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Lostconfused posted:https://twitter.com/TUmarov/status/1607490764120166400 I found this from the thread (still don't understand how to read a twitter thread) https://twitter.com/TUmarov/status/1587052974219710466?s=20 WTF, why is EU sanctioning Russia on breast pumps. Do Russians use fancy European breast pumps to make guided missiles?
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Dec 27, 2022 02:55
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we must ban the export of singing birthday cards to Russia to prevent them from going to the moon
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Dec 27, 2022 03:09
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stephenthinkpad posted:I found this from the thread (still don't understand how to read a twitter thread) if we cant have russian mommy milkers noone can!!!
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Dec 27, 2022 03:18
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Echo Chamber posted:amused by this comment Happy Maomas to you and yours
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Dec 27, 2022 03:25
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stephenthinkpad posted:I found this from the thread (still don't understand how to read a twitter thread) I hate when people write it like that -- it should be 2022H1 so it can be sorted neatly
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Dec 27, 2022 03:26
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Spergin Morlock posted:we must ban the export of singing birthday cards to Russia to prevent them from going to the moon We must bridge the breast pump gap
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Dec 27, 2022 04:17
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https://twitter.com/againstjapanism/status/1607194151766089729 https://twitter.com/againstjapanism/status/1607197089582444546 https://twitter.com/againstjapanism/status/1607416309184139271 https://twitter.com/againstjapanism/status/1607566351761031170
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Dec 27, 2022 05:42
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Is Utada Hikaru still a thing I remember she was big like 30 years ago
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Dec 27, 2022 05:45
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Grapplejack posted:Genuinely like 98% of people would love this because the memory cartel has been keeping ram prices artificially high for years now please, chairman xi,
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Dec 27, 2022 05:50
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Throatwarbler posted:Is Utada Hikaru still a thing Her recent album sold pretty well, especially considering she's like 110 in idol years
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Dec 27, 2022 06:26
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Throatwarbler posted:Is Utada Hikaru still a thing hot take: her only tolerable song an u2 cover lmfao
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Dec 27, 2022 06:58
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Truga posted:it's going to be hilarious when china starts mass exporting their own chips and instantly drives everyone else out of business Grapplejack posted:Genuinely like 98% of people would love this because the memory cartel has been keeping ram prices artificially high for years now you all know that the west always goes full protectionism as soon as china beats them at their own game guess it will be nice for people in countries that aren't us vassals though
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Dec 27, 2022 07:02
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Truga posted:hot take: her only tolerable song an u2 cover lmfao Her new song for evangelion was ok imo.
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Dec 27, 2022 07:02
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Cerebral Bore posted:you all know that the west always goes full protectionism as soon as china beats them at their own game my parents had to smuggle a C64 from germany because buying a personal computer wasn't allowed in yugoslavia gonna be insanely funny when europeans are smuggling chinese SSDs from serbia lmao
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Dec 27, 2022 07:05
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Lostconfused posted:Her new song for evangelion was ok imo. yeah I really liked it as someone that hasn't listened to jpop in 20 years or whenever it was. also she's non-binary now but uses both she/her and they/them edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uhh62MUEic crepeface has issued a correction as of 09:07 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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Dec 27, 2022 07:22
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don't think anyone watches japanese shows.
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Dec 27, 2022 07:23
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Truga posted:my parents had to smuggle a C64 from germany because buying a personal computer wasn't allowed in yugoslavia thinking of that scene in kundun where the dala llama is stoked by a melieres film which is kind of the 2022 equivalent of losing your poo poo at a super nintendo
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Dec 27, 2022 07:30
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Truga posted:hot take: her only tolerable song an u2 cover lmfao My only knowledge of their catalogue is all variations of Simple & Clean that featured in Kingdom Hearts, and the chorus from Easy Breezy, so as far as I'm concerned Hikaru Utada only records bangers.
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Dec 27, 2022 07:44
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i'll be real, i haven't heard a hikaru song probably since 2001 lol, maybe she's good nowTankbuster posted:don't think anyone watches japanese shows. i saw the entire GTO and nodame live action shows with spanish subtitles on youtube like 10 years ago, they were great and i even learned a little bit of spanish 
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Dec 27, 2022 07:48
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bilibili has lots of interesting anime in japanese for free but i dont know if its worthwhile to try to watch it with my remedial knowledge of chinese especially when its the sounds thats the much bigger problem than the characters
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Dec 27, 2022 08:24
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its interesting how a lot of the anime on bilibili isnt available legally in english just because its obscure or the rights have lapsed and no one knows who owns them anymore why its almost as if the availability of media is largely due to the efforts of distributors and marketing and with the sheer quantity of content available in the world today and the ease of piracy its misleading and possibly disingenuous to act as if government censors in any country play a meaningful role in restricting content
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Dec 27, 2022 08:28
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shady russian websites are where the international working class gathers to watch the latest shonen animoos.
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Dec 27, 2022 08:32
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https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/yuans-new-dollar-russia-rides-redback-2022-11-28/quote:"What happened was that it became suddenly very risky and expensive to keep traditional currencies - dollar, euro, British pounds," said Andrei Akopian, managing director of Moscow-based investment firm Caderus Capital, citing the potential danger of a bank that keeps foreign currency deposits being sanctioned. what if we try another round of sanctions
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Dec 27, 2022 09:50
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So what you're saying is that one of the world's major energy producers now uses yuan as much as it does dollars whereas 10 months ago the yuan was negligble. I'm sure that's not important.
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Dec 27, 2022 14:15
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china thinks theyve won oh theyve won all right theyve won more than they bargained for
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Dec 27, 2022 15:14
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https://twitter.com/DanielDumbrill/status/1607696011207794688?s=20 Friggin huge
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Dec 27, 2022 15:20
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stephenthinkpad posted:All of the US sports are designed for max television ads breaks. They time shift the Olympic broadcasts even when they’ve been in America just so they can run ads against it during prime time instead of at one in the afternoon! Back when F1 was on NBCSN they would just cut to commercial during a race and you would miss whatever happened during that time. Televised sports in America exists solely to run ads; even making money is secondary. Some Guy TT posted:its interesting how a lot of the anime on bilibili isnt available legally in english just because its obscure or the rights have lapsed and no one knows who owns them anymore why its almost as if the availability of media is largely due to the efforts of distributors and marketing and with the sheer quantity of content available in the world today and the ease of piracy its misleading and possibly disingenuous to act as if government censors in any country play a meaningful role in restricting content Did anything ever happen with the moves North and South Korea were making towards potential unification when Trump tried to waddle in? Pulcinella has issued a correction as of 17:53 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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Dec 27, 2022 16:47
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Spergin Morlock posted:we must ban the export of singing birthday cards to Russia to prevent them from going to the moon lmao
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Dec 27, 2022 16:50
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Whatever happened to the US/Europe attempting to put a price cap on buying Russian oil? It's probably going great right? https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/putin-bans-russian-oil-exports-countries-that-imposed-price-cap-decree-2022-12-27/ quote:MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered Russia's long-awaited response to a Western price cap, signing a decree that bans the supply of crude oil and oil products from Feb. 1 for five months to nations that abide by the cap. Oh...
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Dec 27, 2022 19:30
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not to worry, i'm sure that third-world countries will follow the diktats of the west and dutifully wreck their economies to appease a dying empire
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Dec 27, 2022 19:34
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Pulcinella posted:Did anything ever happen with the moves North and South Korea were making towards potential unification when Trump tried to waddle in? i dunno anything about reunification but there were at one point talks of officially ending hostilities and it seemed hopeful at the time (korean heads of state meeting in-person for the first time in 11 years, token gestures) and then trump just got bored and the rest of the state dept wasn't interested in following up and it just fizzled out what it did show was libs were dead set against the idea of peace on the peninsula and were braying for blood on a daily basis
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Dec 27, 2022 19:46
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Trump's negotiation strategy was insane. They basically demanded that the DPRK dismantle entirely their nuclear arsenal in exchange for normalising relations and negotiating a formal end to the Korean war. Obviously this was going to go nowhere. Oh well, at least we had a few years where the US/SK didn't have massive wargame exercises where they simulate an invasion of the North. Tensions were relatively low while that lasted. Of course, the status quo has returned now
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Dec 27, 2022 19:57
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Red and Black posted:Trump's negotiation strategy was insane. They basically demanded that the DPRK dismantle entirely their nuclear arsenal in exchange for normalising relations and negotiating a formal end to the Korean war. Obviously this was going to go nowhere. its worth noting that as unsuccessful as trumps negotiating strategy was he was at least making a sincere effort and we would have had a third round of talks by now if hed won reelection the main takeaway from that whole experience is that for all moons talk of a new era in interkorean relations the reality is that south korean liberals are unwilling to do any meaningful deescalatory policy change without our explicit permission and are incapable of understanding that were bloodthirsty psychos who will never ever make peace with our enemies for fear of looking weak like they actually stonewalled on doing a third summit in 2020 because they thought theyd be in a better position if biden won thats how absurdly ignorant they are about american politics and yoons north korea policy in theory isnt that different from moons it just hinges on the united states doing stuff it will never ever do everything about south korea is so goddamn depressing these days i still remember going there ten years ago when you could put plot points about the country technically being a united nations protectorate in movies and poo poo and now everyones just a bitchmade dweeb who can only conceive of a better world by doing crypto speculation
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Dec 28, 2022 00:44
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hey im reading elsewhere in the forums about some guy who was forced to dress as a clown and not allowed to use trains because he kept beating up martial artists and that lowered his social credit score can someone like give me reliable information on this incident because these details arent super conductive for running internet searches since theyre somehow having this conversation without ever mentioning his name
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Dec 28, 2022 04:09
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Some Guy TT posted:hey im reading elsewhere in the forums about some guy who was forced to dress as a clown and not allowed to use trains because he kept beating up martial artists and that lowered his social credit score can someone like give me reliable information on this incident because these details arent super conductive for running internet searches since theyre somehow having this conversation without ever mentioning his name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong Don't know about the dressing up as a clown part but he's generally a bit of a clown.
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Dec 28, 2022 04:14
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Throatwarbler posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong interesting that none of the articles sourced here are willing to repeat whatever it was that he said that caused him to lose a court case for slander and endure travel restrictions something which seems kind of relevant to the question of whether he was unjustly punished given that we also have slander laws and travel restrictions after conviction in the united states
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Dec 28, 2022 04:32
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I don't think there are "travel restrictions“ in the sense that he can't go places, obviously he still managed to go to that match or whatever, rather it's one of the few civil remedies that the courts (in this case slander or defamation would be a civil suit not criminal) have to enforce judgements. Specifically it applies to buying tickets for high speed rail, airlines, and tuition for private schools. The point is not to restrict the person's travel since you can still buy regular train tickets but to restrict his access to luxury items to encourage him to pay his judgement. For those of you following at home this is the kernel of truth behind China's "social credit panopticon". There is no personal bankruptcy in China (actually not an uncommon thing in most countries) and courts don't really have many ways to enforce civil judgements for money, so the best they can do is slap on these sort of weird restrictions. Most regular people have never gone deep into unsecured debt or otherwise been the recipient of a court judgement for damages have no idea it exists.
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Dec 28, 2022 04:50
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this is also why tankies like us always respond with whataboutisms because pretty much all the bad things the social credit panopticon has ever been accused of doing or even accused of hypothetically doing in a future authoritarian hellscape are things the american court systems are already doing under different mechanisms usually in more extreme ways as anyone whos ever been on parole can tell you like the only exception to this i can think of is that you can be punished for making bad posts on social media but given that american liberals constantly complain about how the governments not doing enough to punish people for making bad posts on social media im not totally sure what platonic ideal theyre aiming for here
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Dec 28, 2022 04:57
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Some Guy TT posted:this is also why tankies like us always respond with whataboutisms because pretty much all the bad things the social credit panopticon has ever been accused of doing or even accused of hypothetically doing in a future authoritarian hellscape are things the american court systems are already doing under different mechanisms usually in more extreme ways as anyone whos ever been on parole can tell you ... but what if they applied those restrictions TO YOU? The American courts and companies will not do that to me because I didn't do anything wrong.
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Red and Black posted:Whatever happened to the US/Europe attempting to put a price cap on buying Russian oil? It's probably going great right? lmao. afaik the EU was still buying LNG from russia too, i'm assuming that's covered by this ban
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