woodenghost

Didn't Biden basically announce the US was gonna do it before it happened?

You're right, that contrast is definitely important.

Yes, that would make sense.

The mentioning of Hachinosu got me thinking about a little thing that annoys me a bit. I think Hachinosu is funny, but also somewhat boring and uncool, because it's such a flat trope. Everyone there is just completely evil, leering drunks, ready to cut their own mother's head of and sell it for a drink. The slavers government send people they didn't like there, so shouldn't some really cool people have ended up there? Or just normal people who got in the way or committed the severe crime of being poor? Just like Australia.

Or maybe they have a three tier system: the work camp on the endless bridge where Robin ended up gets all the prisoners who are really just good honest people who got in the way of the government. Hachinosu gets all the cartoonishly evil caricatures of pirates. And Impel Down gets a carefully curated mixture of 70 % the same as Hachinosu and the rest are either ruffians with a golden heart who were led astray or secret revolutionaries, both of which end up in level 5.5 eventually.

I guess many fans like it, because they are like "finally a place with real pirates, like black beard". And by "real", they mean the caricature they mistake for historic pirates. But if you know anything about real pirate history in the Caribbean you know it's far from black and white.

Wasn't there a theory about rocks being inside teach somehow?

The insanely specific law is man made and part of culture. So it's still an example of weird culture. It's also specifically USian, because other countries have laws too, but not these insanely specialized lawyers to this extend nor their bizarre advertisements everywhere.

If it's about a paper and nothing else works, you could always just email the authors and ask. They gain absolutely nothing from the journal fees, so they lose nothing by helping you and might be happy someone is actually reading their paper.

What?

Nooo

They totally are and this probably won't even change that, just like previous airstrikes. They are just that subservient. Israel is just making sure Syria will never resist again.

The article, as well as the article from the Atlantic it quotes, both keep repeating the number of $800,000 for the price of the food. But the first paragraph of the article says $800,000,000. Of by a factor of x 1000? Either way it's crazy, of course.

I think it's already past that.