you read enough about any nation’s history and you find that everyone is the baddie.

got tangled in the fishing lines and they had to surface, and the personnel of the sub eventually were returned to the DPRK as failures, and, well… failure doesn’t really go well over there.

Zaboomafoo!!
the Kratz brothers still have a show out in PBS and my kids love it!

i think the dumb idea behind it was the USSR diverted the water to make it into arable farmland… now it’s a fucking desert. best thing anyone could do is flood it and give the local environment some life back and pay to relocate the locals and give them a housing stipend until the economy rebuilds, IMO. never gonna happen, but still.

double smiley face!

things got a little screwy in that sense after 2/24/2022, for nearly everyone.

Vinland Saga, Spy X Family, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Chanploo… the list keeps going.

don’t forget all the liquid nitrogen in the Soviet Union!

bury what’s left

what is it?

stood for Portable Infantry AntiTank, i think? should have stood for Put In A Trashcan.

it stayed up behind the ambassadors desk for i think years before it was discovered by accident.

“We will put a man on the moon by the end of this decade”
President John F. Kennedy
pretty well implied as being the finish line, i would think.

The sad thing was that the articles were not entirely incorrect… Kaiser Willhelm was incredibly reluctant to go to war and had to be convinced by his generals after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. the expansive military industrial complex left over from the reign of Otto von Bismarck resulted in an overly powerful military faction within the German government that wanted to see an expansion of its borders and increase its sphere of influence. as part of this, and in alliance with Austria, Germany and Austro-Hungaria wanted access to the mineral riches and trade access of Serbia, which is similarly what the Russians were after. The Russians use this as a justification to engage in hostilities, claiming they were supporting Serbian independence, while the Germans and Austro Hungarians, Fearing Russian expansionism, sought to flex their military might to oppose the Russians. This led to the Russians calling upon France, Germany’s powerful enemy to the west, (cont.)

Love it or hate it, it’s what weirdly makes the dynamic between Morty and summer all the more realistic in Rick and Morty, because they are complete assholes to each other.

The more that I read about it, the more that it kind of seems to me like a dick punch to the Chinese people.

oh god, the absolute worst. a badass through and through but he should have never been allowed to lead his men.

i worked there when this was a thing and i remember getting two crispy bbq snack wraps and a McDouble for my lunch for like $4.16. God that was great. it’s embarrassing how pricey it’s gotten, it used to be the cheap quick alternative and now it’s almost more expensive than 5 Guys Burgers And Fries.

it’s adorable- utter gibberish and incredibly precise. i love it!