Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it’s the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.
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The end of WW2 was a complex political issue, and the atomic bombs were not the ‘press here, end war’ that most of us believe.
The Japanese we’re holding out hope (stupidly) that the Soviet Union would negotiate a conditional surrender with the united States as the end of the imperial system was unacceptable to them. The US had floated that if there was an unconditional surrender, that the imperial system would stay intact, but wanted it to seem like a US condition, not a Japanese one, because that would be a conditional surrender.
The Soviets always intended to invade, but were held by a nonaggression pact they made with the Japanese. The US pressured the Soviets very hard to violate this and invade Manchuria.
There was literally a Japanese war cabinet convened already when news of Nagasaki reached them. We have actual primary source for their reactions. They did not care.
Only once the second bomb dropped and Manchuria was invaded did some of the cabinet manage to convince the emporer to intervene which was extremely rare.
100@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Americans, what is something that Europeans have/do that makes no sense to you?92·2 years agoI live in Germany and I have no idea what you’re talking about for the first thing, maybe you mean yield-to-right in unmarked intersections or the priority road system? I’m not really sure. In either case you are just mentally inserting yield signs based on standard rules.
The stoplight thing I feel in my soul though. The amount of times I’ve had to stare out my sunroof to see the light above me because I stopped on the line instead of 20 feet before it.
100@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Europeans, what is something that Americans have/do that makes no sense to you?4·2 years agoYou can find that easily. I guarantee I could find that within 30 minutes in almost any city over 100,000.
100@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.world•BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated ThemEnglish8·2 years agoIronically the BMWs here in Germany tend to use their signals in my experience
100@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.world•According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billionEnglish15·2 years agoPutting aside that that whole show is pretty rough and I’ve mentally decanonized it, the guy who said it is technically a mega space nazi from the space nazi dimension so I choose to believe he just thought that Musk being an aspiring space nazi was as cool in our universe as it was in his.
100@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.world•Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are downEnglish211·2 years agoHighly doubtful much of anything majorly sensitive got leaked. Firstly even unclassified DoD emails are encrypted by default. Secondly anything classified isn’t even on a network that can talk to normal email, it’s either 100% point to point encrypted or on an airgapped network. If I hopped on SIPR (DoD Secret-level internet) and emailed a normal email address it simply wouldn’t work.
100@lemm.eeto Technology@lemmy.world•How reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history: Did it, though?English4·2 years agoI’m sorry but no, reddit has consistently gotten worse over the years, to the point that I can’t possibly imagine what you mean when you say it got better.
100@lemm.eeto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some of the best purchases of your life?English2·2 years agoWe just don’t really boil water that often, and realistically anyone who does has an electric kettle.
Technically genetic information is covered by ‘sensitive info.’ I’m not joking.
4k Blu Rays exist. Aside from the pain of having to get a special cracked drive to rip them they are my primary backup for my movie server.
Depends on the cost of living and state taxes in an area. Usually it’s $3.50-$5.00 a gallon/~4 liters. At the gas stations in Germany on American military bases it’s about $4.50 a gallon right now.