Gorth
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Looks like I found an anime I can watch more than the first episode of. Almost done with episode 4 (out of 12 iirc) of Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens...
No movie budget animation and soundtack like Frieren, no Monty Python surreal story like Dandadan, just the interactions between Jin and Nagi so far. The latter being a goddess (of a sort), manifesting herself in a sculpture made by Jin because her sacred tree has been felled. Of course she decides Jin, a student living in an accommodation rented by his dad, is going to be the perfect place to live for the time being, with the trouble that comes with explaining to his childhood (girl)friend, that Nagi is just a step sister that moved in. To complicate matters further, Nagi's sister and rival Zange shows up in town...
As said, no action scenes, no drama scenes, just interesting characters and the oddball humour that for some reason really appeals to me (like when she accidentally super glues her improvised magic wand to the living room table)
edit: Low resolution, low quality trailer... very old too. Just not much to be found out there
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1 hour ago, Malcador said:
Rather impressed a client spent 16 minutes on a call trying to find where they downloaded our .msi . Only to find out the dude running it can't execute it due to security. They ended off by asking "I see an error message that JAVA_HOME isn't set, should we have installed Java?"
Java isn't the worst place to call home...
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9 minutes ago, Malcador said:
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKRAINE-CRISIS/NORTHKOREA-RUSSIA/lgvdxqjwbvo/
An annoyingly presented article, at least to me, on DPRK support for Russia
If anyone still cares about this war, considering the staleness of this thread
Just waiting for Trump to declare war on Ukraine so US troops can attempt to seize the rare earth deposits
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@Gromnir long time no see, welcome back (place was getting a bit boring
)… you forgot the obvious example for dumb Europeans, democracy gave us The Third Reich
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1 hour ago, Amentep said:
10% tariff on the penguins living on the Heard and McDonald islands near Antarctica.
10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory which has one inhabited island - Diego Garcia - whose population are military servicemen of the US and UK.
I wonder what thd penguins on Norfolk Island did to offend him, getting slapped with af 29% tariff
He is probably just upset that hey are more stylish in appearance, looking classy in formal suits
edit there is also 2000 people on the island, but no known trade has ever happened with the US, so somewhat unaffected by tariffs (the damage being collateral because the global economy worsens)
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Not sure if shared previously (a couple days old), but the Canadian version of Honest Government Ads
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Denmark is all for inclusiveness… the draft will now also apply for women next year. Need those troops in the arctics
Not my preferred source but the good ones had paywalls
https://www.newsweek.com/denmark-draft-women-military-amid-greenland-russia-tensions-2051366
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Unlike Trump, I suspect Chamberlain genuinely believed peace was an option
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13 hours ago, Amentep said:
I liked her in Buffy. I think I watched Harriet the Spy with my nieces.
I remember her as the sibling/sister in one of my favourite comedies. Eurotrip is just an awesome journey poking fun at European stereotypes of the time (times have changed, but at the time it just felt spot on)
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On 2/22/2025 at 2:11 PM, Gfted1 said:
Hah, so much being the top quartz, you still have to obey the law
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Because you can never have too much Hansi...
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Guilty of the same mistake, thinking you found her contact details in an old magazine
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16 hours ago, Lexx said:
So Trump signed a new executive order that funding will be cut for all schools that mandate the COVID vaccine. Sounds terrible, right? It's outrageous!
Until you find out that no school mandates the COVID vaccine and it's all just hot air. https://www.immunize.org/official-guidance/state-policies/vaccine-requirements/covid-child-school-2024/
It does sound impressive though. Maga cultists are not known for their critical thinking
edit: I know I shouldn't, but I can't help but see the Trump presidency as the forerunner to the events in the movie Idiocracy
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Not really seeing anything obviously grabbing my attention these days (and to fair, following in the footsteps of Frieren and Dandadan is no easy task), I decided to turn back the clock a bit and pick up on something I missed in the past (because of time constraints). Watched first season of Nier: Automata and about to start on second season. I liked the first season, but then I also liked the game(s). Both Replicant and Automata
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Just waiting for Trump to suggest they can solve the problem with bleach…
He obviously doesn’t have a clue (Im Westen nichts Neues), but people keep making the mistake of giving him free rent in their brains. It’s what he wanted. He’s first and foremost a reality tv showman and a narcissist. Any attention is good attention.
As for the actual subject I suspect the Ukrainian rhetoric of borders back to pre 2014 status as well as Russian ambitions of recreating the USSR are both unrealistic. The former would require Ukrainian troops to hold a victory parade on the red square and the latter train departed the station when Gorbachev led the process of disintegration
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Just a bit of fun from domestic Australian politics... I made the joke in the past that the liberal PM Scott Morrison was similar to Don Quixote because of his perpetual crusade against windmills (and any other form of alternative to fossil fuels)
While he got the message, he's universally hated, his former deputy and old party have decided to switch to nuclear power. Again, anything that keeps the poor starving mining magnates in power and keeps renewable energy out of Australia!
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Because you can never have enough misery... continued from previous thread!
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Death, taxes and... politics? It was inevitable I guess. Continuation here
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Saw a Danish movie that I hadn't seen before. To be fair, it's relatively recent (by my standards). The style reminded me a lot of "Adams Apples" and "In China they eat Dogs". A comment said (correctly imho) the trailer doesn't do it justice (pun unintended) as it makes it look like a dime a dozen revenge movie. It's anything but "normal". It helps if you like "Nordic Noir" style movies and the sometimes over the top dark humour which were also prevalent in the first two mentioned movies. Mads Mikkelsen is almost always fun to watch.
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9 hours ago, Malcador said:
Just offset a bit by it being a POW video. I am sure some Ukrainians dislike Zelensky and all, but Russian MoD videos of them declaring so...
Who knows, maybe they heard the stories from Iraq and are desperate to say what they *think* the interrogators want them to say. Even without being at the receiving end of torture and sexual abuse (because they expect that’s what follows, even if only in their heads)
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3 hours ago, Zoraptor said:
That BBC article has the actual crash at 9.03, the crash is when you'd expect the data to cut out so it is 5 minutes. They've certainly worded it somewhat confusingly though. The Indie has a less confusingly written timeline confirming the 5 minute gap.
(There was certainly something odd going on, but it could have been something as simple as both engines getting hit in the same strike- like the plane that ended up landing on the Hudson in New York. Without hydraulics/ power flaps will retract 'naturally' since the aerodynamic forces will always try to push them back flush with the wing. Similarly, while gravity will try to push landing gear and its bay doors down aerodynamics will push them back up. I'd say that a reverser working and the flaps not might be unusual but while I know landing on one reverser is safe I'd imagine landing with only one wing's flaps deployed would be extremely dangerous if possible at all due to the asymmetric lift it would supply)
I don't have a link at hand, but I wonder if that matches up with the time flightradar24 lost track of the plane (which was some minutes before the crash, it disappeared and could no longer be traced)
edit: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/jeju-air-2216-muan/
"It appears that ADS-B data was either no longer sent by the aircraft or the aircraft was outside our coverage area after 23:58:50 UTC."
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1 hour ago, Zoraptor said:
"Flight data and ****pit voice recorders from the South Korean passenger plane that crashed last month stopped recording four minutes before the disaster," is not surprising or suspicious so long as that isn't before the reported bird strike. Which it wasn't, supposedly the bird strike was 5 minutes before the crash.
(the plane certainly seemed to be landing in an uncontrolled state- way too fast (?looked like no flaps deployed so no hydraulics?), too steep, too far along the runway plus most obviously no landing gear deployed, which suggests a very significant adverse event that could well cut off power to the tail section- iirc where both the cоckpit and data recorders are located. Seems almost certain the hydraulics were out, and if my memory of Mayday/ Air Crash Investigation is correct that system has a lot of redundancy built in to it. If i had to speculate, blown turbine disc. That's basically a big bunch of shrapnel flying off at high speed)
No idea how long it was in the air after the bird strike. I was lazy and just took the time from the pilot reporting the bird strike (8:59) to the crash (9:01) and concluded 3 minutes
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgzprprlyeo.amp
Weirdest thing I do remember from the 3 videos I’ve seen is the one from the ground showing the actual bird strike also shows flaps and gear deployed, the two different angles showing it crashing both showing it having power on the damaged engine (producing thrust and thrust reverser deployed) but the supposedly undamaged engine being inactive
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Let the conspiracy theories begin… who could have an interest in an airplane crash remains unsolved?
Both black boxes are suddenly missing the data from *before* the bird strike until the crash
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr8dwd1rdno
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Just a google translate for those who doesn't speak Portuguese...
"I killed the hedge mother spider 5 times in a row and the trophy didn't come, I got the mutation but no trophy for killing her, I play on PS5 unfortunately I can't platinum because of this bug in the maternal genes trophy"
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Doesn't ring a bell. I'll take a look at it...