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Iirc it’s all a dream. Her jitterbug dream died instantly and shes imagined the whole thing. She wakes up and the last thing she dreams is club silencio. She never gets into any web of mystery. She’s not talented and her life is just boring and shit.

A 10/10 film.

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Yep, half of it is how she wishes her life to be, the other half is how it actually is, grim.

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Probably on Dopebox

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TikTok but it will be banned in America from Sunday. Unless it’s sold to a US buyer.

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Im surprised that south african gob shite hasn’t snapped it up.

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Good - it’s appalling shite like the rest of it

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Aye, deleted the lot t’other day.

I was listening to the radio and Zadie Smith mentioned she didn’t want to get her running order for the day from Elon Musk et al.

Made total sense. The world feels better already.

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Agreed. If they just thought it was shite they’d work on trying to explain that to people, but completely shutting down a method of communication just doesn’t seem right.

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It’s not that its intrinsically spyware its that it’s spyware they can’t use unlike the others

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Yeah. Sets a whole new precedent.

Makes me wonder in the future whether there will be digital archaeology following people’s whole lives online. Im sure its happening now anyway but will only get more detailed.

Ja. The tech that we know about (and that is free) is crazy, imagine what’s actually going on. The boffins will be miles ahead.

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Some very good points made here at the covid enquiry. Skip to 1 hour.44

Beyond the obvious injustices this stuff has really caused a big distrust and has driven people to the “alt right” in huge numbers i think

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I’m pretty much at a point now with work where I can 100% delete Instagram and pretty sure I can delete Facebook now and just keep messenger (have Pokémon go friends on there I need for trades). Don’t have anything else - have previously needed it for Facebook Ads

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Cathode Cinema currently broadcasting a free 33-hour Lynch marathon:

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Are people really surprised that Trump is doing this stunt with tik tok? The man campaigned super hard for it to get banned for ages. It gets banned. Tik tok post that they’re working with Trump to get it unbanned. Trump posts about working to get it unbanned. Less than 24 hours later it’s unbanned without him even doing a thing.

Fucking grifter.

I’m still 100% convinced his ear stunt last year was staged

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It’s just the sort of thing he would do, but in this case the bullet just nicked his ear from a distance.
Even the most superb marksman would find it hard to achieve that on a moving target without either killing him or missing altogether.
And you’d have to interview and audition so many potential shooters to get someone both capable of achieving that and willing to be discovered and killed by the police.

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Take one disfranchised teenager that you’ve not heard dick about since, give him an unscoped rifle not suited for ranged targets, tell him not to aim for the massive orange arsehole, let him get up on a roof near to a secret service controlled area with nobody trying to stop him, ignore members of the public telling you for 10 minutes he was up there with a gun, nick his ear when he’s on the ground like they used to in wrestling, tell everyone he was shot in a place with no lasting damage, leave his massive noggin on display long enough to get the perfect photograph you can plaster all over the news, kill the kid, if anyone from the public gets killed, use them for sympathy then ignore them forever, ask him to wear a fanny pad on his ear for a week then refuse to show anyone any scars.

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