I think he’s Japanese-American in the sense of both his parents being of Japanese heritage.

also, somebody who is au fait with transphobia

I love Weimar America as much as I love Weimar Germany. ICE can have jazz, rock’n’roll, the beat poets, David Lynch, Prince, Bikini Kill, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. when they take them from my cold, dead fingers

By some accounts, the effect is not spread out over everything that is counted as “intelligence”, but has a disproportionate effect on faculties such as impulse control. Which could explain a lot (“we voted for X and things still suck? We’re voting for Y next!”)

To me, as a non-American, The Far Side comes across as culturally far more American (in the tradition of the comics pages of US newspapers) than European (bandes dessinées or Métal Hurlant-style sci-fi). There is of course interplay between these traditions (and, indeed, the Japanese manga and ukiyo-e traditions), though I’m not convinced there’s an outsized influence from European comics culture. As for Gary Larson’s Swedish heritage, I’m not sure that enters the picture; I’d classify the (Japanese-American) Adrian Tomine as closer to the European tradition than Larson.

the lawyer replies “fuck the kids!”, to which the priest protests “there’s no time for that”

I imagine that, should the SHTF, they won’t get a chance to line up a shot, any more than the Cubans in Caracas did.

The kind of moron who, when asked if they’d like their pizza cut into 4 or 6 slices, says “4. I could never eat six!”

Given that these cameras protect the weak from the strong, they are “woke” and have no place in Trump America.

I can visualise the flecks of saliva on his lips as he imagines the end of NATO and the subsumption of Europe into a Moscow-based authoritarian oligarchy run by his paymasters, and the dachas and yachts he could stand to buy when it happens.

You’re right. There’s no way two people could have appeared in the same photograph years before they met. What dumbasses all the normies upvoting that post must be!

And this somehow arrives at a highly refined piece of code rather than the software equivalent of Habsburg Jaw?

also the Euro and, if you’re in, you’re also in Schengen. No more precious hour-long security queues at any railway station having cross-Channel services because the English are special.

Who cares what that dipshit thinks

There have been a number of cases of neo-Nazis from Russia/the former USSR faking Jewish heritage to emigrate to Israel (along with a lot of other non-Jewish Russians looking for a way out). I wonder if this guy’s one of them.

UFOs and aliens are male-coded, as in if they were toys, they’d be “action figures” and never dolls.

I thought that there had been historically a boxing match the day after Christmas, and while the name remains, the actual barbaric spectacle went the way of bear-baiting due to people becoming more averse to violence.

The 3.5” disk was designed as a consumer product by Sony, whose industrial design is second to none. (Compare the 5¼ “ and 8” floppies, which were designed by IBM engineers and only intended for use by technical specialists.)

They have toilets with taps and basins feeding into the cistern, at least in Japan

I hope Ukraine lets NATO join them