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At the risk of sitting inside an echo chamber and listening to like minded individuals, I thought this guy had some interesting points. Obviously biased, but not in the stupid category (imho).

Split off from old thread I guess we look forward to another 3+ years of frequent thread splitting edit: because someone is almost assured to take the troll bait coming out of the white house at least for a while yet

More political stuff this way....

Doesn't ring a bell. I'll take a look at it...

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

Java isn't the worst place to call home...

Just waiting for Trump to declare war on Ukraine so US troops can attempt to seize the rare earth deposits

@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

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)

Not sure if shared previously (a couple days old), but the Canadian version of Honest Government Ads

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

Unlike Trump, I suspect Chamberlain genuinely believed peace was an option

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)

Hah, so much being the top quartz, you still have to obey the law

Because you can never have too much Hansi...

Guilty of the same mistake, thinking you found her contact details in an old magazine

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

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

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

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!

Because you can never have enough misery... continued from previous thread!

Death, taxes and... politics? It was inevitable I guess. Continuation here

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.

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)

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."