Tobias Harris

I'm at the point where using "lib" as a pejorative is basically grounds for an instant block

This is the first I've heard of this but just why

That's awful and one of my nightmares.

Seriously though, it's the stepping on Legos of eating,

Wishcasting all the way down

New elder millennial problems: when you bite into a prune that still has a pit in it.

"Only in Japan did America gain the peace our arms had won, because Douglas MacArthur-a throwback to the statesmanship of common sense-kept Washington's wise men and the Soviets at bay in Tokyo"

Tell me you know literally nothing about how the US approach to Japan unfolded without telling me.

The response rate figures for the new Kyodo poll are hilarious.

Landlines: 490 calls placed, 423 answered. 86.3% response rate
Mobile: 3892 calls placed, 631 answered. 16.2% response rate

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Takaichi government approval ratings, ten-day weighted moving average, 9 March

APPROVE 63%
DISAPPROVE 25.1%

Adjusted for pollster biases

APPROVE 63.4%
DISAPPROVE 26.5%

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Trump's "back to the 1980s" time warp strikes again.

Now down more than JPY 4000

a young boy is sitting in front of a group of people . ALT: a young boy is sitting in front of a group of people .

The whole world is living in that Twilight Zone, "It's a good life." More specifically, we're the villagers living in fear of the most special little boy.

Nikkei opens down 3000

Yeah, that's true. And then they returned again.

Shouldn't it be four? (Clinton after the Iran-Contra boys)

India going with the Yankees approach (absolute mashers, questionable fielding)

Thanks for sharing this. Absolutely losing that whatever (limited) patience I had with this crowd.

I'm loving the ads for the T20 final.

But why let facts get in the way of my cool geopolitical just-so story that will get me those Robert Kaplan bucks.

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I'm sure Beijing is quaking watching the US shove its hand into the garbage disposal again. I can't even with this stupid argument

One of my favorite albums ever. Bought it on CD at the Tower Records in Shibuya, was listening to it on repeat during the Abe resignation crisis in 2007.

Thanks for sharing this. This album will always have a special place in my heart.

Don't forget the SDF

Nothing in the rules says that members of the military cannot also attempt the challenge. Thank you for your service. 🫡

The "getting the US military to understand other countries have politics" challenge, difficulty level impossible.

In FRUS, John Allison consistently comes across as enormously more thoughtful than basically any US Asia policymaker of the early cold war.

Worthwhile Canadian and Japanese initiative | Japan Daily Briefing Middle power diplomacy in Tokyo

Takaichi hosts Mark Carney and announces a new stage in bilateral cooperation. Ruling party lawmakers propose significant changes to arms export rules. The Takaichi government prepares to begin transporting Japanese nationals from the Middle East.
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