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In Cars 4 Lightning McQueen learns about Malaysian sweatshops where all his US merchandise gets made. In the closing montage we watch all the laborers Lightning befriended making toy versions of themselves to be shipped overseas, because Lightning learned his lesson about responsible Capitalism or something.
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# ? May 16, 2024 13:26 |
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Lotters stay out or get shoot
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 08:47 |
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Somebody pointed out that it should have said "loiters" and after a brief pause they started shooting at each other..
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 09:19 |
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Lotters stay out or get shoot You can tell they really have a morbid desire to shoot people
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 10:06 |
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 10:25 |
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 10:36 |
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Trig Discipline posted:The thing about most streets having no name is awesome when you use voice navigation on Google maps, because it just goes "turn left on and then right on". Like it just gives the gently caress up. Okay, serious question; how does Japanese post work then if there are no streetnames as reference points?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 11:37 |
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Luck
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 11:38 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Okay, serious question; how does Japanese post work then if there are no streetnames as reference points? Instead of street names each block has a name and every building in said block is numbered in either the construction order or clockwise/counterclockwise. Many apartment buildings also have names you can use for the address.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 11:56 |
That's... actually not a bad system
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 12:11 |
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Ride The Gravitron posted:What band is that Probably The Adicts
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 12:27 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Okay, serious question; how does Japanese post work then if there are no streetnames as reference points? Mokinokaro posted:Instead of street names each block has a name and every building in said block is numbered in either the construction order or clockwise/counterclockwise. Many apartment buildings also have names you can use for the address. Interesting! I've been here six months and I honestly have no idea what's going on with my own address other than "if you write this sequence of words and numbers on a package it gets to me eventually".
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 12:34 |
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Mokinokaro posted:Instead of street names each block has a name and every building in said block is numbered in either the construction order or clockwise/counterclockwise. Many apartment buildings also have names you can use for the address. Each block has a NUMBER - the last part of the name is the ward which covers more than just a "block" - and the construction order based numbering means that it can be totally counterintuitive. Japan Post has obviously got all sorts of databases and maps to know what they're doing but everyone else has directions (the name of the apartment building isn't much help other than to let people know which unit you live in, the 3rd number of the 3 after the ward already tells people what building you are.)
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 12:55 |
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:11 |
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:12 |
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What the gently caress is pancreas denial?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:19 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:What the gently caress is pancreas denial? The theory goes that the Pancreas does not actually exist and that the procedure that they put you through to remove it is actually an operation to remove a "Chakral Energy" point that has been poisoned through the food we eat, meticulously planned by a group of evil arch wizards hell bent on taking magic away from the masses.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:21 |
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These are all just false-flag things that only exist so that when you google them, you end up on a watch list, right?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:24 |
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:The theory goes that the Pancreas does not actually exist and that the procedure that they put you through to remove it is actually an operation to remove a "Chakral Energy" point that has been poisoned through the food we eat, meticulously planned by a group of evil arch wizards hell bent on taking magic away from the masses. still more rational than bronies
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:25 |
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Memento posted:These are all just false-flag things that only exist so that when you google them, you end up on a watch list, right? Some are legit some are just 4chan shitposts
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:26 |
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'God was raped' has showed up more than once now, is that something specific as well? 'America was never discovered' and 'Memphis rag sigil' definitely deserve explanation.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:27 |
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Tag yourselves. I'm "solar plexus clown gliders"
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:27 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Tag yourselves. I'm "solar plexus clown gliders" I'm "Sentient Water". Every time you bathe I laugh at your dong.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:32 |
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I'm pretty sure that "Mountains are giant trees" refers to the Hollow Earth conspiracy theory that the trees we see these days are lovely dumb trees and back in the day they had really big trees OMG like you have no idea and mountains like these are actually petrified tree stumps
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:35 |
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Evidence: The only mountain that looks like it could have been a big tree stump.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:40 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:Each block has a NUMBER - the last part of the name is the ward which covers more than just a "block" - and the construction order based numbering means that it can be totally counterintuitive. Given that so many houses in Japan are considered disposable and get rebuilt every time the property changes hands, doesn't that mean the numbers regularly change and keep counting up indefinitely? Like, if you went clockwise around a block 30 years ago the numbers might have gone 1-2-3-4 but now they go 11-7-12-9?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:44 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'm pretty sure that "Mountains are giant trees" refers to the Hollow Earth conspiracy theory that the trees we see these days are lovely dumb trees and back in the day they had really big trees OMG like you have no idea and mountains like these are actually petrified tree stumps I hope that's canon in the next Godzilla movie.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 13:58 |
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Not gonna lie, if Godzilla stood on that mountain and fought the aliens from Close Encounters, I'd watch it.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 14:06 |
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Is that one of the characters from Cars up there?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 14:18 |
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Phanatic posted:Given that so many houses in Japan are considered disposable and get rebuilt every time the property changes hands, doesn't that mean the numbers regularly change and keep counting up indefinitely? Like, if you went clockwise around a block 30 years ago the numbers might have gone 1-2-3-4 but now they go 11-7-12-9? I've been doing work with some less-developed countries and the businesses there have official addresses like: No 12 Next to the Walmart <townname> and I can't help but think of the confusion that would happen if that store closed down, moved or changed name
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 14:32 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Is that one of the characters from Cars up there?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 15:21 |
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spog posted:I've been doing work with some less-developed countries and the businesses there have official addresses like: this confuses the poo poo out of me. i work in shipping and theres a large population of ethiopian immigrants who send documents back to family in their country and don't provide an address, they just say to call the recipient and they will pick it up. when i ask for the address the customers say 'they don't have addresses'. that can't be the case, i cant comprehend it. modern society would cease to function if there were no addresses. what happens when there's an emergency and they call 911 or whatever? where do they tell them to send the ambulance? do they have the ambulance call them?
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 15:31 |
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im pooping! posted:this confuses the poo poo out of me. i work in shipping and theres a large population of ethiopian immigrants who send documents back to family in their country and don't provide an address, they just say to call the recipient and they will pick it up. when i ask for the address the customers say 'they don't have addresses'. Numerical addresses are a comparatively modern thing. Mail delivery has traditionally depended on carriers who knew their routes and knew who lived where. If you addressed a letter to "Mrs. Smith in the house across the street from the crooked Oak tree" it would get delivered. Deteriorata has a new favorite as of 15:44 on Aug 29, 2017 |
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Or like you could write WOOD JOHN MASS on the envelope and it would get delivered to John Underwood, Andover, Massachusetts (lol I bet)
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 15:41 |
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Nah it's get delivered to John Underwood, but the fat one not the skinny one. The one who has a lot of mass.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 15:42 |
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Phanatic posted:Given that so many houses in Japan are considered disposable and get rebuilt every time the property changes hands, doesn't that mean the numbers regularly change and keep counting up indefinitely? Like, if you went clockwise around a block 30 years ago the numbers might have gone 1-2-3-4 but now they go 11-7-12-9? I think it only refers to the original construction order, when they first develop the area. A house that gets rebuilt keeps the same address.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 15:59 |
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At first I thought it was a hosed up list of "This caused that" and when I got to "White genocide caused the moon landing" it was an extremely moment.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 16:38 |
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Data Graham posted:That's... actually not a bad system im pooping! posted:
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 16:40 |
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I like how "Androids" is listed twice. Like there's a conspiracy of androids, then there's another, deeper android conspiracy.
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# ? Aug 29, 2017 16:41 |
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MacheteZombie posted:My buddy works for a programming company that takes day trips to places all the time for company bonding. They went to one of those trampoline facilities that people can bounce off walls and poo poo. Within 15 minutes 5 people had rolled ankles, jacked up their knees, and in 2 cases torn acls. Haha programmers are frail
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