Stern

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 27 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

P R E M I U M B O N E S

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Korean shounen stuff can be solid, like Solo levelling, The Breaker, God of High School, or Omniscient Reader, but outside of that it gets a bit more iffy.

IMO the real trash market is China. Every manhua I've read from just feels forgettable and soulless.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Considering Vince McMahon didn't know what a burrito was, I'm not particularly surprised.

Madigan told PWTorch editor Wade Keller: "It's one of these stories that always repeats itself. I think the idea was they were trying to work an angle with Big Show and - like Andre (the Giant), here's a guy who is so physically big and physically imposing - what can you do to get over on Big Show? And how are you going to do it?

"I think they were going to poison Big Show and give him a spiked burrito. The whole concept was: 'We're going to spike his food, spike the burrito, you cut to a vignette before that showing him eating it, and then he passes out in the ring.' So, Vince goes, 'Burrito?! Who the hell knows what a burrito is?' It was such a far concept. And everyone in the room goes, 'Well, we know what a burrito is.' And Vince goes, 'Well, where the hell have I been?'

"But, the funny thing is, Wade, every day at noon, Vince's secretary would walk into the office - the writing room - with a burrito. It was a steak-wrap cut in half. And he would put ketchup on it. Every day, he was eating a burrito and not knowing what it was. But, that's the idea - when you're in a bubble and in a business where you're ostracized from society, it's you and them, that's it. Everyone else is an outsider, so things like that do make sense in the confines of the wrestling world."

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 78 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

You can view this one of two ways, possibly both:

  1. Krasnov
  2. Trump apparently was doing these tariffs based on trade deficits (Which is stupid on its own, if your dentist doesn't buy the widgets you sell, that's not a tariff.), if Russia wasn't running one, then there you go.

To rebuke 2 I present the following- https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia

U.S. total goods trade with Russia were an estimated $3.5 billion in 2024. U.S. goods exports to Russia in 2024 were $526.1 million, down 12.3 percent ($73.5 million) from 2023. U.S. goods imports from Russia totaled $3.0 billion in 2024, down 34.2 percent ($1.6 billion) from 2023. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Russia was $2.5 billion in 2024, a 37.5 percent decrease ($1.5 billion) over 2023.

Based on that math, with the CNN article I linked for the formula (the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2) we get - (2,500,000,000 / 3,000,000,000) * 1/2 = 0.416666...

So Russia should have a 42% tariff based on their purported 83% tariff on us.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Wow its dangerous in Russia. Exploding cars, people keep falling out windows, accidentally shooting themselves in the back of the head repeatedly then falling down elevator shafts. Someone should establish some safety programs.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mexico has a serious obesity and diabetes problem. Worse then the U.S. even, though only by a couple tenths a percent currently. Makes sense to try and rein it in.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If not the worst then like top three lowest birth rates in the world and they're exporting kids. Foolishness.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Abe's assassination was objectively one of the most successful for accomplishing the political goal it was done for.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The setting says "If you opt out you might still see Quest promotions, but they won't be personalized to your activity". I'm on Nitro Basic (The 3 dollar a month plan.) and I don't see any method for disabling them completely.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

In the mouth or on the face though?

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Safety? Sure, I'll bite.

It being "sacred"? C'mon. Any place that looks unique and had ancient folks living by it is probably going to be considered sacred to them, from Everest to Niagara Falls to the Giant's Causeway.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People are listening to AI generated music? Someone on Bluesky put (paraphrased slightly) it best-

If they couldn't put time into creating it I'm not going to put time into listening to it.

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