Something that should give all Japanese and Americans pause about our respective education systems is that in both countries most students are educated in a foreign language for about 10 years and in both countries most students graduate being unable to speak the target language

esta app es repugnante lo que me ha costao encontrar que el motivo de todas las revueltas en francia es porque la policia ha mutilado con una granada a un niño de 15 años en una manifestación pacifica

The game is made by Ukrainians, while the Russian author of the books was sentenced in absentia for criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But Ukrainian is supposedly just Russian with a funny accent, so surely people who only speak Russian won’t have any trouble playing it.

I’m sure this is all completely spontaneous and Russia has nothing to do with this either in France or Italy

Underrated that the early pages of the Bible take for granted (a) achieving sapience from animal-like stupor (b) mysterious semi-human hybrids (c) rising and falling complex societies.

Russians will bring this up like we didn't dodge the world's biggest bullet by losing our empire early. No direct involvement in world wars, no population bombed, raped and occupied by russians or germans. Meanwhile, tens of millions of russians dead. Make of that what you will.

No, they aren’t. You know why a supermajority of predators in the wild do not target humans unless they absolutely must? Because predators have self-preservation & know humans are dangerous. Demons are suicidally aggressive and get themselves killed regularly just to eat humans.

I'm not that religiou but Russia has slaughtered hundreds of thousands if not millions of Muslims in Syria, Crimea, Chechnya, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. No Muslim with a shred of intelligence could support them

Freiren fans just cannot comprehend that the problem people have with the way the show writes the demons is that it's contradictory and extremely flat. They're consistently shown to have emotions and moral reasoning, and yet the text simply claims they don't and moves on.

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Japan just had its own version of the Hawaii missile scare. At around 12:40, an emergency alert was broadcasted warning of an imminent magnitude 9.9 earthquake off the coast of Hokkaido. A magnitude 9.9 earthquake, if it happened, would be the strongest earthquake ever recorded, releasing approximately 22 times more energy than the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Fortunately just minutes later the earthquake alert was withdrawn and confirmed to be a false alarm. But for those few minutes, people across the country held their breath bracing for a potentially catastrophic earthquake that ultimately never came.

afaict the nobel prize winner in chemistry this year had a theoretical model for his experiment that was wrong because he equated x^2+y^2 and (x+y)^2 and the paper still made it past peer review

You know, it's hard for me to believe a god exists when the Pope of all people gets lung cancer, and all of the awful war criminals and mass murderers are just vibing away, killing children.

The USSR can't even handle Afghanistan

Useful visualisation of public sentiment across multiple countries in relation to Russia's war against Ukraine: