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mawarannahr posted:wow. that’s pretty loving draconian. https://www.shorescripts.com/pentagon/
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Feb 4, 2022 16:40
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I'm having a hard time seeing through all the competing propaganda to understand what exactly is going on. Is everyone actually on the verge of war, or is it all an elaborate spectacle that everyone's in on?
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Feb 21, 2022 17:25
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vyelkin posted:The most recent report from the OSCE monitoring mission, which includes observers from both sides of the conflict and neutral parties (i.e. US, Canada, and UK but also Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, etc.) shows a considerable uptick in shelling in the last couple of days on both sides of the front line, suggesting that probably both sides are bombing each other right now. That's kind of similar to how the 2008 Georgia war started, with both sides shelling each other across a preexisting front and then Georgia responding by launching an invasion of South Ossetia, but in this case Ukraine probably isn't suicidal enough to launch an invasion of the separatist republics. OK, thanks. So what we do know is that we don't really know what's going to happen.
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Feb 21, 2022 17:46
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Sergg posted:My dad bought a Russian/Ukrainian mail-order-bride from Kiev in the early 2000s and abandoned his real family for the next decade while Olga cleaned out his bank accounts to fund her incredibly lavish lifestyle. The instant she got her Green Card she divorced him to marry someone with more money. Her son, Bogdan, is still technically a fugitive in Ukraine because he never earned US citizenship and is technically a draft dodger. Bogdan ran what I can only describe as a criminal cartel out of my dad's house comprised of other high-school kids doing credit card fraud, carhopping, B&E's, selling cars to chopshops, etc. were you and bogdan close
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Feb 22, 2022 18:00
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DiscountDildos posted:https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1496207991229624325?s=20&t=AvTToZm77wWknkcMqjNTFw literally pulling the lever that says "raise gas prices"
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Feb 22, 2022 22:57
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Kinda funny to lead with lack of protections for workers given how the two countries just handled COVID.
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Mar 1, 2022 20:14
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Jose posted:a reminder that the UK has merely a week planned for when the queen dies Thailand had a year-long mourning period after the king died. Everything was yellow and plastered with pictures of him for even longer than that though tbh
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Jul 8, 2022 19:39
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The other day a German was bragging to me about their incredible green energy plans. Oops
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Jul 9, 2022 02:18
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apparently the spy balloon just contained a smartphone loaded with the tik tok app
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Feb 3, 2023 15:24
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KomradeX posted:Maybe I'm naive but I just assumed this thing was a weather ballon and the hooting about spy ballons is being driven by an insane war aparatus in a dying empire that feels the need to rachet up fear at every turn I don't even pay attention to this stuff much, but sinophobia must be off the charts lately if even I'm noticing it.
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Feb 3, 2023 16:01
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I'm curious what some free-floating balloon can supposedly accomplish that satellites can't. Is it 1944?
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Feb 3, 2023 16:02
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lollontee posted:it's cheaper I guess I just assumed the satellites were already up there
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Feb 3, 2023 17:17
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The Chinese are just trying to bring entertainment back to America
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Feb 3, 2023 18:42
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The balloon was obviously sent by the Chinese to make us look like absolute dumbasses, and it worked.
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Feb 3, 2023 20:01
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Cerebral Bore posted:was it the current thai king who basically hosed off to germany when covid hit and had a yearlong orgy while his ostensible subjects died by the thousands or am i thinking of some other southeast asian monarch? Yeah he's an elderly spoiled brat
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May 13, 2023 00:44
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:pretty sure he shot his loving brother in the face That was the current king's dad who supposedly shot his own brother. No one cared though they loved that guy.
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May 13, 2023 00:45
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TDepressionEarl posted:All of these issues are sort of under the purview of politicians, but currently mostly in the hands of competent technocrats, the kind that sailed us through Covid: I believe the military government deserves some praise for handling that well, not terrible not great, we'll see. 
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May 25, 2023 14:50
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Maximo Roboto posted:https://twitter.com/RegimeCPA/status/1663611556574253058 NEETs are by definition not seeking employment and thus not counted in unemployment statistics though, right?
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May 31, 2023 00:58
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Hmm how many kilometers is it to cross an international border?
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May 31, 2023 01:23
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my dad posted:"Just do something" resulted some incredibly stupid bullshit that wasted an enormous amount of work at a previous job I had, and was resolved by (risking my job by) shouting at people who spent all day talking to you about how you should talk less and work more. I'm yet to be in a situation where people "talk too much", outside of being unwillingly present at middle management blame passing games after telling them something they didn't like hearing. It probably depends on the job, because I'm rarely in any meetings that really needed to take place.
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Jun 14, 2023 12:28
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Translating scientific writing sounds like it would be incredibly difficult.
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Jun 15, 2023 17:49
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Dawncloack posted:tl;dr: languages are awesome, translation is fun and Iove it. Thanks, this is really interesting. I would probably enjoy this kind of work if I were actually bilingual (the workflow sounds similar to some of the work that I already do). The part that sounds difficult to me is capturing precise meanings, because it's so crucial that you get it right.
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Jun 15, 2023 18:50
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Why would you ever include that much detail in a map in a Barbie movie?
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Jul 3, 2023 14:50
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Here is the Barbie map in question lol https://imgur.io/V8YTjzJ
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Jul 3, 2023 19:48
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the amount of knockoffs for sale in VN is staggering. I saw a restaurant waiter wearing Yeezys.
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Nov 27, 2023 18:32
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In honor of Kissinger's passing, some pictures I took of things he wouldn't have liked House where Ho Chi Minh wrote Vietnam's declaration of independence in 1945  Ho Chi Minh museum   Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum  Lenin park 
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Nov 30, 2023 16:20
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I went on a two-day backpacking trip through the Vietnamese jungle where it rained the entire time, and I have some thoughts about the audacity of invading that place.
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Nov 30, 2023 16:42
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Another interesting thing was traveling a portion of the Ho Chi Minh trail through the central highlands and seeing some of the caves that the North Vietnamese used to hide people and supplies. We drove by a cave that was used as a hospital during the war -- the US bombed it and trapped a team of nurses inside, dooming them to a slow death. The cave is revered as a sacred place now and visited by people seeking the nurses' blessing.
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Nov 30, 2023 17:14
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gradenko_2000 posted:nice pictures, Fitzy Fitz. I've been to Ho Chi Minh City but maybe visiting Hanoi would be nice too I stayed in Hanoi's old quarter and had a lot of fun. Over the weekend they closed off most of the streets to traffic at sundown, so there was a big party in the streets with bands, dancing, etc.
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Nov 30, 2023 19:17
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Meanwhile we can't even get the US president to purge the previous administration's postmaster general.
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Dec 8, 2023 16:33
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crepeface posted:a relative went to vietnam and like the tankie that they are they went to the memorial museum I was there last month and the whole place is a devastating indictment of US atrocities. There's half of an entire floor just for agent orange. And then on your way out you can stop by the gift shop to buy a keychain and a non la.
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Dec 9, 2023 17:49
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Oh good we're back to preindustrial practices
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Mar 3, 2024 05:12
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Mandel Brotset posted:cars are cheap in the orient
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Apr 8, 2024 02:53
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Lmao
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Apr 8, 2024 03:58
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It's fascinating watching them scold China for being too successful in the "wrong" way, especially with green tech.
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Apr 11, 2024 00:45
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You're telling me the median household net worth in China is just shy of $400k? Oh, I see. Urban. That is a pretty huge qualifier.
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Apr 11, 2024 17:16
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Do they not have Hooters in China?
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Apr 21, 2024 15:20
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