#AS vs China

[cirrocula]

y'all know how looong i been waiting for this

[despazito]

while we're at it i hate that whenever somebody brings up tibetan mastiffs nowadays they're almost always referring to the viral overbred monstrosities coming out of china and not actual normal tibetan mastiffs.

if you're going to a registered breeder who regularly shows their dogs in AKC/KC/CKC circuits, they will look something like this:

in recent decades it became fashionable to breed very exaggerated dogs as a status symbol for wealthy people in china, nothing about these dogs are practical it'll cost an arm and a leg to keep groomed. these are very extreme examples of the breed and really really shouldn't be normalized as the desired tibetan mastiff type:

for contrast, here's a bitch from the 1920s bred in UK and old photos from central asia, yes they were large but were never meaty or extremely heavy-set dogs, they should not look as if they're constantly fighting gravity.

[leclercskiesahead]

New charlos pic from shell

[rodmansanchez]

the look of pure OFFENSE on jaedyn shaw’s face when the announcer calls out “first international goal” instead of second is PRICELESS

[dollykiller]

[mapsontheweb]

Which country is the leading economic power according to the public in each country?

by geo.universe

[bluespring864]

For the second time in the first three games, Qinwen Zheng hits the ball straight at Novak Djokovic during the mixed doubles at United Cup 2024 and knocks him off his feet

[yinyuedijun]

just thought abt suo giving u a wedding ring w a ruby (to match his aesthetic since he's got a red colour scheme) and now I want to bash my head against a wall. bye

[peonycats]

nobody:

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[rubywingsracing]

As a McLaren fan I’m simultaneously astronomically delulu abt FP tn and shitting my pants so hard cuz ik im delulu

[arabella-77]

MLQC China with Tianjin Tourism Collaboration

Translate this PV is really hard, because of the rhymes, syllables and everything.

I and @putufelisia tried to bring the meaning of this rhyme to English. I hope there are not so many distorted meanings.

Enjoy!

[pernillecfcw]

@ VAR & officials 🖕🏼

[queermarzipan]

ok but i'm actually sick to the back fucking teeth of all you single issue voters who think they have the moral fucking high ground by "refusing to participate". this is the trolley problem. this is the literal actual trolley problem in real fucking life and you all think that refusing to touch the icky gross murder lever somehow precludes you from having any culpability in the deaths of those who get run over. news fucking flash: it doesn't. because inaction is a choice just as much as action is. stop worrying about your hands feeling icky and start doing something to actually help real people.

[royalchildreneurope]

King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands, Queen Máxima of The Netherlands and Princess Catharina-Amalia of The Netherlands attend the water polo group match between The Netherlands and China, on Day 3 of the Paris Olympic Games 2024, at the Paris Olympic Aquatics Centre in Paris, France -July 29th 2024.

[msclaritea]

There are deep problems with the outcome of WWII. Most disturbingly, the war ends with the Josef Stalin and the Soviets in control of half of Europe and dominant in Asia.

Yet the narrative is that WWII was fought to end tyranny.

In the Atlantic Charter FDR stated that one of the core aims of Allied intervention was to establish "a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want."

But that isn't what happened. Instead, WWII ended with a brutal dictator in control of vast swaths of new territory. WWII did not end aggression or tyranny. If anything, the conflict ended with even more human beings worldwide under totalitarian domination.

Was WWII fought to free Poland? If so, it was a failure. Poland remained under Soviet control for another 40+ years.

Was WWII fought to free China from aggression and genocidal? If so, it was a failure. The communists immediately seized control and brutally murdered and starved tens of millions.

I have been told that Germany invading Poland in September of 1939 was a terrible international crime. Yet, the USSR also invaded Poland in September of 1939, seizing more territory than the Nazis! The communists also immediately killed nearly 10x the number of Polish civilians during the period between 1939-1941.

Yet, at Nuremberg Soviet judges sat in judgment over their former Nazi allies! How can we call this justice?

What a farce.

Claims that the holocaust justified American intevention are also flawed. For one, no Allied leader made alleviating the plight of the Jews a central cause of going to war. Not one! Jewish suffering was not important to FDR. It certainly was not important to Josef Stalin. Historical honesty means we need to understand the Allied leaders as they understood themselves.

We must also confront the way in which the war was fought.

Every major allied combatant targeted civilians for destruction and employed concentration camps. This raises a question: if murdering civilians in death camps is evil then how can we justify killing them with high explosives and nuclear weapons?

If the Nazis rounding up and imprisoning Jews was wrong then why was FDR rounding up and imprisoning Japanese justified?

Is murdering civilians always evil or is it only evil when the bad guys do it?

I have never seen defenders of the mainstream narrative provide a satisfactory answer. In the end, the chief defenders of the mainstream narrative revert to arguing that the Allies had "no choice."

We had to give $300 billion in aid to Stalin. We had to let him take over half of Europe and virutally all of the Far East. We had to help Mao come to power. We had to firebomb all those women and children. We had to nuke those Japanese.

We had no choice.

In the end, I find this argument childlike and weak. A serious thinker considers alternatives.

Even more disturbing, virtually every defense of Allied conduct in WWII ultimately becomes a defense of communism and the Soviet Union.

It is clear that we desperately need to take a fresh look at the most important conflict of the modern world.

I find this destruction impossible to justify. The annihilation of the heart of European and Japanese civilization is hard to stomach. We must confront these acts, committed in the name of "freedom" and "democracy," earnestly and seriously.

Our ally, Josef Stalin, did this. Is intentionally killing civilians a moral evil or is it only evil when the Nazis do it?

The man on the right was an ally of Adolf Hitler and a brutal tyrant. Yet here he is being honored by FDR.

The US relationship with the USSR wasn't just an alliance of convenience, either. The US made Soviet propaganda as part of the war effort.

[j0shm0]

With the first Sprint race of the year and China returning to the calendar it's time to give a look at the Race Lap Analysis. Little different this Grand Prix compared to the others as there was not a 2023 race to compare Logan or Oscar against however, it is interesting and fun to compare them against their teammates still since last time they raced in China they were the rookies.

Some key takeaways we can see from the data is that in 2019 the cars were at base going about 2 seconds a lap faster across the board. In 2019 Alex was driving for Torro Rosso, had a big shunt in FP3, which lead to a pitlane start but ultimately finished 10th and Lando was starting his McLaren career and qualified 14th but took on serious damage in turn 1 lap 1 ultimately having him retire in lap 53.

This year in 2024 the rain/colder conditions suit that McLaren as always and Lando pulled it to 2nd and Oscar another 8th place finish doing well to stay in the points. With the Williams boys keeping it clean this weekend battling at the top of the back half but ultimately finishing in the middle as they do.