Silver lining I guess

Why would they need to ask Ukraine for them when Taiwan has much more mature electronics manufacturing sectors than Ukraine?

Ah so the same regions the US and Australia regularly have drills in under the guise of “freedom of navigation.” Surely they wouldn’t be hypocrites about that would they?

I think the ethnicities behind the crime are why it’s been so widely covered and propagandized, more than the crime itself. I don’t think it would be hard to imagine how the media would have treated it had it been all white people. This would have been a one and done story at the national level, if not completely relegated to local news.

I don’t think it’s contradictory to both condemn the crime itself while also calling out the media’s fixation on this specific crime while conveniently ignoring many others. The crime itself is fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, especially considering how much tax money gets embezzled by much more powerful (and white dominated) organizations and government agencies every single day, but the media fixation because they’re sCaRy FoReIgNeRs is systemic and much more of a threat.

“The Blitzkrieg of Poland wasn’t a war because the German parliament didn’t approve.”

what a good christian

.world: “Mods on .ml are authoritarian”

Also .world: “I don’t like the title, abuse your power to change it!”

No rich people are. It takes a certain type of mental state to amass more wealth than you and your family can spend while ignoring your conscience about the people you’re exploiting. In the fairly distant future I feel this will be officially identified as a disorder, similar to sociopathy.

As a Chinese person, it doesn’t taste better if cooked by someone familiar with it either lol. My parents love it for some reason and have tried to get me to eat it many times.

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Jean Luc Picard’s fake French accent.

Actual French accent doesn’t even come close.

Maggie and the Ferocious Beast (the first English cartoon I remember watching), Rolie Polie Olie, Martha Speaks, Franklin, Little Bear, Total Drama Island/Action, and 6Teen taught me English when I came to Canada.

Star Trek got me started on my path to tankiehood and sci-fi writing. Futurama also significantly contributed to the latter.

Pokemon, Wonderpets and Redwall (and many of the cartoons from the learning English category) got me interested in writing animal characters. Zootopia pissed me off so much with its inconsistent world building that it sealed the deal and made me obsessed with perfecting my own fictional animal world.

Family Guy taught me how not to write characters and their interactions.

How It’s Made is just awesome and satisfying, no further comments.

I find lot of seafood disgusting, and the unsustainability of wild caught seafood is just the cherry on top.

Unagi. Doesn’t taste that special and has a texture like dried out overcooked fish complete with the occasional sharp scale or bone that stabs your throat. Definitely not worth decimating wild eel populations for.

Related, any kind of fish eggs. Whether caviar or salmon roe sushi. They’re like those popping bubbles in bubble tea but instead of a nice sweet fruit syrup it’s concentrated fish stink that coats your tongue and overpowers everything else.

Oysters and clams (bivalves in general). You’re literally eating its entire digestive system complete with poop. The crunchy sand is just a reminder of that. And eating it raw is a great way to get parasites and hepatitis.

One that’s not seafood: asparagus. People say it makes your pee stink but somehow don’t talk about how much the vegetable itself stinks going in. Maybe I’ve just never found a cooking method I like but I’ve never tasted an asparagus that doesn’t make me wince when swallowing. I personally love the vast majority of vegetables, many of which I prefer compared to meat, but asparagus (and Chinese bitter melon) are exceptions.

Any kind of alcohol in general. I think beer tastes and smells like the liquid at the bottom of a dumpster, so does wine, and any kind of spirit tastes like literal poison. Whatever psychoactive effects it has is not worth the constant nausea during and after drinking. If I’m looking for psychoactive effects, I prefer edible cannabis extract, still doesn’t taste that great but you only need a tiny amount to get high which you can chase down with regular food to make the taste go away.

I think they are just expensive because they are rare and fragile, not because they are magically delicious.

Most of the snooty rich people food are like this. It’s also why they’re so threatened by cheap mass produced alternatives. If the knockoffs were actually significantly inferior in flavour they wouldn’t be threatened.

No shit.

Royal We

Do you remember how much RAM it was?

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I see your point and accept it. However, I don’t think that takes away from the broader fact that this is significantly less likely to happen to white people compared to Middle Eastern.