A podcast I listen to recently stated that between 10 and 20% of the North Korean population was killed by us bombing during the Korean war. 85% of buildings in the North were destroyed. They may have used more napalm there then in Vietnam. It was so indiscriminate that B-29 bombers were sent out with no targets, just told to go and bomb stuff.

It puts North Korea’s hatred of the Americans in a bit of context.

I would be more inclined to believe that Trump has, with the help of Israeli and Russian security services, amassed comprising material on all, or almost all, national-level politicians, judges, and bureaucrats.

I think they should be upfront with people that when they go to her concert, they’re not hearing her sing live, at least most of the time, and they are not hearing the band play live.

It should be obvious that no singer could do several 3-hour shows a week for more than a year, and not have it affect her voice.

Just check out the Wings of Pegasus YouTube channel, to see where two different concerts in different countries had exactly the same music (vocal and instrumental).

I know several people who spent thousands of dollars to see her in concert. I’m not going to go out of my way to ruin the memory for them. They got the experience they wanted. But I’m also not going to pretend that it was a musical experience.

As my wife is fond of saying, professional sports has far too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.

Not always true, I’m sure, but not always far from the truth.

I think they meant that they used WWII-era bombers, even though the design and tests were done after the war ended.

Was that guy named Emmanuel Macron? He met his wife when he was 15 and she was 39. He was in a class with her daughter.

For me it’s always the dark eyebrows and white or platinum hair. Just so obviously not natural.

Soap (although of course some soaps are actually detergents in disguise) can’t necessarily replace shampoo. Soaps can react with hardness in the water and leave the residue on your hair. Detergents like shampoo do not react in that way. On the other hand, replacing your soap with a detergent like shampoo or body wash would be fine.

Quebec already has a pharmacare program. Residents are required to either have a private plan, or participate in the provincial one (between $0 and $766/year, depending upon income). It covers a lot more than diabetes and contraceptive medication, too.

It would be a good idea to spell it correctly, then:

Atheist

I remember upgrading from a Commodore Vic-20, with 3.5 KB of RAM, to a Commodore 64 with 64 KB. I was already in university at the time.

Not to mention that the Germans themselves took a few years out, and then put a lot of the Nazi political machine back in charge.

Does anyone remember when Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary General for 9 years and President of Austria for 6, turned out to be a former nazi? Whoops ie!

I visited South Africa during apartheid. IIRC, at the time a manual laborer or house servant was typically paid about $30.

Per month.

Most white people had a cook, a maid, a gardener, and a nanny if they had children.

They weren’t allowed to live in white areas, have white jobs, go to White schools, enter whites only beaches or parks, etc.

Hundreds of thousands of people were detained without trial, tens of thousands more were killed. But no, I’m sure he didn’t see any impression.

A very good and dramatic movie of the time is Biko, about the life and death of an anti-apartheid activist, and the newspaper editor he convinced to change sides.

Even if you turn off your phone, there is a lower-level operating system that is still connecting to cell phone towers. You either have to take the battery out, or leave your phone at home.

Try doing a search for “baseband processor”.

That sounds like a bit of an improvement since I was there. At that time, women were not even given the chance to be on the career path, because it was assumed that they would quit when they started a family.

We had two children when I was in Japan, and the prenatal care was pretty good. The births themselves were not great examples of medical care, I have to say. Still, it’s normal for women in Japan to stay in the hospital a week after a typical birth. I suspect that’s because if they went home, they would still have to do all the housework.

I did a quick search, and it appears that it is still very common for Japanese companies to expect unpaid overtime.

Even when I was there, overtime pay was mandatory. The thing is, you get a lot of peer pressure to do unpaid overtime because everyone around you is doing it. If I recall correctly, the government made a big deal about limiting overtime, only to reveal sheepishly that their own employees had worked tons of unpaid overtime to bring in the new legislation.

One of the advantages of being a foreigner in a Japanese company is that you don’t have the same kind of pressures or expectations.

Wow, their website is really shitty on a phone, though (not sure about on a desktop). Half of all the pages are taken up with ads. Much too easy to hit one by mistake.

Please ceremonies are usually performed on older adolescent or young adult males. It marks the change from child to adulthood.

Not that I’m in favor of it in any case, but it’s not being done on infants, like in North America.

Reactors can also be used to produce plutonium for bombs. The North Korean regime isn’t that concerned with the comfort and health of its people.

You mean RPN, right? Reverse Polish Notation.