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Cake day: August 12th, 2022

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  • Thing that made me stop watching this crap was when after tens of episodes with moderately boring duels, the actually interesting intrigue of Gin failed to kill Aizen. The “main boss needs to be killed by protagonist” trope was incredibly crudely hamfisted there. And then power reset and everything from the start.

    Bleach was only anime i ever seen where filler arcs were better than normal ones.





  • In socialist Poland both were used, but “comrade” (Towarzysz/Towarzyszka) was the honorific for member of the party while “citizen” (Obywatel/Obywatelka) was used for everyone else in official situations. Most people still used the “Pan/Pani” (Mr/Mrs) though, which was a bit reactionary because in Polish language this word does not even come from the bourgeoise honorific “Master” but from the aristocratic “Lord”.




  • Lend Lease accounted for around of 4% of total war material expenditure by USSR. We can’t even assume that it was especially important because of being timely, since only around mid 1943 some LL deliveries, mainly trucks, achieved numbers enough to really allow USSR to shift their production in other directions.










  • Unless they win the actual lottery

    Not only overwhelming most of lotteries winnings, while looking good to us bareass paupers, are pittance compared to wealth of people who are rich, but also people winning lotteries lack the foundations rich need to remains rich (second chart) and usually lose everything pretty fast.