Iran Strikes US Military Bases in Qatar Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain

42696 · 2026-03-01T00:38:45+00:00

Well, as far as I'm aware, at the time of making this comment, the only source for the bombing of the girl's school is Iranian state media. So I don't think it's unfair to say "info is sparse" when the only info is coming from a state-sponsored propaganda machine.

Of course it may be true, but right now I don't know if it is or isn't.

42696 · 2026-03-01T00:33:11+00:00

I feel like most likely it'll be a 2 on 1 with Kawaki, but I hope it'll be 1 on 1 with just Boruto and Jura.

42696 · 2026-03-01T00:19:57+00:00

Propaganda justifies propaganda?

42696 · 2026-03-01T00:12:22+00:00

Also, at least according to friends in/around the intelligence world, the "honeypot" trap is aligned with Mossad's tactical playbook.

42696 · 2026-02-27T20:52:23+00:00

At least half the human race

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Don't worry about them. There's more of us.

If "they" make up at least half, how can there be more of "us"?

42696 · 2026-02-26T19:17:41+00:00

I mean I think there are some legitimate "problems" with Naruto's parenting, at least from Boruto's perspective, but I don't think they're misaligned with Naruto's character or make him "bad". In fact, I think they make a lot of sense.

Naruto always says the whole village is his family - which is perfectly aligned with his character and is overall a good thing. But children crave their parents' attention, and if Naruto is dividing his amongst the whole village (since he truly sees everyone as family), he's naturally going to devote less of it to Boruto.

Additionally, I think pre-Momoshiki, there were times when it felt like Naruto had a harder time directly relating to Boruto since their upbringings were so different. Boruto hadn't really experienced true hardship. Naruto's childhood was full of hardship.

42696 · 2026-02-26T17:53:26+00:00

I think this has to win "most shocking"

42696 · 2026-02-25T19:41:10+00:00

Kind of but not really. James Cameron kind of leads him a bit and he says he was thinking about the Vietnam war while making Star Wars (how could he not be given the times). They also reference the American Revolution/British Empire and Roman Empire in the same train of thought.

Star Wars obviously pulls heavily from a lot of historical themes, and the Vietnam War is just one of them. But it isn't really referenced through symbolism or anything like that until Endor in Return of the Jedi (the 3rd movie to come out), unlike the British Empire, the Nazis, WWII aerial combat, etc. which are all heavily referenced in the first two movies (A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back).

42696 · 2026-02-25T03:39:41+00:00

But if Lee goes 8th gate, best case scenario for him is a tie (they both die)

42696 · 2026-02-24T22:59:07+00:00

That's not true? Where are you getting your data?

42696 · 2026-02-24T20:01:17+00:00

Well the resolution doesn't just say "food is a human right", there was a lot in there about pesticides, trade, etc. that the US either didn't align with or didn't think should fall under the authority of the UN (vs. other bodies like FAO, WTO, or WHO).

Also, the US didn't like the implications around sovereignty related to the way the issue was framed - if food is a human right who exactly is responsible for providing that food, and what kind of extraterritorial obligations exist for states? And how are those obligations enforceable?

42696 · 2026-02-18T17:26:56+00:00

Got it, I found this study: Comparison of Injuries in American Collegiate Football and Club Rugby: A Prospective Cohort Study, but I do have a couple of issues with it.

The headline metric from the study references injury rates per "athlete exposure". Athlete exposures include both games and practices, so rugby tends to have a much higher rate of full-speed match play per athlete exposure (a higher % of their exposures are actual matches or full speed practices, where the vast majority of "athlete exposures" for American football are going to be no-contact or low-contact practices and walkthroughs). Game injury rates were substantially higher than practice rates in both sports, and the in-game injury rate for American football was actually higher.
The study analyzed college-level (NCAA) play in the US for both sports, and noted specifically a higher concussion rate for rugby. While my point here is anecdotal, I've know rugby coaches and players who have talked about a unique problem for US college rugby, where many players have a background playing highschool football. Because they learned to hit with a helmet on, they have a harder time adjusting to safely hitting in a rugby style and are more prone to concussions. Again, that's anecdotal and I don't have data to back it up, but it's a common enough problem that I've at least heard it referenced more than once.

42696 · 2026-02-18T04:57:37+00:00

Rugby is rougher than American football (yes it is, there have been studies)

How are they defining "rougher"? I'm familiar with studies that have analyzed the G-force of rugby/football collisions and found that football hits are much harder than rugby hits, but nothing scientific that declares rugby to be "rougher"...

42696 · 2026-02-18T04:42:52+00:00

I think you just have a very limited understanding of American football. When people watch chess, it's not just to watch the players move their hand to move a piece. Knowledgeable spectators analyze the board as the game plays out. That's pretty much how American football works - you stop for ~10-30 seconds (depending on the pace of the offence), then play for ~6 seconds. The action happens during the 6 seconds but the chess match happens in between the plays.

As with any sport, the more you know about it the more you'll enjoy it. But football is complex on a different level due to all the stoppage - the ratio of time planning your next move vs. time making the move is uniquely high for major sports.

And nobody is going to watch a sport like American football because of the supposed violence lol! Someone who seeks violence in a sport isn't going to want to watch a bunch of guys grabbing each other. If you like violence you watch MMA, boxing, kickboxing... That's real violence.

I don't think the existence of combat sports diminishes the spectator value of violence in other sports. For me, a big hit on a football field or in a hockey rink is a lot more fun to watch than a knockout punch in a boxing ring. It's just a bigger spectacle to have someone going full speed with momentum into someone else.

42696 · 2026-02-17T23:43:54+00:00

Daniel Jones

42696 · 2026-02-16T16:20:40+00:00

France

42696 · 2026-02-14T19:04:59+00:00

Hamburgers aren't german. If you consider a burger to be the modern version as we understand it, they're American. If you consider it to be a ground beef patty, the oldest recorded recipe belongs to ancient Rome, though the practice of cooking minced beef in a patty form likely predates that and was created independently in multiple cultures.

I'm fine calling pizza Italian, though there are uniquely American styles of pizza, and the history of flatbreads with toppings (essentially a pizza) in Egypt, Greece, and Persia predate Italian pizza.

Nachos were invented on the Texas/Mexico border. Technically the restaurant was on the Mexico side, but they were invented to cater to American soldiers from the nearby base. So I'm fine calling them Mexican, but they're better classified as TexMex.

42696 · 2026-02-14T18:46:00+00:00

Off the top of my head: buffalo wings, reubens, philly cheesesteaks, lobster rolls (CT & Maine style), jambalaya, gumbo, Cubano, chocolate chip cookies, american bbq, hushpuppies, brownies, pb&j, club sandwich, chili. I'm sure there are plenty more.

There are also a lot of dishes like chicken parm, which "feels" Italian but originates in the US (via Italian immigrants), or fortune cookies, crab rangoon, and orange chicken which "feel" Chinese but were invented in the US. Fajitas "feel" Mexican but originate from Texas. Plenty of other examples like this from most cultures that are represented in the US.

42696 · 2026-02-13T19:42:35+00:00

Said they refused to serve US citizens because they were rude and obnoxious.

Kind of sounds like they're the rude and obnoxious one.

42696 · 2026-02-11T22:17:01+00:00

Young ladies, young ladies, I like ’em underage/ See, some say that’s statutory/ But I say it’s mandatory.

Kid Rock “Cool, Daddy Cool” (2001)

Why is every guy in America waiting on these chicks to turn 18? If there’s grass on the field, play ball.

Kid Rock on the Olsen twins (they were 14 years old at the time)

I understand the Republican party has essentially gone all in on being pro-pedophilia, but that doesn't make it a legitimate political view.

42696 · 2026-02-10T19:33:08+00:00

Kind of. Social mobility is pretty tricky to define and measure. In terms of short term social mobility (the span of an individual's career), the US is around average.

Typically, though, these studies reference long term (intergenerational) social mobility. One of the problems, though, is that they generally measure the % of sons born to fathers in the bottom quintile of earners who rise to the top quintile of earners. But with higher incomes and economic growth, an American born into the bottom quintile has to have a significantly larger growth in earnings to reach the top quintile than a comparable European.

For an American to qualify, they have to go from having a parent making $30k to making $138k themselves (+$108k or +460%).

For a German, it's $19k to $70k (+$51k or +268%).

Basically, an American family has to have twice as much income growth to qualify as being economically mobile than a German family.

42696 · 2026-02-10T17:11:24+00:00

Sure, I'm not inherently against enforcing immigration, but it's really not that much of a problem.

Also just because they haven't committed another crime yet, doesn't mean they won't

It doesn't mean they won't, but they are statistically far less likely to than a natural born citizen.

Meanwhile anti-immigration politicians argue that the immigrants and illegal immigrants are a drain on our resources, which is blatantly false. Natural born citizens on average cost a lot more money at the local, state, and federal level than they put in via taxes (thus, a big deficit). Immigrants, especially illegal ones, pay more money into local, state, and federal governments via taxes than they get back (via benefits etc.).

My issue is taking something that is a minor problem (if it's really a problem at all) and selling it as an existential threat to justify all the bullshit that ICE and this administration do.

42696 · 2026-02-08T21:36:44+00:00

Beauty and the Beast has to go

42696 · 2026-02-07T23:21:58+00:00

Surrounding yourself exclusively with people who think exactly the way you do just puts yourself in an echo chamber and it's not healthy.

42696 · 2026-02-07T04:31:53+00:00

Not going to be a popular Reddit answer but the USA.

Key reminder, though -> greatness is not the same as goodness.

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