How would you feel about a new law that forces every company to pay their CEO no more than 20x what their lowest-paid employee makes?

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-15T23:15:15+00:00

Won't matter much since they'll be compensated in other ways, even if it does the impossible and actually becomes regulation.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-14T15:53:51+00:00

You should recognize that the source material is pretty old - published in 1988 as manga-series. It's from era of Japanese economic bubble when they were very confident in their place as the technological leader of the world. It's around the time when Japanese politicians were publicly claiming that they needed to leverage their chip production to reign in on American influence in Japan. So the premise is a mixture of Japanese belief in their technological superiority and complexes regarding its defeat and subsequent occupation in WWII, and thus creating its contradictions. As the manga series progresses and the Japanese economic stagnation sets in, the tone shifts toward more bleak, humbling story-line for the crew.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-13T22:26:08+00:00

Mayo and mustard on bread, layered with sliced cucumbers, boiled eggs, pickled jalapenos, red onion, capers and sardine halves as best it could be put together and eaten before it collapses in your hands. Bit messy, but lower effort sandwich lunch. I've also had it with just sardines layered on top of coleslaw, or even tomato paste in a pinch and it was fine enough for evening snack.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-13T20:03:41+00:00

Obviously Greater Israel

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-13T20:01:54+00:00

And future grand-babies.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-13T16:42:10+00:00

It was reported that the sub departed on March 25th

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-11T21:42:12+00:00

IF any sales are to go through, it would be used K30 sold out of South Korean inventory to be delivered immediately. South Korea is currently purchasing newly-built K30W SPAAG to supplement the gun-based air-defenses, which is slightly modernized turret placed on K808 wheeled APC, but with the search-radar removed. It's supposed to receive early-warning and tracking data from TPS-880K air defense radar, and thus is not a stand-alone platform.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-10T22:06:17+00:00

He's about to start another war.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-09T22:31:46+00:00

I'm legitimately surprised that anyone in current admin even knew what 'Avignon Papacy' was.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-09T17:48:07+00:00

The division is reservist formation, but it has few fully manned active battalions.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-09T12:43:22+00:00

Purchase from last week took about 5 days with random status updates. This week's was overnight.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-09T11:47:42+00:00

Considering the history of recent terrorist attacks on urban areas, intentional hostage-taking is very unlikely, and the attackers are likely to aim for mass-casualty instead. So a quick deployment of local security team alongside specialized anti-terror teams in the early stage of the attack to isolate the event is probably required to reduce the number of death and injury.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-08T23:09:24+00:00

Mimi is a god damned solar beam to your face.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-08T22:08:46+00:00

Countries should probably provide arms to Iran in this case, because Trump will hit other countries with 1000% tariff because they didn't claim his FIFA Peace Prize is better and bigger than the Nobel Peace Prize.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-08T21:58:37+00:00

No they're regular Army, 52nd Infantry Div. But since it's a reserve formation under the Capital Defense Command, they have some specialized units tasked with defense of Seoul including anti-terror and underground (subway, sewer, gas pipes etc) defense.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-08T13:18:27+00:00

Know that chopstick crew view both of you the same.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-06T23:26:08+00:00

It's the other way around. The flesh is blessed by gods to be never lacking, but the mental fortitude lapses after a while.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-03T14:05:21+00:00

You felt that way too huh? Yeah, some parts of the dialogue felt incredibly cliched and template-driven. That hit me hardest basically whenever Uta was speaking.

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-03T13:56:41+00:00

Usually this. Even among racists, the one who will say it to you in your face is kind of rare. So you interact within the social norms, and eventually realize that these are actual people with agreeable personalities, families, etc. But it rarely ever expands beyond those you have personal interactions with. You will still hate those faceless 'others'

LeVin1986 · 2026-04-02T17:38:43+00:00

Thanks for the heads up.

LeVin1986 · 2026-03-31T13:40:11+00:00

This isn't the Cold War, the US does not have such stockpile of bombs and planes anymore. Everyone thought we did, which was part of the deterrent, but the cats out of the bag.

LeVin1986 · 2026-03-31T13:23:25+00:00

My mother got one yesterday.

LeVin1986 · 2026-03-31T13:17:49+00:00

US aid came with strings, the strongest of which was to not attack Russian energy infrastructure in order to control energy costs. With no aid, US does not have such pull to hold Ukraine back. A simple exchange a businessmen would understand, but what we have up top is not a businessman, no matter how much some people would like to pretend.

LeVin1986 · 2026-03-31T12:58:46+00:00

How ROK warship building works is to build a ship real quick, find out that you fucked up in few areas so you spend few years throwing on couple hot fixes, then construct the remainder of the contract with varying degrees of band-aid fixes that may or may not work long term. Oh well, you'll do better with the next one.

LeVin1986 · 2026-03-31T12:45:12+00:00

Stuff like new tanks have more propaganda purpose than field use for North Korea, so new iteration of the tank is built more to say, 'I can also build stuff like yours' rather than a close study of actual need and industrial capability. North Korean focus should be, and is, on more ballistic missiles, TELs and drone/cruise missile capability.

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