We have so many ethnic holidays that lost their meaning. St Patrick's day is literally to celebrate Irish heritage. The same with Valentines For Italians. Cinco de Mayo is a holiday to celebrate Mexican culture and get drunk. There is a slight excuse, and tons of traditions have changed, but that was their original reasons for US celebration.

Companies fear a competent man. I've worked at theme parks where almost everything was run by a handful of techs. If food became automated, those places would only need that handful, and everyone else would become contract workers at best.

So, schools don't teach you to be competent out of fear.

I may be wrong, but based on the accent he's black, so ...

You did a great job.

How did you get the strike through? Do you know how to get things underlined?

It was an older woman, I doubt she has kept up.

And the way they stopped it is now used against anything the Chinese government hates.

I hope all of these books are taken from him then.

How did you know this was posted by a woman? The other one I posted next to it was as well. They were both older types who seemed to think they were very kind.

There's a wonderful movie called Japan's Longest Day about the day the Empire declared the war over. It has the suicide I just mentioned. It is based on everything that happened during that day, down to that speeches given. It was made by, for, and about Japanese culture.

Also, historians have gone through the records and found that the Japanese did not have the resources to keep the empire working. The constant expansion was expensive, and the ability to keep it even harder. There's a picture of Japanese next to the Japanese military in China. At first it looks like a sign of power, but then you see the faces and realize the only thing stopping the absolute destruction of the Japanese colony is the military.

Basically they made a lot of bravado, but didn't have the ability to keep the empire for long.

It never looked promising.

Imperial Japan bad a mid-level officer problem. The best way to get a promotion was to win a big battle, but those above them didn't want to invade more islands or nations. So the officers invaded anyway, and the entire country had to act like it worked, even though they didn't have the resources to keep it up.

Those same officers tried to take over japan before the emperor could declare defeat. The general of the army committed suicide during this time. His suicide not simply said, "I am sorry for the darkness"

Japan wanted to be big, but the officers were to ambitious, which led to problems the entire time it was an empire. I suspect Japan is trying to build another military incase the US leaves suddenly. They are buying time until they can defend themselves properly. The problem is, the insanity of the war machine in Japan actually scares Japanese today. They may not be as bad as Germany, but they don't want to become the darkness again.

That was a weird movie.

Great Falls isn't a place I've been, but it's a smaller town in Montana. This is where Feds pretend to be the greater good by acting like dictators and are mostly ignored as soon as their gone. Can't let my cattle graze here? Only when you're looking.

This was a straight up fear tactic. Montana, Idaho and eastern Washington stopped the George Floyd riots by having volunteers show up armed and ready. You can't control a well armed militia, so they have to take away the arms on the flimsiest excuse possible.

I think they just want to imagine him being cheese graded and worked backwards.

That's because most of the explorers and conquering people from England were pretty rare compared to the common man. By the time England had conquered half their badasses had died or moved out. Captain Cook was the first guy to deal with the long school tradition of Kill a Haole day, and all the famines and hardship had people moving to the states as fast as they could.

Keep in mind France was a country of badasses for centuries, and then slowly lost all of it for the same reason.

Want to know the worst part about this? I was joking at the absurdity, but am not shocked that it happened.

There's also a rule that enough people have to be there for a vote to happen, if enough people had stomach aches, the law is null.

Whatever the reason, it was passed as if they had a gun to their heads.

They couldn't vote against it without having backdoor Yakuza show up at your house with CIA weapons, so not voting is all you can do. The only way to not vote is to not be there because of illness.

I've been meaning to, because it looks like the origin of the Belmont character in Castlevania.

Red Sonja will be played by the same actress as Ariel in the remake.

I'm fairly certain the stomach problem was a protest.

Yes the followers of Romney, not the politician.

They probably put the money into a tax rebate general fund which goes to random things. Then the fund itself put it into festivals including this one. It's a common way to get money for festivals, conventions, and movies. There is a board that decides what happens next.

Big tourist bucks from people who like scary stories? Ukraine has two Disneylands now.

He was a nice guy that followed republican ideals. That's been his go to thing for a long time. His accusations of trump are "I disagree with him, AND HE'S NOT NICE"

i doubt anyone expected this level of corruption and insanity to be possible. I think the Romney types still don't. In their minds, it's still a handful of ner do wells amongst a mostly peaceful but misguided people.