I think he says “watch this!” before he jumps.

“Behind an able man there are always other able men.”

It’s a Chinese proverb akin to the"shoulders of giants" idea.

That was magnificent…

They’re made that way so you don’t accidentally connect a gas cylinder to a water line.

Yes, I imagine they’d use the Arrow 3, and the US Navy could probably help out with SM3s if they were instructed to intervene.

They’re saying ballistic missiles, not cruise missiles though. Those are too fast and too vertical to be intercepted with aircraft.

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Yeah, I mean getting the parents to sign an explicit contract and taking a photo of them signing… They were aiming to do the right thing.

Mmm, high tea… Haven’t played that in a while.

It’s a special ethnic adjustment operation.

When the war was obviously in the ‘last stand’ phase for the Imperial Japanese Navy, they sent their pride, the largest battleship in the world, Yamato, with just nine light escorts to run itself aground on the shore of Okinawa island and act as an unsinkable fortress there. Unfortunately it had to go past about eleven carriers with almost 400 aircraft and… it didn’t make it.

“Yes, we’ve laid waste to your lands, but think of how much we could exploit them (and you, of course) now!”

Damn right, they kicked the floor with him.

With a lot of junk inside yo trunk.

TIL, thank you.

No, not really. This has been happening for almost a decade, it’s not something that just started.

Whenever cognitive behavioral therapy is mentioned with an initialism there’s this risk of losing it to immature giggling when you substitute that other meaning for “CBT”…

Are we all just going to ignore aquariums?

Out of anger at someone roundabout predicting you will kill them.

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