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Yeah, but someone still has to have presumably got it at some point in the industrial process...

It's not like we didn't try pointing that out, however j_s does seem to be pretty much ignoring that.

The funny thing is, apparently even in the US it's illegal in some states.

How the hell did they get the saliva from the rabid dog without that being a massive infection control risk?

I mean, letting it anywhere near a person no matter how dilute is mad, but you do wonder how they got it in the first place.

I mean, having a time dedicated to highlight it is important? It doesn't mean you can't talk about it outside of then, and it's ridiculous that people would say that as though awareness/appreciation for any other thing that has a day or a month doesn't get done outside of then.

So basically, what you are saying is that because prisoners may or may not have other rights, they shouldn't be allowed their right to life in case they manage to exercise their other rights.

That seems somewhat messed up.

You've still ignored the fact that one could argue it's not moral to execute Hitler.

And yet, the fact that the person is 16 (and was 15 when the crime occured in a crime with older youths), has no bearing on this whatsoever.

Seems legit

As I mentioned, one of my issues with Discovery is that they just ignore the augment virus. It’s not set that long before TOS, but it’s sufficiently far out from ENT that it should have some mention of it, at least. Given the experimenting with WTF was going on with Ash (still confused about wh...

heuristically_alone wrote:Imdb says april 2018, but I've never used imdb before to predict when a show starts so not sure how accurate it is.

FYI, they ended up getting released in March, with no new eps (according to imdb

) until May.

Also, they may have executed people after WW2, however I don't think the same would happen today, even with Hitler reincarnate. The death penalty isn't very common in most countries these days (even though it is legal in more than it is practised). The US is pretty much the only 'developed' country ...

I'm really confused where this attitude has come from? Like, they might not do as well in a petri dish against non-resistant bugs but people still die from antibiotic resistant organisms.

If someone jaywalks in front of a moving car and is hit, the blame shouldn't necessarily be on the driver (although there could be a thousand different hypothetical situations we could discuss) because otherwise, people would just be walking on roads anywhere they please and cars wouldn't be able t...

Yeah! I found it just after posting and she was all 'I never thought to put boarding school in the search'. Thanks though!

My friend is trying to find a book she read as a teenager. About a girl who thinks her mother is a pir as te and bases her life on real female pirates when she goes to boarding school? She finds out her mother is actually an actress. Apparently there's a Shakespeare sonnet quoted in it.

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When T'Challa first walks into Shuri's lab, you see at least 3 other women (nice touch) in the background, working on things. Most of the movie takes place in her private office/lab whathaveyou, but there are other people there.

Oh me yarm it's the classic 'the African's caught the slaves so therefore it's all their fault' which completely ignores how internal conflicts were created just to drive the capture of slaves.

I think we're hitting bingo soon.

Dude, chattel slavery on this scale was not that common. The forced movement and dehumanisation of over 1 million people in the name of slavery was not really that common. And again, roughly 20% of slaves going through the Middle Passage died. That's not counting those who died during capture and du...

I'd also like to point out that Africa also contained ancient empires that British imperialism helped destroy.

Just keep digging. Are you really going with intercepting shipments of gold as being more important than the entirety of the Trade Triangle that lasted for over 200 years? And, to be honest, the slave trade is definitely at least up there with your tea (I mean, fueling a continent's worth of infight...

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Yeah, casually saying that the worst of British atrocities had nothing to do with Africa is extremely problematic. Especially in the context of a movie that emphasises just how damaging this was. And also, clearly the point was that you weren't taught that part of your history. natraj never said tha...

I have literally spent the last 4-5 months getting static shocks at random times.

The fact that I'm jumpy and yelp every single time doesn't help matters.

I mean, everywhere that speaks English now is an ex-British colony if they aren't still a territory. It's nice how you basically seemed to ignore the entirety of the slave trade in your history apparently when it was the time that Britain was really getting to grips with consolidating its hold on th...

Like, I'm pretty sure a lot of the anti-slave trade stuff in the 1800s was less "Slavery is bad" and more "Fuck the rebellious assholes in the colonies" Moving on Actually a lot of the campaigning was ' slavery is bad ' and talking about the horrors they were having to go throug...

Yes, there are bits that are relevant to British history, but the worst excesses of British colonial history center around India, not Africa. Um, are you for serious right now? They were bad in different ways, but you can't say it was worse than Africa/Caribbean. Of course, I have come across peopl...

I thought it was pretty obvious with all the talk about Asgard being an empire built by war, but you don't have to take my word for it... (btw I just found these links by googling Thor Ragnarok imperialism because I'm not always great at expressing these things). https://www.tor.com/2017/11/07/thor-...

I can't wait until she meets Tony Stark and every time he tries to be snarky she just stupes at him and then shows him up.

I feel like with Thor Ragnarok and Black Panther, Marvel has had a run at imperialism recently. This can only be a good thing.

Trump endorses guns for teachers.

That's going to end well...

Cot and caught aren't homophones.

I don't know, I guess they are rhyming? It's just slightly shorter but the same sound. Different emphasis maybe even though they are single syllables? Gone is a longer word for me.

They are very similar, but I spend more time on the o in gone than I do in on. It's the same sound but elongated.

I really liked Shuri and T'Challa's chemistry. They were great together.

Huh. I rhyme it with neither of those things.

I guess if I had to rhyme it with something, it would be on.

Meh, it's not like Black people aren't subject to racism and lack of media representation in the UK.

We all remember Bongo bongo land from the man who is now our current foreign secretary.

Yeah, he gives a good smirk when the guy in the audience asks what Wakanda can teach the world. I'm glad they gave him something to do in the final battle but kept him away from most of the action. Also, I was really glad they had Shuri actually in the thick of it for a while as well, rather th...

Can we not discuss spoilers outside of spoiler tags please?

Yeah, the UK always seems to get Marvel movies before the US for some reason. Not that I'm complaining.... We watched it in Imax 3d. Not as great for the fight scenes but great for the scenery. Edit: Also, at the end liked the relevant twist on the African proverb In crisis the wise build bridges an...

It's pretty incredible. The design is absolutely amazing. The women are all strong, well developed characters, as well as background characters as well (all too often do you end up with people making an effort in the foreground and missing out the background). Not afraid of social commentary. I was ...

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