For years the people of pandora have lived under the tyranny of the anime equivalent of people who order French fries and chicken tenders at the Mexican restaurant

north korean woman who tells insane stories about north korea for a living

if this is part 1 I shudder to imagine what's in part 2

some (perhaps deliberately) shortsighted people play silly numbers games - US aid is only x% of israel's economy, etc - missing the more important indirect effects. losing diplomatic support from the US means getting sanctioned. losing the threat of US intervention could mean invasions

I've been calling it Mandarin since primary school when the class was called Mandarin. idk other people's motives but I do think it makes more sense to call it Mandarin since that's an identifiable language. We wouldn't call say English and Romanian Latin dialects because they share a writing system

yeah I mean this is why calling Chinese languages "dialects" is stupid, you get westerners thinking languages that branched from each other thousands of years ago are akin to the funny accents they hear on tv sometimes

But what if your life completely sucked and you had no money or prospects and the plant was the first thing you'd ever gotten any positive attention for

what does "content" even mean anymore what the fuck are you talking about? i wish for all finance freaks to die immediately

last panel joyce looks like the bends album cover

John Podhoretz has always been like this

Kids today will never know the simple joys of growing up in sawmill from tf2

i had a handroll not long ago that just had a spring roll in it. good shit

for all the money they've splashed on graphics here the gameplay is still lagging behind indie games like pizza tower

he looks like if james cameron had decided to be the greatest one man band in the world instead of filmmaker