I see we have reached 'night of the long knives'.

To be clear the deer are huge dicks to people they think are a soft touch and are carrying food, though one shouldn't kick them anyway.

It is very easy to kick a deer in Nara, however, it is likely that both locals and foreigners have kicked them, and the whole issue is just smoke.

It even happened within IP that had a generally leftwing valence, like Star Trek. All the futures imagined became darker and darker after 9/11, as if that was the only possible service to 'realism'.

It's better to think of it as the productive capacities of the respective nations being at war, and viewed through that context. Very clear through that lens that every one of the major powers made a very substantial contribution, and both the US and UK contributions were larger than generally seen.

I think it is a massive disadvantage in US politics that the opposition party has to wait for the election cycle for its opposition leader emerge, and when they do, it is after a bitter internal struggle much of the time.

People wonder why Japan is full of unique small businesses full of charm. When rents are extremely low and zoning laws are extremely simple and liberal, you can start a small enterprise with almost no capital down.

Great.

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

It's not like Horst Wessel was a real stand up guy either.

The omission of Notting Hill shows that there is very old timey racism here.

I feel like IKEA should embrace the big offsite depot model in Japan and not try to compete for frontage in the most expensive areas, where they just become a worse Muji.

The stereotype of homogeneity is also decreasingly true. Immigration is happening now.

Can I pay you 80k a year to not write it?