Jurassic Park is American, so consequently Americans own the rights to any dinosaurs that appeared in it. Oil is from biological matter including dinosaurs, therefore Americans own that too. So really all oil is American and they were just taking back what belonged to them. Honestly China should be held accountable for stealing from the United States.
I did the USians mental gymnastics for them, they owe me.
I was so confused by their post for a minute until I realized they were using the term negatively. I thought they were celebrating the artist at first.
I remember at the start, there were a bunch of his photo-ops going around of him in fatigues near "the front lines". Which I believe are all photo-ops that predated the war to begin with. People were losing their shit over having "a leader who walks the walk from the front lines".
Is that still something people believe happened or did it just get quietly swept under the rug for the next thing?
The NATO forces will be warmed by the power of love, and triumph over the evil of Russia!
I hear they are ready to use the Carebear Stare if Putin doesn't surrender.
That's been their MO for years now, they are so used to invading countries with no more organized resistance than some guerilla fighters (who usually end up beating them back anyway), they can't help but underestimate The Bad Guys as being technologically inferior to them. The idea of fighting someone that has most of, if not all of, the same capabilities as you is absolutely foreign to them.
Even after over a year of evidence being provided to the contrary, they simply cannot believe it.
What possesses you to destroy one of the world's most significant cultural relics to...make a commute easier. The fact it is irrepairable is even worse.
Which is hilarious because the capitalists always argue that innovations requires capitalism. They particularly like to point at smartphones, yet cell phones themselves were created in the USSR. Space race? USSR by almost every meaningful metric. The obvious ones people know about, but the USSR are STILL the only country to ever land on Venus.
A few others include:
Medical innovations: The world's first artifical heart, the world's first lung transplant, the world's first liver transplant, cadaveric blood transfusions. All USSR.
Pressure suits and underwater welding? USSR.
Electronic Cigarettes (some people argue the benefits but this is the only thing that helped me quit smoking). China.
Synthetic bovine insulin? China.
Meningitis B Vaccine? Cuba.
Freaking lung cancer vaccine (still in testing admittedly). Cuba.
Capitalists shut down innovation unless they can profit from it. I would argue most of our greatest achievements have been thanks to socialism.
The lines from politicians (of both sides of the american political party) about how happy they are they get to kill russians without any American lives lost is the most telling thing, they don't give a shit about anyone in Ukraine. Lives lost don't mean a single damn to them.
Any Ukranian who sees that shit should realise that the west doesn't care about them for a second. They are in for a rude awakening if they think the average person will see a single american dollar to provide water, food or blankets. Incidentally, all things Evil China has provided to them already.
My favourite pasttime is just looking at the other bylines these authors have to see if they are just as shitty as I think they are. (Spoiler: Yes, they always are).
This man brought us such bangers as:
"How Minimum Wage and Rent Control Laws Fail the ‘Bronowski Test'"
"The Biggest Thing That Separates Authoritarians From Supporters of Freedom"
"35 of Ayn Rand’s Most Insightful Quotes on Rights, Individualism, and Government"
"The Myth That the Rich Don’t Pay Their “Fair Share” of Taxes"
I feel like it's that last one. If they don't make an anti-China gesture, people might think they are evil authoritarian supporter.
Remember, diplomacy is now only talking to people who agree with you 100% on everything. Otherwise you are expected to walk out of any meetings they have been invited to. My nephew would be a better diplomat than most of these assholes.
Good. I enjoy food/cooking/eating content, I love to cook and I am totally down for someone to cook/eat a reasonable meal and provide feedback on it on a stream.
I do not want to see people eating 600 chicken wings in ten minutes or something though. It's not nutritious, you can't even possibly enjoy the taste at that point anymore and it just encourages really unhealthy habits.
Definitely not; we don't eat it that often even in Japan. While yes we have fast food variants of sushi that are readily available; it's overall more of a special dinner/occasion type food. I probably eat sushi once every couple months.
The only thing I could see being included in a lunch is something like inari-zushi, my office serves that as a side dish lunch a lot (which would get around the food safety concerns). We have chiraishi zushi at the office specifically on Girl's Day, because it is a holiday thing.
An elementary school might have something similar on holidays, but generally the school menus are planned by a nutritionist on staff that does a pretty good job. It gets tricky for kids with special diets, which are often not well accomodated, and there is a weird obsession with milk despite the prevalance of lactose intoelrance.
EDIT: We have a massive food waste problem too, so we are no better in that regard, but at least our school lunches are pretty good.
Stay as safe as you can, is there any possibility you could get out? For the obviously material safety reasons, but also some of the stories about how the post-war economy is likely to go is extremely concerning.
I realise not everybody can just drop what they are doing and gtfo, so I hope you stay as safe as possible regardless.
We have had our arguments over territory, but by and large the average person here have never had a very anti-Russian point of view to begin with. It was a pretty popular language to study for business reasons, because we do so much trade with them. We also don't have much of a connection to Ukraine.
I think a lot of the Japanese opposition was more a "war is bad" point of view, as opposed to "russia is evil". Which results in people just wanting a resolution as soon as possible. On the other hand there's not a good understanding of the circumstances that caused the war, and the news doesn't really report on it. So there are still plenty of people who think Putin woke up one one day and decided to invade for no real reason. They just would still prefer the killing stops now.
Jurassic Park is American, so consequently Americans own the rights to any dinosaurs that appeared in it. Oil is from biological matter including dinosaurs, therefore Americans own that too. So really all oil is American and they were just taking back what belonged to them. Honestly China should be held accountable for stealing from the United States.
I did the USians mental gymnastics for them, they owe me.