banned me from the store “for life”

Awesome! I hope you refused to honor it unless he put a poster on the front door with a picture of you and a ghostbusters-style “no” sign around it.

Hmmm… “A Passage to India” takes place during the Raj (which is when the Crown took over from the East India Company) but a lot of the attitudes and issues are the same

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087892/
• the novel on Gutenberg: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/61221

Similarly, “Conduct Unbecoming” takes place right after the Crown takeover. But hey, it’s free on youtube:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gzE8HkRrz0
• description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduct_Unbecoming_(1975_film)

Finally, you could look here:

• https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=east-india-company

I mean this respectfully. The character Everett True is known as someone who tells the truth even when it’s not popular.

It gets posted to !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee every couple of months.

All cognition has an emotional component, so you have to be more specific. Once you get more specific, then you’ll see that music and art communities are different.

OK, fair enough.

Hi, not comment-op, but… Here’s one of the first set of exit polls to look over: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/exit-polls

Though it’s a little too early for real analysis, since ballots are still being counted. Really the most interesting questions are things like: in tipping-point states (like PA, MI, WI, maybe GA or NC) how did the vote/turnout shift? That sort of analysis takes a bit longer, though, so we’re stuck with clickbait articles like the one posted above.

a hard communication problem

I think it’s a lot like tech support. End users don’t care about the details. They just want to hear: I see your problem, and here’s how quickly I’m going to fix it.

Most Latinos do not work in the fields. Many of us have been here for several generations. There are many types of Latinos. (Disclaimer: I voted, phonebanked, and canvassed for Kamala.)

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LaundromatLiaisons

Partying EVERY day gets kind of boring… You appreciate it more if you spend time just hanging out, like the guy in the meme.

BTW the movie Constantine is free on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2zDRzNN_xg

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David Brent - Lady Gypsy.

republicans have nobody to blame

They will always find someone to blame.

His fans are like cats.

Hey, no need to disparage cats…

I wasn’t defending Imperial Germany. I was saying anti-semitism was a problem in France too.

This was pre-WWI. Not sure how anti-semitism compared in Germany and France during this era, but there was plenty of anti-semitism in France as demonstrated by the riots during the Dreyfus Affair.