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The technical answer is that a decision by a state supreme court can only be appealed directly to the SCOTUS, who has to choose to take it up. This section specifically cannot be appealed because it is a concurring judgment which does not make law, and would probably be considered non-binding orbiter dictum regardless.

One of the biggest frontline updates this past month, which UA and RU commentators have discussed at length, was the capture of a single restaurant in Avdiivka.

Its like a parody of ww1 battle reports

There was a V-22 Osprey pilot redditor. His username was UR_WRONG_ABOUT_V22 and he was always on the lookout for anyone cracking a joke about the V-22 being a death machine. With an extremely condescending attitude, he defended his beloved tiltrotor on dozens of subreddits through an array of aircraft safety statistics and insults.

Anyway UR_WRONG_ABOUT_V22 was the pilot of the V-22 which crashed last week, he was killed by what he once called "the safest rotorcraft the USMC has ever procured." This has all been confirmed by his wife, who has now taken over the account and continues to defend the Osprey's honour.

If I'm remembering right that commentor went on to give a very optimistic prognosis for the counteroffensive. Arguing that because the first line of Russian defences near Robotyne had breached: Tokmak will be captured imminently, putting the entire Russian logistical network under threat and severing the land bridge to Crimea, which will then lead to the total collapse of Russian military power in southern Ukraine. It's a nice story but one completely divorced from the actual reality of the counteroffensive.

This is the posting equivalent of a drunk guy in the bar starting an argument on a subject he learned about five minutes ago. I wouldn't even call this post misinformed, because I can guarantee no actual research went into it. Its more blind conjecture oriented around an unshakable belief that all things Western are inherently good, and everything Russian is trash, and extending that formula to everything imaginable.

The M2 Bradley, one of Ukraine's latest wunderwaffe's, is famously cramped (because they had to fit all the missiles and auto-cannon rounds somewhere) and even in Iraq never came with AC, or much of anything else in the way of crew comforts. Real life cross-section's of the Leopard 1 also show that they're similarly crowded and uncomfortable for the crew. By contrast late-Soviet designs like the BMP-3 or BTR-90 did make some efforts to improve passenger ergonomics with both featuring more cubic space and better stabilizers than comparable NATO designs, while also managing to fit in such quality of life improvements as toilets and AC.

You can also see it in how fast Liberals starting claiming credit for gay marriage after a decades long struggle by LGBT activists did the hard work of making it broadly popular, and even then they relied on a court ruling that made the issue moot. A little over a decade ago (when gay marriage was seen as politically toxic) Obama, Clinton and the rest were all signing laws stating that marriage was exclusively between a man and a woman.

Now LGBT rights discourse are being used as a cudgel against state enemies while one of America's ruling parties is attempting as much social murder against trans people as they can get away with, and Liberals are doing virtually nothing in response.

NATO troop mfs when they can't call in a MOAB strike against every house that might have a shooter inside :pit:

But for real, beyond the former veterans who have never experienced a warzone where their side didn't have complete tactical superiority, people in the global North are generally raised to have an immense feeling of invulnerability, where the very idea of going somewhere dangerous and not being able to rely on a powerful state back home saving their ass if anything goes wrong is unfathomable. On the volunteers sub there's a lot of commentors who believed that they would be allowed to head home with no problem should they choose to, or get captured by Russians.

But slowly these volunteers are gonna realize that Russian bombs don't differentiate between Ukrainians and foreigners wearing an army uniform.

Here's the Nepalese woman's side of the story

It was during monsoon season . A white women came to my tea shop with her son. I offered them tea in my cup. She said, “I prefer to drink in my own cup.” Which was three fold bigger than our normal size. Everything was good before she asked the price of tea. She said, 150 rupees was way too much for a cup of tea and insisted to decrease price but I tried to explain my hardship. She wasn’t listening to me at all. She threw money in-front of me using harsh words. Also, she took pictures of my tea shop and threatened to post it on medias and report local police.

I told not to do so saying this will not help my business in anyways and asked her to delete that photo. But, in return, she took her knife and pointed towards me. She was a devil, she was constantly irritating and triggering my anger and I couldn’t stop myself. [Pasang Gurung, Manang]

British women used her biased GoPro footage to ruin the hospitality image of Nepalese people, now it’s our turn to let the world know what really happened before that video was taken.

150 Nepalese Rupees is about $1.25 USD. For a huge cup of tea: served inside someone's home and halfway up a mountain where supplies need to be moved via human power or pack animals through harsh roads to even get there. And the british tourist still had the gall to complain and threaten to ruin the owners livelihood over a drink that costs less than a third of what it would go for at a London Starbucks. Then she takes out a fucking knife.

There's an unbelievable culture of chauvinism and entitlement among Anglos in Asia where they'll demand everybody bend over backwards to accommodate them and expect to receive the the exact same favours as locals, despite the fact that they refuse to learn the local language and have many times more money sitting around in their bank account than the average family there will earn in a year.

The Simpsons is single-handedly responsible for why Gen Xers and Boomers will never take Monorails seriously