It’s not revisionist history in the slightest. Hiroshima was a prime target specifically for the opportunity to test the effects of the bomb over a wide area, something that wasn’t really known. It was a poor military target. Nagasaki was an even poorer military target. These are not facts in dispute here.

I’ve spoken to my family members about it many times (my parents were young then, not my grandparents - I’m An Old). This myth that keeps getting propagating throughout the years of the bomb being the ONLY way to end the war without mass casualties is simply a myth (not to mention demonstrably caused hundreds of…

Nukes didn’t end WWII, it was already over. Nukes just killed a few hundred thousand civilians as a giant middle finger to Japan and Russia.

Shouldn’t everyone be anti-nuclear weapons? Are there people who are PRO-nuclear weapons?

he was renting a place, which is usually for people who can’t afford to buy a house

“Hit King” is a phrase coined by Pete Rose so he could make money off merchandising. Nothing more.

You do realize “hit king” is not a real title, right? There aren’t defined rules.

I’ve played a metric shit-ton of spades in my life, rarely heard it called anything but tricks.

But that was like 10 years ago! No excuse for it now.

I’m not sure if it’s the weirdest first pitch at a Fighters game in the past month.

What do you mean by “how their police behave”?

The rate of violent crime of all sorts in Japan is much, much lower than in the US. Does a problem still exist? Of course. But they’re not even comparable.

There is in Japan, though.

I legit do not get this. It’s easy to change what you eat, you just... do it. Are people that inflexible that they need something that sorta looks and feels like something they used to eat?

...Fans who weren’t actually paying for their music, you mean.

Is not accepting assignments after the start of class A Thing? I’ve never heard of that.

Shit, it’s still that way now. Ichiro news is still front and center, every day.

Japanese people consider it a racial slur, period. It’s been that way for decades and decades, man.

Oh, because avoiding racial slurs is now “politically correct”.

I lived less than 1km from the bottom pic in 3/11, streets were heavily destroyed in my neighborhood.