Yeah, the show is very deliberately getting us to root for Hitler. And yes, I hope we all feel deeply disturbed by that, but you've gotta hand it to the writers for making it work.

Did some Googling: looks like Hitler had a country house there, and a mountaintop viewpoint cabin called the Eagle's Nest. Neither is the castle seen in the show, but the location looks similar to the Eagle's Nest: perhaps the show's writers imagined that Hitler expanded his little cabin into a castle over the years.…

Ingredients sound great, but I'm with @avclub-ae1846aa63a2c9a5b1d528b1a1d507f7:disqus, the order seems off. If it were me I'd sautee the chicken in the onions, garlic and spices first to get some nice browning going on, then pull out the chicken and dump in the cans, shred the chicken while the liquids come to a…

That sounds appalling, but I can kinda see how it could work.

I loved Germs, Guns, and Steel, but I thought Collapse didn't live up to its promises. His list of factors triggering societal collapse is so vague that it's more or less useless.

The Three Body Problem by Chinese sci-fi author Cixin Liu. Interesting so far.

Something got fucked up in my neck last week and now I've got massive cramping pains down my right arm, and numbness in my index and middle fingers. And the doctor's giving me steroids and saying this is all very common as you get older, but nobody's giving me a straight answer as to whether this will go away or…

Unless you live on Cape Cod, that's one hell of a scenic route. Plymouth's really not on the way to anywhere else.

No coincidence that Chicago, the city that pioneered the skyscraper, is also the city that invented going vertical with pizza.

I don't think there's any way for people to cross over: I think Juliana's mother is just in massive denial, and a little bit of that rubbed off on Juliana for a moment in the street market.

I also liked how the scene flips the script on Western orientalism: this time around it's American culture that's some condescending rich dude's hobby. And the rich dude isn't even a bad guy, really, but his enthusiasm ends up being reductionist and a bit offensive … he's sort of a Japanese Bert Cooper.

The way he sees right through lies, I think Smith *is* a spider priest.

Halfway through this episode, and I've got to say, I just *love* how much smarter the secret police are than the heroes. Too often dramas just make the bad guys violent blunt instruments, but Inspector Kido and Obergruppenfuhrer Smith don't miss a thing.

Lincoln Rockwell Airport was genius, I gotta say. I'll admit I had to Google it.

If we're gonna throw around vocabulary, I'd say he's less a weeaboo, and more a quisling. He's not so much in love with the Japanese as he is desperate to please them.

Geder Palliako? Yeah, you *would* like this show, wouldn't you.

People wildly underestimate the amount of radiation needed to sterilize plants and animals. Just by way of example, they irradiate some fruits and vegetables to keep them from sprouting or rotting: the amounts used are hundreds of times the allowed limits for human exposure.

I'm trying to parse that picture: did he actually batter the saxophone before frying it? Because I mean, obviously you should…

You clearly know more about Japanese imperial history than I do, but there are plenty of other historical examples of crown princes who get too much liberal education and try to push back against their traditionalist fathers and generals. Juan Carlos of Spain, for instance. Some of them end up dead, and a lot of…

Six episodes in, I'm liking it. It's a slow burn and it's got no sense of humor, but there are some good plot hooks, and I'm loving the way the history has developed. I'd put it about 2/3 of the way along a scale from Sons of Anarchy to The Wire, maybe a bit below Boardwalk Empire.