#THAT IS A DIRECT TRANSLATED QUOTE ‼️‼️‼️

[fagsex]

another doctors appointment where she tells me, almost angrily, that my blood pressure, resting heart rate, and everything else she can test in office is "perfect. im not just saying that its legitimately perfect."

[1000sunnygo]

Law: We're still having the conversation, Straw hat ya.

Luffy: I want to go to beat those weird guys' asses too!

Law: Whose talking about beating anyone's ass?

Zoro: The darkness might just disappear if we cut 'em all.

Cora: That's no good, straw hat-ya. The opponents are pro at underworld business. I don't want to get you all involved against those people.

Revolution. (T/N: a play of four or more same cards makes a Revolution.)

Robin: Can a have a minute, Corao-kun?

Cora: What is it, Nico Robin?

Robin: You call it the countermeasure headquarters, but clearly, you're severely lacking manpower.

Cora: *gasps*

Robin: Also, there's not just one meeting to be held tonight. You want to investigate those, as well.

I took a look at your computers, apparently it involves Onigashima middle? The location seems pretty close, after all...

Cora: WHEN DID YOU??? THE SECURITY IS SUPPOSED TO BE PERFECT!

Robin: The computer's password was your birthdate.

Law: Cora san!!

Robin: Also, Brook and I have abilities suitable for infiltration. In regards to military power and intelligence, I don't see any harm in borrowing some from this one group.

Nami: So it's decided ⭐ let's consult the pricing later!

Usopp: Oi oi Nami... You serious?

Nami: I mean, we won't fight, and we can't just leave the peace of the town in the hands of someone else! Plus the reward!

Law: Don't keep talking on your own!

Sanji: Give up, Law. You can't stop him.

Luffy: MINGOOOOOO!!!!!

Law: 💧

Vivi: Then how about we make two teams? Just like how we played a couple rounds of Daifugou in two roundtable teams right now, we play a game and make 'Team Millionaire' and 'Team Poverty" based on that.

(T/N: kind of like this^)

Franky: The team's got quirky names, it sounds like fun!

Sanji: How're we gonna divide the commoners?

Chopper: Let's decide with Rock Paper Scissors!

Usopp: Corao, you have a particular title in mind?

Cora: I'm skilled at becoming the Tycoon. (T/N: It's the winning title)

Usopp: So team Millionaire.

Brook: Robin-san and I have a high winning rate...

Vivi: Let's hope you two make it in Corazon-san's team!

Law: Whatever the result of the game is, I'll be in Cora san's team! I'm not giving up on that!

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"THE TEAMS ARE DECIDED ‼️"

TEAM MILLIONAIRE

(Onigashima middle investigation team)

Tycoon: Nami, Robin

Rich: Brook, Franky

Commoner: Coby, Vivi

+Chopper ( <- Placement-wise Poor but Law made him swap team)

TEAM POVERTY

(Doflamingo investigation team)

Commoner: Usopp, Sanji, Law (cheater!)

Poor: Zoro

Beggar: Luffy, Corazon

Sanji: THE HELL IS THIS TEAM?? (rip)

Cora:

Usopp: DIDN'T YA SAY YOU'RE GOOD AT BEING THE TYCOON??

Usopp: STO~P!! I DEMAND RESHUFFLING TEAM SELECTION! SOMETHING FEELS VERY WRONG!

Sanji: SECONDED!! THERE'S NO LADY IN THIS TEAM!

Zoro: Shudup, 'Commoner'.

Sanji: Aren't you 'Poor'?! 💢

Luffy: LET'S GO TO THE FEAST!

Usopp: THAT AIN'T A FEAST!

Law:......

ON SECOND THOUGHT... I'LL GO WITH CORA SAN ALL BY MYSELF!!

END, part 2 on January 19th!

[chapter translation index]

Edit: small correction: the last quote from first post (Luffy's speech) is directed at cora (corao) and not at law, mb!

One Piece Academy chapter 41: The Dark Bingo Tournament, part 1 (Quick translation)

The lore deepens..

source | previous chapter

Cover page side note : Sanji-kun's morning starts with black coffee.

Editor's note: what was discussed while playing trump at the Doflamingo countermeasure headquarters?

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Everyone: An undercover investigation?

Cora: Yeah...

Cora: Doffy is supposed to attend a certain meeting tonight. Law and I will have an investigation trip.

Robin: 'A certain'...?

Luffy: ..Party with Mingo? I'm coming as well!!

Nami: They just said it's an investigation!

Law: Outside, it's a Bingo party with the Grand City enterprises.

But in reality... It's a meet-and-greet ceremony with the Dark World's residents.

Chopper: The Dark world... Meaning the bad adults? Er, Eleven-Back...

Robin: Eight-Stop (T/N: these are Daifugou card game terms)

Cora: It's all my intuitive prediction, though.

Doffy got himself his first new suit in a long time. There's something to this...

If they meet, it's possible that he'd sign a contract to become part of the gangs then and there. We have to stop this somehow.

Zoro: What do you mean 'somehow'? You haven't decided what to do yet?

Sanji: You want to stop them without being busted. It ain't a simple task at all.

Vivi: Definitely a high risque plan for high schoolers.... Triple Queen.

Cora: I'm one of the students who is given authority by the country and the school to 'investigate and use force'.

Coby: Something like Student council, or Public morals corps?

Cora: Right... Coby, you were part of the Public morals corps, aren't you.

Nami: Hey, Cora-chan... Was Doflamingo always like this? You've lived with him, haven't you?

Cora:....

Our family, the Donquixote Family "used to be" one of the great families of the world. We brothers were raised by kind hearted mother and father.

Vivi: The Donquixote Family! I've heart bits about it from Papa.

Cora: 'Cause Vivi-chan's Nefertari family is also one of those great families!

Usopp: That sounds like a nice family!

Brook: What do you mean by "used to be?"

Cora: A fall from a prestigious family to rock bottom... That's what I mean.

Father, unfamiliar with business, tried his hand at several private charity projects. Unfortunately, every single one ended in huge failure. Our family lost all its possessions, and we lost our social standing.

Those were terrible days, filled with hunger. There were people who's mock and laugh at us for getting the boot, kicked out of the town.

All of it was probably unbearable for my brother. He developed a deep seated hate towards the townsfolk and father.

Then, Doffy disappeared from the sight of me and family. As years passed on...

Cora: I discovered him in the streets as one of the thugs.

Sanji: I guess, he was royally messed up.

Vivi: So he has a past like this behind that perpetual jolly demeanor...

Chopper: Vivi...

Luffy: Traffy, I'm bringing leftover food with me.

Cora: Bring with you? You're going somewhere?

Luffy: Why, at Mingo's party!

(Continues in reblogs) ⬇️

[grigorianlive]

On the photo: Nuremberg Process, 1945

🔬 WHAT ARE POLITICAL OBJECTIVES?

➡️ In a previous publication, I mentioned the concept of political tasks (paragraph 3) - in fact, this is the same task as in mathematics or, say, in physics, which have either a direct or evidential solution.

‼️ Before starting, I would like to give attention to the fact that this is just my point of view. If I make a mistake in reasoning, I ask for your excuses.

➡️ While in mathematics, the tools for solving or proving data conditions in a problem are mathematical operations, formulas, theorems, axioms, etc. In the case of political tasks, these very tools also exist: how "theorems" and "axioms" work, the properties of regimes, types of coups d'état, types of foreign policy, how "formulas" exist laws, codes of honor and glory, codes of the UN, NATO, EU and other social and diplomat. structures.

➡️ And here's the most interesting thing: I will quote and constantly remember the phrase of my acquaintance from Ettlingen, Claudia Klinkenberg, she said back in April 2022 "Russia is simply afraid because it is long, but one thing is clear to the small - it is narrow and fragile from the inside" . The fact is that the Russian Federation does not use and does not consider all events on the so-called. "time line" as "political tasks" - the Russian Federation, like the scoop, like the growing empire, although they have a fairly good military command (again, this is all very relative), they scare far from tactics, and not a raised eyebrow (which threatened the nightingales in the first days of the war) and not even with technology, but with quantity. "THE MANY OF THEM" - they said [📣 please take this as a joke]. In fact, the Russian army is now designed to suppress mass protests, wage war with poorly equipped countries, and is also capable of the brutal destruction of ethnic groups and nations (Georgians, Chechens, Ukrainians, etc.).

➡️ In turn, the Russian Federation doesn’t seem to know about other options for solving their wishes, except to send in troops and shout “everyone don’t move this robbery”, and even if the highest diplomacy knows about possible diplomatic moves, moreover, beneficial for both sides and honest, it doesn’t considers it an adequate way to solve problems because "the lads will fight to the point of blood without any words" [🔔 read this phrase with the type of a tough guy with a gang from the Russian Federation with greetings from the 90s]. Even the most vicious gangs in the West initially negotiate (I won’t be surprised if statements about Mexican or Colombian drug cartels go into the comments - they are still outside my professional competence), and only then they sort it out by force.

➡️ Although Russia (like a scoop along with the entire communist bloc in Asia) is very experienced in spying on neighboring countries and is known for introducing personnel controlled by itself as candidates for local authorities, a more adequate way to solve the so-called. there is no "problem". So the so-called sound is brewing. "Casus Belli", translating into an understandable language, this means a reason for war. And even if you ask for a referendum, there will definitely be at least 5 Russian regional administrations that will falsify the results of the referendum in favor of Russia.

🔰 And what do we have as a result? Let's imagine for a while that the planet is a street, and the country is a person. Ukraine (like Georgia, Poland, the Baltic countries and the entire former western part of the USSR) is a beautiful girl who can finally, after 30 years of slavery, repulse the attacker. rashka is a drunken huckster with a bat who constantly goes to rub someone's ass. In fact, we are at war with a country that, apart from holding pseudo-referendums, destroying nations and ethnic groups with cities, creating a buffer zone for itself, and can do nothing to keep everyone in fear. Remember: the best art is to rule the country not so that all the neighbors respect you because they are afraid **, but so that your country is the best in everything, and the neighbors respect you because of advancement and politeness.

#story

GRIGORYAN LIVE

[always-tilting-at-windmills]

The Expanse ask game:

Dishonorable discharge, Sa-sa, Mag boots

Hello! Thanks for the ask. 👍

Dishonorable discharge:

What got me into the series was Amazon prime marketing saying it was recommended based on my previous viewings.

I was extremely offended. 🤯🧐🙄

Because I’m not a sci-fi fan and nothing in my watch list would connect to that. I was very confused. Just assumed it was recommended to everyone kind of big box store marketing.

The marketing also said it was “game of thrones in space” and again I was offended, because I hate that show. I’m also not a fantasy fan.

So, not liking Sci-fi or Fantasy (or Horror) I was really confused about the marketing. Because it was so off the target.

I watch murder mysteries (mostly Brit) noir classics, history and actual science documentaries.

And yet the marketing persisted.

I saw a promo picture of Miller in his detective hat. And finally thought, oh that is why I’m being bomb-barded?!

So, I gave it a try.

And fell MADLY IN LOVE 🥰 💕

I know a lot of people thought season 1 was too slow. For me, it wasn’t at all. And I think that is because of my mystery background. The slow burn, gathering the clues was ideal for my viewing pleasure. Watching Miller, the burnt out cynical NOIR detective* (Watch the 1942 film noir classic LAURA) was perfect for me. And the tropes were so much fun. The slower pace teaching how this world works, the SCIENCE-fiction, the politics, the character dynamics = chef kiss 💋 fun‼️

Basically Amazon was right, this show is perfect for me. I describe it as “Space Chinatown” because that has the right hook for my family & friends. Because “Chinatown” is a classic/tragic/political mystery drama that encompasses so much of what they achieve in the Earth-Mars-Belt world building.

This show is practically the love of my life, and such a wonderful surprise.

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Sasa

I love belter creole!

I always have closed captioning on my tv - because it offers so many context clues.

Music, stage directions (wind whistling can be a clue in a mystery - telling you what to pay attention to - little details) or spelling is huge bonus!

“welwala” in the pilot hit me like a ton of bricks.

Brilliant way to explain his character “traitor to my people”...... wel "gravity well" (English) + wala "person" (Hindi)

I’m the type of viewer that wants to collect all the information ℹ️ 🧐 I like things that are complicated, nuanced and require patience.

So I was goggling all the Belter I could. I found the search engines to translate, I read all the articles about its creation & meaning.

Mi pensa da Expanse xélixup! Yang seng kopengs.

I think The Expanse is excellent! Cheers my friends.

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Mag boots:

detail that is my favorite : Science

I love the Kurt Vonnegut quote:

“Science is magic that works.”

So, I appreciate the way the show uses a strong science base for everything. Imagination, plus story telling & world building but all built in reality as we know it with science.

I don’t like having to suspend too much disbelief which is my problem with most science-fiction & fantasy.

I like a full meal, not just candy.