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Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

WarpedNaba posted:

Going in blind I would've said Saudi Arabia.

if it were saudi she wouldn't have been outside on her in the first place.

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 11:03

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Horatius Bonar posted:

I can't think of a western country that requires a letter of invitation, or even proof of a round-trip plane ticket. Or asks which hotel you're staying at. And it better be a hotel, I don't know what happens if you're staying with a friend living there.

last time i flew to the states in the early-10s I had to pay to get a 'letter of invitation' (esta), and as part of that process provided personal information, my hotel booking, and proof of a round-trip plane ticket.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 02:08

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

BrigadierSensible posted:

Please forgive the stupidity/ignorance of this question:

What is the difference, (if any), between Falun Gong and Falun Dafa?

Coz I have seen them referred to as both.

Falun Gong references their qigong practices, which was the primary recruitment method in the 90s, while Falun Dafa references the actual cultic beliefs underneath those qigong practices. Despite that, as far as I know, they are just straight synonyms that the organisation has used interchangeably since their inception.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2022 04:20

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Kchama posted:

Wasn't he helping someone else campaign, and not actually doing it as a politician? That seems to be a little bit different than trying to regain a seat actively.

He was helping an LDP member campaign but was doing so in his role as a former president of the LDP, former Prime Minister from the LDP party, and a sitting politician in the Japanese House of Representatives. He wasn't helping out because he had spare time.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2022 03:17

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

i think melissa pang has a lot to answer for in writing those lyrics but i appreciate the difficulty of prosecuting the president of the immediate past.

# ¿ Jul 24, 2022 23:54

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

The rifling spins the bullets so they travel straight, so it's either bad rifling, no rifling, bullets too small for the rifling to spin, the barrel itself is damaged and twisting the bullets as they come out, or they're just shooting from too close for the bullets to fully stabilise.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2022 04:05

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

that's just a call of duty skin

# ¿ Aug 1, 2022 23:12

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

that didn't seem right to me because british tanks suck hard in company of heroes, so i looked it up and apparently germany produced 67,000 tanks during world war ii, about 90% of the axis tank army, while britain produced 47,000 - 17% of the total tanks deployed by the allies.

# ¿ Aug 2, 2022 04:00

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

BrigadierSensible posted:

Or ate at the toilet bowl restaurant.

unfortunately from what i'm told it went bankrupt during lockdown due to the loss of tourists

# ¿ Aug 5, 2022 00:16

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

A bad romance of the three kingdoms.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2022 23:25

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

just read a book

they all say the same thing.

# ¿ Aug 7, 2022 11:57

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Charles Bukowski posted:

Wait prior to 78 the US only recognized Taiwan as China? Lol

Yes, that was when they formally recognised that the Republic of China had lost the civil war.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2022 12:02

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

MarcusSA posted:

Can you own one of these properties and not have residency?

Seems cool but incredibly difficult

Yeah you can, but it also doesn't help in getting residency - which, if it's anything like here, means you'll either be bound to an employer for several years on a working visa, or you'll be forced to leave the country periodically whenever your visa runs out (but not for too long because then you're not trying hard enough to live in the country!)

# ¿ Aug 19, 2022 03:16

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Freedom fries aren't free. $9.11 plus local sales tax.

# ¿ Aug 20, 2022 09:31

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

ectomorph, endomorph, mesomorph, and poohmorph

# ¿ Aug 27, 2022 02:15

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

wait until you hear about huangdi

# ¿ Aug 27, 2022 05:03

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/151838944827277312/1005235602540736582/VID_150710621_184317_855.mp4

# ¿ Aug 30, 2022 02:00

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

imo it's kind of hilarious that economists are so invested in China's economy being secretly bad that they're sitting there reviewing satellite imagery of where delivery trucks are.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2022 23:36

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

The only superpower to achieve superposition.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2022 04:49

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

look, if we don't get around to killing you within two years you can just hang out here forever.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2022 00:06

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

bad_fmr posted:

What? So the whole Anglosphere is not part of the West, being protestant or Anglican and all?

Both the Protestant and Anglican churches are direct descendants of the Roman Church.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2022 01:24

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

ukraine also has the advantage of being recognised as a sovereign state by the international community.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2022 05:54

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

ninjoatse.cx posted:

I'm curious what he means by "lose their American citizenship". Legally, that's not a thing. Not that law has ever stopped any of our previous presidents.

it's definitely a thing that can be done - you just can't leave someone stateless.

but the controls refer to "us persons", which is not related to citizenship or even necessarily actual people, so i think they're just confused with that terminology.

# ¿ Oct 14, 2022 22:50

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

thetoughestbean posted:

Didn�t the UK leave a person stateless pretty recently?

oh yeah, when i say "you can't" i really should've said "by international law you're not supposed to", which of course means you can do it as much as you want as long as it doesn't piss off a permanent security council member.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 00:03

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

ninjoatse.cx posted:

Got a link where I can read up on what it actually entails? I tried googling it, but all I get are a bunch of news articles that read like that series of tweets.

https://www.gibsondunn.com/us-new-e...ch-competition/

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

It's about corporate citizenship apparently, not individual people.

this is inaccurate. it is about us persons, which is a term that varies across legislation but includes both individual people as well as business entities in regard to � 744.6 (NEW and Expanded controls on U.S. person�s ability to support China development of integrated circuits):

quote:

(1) Any individual who is a citizen of the United States, a permanent resident alien of the United States, or a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3);

(2) Any juridical person organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States, including foreign branches; and

(3) Any person in the United States.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2022 00:24

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

it doesn't even matter what ethnicity, xi is polite and tolerant of them all.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2022 02:56

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

it's probably a lot easier to be a terrorist supporter in a country whose military isn't actively hunting you down

# ¿ Oct 17, 2022 02:31

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Ok, I need a top 50 "maybe I'll find it at the sketchy used VHS rental place" HK movies. At least as cheesy as the early Jackie Chan stuff, and hopefully exactly as bad as the Ghost Snatchers thing I just witnessed. Please share with me your poorly dubbed or badly subtitled HK masterpieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJF76IqE3ec

# ¿ Oct 25, 2022 22:54

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

thetoughestbean posted:

I don�t have even the beginning of a clue on how to prevent something like this happening again. How do you prevent people from heading en masse into urban areas?

not have affordable and reliable public transit.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 01:09

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Cugel the Clever posted:

What value is in an empty building?

i don't know what precisely they might have meant, but property flippers generally don't bother tenanting buildings because having tenants already locked into leases reduces buyer interest while not making you that much more since your whole goal is to only hold the property long enough for the market to move in your favour.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2022 05:51

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

all the socialist western nations have universal healthcare and what's more socialist than communism so china must have it as well.

# ¿ Nov 13, 2022 22:04

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Atlas Hugged posted:

I was told on Twitter today that China has never threatened Taiwan, but Taiwan is constantly threatening the existence of China.

China cannot threaten Taiwan because it does not believe Taiwan exists, it threatens only those elements of Chinese Taipei who threaten China by insisting that Taiwan exists as that goes against the One China Principle which defines the existence of China.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2022 02:36

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Vegetable posted:

To be honest, if you�re publicizing confidential conversations without giving the other world leader a head�s up, you�re burning that bridge. I don�t even think this is a particularly Chinese thing. It�s just how diplomacy works � a lot of exchanges of goodwill.

i think the issue is that the only person who thought they were confidential is xi jinping.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2022 11:42

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

BrigadierSensible posted:

And what the gently caress does any of this have to do with Taiwan gaining independence?

it's just kind of funny that "china state-affiliated media" will use the forbidden name for chinese taipei when it's in the interests of offshoring the causes of protests in china.

# ¿ Nov 25, 2022 03:43

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

the people now anxiously hope for just two things: porn and searches

# ¿ Nov 28, 2022 06:28

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

ronya posted:

an observation:

https://twitter.com/theChinaDude/status/1597500151769485312

not sure if earlier or current statement was a misstatement; it does seem implausible that 10% of 80+ people completed a course in the past week. Could be a denominator issue also (significant proportion of 80+ would be ineligible due to immunocompromise or whatever)

65.7% of to 65.8% of is .1%

# ¿ Nov 29, 2022 11:52

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

loving the juxtaposition of them saying there's a misconception about how many chinese nationalists there are and their cute anecdote of a 10 year old using taiwan's independence as a punchline.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2022 20:43

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

COVID is bad op

# ¿ Dec 25, 2022 21:45

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Booty Pageant posted:

it's french for whoever can't read product of australia

oh so it's intended for domestic consumption

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 11:03

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

saffron represents india and hinduism - the orange on the indian flag is actually saffron. having a saffron-clad woman embrace a muslim is a pretty potent political statement in a country with a large history of mutual division and persecution between the two dating from the umayyad invasion of india and subsequent persecution and suppression of the local hindu religions; through multiple riots in the 20th century set against rising hindu nationalism (acts of which are referred to as "saffron terror") the last of which was set off by a citizenship law change that very intentionally excluded muslim refugees from obtaining indian nationality; to the current day where large numbers of indian muslims live in effectively ethnic ghettos, such as mumbra where the population grew from a few tens of thousands to over a million people in response the anti-muslim bombay riots and bombings of the 90s.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2023 06:21

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