They didn’t say anything about civilians

Furthermore, it’s not that the original scientists failed to produce true-color images. The original published images of Neptune had deliberately enhanced colors to better show some of the features of the cloud surface, and the description text of the images said as much. But that nuance was quickly forgotten and everybody just took the deep blue coloring to reflect the actual color of the planet, which spread to depictions of the planet everywhere.

Coming from a country bordering Russia and having had to deal with their bullshit for my entire life, the most frustrating thing about Russian bullshit is that if they could just be normal, they could be an actually wealthy and significant European country in a few decades. But no, they have always had this HUGE inferiority complex, which means that they need to continuously prove that they’re great, powerful and important. And the only way they know how to prove their greatness and importance is to flex their “power” on their neighbors, including by militarily expanding their borders, while most of their “peer” countries (most importantly pretty much all of Europe) have moved on from this sort of view of being “powerful” after WW2 by the latest.

Nothing says “we’re on path towards inevitable victory” (as Russian shills like to claim) like nuclear saber rattling.

I wish Russians thought like you do.

I don’t see what that has to do with anything

It’s one thing to have a general plan for a hypothetical scenario. It’s entirely different to train your troops for a very specific scenario in a literal replica of the target location.

How many US troops do you think have received anti-zombie warfare training?

What fell off was a plug filling in an optional emergency exit location. It was a regular row of seats because the plane didn’t have the optional emergency exit installed (it is only required for high density passenger cabin configurations).

Japan has various earthquake notification systems. Tweets are just one more way to get the information to the people on a platform they use.

Curious how all that power isn’t really reflected on the battlefield.

How petty the mainland Chinese must be if they cannot move on from a small island after three quarters of a century.

They might not be but our echo chamber is.

Also I don’t see you denying being pro-genocide, pro-war, and pro-dictator.

No analogy is 1:1.

Our pro-democracy, pro-peace “echo chamber” > Your pro-genocide, pro-war, pro-dictator echo chamber

I can imagine back in 1942 you’d been like “Shut down Hitler…any day now, for going on 3 years”

To me “hydro line” sounds like a weird way to say “water pipe”.

So you would say the USSR won in Afghanistan?

What does Ukraine “losing” mean to you at this point of the war?

Well, people misunderstand the terms when they see them applied to something and assume it denotes aspect A of that thing when it really refers to aspect B of it. Your explanation might be closer to how many Western otaku would use the term these days, but for me moe and sexuality are very different, even if there can be a degree of correlation between the two. Moe is very much about the daughter/protecc kind of energy. Like aww shit damn that is adorable!

Immigration is neither here nor there. This is a reaction to a Russian hybrid operation.