And apparently Tokyo isn't even their nicest city,
Well, I'd like to see a better one. There are more traditional cities, but all-around Tokyo was awesome. Of course, there are some areas with a lot of foreigners, the most telling sign being garbage on the streets that are spotless everywhere else despite there being no garbage cans almost anywhere.
I really should get to Japan at some point
I'm not a weeaboo, but I'd like to go to Japan every year.
You mean first AA flight in a while?
Since the last one flown by members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
All kidding aside, you're absolutely right. I did mean North America, which had remarkably few fatalities since 9/11. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Europe, which has seen cases like Air France 447.
and I realize we're just catching a snapshot of when things go drastically wrong but, still, it seems like things have gotten much worse.
But they're still on a long-term downward trajectory. As bad as things are now, they are better than 25 years ago, at least in terms of fatalities. The AA flight was, I believe, the first one with a (significant?) number of casualties for quite a while.
I was sort of worried I'd never fly again, when all that covid passport shit was going down.
I thought they were going to make at least some of those things permanent. Or complain about a 'pandemic of misinformation' and then deny people on the basis of Wrongthink. After all, if you don't want someone to spread Covid, why would you allow hm to spread misinformation?
Maybe I'll weeb out fully and go to Japan some day
Highly recommended. I never looked at a European city the same way, after I saw what can be [unburdened by...]. Even the nicest, cleanest, best-run cities with the most polite people look like amateurs compared to Tokyo.
MONSTERS
hateful pigs
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He has no mercy on his own children, do you expect him to have any mercy on the nation?
I know deep down the AI thing will eventually grow out of control
Every few years or so, there's a new fad that 'will change everything'... and it never does. The people betting on 'nothing ever happens' have made a fortune, both in this area and in international relations.
They've dumbed down 'the arts' so far that an AI can do it.
Mark Ruffalo? I have no idea who the guy is, but I do know he said this about the pedo who got shot:
��We come together to mourn the lives lost to the same racist system that devalues Black lives and devalued the lives of Anthony and JoJo [Rosenbaum]. #ReimagineKenosha� link - archive.org - archive.today
“Most of these are the people going around calling LGBTQIA+ groomers, attacking trans kids and parents, labeling their foes pedophiles—all while blocking a bill that helps real victims of grooming and pedophiles. Frauds, grifters & generally awful people.
he is also sane and rational enough to admit that it is time for peace and that Ukraine cant just keep throwing bodies away for the political goals of Western elites.
That last part is your own assessment. I'm not giving Kissin credit for it. But yeah, after three years of a meatgrinder, he came to the conclusion that MAYBE this war can't go on forever. I guess a small amount of credit is due for that. Before that though, he was actively warmongering.
It might be because (I think) he said he has family in 'Ukraine', so his derangement is at least understandable.
someone who was actually deranged (like many of said elites) would never admit that Ukraine should find a way to peace even if it means the loss of the Donbas.
I think it's an Overton Window thing. The average pro-Ukraine is so deranged that they make ordinarily deranged people look sane.
Everything about this clip is amazing.
Check out the plane that caught fire last year at Haneda Airport.
also sort of sad I can't anymore.
People don't like to hear this here, but even with all this crap, flying is still way safer than driving yourself - even with the exemplary driving skills that I have no doubt everyone here has.
They will blame it on Trump, Musk and Russia.
This is the kind of insight you need to prevent yourself from falling into a mob mentality, except when it's called for.
In general, women are selfish, self-centered hedonists being lead around by their pussy
Huh, I guess you do believe that men and women are alike.
In 'all of history' women have never been more promiscuous.
Yes, so why is this guy making dumb claims about all of history?
Interesting rebrand for you.
How very interesting that an opinion I've held for 4 years is a... rebrand.
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/141FAdEux6/john-j-mearsheimer-the-ukraine-c/c/
a longtime ethnic grievance.
Wow, imagine you connecting this to your usual.
Doesn't surprise me. But what OP was claiming is that women like having their families slaughtered and to be made the sex slave of some 'barbarian'... because romance novels.
Yes and no. Lindsey is an autist who thinks that the pendulum is about to swing way off the charts, while Kissin has Russia Derangement Syndrome. I'm not aware that Lindsey has been doing any war-mongering.
That says, RDS is enough reason to not trust someone's translation.
And that's a good thing?
Europe seems to falsely believe all of America is what they also falsely believe Texas is. Guns and violence everywhere, rednecks, absolute anarchy.
Well, I can't say that I'm too happy with the crimes rates there either. But they have falsely been persuaded that it's legal guns. In their egotism, they have not even considered that you don't want to live in the middle of nowhere in a vast expanse like the US without being able to provide for your own protection.
Actual crime in the US is underplayed. It's only played up when it serves an agenda. I'm not sure what they have to gain by persuading a continent that is 95-97% against free gun ownership that gunz r bad mkaay, but it is.
but also thought paying your taxes was basically holy
Basically the opinion of everyone who is 'respectable' in Europe. Everyone hates politicians, they hate 'the government' (meaning the politicians in the executive), but they love 'the state'. I'm closer to them than I am to the average American, in that I believe in more social services and e.g. regulation of employment, but since they use our taxes to screw us, fund wars and import refugees... they can get f'ed.
Next time someone says that dodging taxes is bad, I'll just say "yeah, they might not be able to fund as many wars".
most surprisingly...that the US needed to fund the Ukraine war to protect Europe from Russia, for Global Stability™.
Depending on the country, 'conservatives' may be rabid neocons. I assume this guy was not Bri'ish, or you would have said so. But it's also true of a country like Sweden, and even Poland. Some people have an axe to grind with Bad Russher.
to my country, say it's my duty to pay my taxes to wage war against Russia, so Putin doesn't roll through Europe?
Putin is simultaneously always at the point of being defeated and also at the point of conquering Madrid.
Go back to Europe.
Noooooo...
On the one hand, it's a more understandable invasion, on the other hand it feels more immediate and threatening to outsiders.
Why though? They sure didn't feel "threatened" when Azerbaijan invaded Armenia, hell, they were funding its war machine.
This outrage, like every other outrage, is manufactured. I saw more images of civilian casualties in the first week of Russia 'Ukraine' than I did in 20 years of deep state wars.
The US does imperialism from afar, and has (sort of) good PR.
Yup. The whole 'western' propaganda apparatus is second to none... while persuading everyone that there is a 'Russian propagandist' under your bed.
Sure, but it's not the NPC normie argument. They're not whining that he's not expanding the corporate empire, they're whining about Fascism™ and Safety™. And the foot soldiers at least seem to actually believe it.
As you say, there's a real reason, and then there's the reason that's fed to the rabble. The problem is, people here really don't know anything about the US, so it's difficult to even begin to dismantle an entire edifice of preconceptions and propaganda.
Imagine if all you knew about America was what you saw on CNN. For decades. Never any personal experience, nor any contact with anyone who had personal experience.
When people have personal experience, that is a good antidote to propaganda. The same people who think that Trump is the worst scumbag in the world, also don't like immigration and are unafraid to say it to me (a colored).
They've consumed their own BS, and honestly believe the US is some despotic hellhole now, under Orange Fuhrer.
But that's true. I saw three American prosecutors talking and laughing about how they arrest and imprison people for posting 'insults' and 'offensive content' online. And then they laughed about how they take away people's phones, and that this is even worse than the other punishment, because "your whole life" is on your phone.
I'm also just hoping Europe doesn't go for the trifecta and start yet another world war.
Counting the Napoleonic Wars, we're already at 3.
The guy were talking about 'all of history'. It may seem remote, but there was a time there were no 'spicy' books. Also, I'm not sure how many of them describe a guy coming in, slaughtering your family and abducting you to be his slave.
The 'western' powers support independence movements when it's aimed against a country they don't like (Kosovo). When it's against a state that they do like, then they'll send you cluster munitions to use against the city center of Donetsk.
RUSSIAN TALKING POINT!
"Kremlin talking point" means nothing more than "the Russians are pointing this out, and I have no answer, or I'd be talking about substance instead of who is saying what".
Other than myself?
It was also said that the strong Japanese culture, the disaster preparedness and its high-trust nature was what allowed passengers to stay calm and save lives rather than panic or take their baggage with them.
Supposedly, the fact that the A350 is partly plastic also helped because of a slower burn.