zombie knives".

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Wikipedia says Jay Leno didn't quit until 2014, but he's such a fixture of '90s movies that I assume his career ended with Clinton's.

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femmenietzsche said: Had to come back for one last job (murdering Conan)

this is like learning about a war in the Central Asia following the break up of the USSR that I wasn't paying attention to

Wikipedia says Jay Leno didn't quit until 2014, but he's such a fixture of '90s movies that I assume his career ended with Clinton's.

wonder how much of the SpaceX IPO is going to cover Cybertruck losses

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