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yamez 1 point ago +1 / -0

Americans don't know what the energy prices are in Europe lol. You guys have it goooood.

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yamez 1 point ago +2 / -1

Hot chocolate is a drink for children.

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yamez 1 point ago +2 / -1

China has demographic crisis even worse than ours

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yamez 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes, but they were brought in the 1500's and popularized in the 1600's. That's a long long time ago, enough that they might as well be considered "native" now.

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yamez 11 points ago +11 / -0

anybody who has actually read the manga or even watched the anime knows that one of the central plot points is that Akane isn't actually that good, and is probably the weakest of the main cast. It's an important plot point because her father wants a strong martial artists to inherit the school, thus the arranged marriage. She spends the whole show looking to improve enough to overcome Ranma and others but is never really able to.

Wanna make a bet in a remake she will be the god-queen of martial arts?

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yamez 23 points ago +23 / -0

bear in mind that Akane got whooped everytime she and Ranma actually faced off. She beat on him all she wanted until he actually fought back at which point he would stomp all over her.

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yamez 3 points ago +3 / -0

Trump is pro business and trade. He likes everybody who has money to spend--which includes Israel. He is significantly less friendly to war and conflict because it interrupts business. I guess this is really difficult for a lot of people to understand. The man seems to really just want people to trade with each other.

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yamez 7 points ago +7 / -0

I need the ruling/source on that, because I am very curious and my Polish wife would love to have more fuel for her nationalist fire.

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yamez 1 point ago +1 / -0

The population pyramid that was last published is about as bad as it could be without the country being totally depopulated.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/ukraine/2024/

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yamez 8 points ago +8 / -0

Ukraine will never replenish their manpower. They aren't having babies, nearly all of their young women fled to the west and their young men are dead or lonely or in hiding. The Demographic crisis that Ukraine is facing is a catastrophe.

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yamez 18 points ago +18 / -0

Eh, there were tribes in the area when the Dutch rolled up. The bushpeople and the Xhosa were kickin' around across the region. The thing that matters is that the population density was very low until the Dutch do what the dutch and farmed a metric fuck-tonne of food on terrain that isn't supposed to be farmable.

Ocean in the way? The Dutch can farm it.

Desert? The Dutch can farm on that too.

No Atmosphere? Send the Dutch.

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yamez 10 points ago +10 / -0

I'm pretty sure that's a nodachi, not an odachi. Shorter, more similar to how europeans used Zweihändern than the craziness going on with odachi's.

Alternatively, I'm bloviating and there isn't a real difference.

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yamez 9 points ago +9 / -0

no 12 year old deserves anything of the sort, regardless of her parentage. She is a child, you gibbering lunatic.

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yamez 16 points ago +16 / -0

We definitely have the capacity to rebuild it. What we lack is the will.

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yamez 2 points ago +2 / -0

Langschwanzenzieher-44

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yamez 3 points ago +3 / -0

got a good reading list?

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yamez 9 points ago +10 / -1

it's not. It's famously difficult to farm, and africa imports 5x the food that they produce, to the point that if we ever have a global agricultural interruption, Africa is Fucked.

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yamez 1 point ago +1 / -0

what rights are you speaking of exactly?

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