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by iwontreddit 10y ago
Tetris wasn't that big before the Gameboy version. It was "big" in the tiny new computer/tech world, but it was gameboy which brought it into the mainstream.
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
Japan is the 10th most populous country in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen... > Will China invade? Why would they invade? China and the rest of the world is doing what japan i
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
This is just white people. Asians stick with asians, blacks with blacks, hispanics with hispanics, natives with natives. I love how people love to pretend that the US is some kind of idealized place. It isn't. I mean look at all the Bl
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> Or look at America, the world's biggest melting pot. Oh stop it. We aren't a melting pot. We are nation with nearly 80% white population. And there has been tons of anti-immigration laws in the US. https://en.wikip
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
Or people don't like their DNA being used for something beyond what they paid for? After all, the customers paid 23andme for a service.
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> If both sides are equally evil in your view, would you say you are indifferent to which side ended up winning WWII? As an american, of course I'm glad the US won. All I'm saying is that the US wasn't any better than anyo
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
>The allies had far less incidents of rape. And defently not systematic like Japan. Systematic? Is that a joke? Millions more german and japanese women were raped by the allies than vice versa. Lets not belittle the german and japanese w
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> I think that you will find evidence in both directions Most american POWs survived ww2 under japanese control. Almost no wounded or surrendering japanese survived ww2 under American control. There was brutality on both side for sure. B
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
Yes. Myth is a few people dying. Hell more americans are killed on a slow weekend in chicago than in bataan "death" march.
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
What's even worse is that their prices aren't even competitive anymore! It is cheaper for me to buy floss refills at my local supermarket than it is to buy on amazon. WTF! The crazy part is when I see reviews last year of a window
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> After public protest and court ruling, it is now admitted it was the Japanese army which ordered people to kill themselves and even killed them: That's a bit of revisionism as well. The reason why many okinawans killed themselves
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> Where is the American Treblinka Where is the axis hiroshima/nagasaki? Where is the axis firebombings of japan and germany? > the British Buchenwald? Go look up bengali holocaust where millions of indians were starved to death b
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_... Millions of german women were raped by the allies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_... Tens of thousands
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> What's your source for the 'myth' of the Bataan Death March? "100–650 American prisoners of war died on the march before they reached their destination." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataa
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> Not even the German government, engaged in attempting to exterminate the undesirable population of Europe? They weren't more racist than the US/British. You could argue they were as racist since they modeled their racial ideo
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
I guess you haven't heard of the mass rape of german and japanese women by the victorious allies. The allies raped far more women than the axis.
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> Basically the Japanese were using perfidy as a normal war tactic (perfidy is a war crime, surrender and then, when your enemy's guard is lower, attack). The japanese started suicide runs because the allies had a no prisoner policy
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> For the japanese military in WWII, rape was normal. What racist gibberish. It was "normal" just like it was normal for the allies. The allies did a lot more raping than the axis... > Butchering civilian populations wholesa
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
Sure, but you are talking about racist hatred trumping rationality and civility. There weren't a more racist and savage group in ww2 than the allied soldier in the pacific. Hundreds of thousands of japanese soldiers were tortured, muti
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> My impression is a lot of soldiers and contemporaneous sources said Japanese fought to the death, engaged in suicidal 'banzai charges', killed themselves rather than surrender, and that those few who did surrender thought it
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> Without Scotland, no mines, no oil, less fish. England in itself, independent from the EU, cannot stand the test of time. England has canada, australia, new zealand and of course the US. England is part of the anglosphere. England will
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> As long a Germany and France are on board, the EU will survive in some form. They won't be on board much longer. The EU is nonsense at its very core. It is a corrupt cesspool where a select group of unelected masters rule over the
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> how much of Japan's conduct in WW2 (notably, the fighting until death) can be attributed/blamed to this misinterpretation of samurai history? Japanese soldiers' "fighting to the death" nonsense was myth invente
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> Is Scotland going to be exiting the UK next? Guess we'll see in a few years. It's possible. The same with northern ireland. But more interesting question is which european country will leave the EU next. Hungary? Greece? Finl
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
Or they aren't any smarter or dumber than anyone else but just got lucky to hitch a ride on a rocket. Success is more about being at the right place at the right time rather then being the right person. It wasn't nikesh, marissa,
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> My own theory: Internet access has helped too, by disseminating knowledge about health & disease. Considering internet usage is fairly recent, I don't think the internet is the reason. Your assertion about developing nations b
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by iwontreddit 10y ago
> A while back I recall reading rumors that China didn't even know what to process on their Tianhe-2. That applies to most of supercomputers everywhere. "If you build it, they will come". Besides the knowledge attained in