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#31

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Tamas - Today at 01:34:27 PM

Why are we assuming that innocent people died?

Who did?

#32

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - Today at 01:00:18 PM

Why are we assuming that innocent people died?

#33

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Syt - Today at 12:38:28 PM

Chicago Tribune, Dec 26th, 1925, on whether people would feel protected from war if the USA joined the League of Nations:

#34

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Sheilbh - Today at 12:21:07 PM

Depends what you mean by bad at her job

But I just think she's good in it and under-utilised.

#35

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 12:17:48 PM

Re-watched Margin Call - very good film, better than I remembered. Although I think they could have done more with Demi Moore.

You want more on why the character was bad at her job?

#36

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Last post by Admiral Yi - Today at 12:12:37 PM

I think it's a net negative* , his base don't want foreign adventures and many don't give a toss about foreign non-white people, so the protecting oppressed Xians fig leaf doesn't counter-balance that.



* oh and more importantly innocent people will be killed, all in the service of a boastful social media post.

I disagree.  I don't think trump supporters are going to frame lobbing missiles as a foreign adventure.  You need US casualties for that. 

I also think Trump framing the action as defense of African Christians will either be a net positive or net neutral.  It's Trump signalling to the prosperity gospel folk that what they want matters to him.  Their opinions matter.

#37

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Josquius - Today at 12:07:34 PM

Yeah, it's a sign of how different the world is really that they might as well have been different planets back then.
Honestly as much as the current globalksed system obviously has advantages, I have huge nostalgia for the old days when someone could be mega famous in Yorkshire but totally known outside, where you had singers who were just the local version of foreign artists as there was a niche there, and so on.
And obviously yes. The pure untainted showa Japan of my dreams.
Hell.
Just in the 4 years between me leaving Japan and going back to visit the number of foreigners and level of English had shot up.
Though obviously yes very well a silly thing to say, you're not stuck in traffic you are traffic and so on.

#38

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Josquius - Today at 12:02:13 PM

Tsundoku is definitely a problem.
I keep accumulating despite having zero time to read anymore.


A nice Christmas story that has been floating around lately -

BBC News - Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxwllqz1l0o?app-referrer=search

#39

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by mongers - Today at 11:39:46 AM

Arse, I'll have to buy another large bookcase to shelve some of the 'accumulation' from the last couple of years.

Which means having to arrange to stay in for some part of a day, as it'll be too heavy, 40kg, to pick up from a store pickup. 

Anyone else have problems with an over-ambitious book habit? 

#40

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Last post by mongers - Today at 11:34:25 AM

The peacemaker attacks Nigeria?

I think it's a net negative* , his base don't want foreign adventures and many don't give a toss about foreign non-white people, so the protecting oppressed Xians fig leaf doesn't counter-balance that.



* oh and more importantly innocent people will be killed, all in the service of a boastful social media post.