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nobody's saying either wrong is right. nobody's blaming the one dude.

as an indian, i've always cringed at movies like baazi, kaante, aatank hi aatank, hum tum, chachi 420, zinda, ek ruka hua faisla, satte pe satta, sholay, qayamat, ghulam, and a boatload of other shameless rip-offs and i was just marvelling at the irony of the situation.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

the hindi film industry is itself littered with corpses of stolen ideas from other film industries across the world for decades now.

seems karma's come home to roost if this story is true.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

well, he hasn't met mine yet. she's in fine fettle for her age.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

plus his name was said to have been pronounced "ee-v'rest" instead of "ever-rest" as the mountain is called today.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

yeah, but they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, so there was no mission to accomplish.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

personally, i wouldn't trust a third-party created app with my banking details. what's more, i've removed all banking apps from my phone.

i don't need to allow access to my finances on the device which is most likely to get pinched out of everything i own. plus google and apple don't need to know which banks have accounts of mine.

imo that additional inconvenience to conduct all banking transactions from a browser is worth the candle.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

why? wouldn't you be hungry hungry?

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

and what, i hear you say, does one do if there are three siblings?

numberphile has gotchu, fam.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

fun fact: famed italian soccer club ac milan actually began as a football and cricket team.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

well, if you sever a quarter of X, particularly the south-east one, you're left with y.

looks like another rebranding exercise is in the mix?

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