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The point about Kim Jeong is how I feel about Uncle Roger. I like cooking content on YouTube, but every time there's any sort of Asian food involved someone references this minstrel show character as if some Malaysian stand-up comedian with a fake accent is the authority on all Asian cooking even if it's neither Chinese or Malaysian

So let's say that hypothetically, China actually was going for a mass data harvesting. There's of course no concrete proof of that, but let's, for argument's sake, say they are

Of the two options, what is the least harmful to an American:

• giving their personal data to their own government, which has been revealed to have been spying on their citizens for literally decades, and has been known to use this data to target minority groups, in exchange for free software

Or

• giving their personal data to a completely unrelated government that will not share it with the west and that most people will never ever interact with otherwise (barring a visit to China or the person is a member of the diaspora), making it impossible for this data to be used against them, in exchange for free software

This is actual Battletech canon

ComStar says pay your bills or else

This one is very niche but Hallie Rubenhold's Bad Women is about the 5 victims of Jack the Ripper, based on her book The Five. Unlike every other Jack the Ripper podcast/researcher, she went out of her way to research the five victims, who they were, and what put them where they were that night. She set out to push back on this narrative that all five were just prostitutes who "deserved it" somehow, that each of them were people with lives

She also talks about all the misogynistic hate she gets from the "Ripperologist" community about her work

chud-coded language

It stopped being coded a long time ago

He outright praised the chud convoy of trucks that terrorized Ottawa for two weeks. Man is unfortunately straight up a chud

It's not about actual annexation, it's Trump's "unique" deal making style

He's known for issuing outright absurd demands on people, then watching the reaction. When they dismiss it, he doubles down on the absurdity until they start to take it as a serious threat. Once the deadline approaches the other party will offer deep concessions that they otherwise never would have, allowing Trump a 2 part victory: he gets more than he wanted and gets to look strong while doing it

What's going to happen is that Denmark will give Trump everything he actually wants with Greenland (mineral rights and Danish subsidized US bases) without actually annexing it

This tactic fails miserably without leverage like having the largest army in the world, of course

3K is so fucking good and I cannot understand why they abandoned it and all the mechanics from it. The diplomacy system should be standard across all the games going forward but they just reverted it back after that game, it's wild

I'm an absolute sucker for tournament arcs so the entire Chuunin exam bit was fun as hell. You got to see all sorts of wacky side characters get time in the spotlight, got to see some well animated fights, some clever tricks

And then shit goes flying off the rails later on when it truly becomes the Naruto and Sasuke show

I believe he did with a limo crash somewhere in the US but other than that no, he fully freeloads off his cohosts

Feels like it tbh, like having AzovSomething on gave Liam and Nova the freedom to fully embrace being anticommunist slobber uranium types

The pod would sincerely be better if it was just Rocz and Gareth, and both Liam and Nova were dropped. Which sucks because November is a good host when she's forced to not get political (like with KJB)

His full name (may I be struck down for knowing this, I used to be a fan) is Remus Lupin, which is even more creative

It didn't used to be this bad. I don't know which episode started the change but they used to be better at keeping on target with some small tangents. I think once the big Patreon money started coming in and Liam fully embraced being a mooch is when things started going wrong

He's basically admitted he treats the podcast as a way to hang out and drink with distant friends while getting paid