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Nihil Concierge
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Nihil Concierge
4mo ago
There's no shortage of examples of American hypocrisy in the exercise of power...
Although I think more and more that reflects the nature of the exercise of power than the nature of America. The nation's founders were wiser when they checked or limited it than when they exercised it.
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Nihil Concierge
4mo ago
... sentenced to 16 years for espionage charges. The trial was closed so evidence was not available to the public ...
Sadly, just as our invasion of Iraq makes our complaints about Russia's illegal invasions ring somewhat hypocritical, our embrace of closed trials with secret evidence in the past 20 years puts Americans in an embarrassing position when Putin uses same.
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Nihil Concierge
4mo ago
I believe there is a view supported by certain talmudists that celibacy is not required within the bounds of marriage and the perimeter of the Olympic Village
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Nihil Concierge
4mo ago
There's a wonderful scene in the Australian mockumentary where John Clarke's character, an administrator of the 2000 Olympic Games, is in the back of a press conference where his boss, a minister, is addressing a scandal. Clarke hears the minister say that "Character X has my complete support" and immediately says into a cell phone, "do you know who's in line for X's parking space?"
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Nihil Concierge
4mo ago
American military personnel in Japan are expected to obey local drinking laws. While I was 24 when I was first stationed there, there were quite a few of my younger shipmates who were in America on their 20th birthday and Japan on their 21st and thereby deprived of the (profoundly vapid) drinking birthday celebration.
My sister was 20 when she and my dad flew over to see me and so she got to enjoy a legal pint of Kirin Ichiban in a Yokohama jazz club with us.
The issue I believe is the Japan Gymnastics Association bylaws which forbid these vices.
It's certainly not French laws; isn't the Parisian drinking age second trimester?
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Nihil Concierge
5mo ago
Vote for Antifa McSlaughterkulaks, but make sure Embezzlea Demqueena is your second choice!
That's one helluva bumper sticker.
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Nihil Concierge
6mo ago
I think this deserves to be a top-level post for the next few weeks. Sort of like Trans-National Thursdays. Supreme Court Saturdays?
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Nihil Concierge
8mo ago
This may warrant a ban, and I've generally lurked to avoid breaking the low-effort rule, but...
Damn it, I just can't help myself: those quokka pictures are the most adorable things I've ever seen!
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Nihil Concierge
9mo ago
John, an old friend if mine, once answered the door for a bill collector who asked him, "are you John Doe?" He claims he replied, "My name is Bruce Wayne."
While wearing a Batman tee shirt.
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Nihil Concierge
10mo ago
According to Reuters, Turkey got permission to buy F-16s in exchange for allowing Sweden to join NATO: “Ankara's delays had frustrated some of its Western allies and enabled it to extract some concessions. But Flake, who was envoy throughout the process, said Sweden addressed Turkey's "very legitimate security needs" in that time.”
https://archive.is/iMYgT#selection-1903.0-1926.0
I totally understand why things shook out this way--but I also think this will be interpreted, in Russian foreign policy circles, as evidence that some of the stuff Putin has been saying about NATO being a threat, is true. After all, this is letting a border country join NATO in exchange for selling fighter jets to yet another border country...there's a reason Russians think NATO is threatening their borders.
Sigh.
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Nihil Concierge
10mo ago
There was a scandal a while back that makes me uncomfortable about putting the United States of America on the list of countries that can make advanced hydrogen bombs.
I'd imagine the destructive power of any bombs our adversaries could field top out at Hiroshima, and mostly are “dirty bombs.”
For what that's worth, which ain't much.
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Nihil Concierge
10mo ago
This latest episode of Iran just kind of attacking all its neighbors is pretty uncharacteristic at least.
I dunno—isn't Iran attacking it's neighbors something Leonidas would be familiar with?
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Nihil Concierge
10mo ago
I recently got hooked on a fun discord server. I'd never really used the app before but I'm enjoying it a great deal.
What other Discords do Mottezians enjoy ?
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Every time I tell someone I am part of the Veterans Affairs health care system in the United States, I use the joke "I protected you from socialized health care, so now I get...socialized health care."
It has never failed to get a laugh.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Sorry to be confusing--but I've genuinely never removed a seat from a vehicle that had seats that could fold down to make room for cargo. I wonder if it's because I was raised in the blue tribe?
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Cutting books in half...removing the back seat of a car...both are things that save weight--and that haven't been done in America since the creators of That 70s Show were teenagers.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Oh, my goodness, you have got to read Cadillac Desert, a book about water that is one of my all-time classics. I wish I were more motivated to do good, solid, effort posts, because a review of that book could really work...
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Well, they're perfectionists in Lebanon. The leader of the HRC doesn't walk around with an internal monolog that asks "boy, I've never fought a battle with the NRA, let's check that off the list." Maybe he should. I hear the ACLU used to think that way, and possibly still does.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
I lived in Japan from '07 to '11 and haven't been back since, so this may be out of date, but the idea that fruit and veggies are very expensive matches my memories, but is a little incomplete. Sushi and ramen are incredibly cheap in Japan, and I would extrapolate that most of the food-service labor force is somehow attached to those two parts of the industry--sushi because Japan just plain has the best fish, ramen because that's usually served with beer or on a chuhai run.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Oh, that makes sense. I thought "SFH" was some iGen dunk on...well, I don't know, I thought I was going to have to ask Christine Baranski about it. She's pretty up on the kids today.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
What are SFH suburbs?
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
I believe "just deciding on what was needed for each story to work" is a central pillar of most western versions of Buddhism.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Sweden has been protecting the Kurds from the Turks?
I thought they were one of the nations that wouldn't extradite followers of that guy leading a weird religious movement slash opposition group ... What's his name? Gul?
Oh, yes. Gul Dukat. That's it. Anyway, I thought that was part of Edrogan's beef with the Swedes. My mistake.
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Nihil Concierge
11mo ago
Something that is in even the slightest way different from all the other eras would probably be better.
So true. I spent 2007 to 2011 on board a two decade old Navy minesweeper that was supposed to be replaced by the littoral combat ship (LCS) which entered service in like 2012 I think.
But LCS was such a disaster that it was not capable of any of its basic missions, and the first few have already been decommissioned while my minesweeper is still in service!
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