Most western countries have committed genocide or invasion in very recent history. Either in the context of WWII, colonialism or economic interests. Countries don't magically change over night. Wouldn't it be more surprising if they didn't support their ally?
alyth
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Who cares about some billionaire's opinion. I would assume he restructured his portfolio and wants to see some gains.
I’ve given up entirely on relationships at this point
Perfect! You'll meet your person when you least expect it. There's a big day coming for you.
A lot of them unfortunately, at least in Europe every other news article quotes a politican's Twitter post
I used Babel for a bit. The quality seems good. There's little to no gamification, it feels like a digital version of a classic language learning textbook. They offer around 12-13 languages up to level B2. If you decide to purchase a lifetime subscription, it's on sale every couple of months for 130-180 USD.
This sounds like a positive message for people who question their self-worth. However, you will run into people in your life who try to take advantage of you because it's easy. Loving everyone without questioning what you get out of the equation entails a risk of becoming a doormat. So please look out for yourself too.
The template of this meme is that of the man who cheerfully points his hand at a butterfly, asking "Is this a pigeon"?. In this meme, the man has been covered with icons of the applications IntelliJ, VSCode, Chromium and Signal. The butterfly which he points to is overlaid with the caption ".config". He asks "Is this a trash can?" At the bottom of the image, we see the command du -sh executed on the directories .config/chromium/ and .config/Code, yielding file sizes of 1016M and 83M respectively.
YES!!! I recognized it as a Goosebumps cover instantly too! What a blast to the past, I loved those. This one is from book #4 "Say Cheese and Die!"
I was just lurking, but I appreciate you sharing your knowledge and I like your use of the ^^;; and XD emojis :3
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Well, I had a 6 hour train ride ahead of me so I decided to finish the book and I'm glad I did.
spoiler
I still stand by my criticisms of the book, which are:Nakata's passing surprised me. After Colonel Sanders' appearance, I'd thought the characters are invinicible. But now Hoshino is thrown into cold water and we get some suspense back.
I think the book gives a deserving end to both Nakata and Ms. Saeki. Until their meeting I hadn't noticed just how strongly they complement each other with both of them being empty in their respective ways. Their end seems to match the theme of closing what was opened after they have undergone their respective journeys.
But one of my favorite parts of the book is in the last chapter: When Sada asks Kafka if he's seen the soldiers. Up until that point, I'd made a distinction between two worlds. There's the real world where we have the library, the cafes, the motorway stops. Then there's the dream world where Kafka meets young Ms. Saeki or where we find the village in the forest. Sada comes into the novel as a more or unless unrelated character dwelling in the real world. With this one simple question he provides (to my judgement at least) the first hard evidence that there is no such distinctions. Both the tangible and the intangible dreams are part of the same reality.
Oh, and Hoshino is just delightful! I wish him well. spoiler--___