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Surprising how many people sleep with dogs and wonder how they got fleas.

I seem to remember a former vice president saying after 6 months of violent riots "they're not gonna stop [...] And they should not".

Hope they look into that. Nobody is above the law.

It's funny that these people claim to be against nationalism until rubber meets road and it's time to show it.

Suddenly they'll show you exactly which nations they love and hate.

It's our own damn fault for voting that little bitch Trudeau in for the past 10 years. The idiot went all mean girls on the president of the united states and now we're paying the price. We got exactly what we were paying for.

Wow, that's actually something incredibly relevant to today, because everyone is so focused on the here and now they don't realize their own dynasties will be wiped out.

Perhaps based on what everyone's saying, we could say Ramses has the best PR team, but perhaps wasn't the best Pharaoh overall.

As I recall, if you were going to pick a "best pharaoh", I think the one most ancient Egyptians would consider the answer to be Ramses II, who had a long an prosperous reign, as I recall he ruled until he died in his 80s. In the same way that most of the empires of Europe wanted to claim to be the descendants of the Roman empire for 1000 years after the end of the western Roman Empire, for centuries after his reign different pharaohs tried to claim to be a reincarnation of Ramses II. If you're the ruler your descendants measure yourself against, I can't help but think that's a good indicator of your success.

And like most former communists, it's based.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0ZgeGrbg-74

Ah, and it looks like they actually made two versions -- one for glorious nihon, and one for the gaijin.

Maybe we're looking at different things, because the flex tape I bought is like a sixteenth of an inch of pure rubber.

I've actually got some flex tape on my bathtub right now, I need to replace the bathtub this year, it's one of those fiber glass ones that leaked. It works really good.

Definitely one of the big ones I was thinking of.

All you have to remember the history of localization, in the US there were lots of times where a show that was clearly in Japan would suddenly be in america, and given that the three countries of China Korea and Japan don't always have the best relations, the idea of doing something Petty like setting a Korean story in Japan doesn't seem entirely outside of the realm of possibility.

"just the facts" is how I want my military run tbh.

Fancy words are for the diplomats, fancy Ideas for the artists and philosophers. How do we kill the enemy?

I wonder, when we look back, if we'll see a collapse in certain forms of crime?

Really good series, glad it didn't end up like Tower of God which is lame.

So there was a line that finally told me Solo Leveling's anime takes place in Korea.

I know it sounds stupid, but some people were swearing up and down it takes place in Japan (which makes no sense since jeju island is in korea and the original manhwa was in Korea), but this week there was a line "we will be participating with our close neighbor." "You mean Japan?" "Yes, they will be at risk as well if this continues"

There was probably something in the beginning that said it was definitely in Korea, but now I've got a line that shows Japan is elsewhere.

And the best part is that the output of AI is not copyrightable, so not only did they massively break copyright law to create it (and you know they did), they massively break copyright law in a different way when they use it (by producing things that can't be copyrighted)

I was going to flip out and go after you for saying canada was "boringly well run", but rhen I saw the time period you set and I agree with you totally.

Hard to imagine in 2007 the federal debt was only about 450B and we had seen years and years of not just balanced budgets but budget surpluses.

One piece of context a lot of people don't have for why Trudeau was able to get in the first time is that the liberals in the early 2000s we're just fine, they were the ones who balanced the budget (grounded with the base of cuts and tax increases under Mulroney) and people generally didn't have a huge problem. Even the thing that finally brought down that government was relatively quaint, unreasonable spending during the referendum to keep Quebec in canada. So with that piece of context, I'm sure a lot of people were thinking that they would be going back to the fairly boring mostly center sort of administration they saw back then. I have never voted for trudeau, but back in 2015 I would have for that exact reason. It never occurred to most people that the liberal party might be something completely different than it was just the next government over.

lol

"t-t-t-timmy and the jeets"

I made some other joke last time I saw this story, but really this is the only reaction worth posting.

What choice do you have? When your entire War machine depends on a country on the other side of the planet, if they say jump you say how high.