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@threenotes_jp In the U.S., almost everyone was introduced to anime through Cartoon Network (a now-defunct TV station) Pokemon and Yugioh ran in the mornings before school

海外のみんなへ。 日本のアニメで、 最初に好きになった作品って何でしたか？

@RWApodcast Seems pretty obvious at this point that Azerbaijan is at least allowing Ukrainian attacks from its soil, if not aiding outright But Putin doesn't seem willing to do much about it

I have to revise my opinion on drone launches from the territory of Kazakhstan. I don't think that they are occurring. If Ukrainian drones could be freely launched from sparsely populated, "empty" areas of Kazakhstan - as I suspected -, they would be hitting key military-industrial/economic targets: Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Tomsk, Novokuznetsk, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg (circled in blue). These cities are located quite close to the Kazakh border and would become immediate priority targets if Ukrainian agents could move through Kazakh territory and reliably launch drones (red dotted arrows). There have been repeated attempts at striking Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, but so far unsuccessful, except for one case with the latter (blue dotted arrows). A Ukrainian drone recently crashed on Kazakh territory near Orsk (blue X). Earlier, Ukrainian drones crashed on what would be a reasonable drone approach towards Samara and Volgograd (also blue X). Ukrainian drones are clearly flying through Kazakhstan, but I don't believe they are launched from there anymore. Instead, and I have received some credible information on this matter, I believe many long-range Ukrainian drones are launched from civilian vessels converted into drone carriers off the Caspian Sea port of Baku, Azerbaijan. These drones then fly through the Caspian, maneuver through Kazakh territory for as long as possible, and enter Russian territory relatively close to their targets, flying through the steppe and other territories that are much less populated and much less defended (blue arrows). This makes much more sense from a technical, political and military perspective than assuming these drones are freely flying through thousands of kilometers of very dense air defence networks, including the line of contact. It would be quite wasteful to send every drone swarm through the the densest expected Russian defensive belts every time (orange arrows). Particularly Samara and Volgograd (1 and 4) have been hit repeatedly in the last months, with Kazan and Cheboksary (2 and 3) joining the "club" more recently. As for the (geo)political implications of this -- that's another question altogether...

I am voting @VivekGRamaswamy because we need someone who isn’t just trying to curry favor with voters. His opponent, Casey Putsch, thinks he is simply going to have Ohioans eating out of the palm of his hand, when Vivek has far more experience eating this way. He's not afraid to dive headfirst into anything, even the daunting task of fixing public roads, where even his family agrees they've gone to shit. We need a real governor who will both address the elephant in the room and bring back public prayer, something Vivek can do simultaneously. He even believes in the constitutional right to bear arms so deeply that his god has eight of them. Unlike Putsch, Vivek not only remained on the Trump Train but is actively getting hit by it. If you're someone who is sick of all the sacred cows and third rails in politics and wants to take that crap outside where it belongs, vote Vivek for Ohio today!

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@NapoleonBonabot HOI4 is simultaneously the worst and best thing to happen to geopolitics in our lifetimes

@paleochristcon Saw them a few years ago. Bruce still has his voice

Iron Maiden.

@nonregemesse Anime word for friend, usually a fellow anime enjoyer as well

What’s an oomf?

@Zoomer_South It was, in fact “practicable”

To Lee: "Don't siege Gettysburg. Take it immediately"

@elyawda What about Romantic era? Can we keep our Tchaikovsky and Wagner?

All White people should only listen to White music even if that means only Classical

@ArmchairW There's genuinely no fathoming the depths of Pashinyan's stupidity. That or he's a self-loathing Armenian who wants his country destroyed.

The Azeris beat up Armenia after its president decided to lay down and die instead of actually fighting and then decided their best course of action going forward was to try to piss off Russia and Iran at the same time. This is actually how you get partitioned.

@mcgillmd921 You left out the troop of firefighters

Crassus: I want to be in your Triumvirate. Pompey and Caesar: What do you bring to the table? Crassus:

@zajako_ I had this spat on a study abroad in London. Had to explain how insulting they were being to a Southron

It’s always hilarious to me when Europeans call a Southerner “Yank” with a straight face I feel like the equivalent of this would be like an American calling someone from Ireland a “Brit” because “technically they live in the British Isles” or some other lame excuse

@Andoeriz That's a rare one, only about 4,000 Tejano confederates on the high end. I myself have Confederado family (the ones that went to Brazil)

@ElianaMohawk Did you make Astrakhan far east europe because of the Buddhist Kalmyks?

Rate my categorization of Europe

@nonregemesse You're one of us?

@witte_sergei If that's the case, Putin won't do much of anything about it Whether it's his patience or naive europhilia idk but the man just won't rip the band aid off

Fairly certain Ukraine is launching these from Baku. Ukraine is quite cozy with Azerbaijan, they signed a new agreement on defense cooperation last week.

@ChristianHeiens Mississippi has called a special session and Alabama had flipped and the governor is going to

If Republicans are able to redraw Louisiana, and if the Virginia referendum is defeated in the courts, and if no further Blue states are able to redraw their maps between now and November, then Republicans would have close to a 50/50 shot at holding the House in the midterms. Below is a potential map of what that could look like. It’s an extremely narrow gauntlet to run through, but there is currently an outside chance of it happening.

@interstatejuche We have King Alfred in NY

While we're on the subject of Anglo-Saxons, replace the Statue of Liberty

@UpdatingOnRome @yacinehowlett Are you a Stannis fan or a Stephen Dillane fan? Both are valid, but show v. book Stannis has some significant variations

@yacinehowlett - Stannis wins. We can do that in two

I don’t think 2 books is enough to finish the ASOIAF series

@nonregemesse In fairness to us Americans, what you guys call "fresh bread" just isn't a thing we get that much We had a European girl stay with us and it took us WEEKS to finally find bread that she was asking for Most Americans just don't know

In Germany the word for this is notgoodenbreadein