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Cake day: October 5th, 2023

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  • They’ve been playing the long game here…encroaching on your Drive storage for years

    • Gmails didn’t used to count towards storage
    • Photos didn’t used to count towards storage (unless stored in “Original” quality)

    I’m wagering “Location Data” will be along soon. Then “number of passwords stored”.

    Next move will be “number of connected devices”, even though that doesn’t impact how much they have to store.

    Finally they will get round to billing you on your number of individual body hairs (shaving in breach of T&Cs).



  • I saw this movie at the cinema in 1979 when it was released. I was 14, therefore 4 years too young to see it (UK, "X Certificate), but a member of friend group with a gruff voice went to the ticket office).

    Large cinema, packed out, lots of excited mumbling until the film started.

    After the face-hugger jump shot, total and absolute silence. And the at the chest-burster scene… absolute chaos. Screams. Real screams, not happy roller coaster screams. A few people leaving, unable to take it.

    And it got me. It hit me hard. I had deliberately avoided any description of the movie so had no expectations, and then this happened, ,right there in front of me. The gore, the realistic acting, the pain of John Hurt…oh my…

    That set the scene for the rest of the movie and you knew they weren’t fucking about.

    It traumatized me for weeks. Superb movie.

    Edited on request.