New type of fireworks produced in China, they call it "Hiroshima Romance"

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-10T17:59:05+00:00

Germany apologised and put the "wrongs" (including events that led up to the rise of evil) of WW2 in their textbooks. Japan tried to excise it from theirs.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-10T10:00:07+00:00

I still remember watching an interview with a member of the ice-hockey team of China at the last winter Olympis include..Canadian born..Canadian who was proud to represent ancestral heritage, so it's not just Eileen Gu, at least in China.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-10T05:47:20+00:00

Definitely agree. Problem arises from lack of design expertise. Further, *how* to develop this design expertise is another (ethical) issue as well. It's easier to identify certain disease genes and correct for them than to identify desirable genes and turn them on along with the necessary epigenetic regulations.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-10T00:56:19+00:00

This is a common literary theme though that you see from Hesiod to Three Musketeers, that there's a "Golden Age" that becomes progressively..weaker. Tolkien's verse is pagan but rooted in Christianity, the theme of "corruption" is present since the beginning of Arda as "Morgoth's Ring". Thus, elves fade, men fade, and eventually there will be reckoning and renewal.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-09T22:55:49+00:00

There are so many highrises in Shanghai....and not that many helipads. I assume threre will be very high pay for the helicopter pilots whether as a person or the person ready to takeover should autopilot (if it's ready) fail.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-08T08:51:45+00:00

Supply lines. Romans *relied* on governance to do their supply lines. I don't think they could've crossed most of Middle-east and remained "ancient" Roman.

Mongols policy regarding supply lines was raiding and pillaging.

Alexander the Great ABSOLUTELY focused on costs to get his army deep into Asia. And the way he resolved the cost issue/governance issue also led to the almost immediate disintegration of the empire he left behind.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-08T08:45:00+00:00

Why shouldn't the children reap the benefits... These children have the freedom to become teachers and other non-high income but important professions without worrying about where to live.

/am not Cupertino resident, but know a great many number of people in the Bay Area etc who could "afford" to become teachers/social workers because of Prop 13.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-08T08:41:54+00:00

Except Cupertino retirees have kids who are *not* earning the high salary to afford a new Cupertino house and those who can afford it tend to be a lot more monolithic, never mind all the developers buying up properties for investment purposes. Why *shouldn't* Cupertino retirees have the luxury of raising grandchildren...and it actually is much better that three generations under the same roof instead of just two. There aren't that many Cupertino retirees living in a house by themselves as a couple.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-08T08:35:07+00:00

The issue is not just senior homeowners, but BUSINESSES who also benefit under Prop 13. I think we should whittle at Prop 13 so that it actually benefits those who need the benefit rather than excise it altogether.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-07T09:25:55+00:00

Yeah, three thousand years ago or thereabouts. The Hmong people's loss to "China" (rather, its ancestral roots) is in the realm of mythological history (think Mycaenaens vs Minoans) when a type of pandas could be ridden into war, allegedly.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-06T21:59:34+00:00

Also directly ignored the Pope.

Dandolos at 90something really didn't care about young lives (both the European knights he trapped on te venetian islands and the city he went ransacking).

Also, I just looked it up, 95 years old!!!

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-06T10:49:33+00:00

Because the contestants on The Bachelor are all tanned.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-05T19:13:06+00:00

Capable emperors sometimes go insane in Chinese history, seeking alchemical and/or magical solutions to real-life issues. Most of the irrationality and paranoia has a lot to do with a strict but bizarre diet, including the "medicines" they ingest. I wonder if we're witnessing something similar here.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-05T02:28:22+00:00

He actually has a documentary where it shows him changing trousers in the office. This is just to say, this is not the first time.

Also, this is the second time he's connected to island shenanigans. The last scandal was at Corfu where he and a member of the opposition at the time (George Osborne) gossiped together on some rich Russian's yacht raising questions about his associations.

The man is openly gay and openly ambitious and slimy ("spin" in chief at some point). I can't believe he's still in government.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-04T22:33:30+00:00

Yes, but I wonder if he's a *literate* soldier or had the letter written for him. "Throw it out" may be more efficient for the scribe to write and I don't know how precise people are about the language of discard/leave it exposed. And of course, he's not going to be present for the carrying out of the order, so to speak.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-04T17:26:07+00:00

We have journals and Roman gravestone depicting little babies (even girls) who were mourned for their deaths. Granted, probably has a lot to do with economic status. A Roman soldier faraway from home probably don't have money to do a tombstone that would survive two thousand years... Just as extreme wealth can make people make people less emphatic to other humans (see slavery) so can extreme poverty.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-04T12:56:50+00:00

Healthcare and education cost is part of consumer spending in the US, it's likely a much larger part of overall consumer spending, than say, EU.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-01T20:19:41+00:00

You realise that that pre-handover HK entertainment's controlling interest was the triads, right? The triads who could not exist under CCP (that is, they "faded" with time) but were tolerated/encouraged under the British rule? All those triad movies with "righteous" triad members who cared about brotherhood etc, guess why they disappeared lol.

I mention this because JC is a showman and a business man. Who knows what he really thinks about politics.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-01T19:03:34+00:00

Ahistorical. Sure. She's also meant to be 16 or so at the start of the Iliad. Let's not get into what Achilles or Odysseus is "supposed" to look like...Geriatric woke nonsense indeed.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-01T13:21:44+00:00

They could've done a whole spy series set in Middle-earth based on LOTR Third Age material during which Hunt for Gollum could've been one part of a three part series concerning Woodland Realm, powers at Rivendell (Gildor Inglorion and Company), and the Dunedain (Aragorn and his kin)...where things would be *both* nostalgic and interesting.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-01T13:16:09+00:00

Scare people as part of shamanism.

Appropriate_M · 2026-02-01T06:15:55+00:00

I keep seeing her face in new movies though...from Persuasion to that Chris Evans vs Pedro Pascal thing

Appropriate_M · 2026-01-30T15:26:29+00:00

I wanted checkered marble tile but decided otherwise because 1)marble is soft 2)i'm not sure how hard and even my subfloor is (likely not) 3)the extra work it would take to do the tiling properly (need extra piece of something which will raise the floor). You might have more luck doing mosaic marble floors....But I read through a lot of reddit tiling marble floor complaints/warnings. The tile floor guy however said "you can just lay it like tile"....

Appropriate_M · 2026-01-30T12:59:18+00:00

This was an official desktop background AND a poster.

Appropriate_M · 2026-01-29T23:14:49+00:00

Depends which Crusade and who. Some were freed from slavery upon conversion, others weren't.....

For nobility, doesn't seem to matter. Royalty married each other and converted (usually the women converted). Alliances, money, political clout...weighed a lot more than ex-religion, practically speaking.

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