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School that has to obey idiotic laws. After couple grades depending on school and teacher will look the other way but grade 1-2 no.

I like teachers in our school I think most know how stupid this is, but do they want to lose their job and career over it..?

Of course there are also idiotic parents but they are minority.

Like the ones that don’t allow their kids to use matches when they are 9.. or use sharp knife at same age poor kid had his eye pop out when he saw my younger daughter(6) cut a steak with a knife. Blows my mind.

This is hilarious. While we lived in Japan my 7 year old was walking to school alone meeting up with friends on the way. 25mins one way.

In Canada same 7 year old is not allowed to walk home 8 mins away. With friends, over 1 intersection that has a crossing guard. Wtf

Half the people in the class would get in trouble with the family services(fucking joke) because we allow kids to play in park unsupervised.

It is not just people’s perception it is also idiotic bureaucrats and politicians creating more regulations to grow the beast

They had centralized fully functional states that maintained economy that could supply cities as large or larger than Europe.

Japan was not made by Meiji, it was transformed but foundation of the "miracle" was there. During sengoku it created and armed with locally built firearms armies that dwarfed that of any European state of the time in one generation.. from bows to hundred thousands of muskets

Culture >> everything. In 1945 Beirut was a paradise compared to burned to the ground Tokyo and every other major city. In few decades it had built dams like Kurobe, challenged and beat American car manufacturers.. resources, colonialism.. right. Whoever was running the place knew how to do it, they do not know now and very unlikely to learn in the next 100 years.

Their quality is fine. I have a lot of their cycling stuff. Of course those short are not gone give Bioracer run for its money.. but they are good enough. Their jerseys are good, I have their RC550 bike and it is good(not the tires).

They have dirt cheap fishing gear kids love, also just generic kids clothing is pretty ok.

Their winter ski stuff is also good(clothing, never tried actual skis or boots). It is not high end, meaning heavy not as warm etc but for the price it is great, for riding a lift whole day great deal.

Make sure to check sizing. It is kind "interesting" I can wear medium size ski bibs(686, Burton etc), Decathlon large I could not squeeze into. They were super nice bibs too, too bad they did not have XL or I would have bought them

Because a lot of that was done in the factory meaning there was a cottage industry for a lot of it. Done in a normal factory and then sold on the side. Your salary was say $100 a month no matter what you did, you could make things on state time and then sell it and make double that(and still collect the salary). Same reason why vegetables bought from private peasant plots were amazing and kolkhoz stuff you bought in store was shit(when it was there at all lol).

Of course you had to pay some kick back to a manager or more likely give him a case of samogon.

Interesting in Nissan CarPlay seems to work perfectly. Sometimes driving directions take some time to appear but other than that it works.

It is all I use, the native stuff in the car does something.. I am not sure what :)

AC being controlled through touch screen is just nuts. I will never buy a car that does not physical dial for that

Russian intelligentsia ends where Ukraine begins. Always been the case

He is right and wrong.

This part is most definitely true: "The Russian system of political power has remained unchanged and unchanging down the centuries—a pyramid of slaves worshipping the supreme khan. That’s how it was during the Golden Horde, that’s how it was in Stalin’s time, that’s how it is today under Vladimir Putin."

This is why 90s and russian democracy failed so utterly, why it will fail completely in the future. There is no nice way out. People love the tsar that wins, it does not matter if he murders, tortures, rapes. He is tsar and above it all, boyars might be held responsible.. but tsar has one measure, winning. Narod will love him as long as he is strong.

"Slaves give birth to a dictatorship and a dictatorship gives birth to slaves. There is only one way out of this vicious circle, and that is through culture."

This is a delusion, there is only one way out and that is the fall of the empire. As Golden Horde died so must its successor state. Culture has not saved Russia in the last 2 centuries, it won't save it now.

Population grew.

In Japan agriculture is heavily subsidized, in particular rice production. Stuff that is not heavily subsidized focuses on high margin premium. They can't compete on volume/price but can on quality. After eating expensive apples or grapes there nothing really compares anywhere else

Whole thing is The Message and nothing more

This will make last 2 seasons of GoT seem like War and Peace. That trailer.. Read books probably 5-6 times, read Silmarillion(!), watched the movies probably 10 times, even watched Hobbit twice(that was painful). Only tattoos I have are in Cirth.. I could have easily dumped thousands of bucks on merchandise and other crap together with my kids over the years if it looked even remotely decent.

I am not subscribing to prime or watching this garbage.

Denethor and Faramir treatment hurt..

My number 1 gripe was the army of the dead being the deus ex machina making rest of the battle pointless joke. This is after making perfect entrance for Rohan

I like the movies and enjoy watching them, some parts are masterpieces but some not so much.

Funny enough it was safer to say that Brezhnev is an idiot on the campus of MGU in 1980 then it is to say that you voted for Trump at any Ivy school in US now.

Let's create a massive self regulating bureaucratic monster, then be surprised when it engages in corruption and coverup.

It really depends where you live and work. I used to work for a startup few years back that was 15minutes bike ride from my apartment. So MUCH better for my mental health. Now I am remote with a company on a different continent, it is good and I have a home office but sometimes I just get my laptop and go to a coffee shop for no reason. Might get a permanent desk at a coworksping space. Even with dedicated space at home going outside makes me happier

Now if I had your typical 1 hours each way driving commute.. no way I am going to the office

I am not certain they could, but it is not me who makes decisions, and those guys thought they could take Kyiv in 36 hours. It seems doable as paras could be reinforced much faster. The big problem is the none of those countries have depth to absorb initial attack, Ukraine's terrain is not great for the defender but at least it is a large country.

I was incorrect about the 5th column number. Lithuania is actually the best in this category with very few non-citizens. Seems like many left and some naturalized, current total is more like 8% not 33% like it was in the 90s. Latvia has the most but it is still much less than 20%.

Well that is the big question, is it worth trying to protect from kinetic penetrator or not.

Do they know that? Will Germany magically stop using Russian gas, reinstitute draft and manage to produce more than a dozen tanks a year? All the signals pre-invasion of Ukraine pointed to no. Unlike Ukraine right now Baltics CAN be taken by a surprise air mobile assault, some of those countries have 20%+ of population who subsist on healthy dose of RT and worship Putin the Tsar, they will serve as pawns we see now in Donbass.

Practically how does NATO actually liberate them. Does it have the stomach for the full scale high intensity war as we see in now in the East Ukraine? Not just Putin, I am also not sure of that. Who is going to lead the American armoured division drive to capture Kaliningrad..

Yes detoothing Russia in Ukraine is MUCH safer.

Problem for US and rest of NATO is that Baltic countries ARE in NATO. Once Ukraine goes Vilnus is next. Is USA ready to fight a conventional war in the Baltics? With what manpower? Germany is utterly useless right now and will be for the foreseeable future, French army is way too small same with UK. Very soon you might have to go to the Nukes..

It is much cheaper and safer to fight this war in Ukraine rather then trying to liberate Lithuania

I think the claim is that SPG can also fire in direct mode and they have MUCH bigger guns. Imagine an SPG with trophy system bolted on it. Question is, is passive armour beyond stopping bullets and shrapnel worth it?

I wonder if the new "tank" will be a wheeled SPG that can fire hull down and has an APS system. Or it could be something like BTR 4 with its auto cannon, being able to carry some infantry, add APS to that and you have a lethal combo.

There is also a lot of overselling of infantry support. Stugna or Javelin can kill T80 from 4km away, what use is dismounted infantryman there?

Absolute garbage of an article. It is S300 an ancient AA platform that denied Russia Air supremacy, it is combination of Artillery and drones not Javelin that been most lethal and it most definitely not a completely unimpressive Neptune that is equivalent of a missiles that went into device half a century ago.. wait Russia still easily blockades Odessa

In Donbas now war resembles most the WW2 with mass of artillery being exchanged for drone directed artillery. Not Javelin, not any other man portable anything can dislodge Russian or Ukranians for that matter. Massed drone directed artillery and rocket artillery is the current go to.

Those ideas of infiltrating marines to Chinese islands are so idiotic as to defy all belief.. I hope whoever came up with that is on the first boat there

Last but not least perhaps journalist writing for Atlantic can read some book about WW1? Like something basic that covers eastern front? Offense did not go anywhere and no Somme was not a bayonet charge ffs

You think voting on Roe vs Wade would solve it? Not a snowball chance in hell. Republic is there to make it so that wishes of different parts of the state that do not align at all do not rip the state to pieces and lead to a civil war. Governing by simple majority in long term never worked and never will.

Everyone likes to talk about will of the people. Well here is news. Different people have different desires, in different regions of the country majority wants to do different things. Only way to keep lid on this without the whole thing blowing up is to have representation of the this and slow the process down as much as possible, quick changes are the most disruptive/dangerous.

WH videos are not disliked anymore so it is working as intended.

Yes lets forget the 1940-1980 period. Let's forget Cultural revolution, Young guards, mass starvation and other advancements CPP

Courts and law are patriarchy, oppression dur dur something something letter salad+

Remember when a scientist was cancelled over a shirt? On a day of greatest achievement of his professional life? We remember.

He should fire those people. In fact from day one for the first few month the objective should be cleaning house, hard. Reduce head count by 50%. In fact dig through who came up with idea to ban Babylon Bee and just fire everyone who saw that decision and was not opposed.

Reason number 10000 and one to not use google apps or google anything

It's not only that, it is also zoning laws that mandate massive front lawns, wide roads etc etc. Compare newer suburbs to an old one like Riverdale. Riverdale is at least 3-4 times more dense and it is mostly single family houses.

First thing to try is exercise in particular running. 4 -5 days a week. Cycling is also good

Another this is taking a big break and spending whole time in the nature, even just a week or two will help. For me even 1-2 days in the mountains hiking hard tends to fix a lot of issues. Nothing gives as much joy of life as sun rising in the mountains when it cold and you woke up 2 hours before and been hiking up.. those first few rays of warmth are special. I guess the advice is to have joy as the animal in us wants. I never feel depressed in the mountains angry, tired, cold miserable, paranoid etc but never depressed.

Good luck

Supposedly he was talking to the Babylon bee just before about how they got banned. I am very curious what he will do.

He is anything but conventional, he is not there to go for low hanging fruit I don't think