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Looks like they make time after the meeting, because here's David Cameron confirming their weekly nature: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2710855/My-weekly-chats-Queen-help-clear-head-says-Cameron-s-not-sure-gets-it.html
The Queen, in turn, only swore an oath to defend the Church of England, if I recall correctly
I honestly think the British government works this way, because it does. This is what happens when your nation has no written constitution and a Bill of Rights that can easily be contradicted like any other law.
The UK is not a republic
She has shitloads of de jure power, however.
She also has massive amounts of "soft power" in the form of subtle gestures of approval or disapproval
Nah, she's literally above UK law
UK law comes from her
She is the source of legitimacy under the UK system
hence the difference between subjects and citizens
Hold on, lemme dig up Tim Pool's interview with a UK lawyer who testifies that the Magna Carta doesn't mean shit today
because it, like any other law, can be overwritten by newer legislative sessions
This isn't something he said, this is something a UK lawyer said
in response to Tim Pool asking about the Magna Carta
Once again, this was a video interview where this lawyer was speaking directly to the audience
not some second-hand retelling by Pool
Well it's about the best option I have because the UK legal system is so fucked up on a fundamental level that it takes a UK lawyer to figure out what takes precedence over what
Then you are lost
@Deleted User What she said seemed consistent with the way UK law works in all other respects
The Communications Act of 2003 clashes against the Human Rights Act of 1998
The Human Rights Act of 1998 clashes with the Malicious Communications Act of 1980
etc.
Hell, let me make this case, then, to prove how the Magna Carta is, as stated, no stronger than any other easily reversed British law:
Only three clauses from it remain on statute in England and Wales
Does this guy on the phone even know he's being recorded?
Six, I think?
Sounds right
I was gonna say 7 otherwise
We were divided when the UK turned British North America into Canada, instead of ceding it to the United States
Aye, Canada is full of loyalist monarchists, squatting on perfectly good American land
Canada is the largest monarchy left in the American hemisphere
Most of North and South America had the wits to fight the European monarchies and turn into presidential republics
Canada, on the other hand, hasn't quite caught up to The Enlightenment era of political thought
PARDON ME BUT ARE YOU AWARE OF WHAT YEAR IT IS?
I MEAN, COME ON, IT'S ~~2015~~ ~~2016~~ ~~2017~~ 2018!
Actually, the US marks years two different ways officially
Close, but no cigar
"IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of June, **in the year** of our Lord two thousand eighteen, and **of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-second.**"
And it'll be the 243rd year of the independence of the United States of America this July 4th
Yeah, that year format is basically a direct "Fuck you, UK"
Because it's Poland
The main thing I remember from world history is that every major European power would prove its steel by invading Poland
Newfies?
Ah, figured you meant Newfoundlanders
As in the folks who wanted to get annexed by the US in 1946
MANIFEST
DESTINY
canon
@King Canuck Isn't that basically the new Thundercats show?
What kind of European fuckery is the use of an apostrophe to separate digits?
@Deleted User We don't use the Imperial system, we use the US Customary system
Yeah, I looked it up, apparently Canada and South Africa use the apostrophe
I should have known the goddamn Canadians pull that shit
(on occasion)
(Otherwise they swap between period and comma)
Speaking of Smash
I'm amazed they kept Smash under wraps for so long
The last two games were announced years in advance
This one was announced only months out
The other noteworthy bit with Nintendo is they actually take gambles with new IPs, more often than other companies their size
Splatoon was perhaps the most high-profile case of one of those new IP gambles paying off
ARMS
Steel Diver
Splatoon
Pushmo
They have pretty regular new IPs
As was BotW
BotW was, most conservatively, a return to form with the first game or couple of games
WiiU was fun because its low sales figures caused Nintendo to ditch the blue ocean strategy for 3/4 of a generation
I do
Legal Super Mario Bros. ROM hacks: The Console
Gonna be interesting to see if the new Smash can somehow get a roster comparable to the WiiU/3DS one
Smash Bros. on those systems has so many third party characters
Though I must say, with Switch getting the NSane Trilogy, it'd be hysterical if Crash makes it in
(It's also split the base like hell)
Smash 4 already got Cloud
I have to assume the keys are gonna be randomized and scattered like hell
Come to think of it, imagine if there's only one code at a time on a 12-person map
For anyone who cares, 30 minutes until Nintendo starts streaming the opening rounds of their Splatoon 2 E3 tournament
This gif feels relevant again, especially with how Sony's conference started: https://media.giphy.com/media/11e2g9O2b7kdoc/giphy.gif
!agree
And so the cultural Americanization of the UK marches on
All according to plan
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