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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Not everyone lives in the northern hemisphere, or call autumn "fall", or, AFAICT, use the seasons over specific months as much as the US.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

the quotes don’t really help with any of that though. people can figure it out from context.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The southern hemisphere is just a bunch of penguins and seals. Who cares.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The Aussies would be mad if their internet wasnt dogshit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Ouch. That's a burn.

Better go to the hospital for a free fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Our national network yes, but we don't have the bullshit locked down devices (paired with a certain sim) you have in the land of the free, we can buy whatever we like and it magically works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We can do that too, its just a thing with the phone service providers. I can go and buy a brand new unlocked phone at best buy and not even have to think about locks. Also there are programs for cracking those devices.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it is fair to ascribe northern seasons to people who have held a job with the de facto requires you to be born on the northern hemisphere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Just to be pedantic:

You don’t have to be born in the US to be president, you just have to be born with US citizenship, but if one or both of your parents are citizens, you are too from birth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The only US presidents who weren't officially born in the US were all born in the 13 English colonies that would eventually make up the US. It is still debated if someone born outside the US to American parents is eligible for the president. Birther scandals go all the way back to Chester Arthur, who was first purported to be born in his father's homeland of Ireland, and then Lower Canada, where his parents first met. Those accusations never really took root and were disproven, but there has never been a Supreme Court ruling to determine what "natural born" citizen actually means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And Trump technically wasn’t “born.” He hatched from a goose egg like all goose-stepping fascist dipshits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yea but it was still a natural pipping

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Given the current supreme court, I'd wager it depends on the party affiliation of the candidate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

No way, it also depends on tax deductible donations to your local Supreme Court justice

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I figured there was a reason, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

All good!

If it helps, I don't live in the Northern Hempisphere, so I had to think a bit each time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You're talking about American presidential candidates?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Vacuum cleaner brands put out by " Hoover".