It’s not about keeping the US navy out, it’s about having an open lane for Chinese ships to get into the Pacific. The entire Chinese cosst is boxed in by islands (and South Korea) that are staunchly pro-US. World powers have always been willing to fight in order to secure their access to foreign markets and secure trade routes.

The Speaker of the House leads the House of Representatives. Think of it as the Prime Minister of a parliament with much less power. So while the Senate can technically still function, and the executive branch can still function, no one has enough support to “form a government” in the House, so no laws are able to pass, even if the Senate passes a bill. The situations are obviously very different, but the current issues with the Spanish government are a good way of understanding the Speaker drama. Maybe things will improve after the 2024 elections, but i have zero confidence with the iron grip the Republican party has over the majority of state governments.

We are looking at a real possibility of another Arab/Israeli war breaking out soon. Thats what “while commercial options still remain” means.

Well, i am a single guy living paycheck to paycheck, so buying bulk isn’t really an option. I have a local farmers market that i walk to regularly in the summer, but even that is only a marginal saving compared to the local grocery stores.

Even stir fry. A bag of frozen stir fry mix at Kroger costs $1.79 here. Just a single bell bepper costs 79¢.

Plenty of cultures use the term “English” or some variation thereof to refer to the United Kingdom despite England only being 1/4th of the member states of the UK. I find the whole “Mexicans and Canadians are technically Americans” to reek of manifest destiny.

Cool, but my Korean phone wasn’t designed by a company based in Pyongyang. And go ahead and ask a Canadian how they feel about being called “American”.

North American, Central American, and South American are all terms you can use similarly to European, Asian, or African.

Because we live in a neoliberal hell scape where companies are glad to turn a blind eye to safety regulations if it means saving a couple bucks.

As opposed to 30 years ago when you could just walk out and never interact with a person again? “They never called me back” is an absolutely ancient trope in dating.

My guess is that the water gets contaminated by bilge and other stuff from the cargo ships, which you dont want getting into Gatun Lake.

You only got it because your parents were rich enough to pay a tutor to teach you to use it. It’s not regionally based, it’s essentially the Klingon of American accents.

It’s it even a real accent. It was made up for rich people to teach their kids from the 30’s-50’s and is based on any real location or culture.

British accent sounds more “proper and elegant”

Let me introduce you to my Geordie family and see if tou still feel English is elegant. The high English spoken by poshos that is all over TV and movies is very different than how most Brits talk

As for American accents, i have an absolutely bonkers accent of American Midwest with Texas drawl sprinkled in and other lazy drawn out vowels. Just speak however feels comfortable

They can’t because the company is propped up entirely by his cult of personality. If he goes, Tesla and SpaceX will collapse

I had a fun bug for awhile on GPM were playing my library on shuffle it would mostly play songs that started with P. A 30 minute car ride would have 3 songs that started with P and the other 5-6 would be more random.

Thats pretty common in terms of time. I’m not going to say something is “half five” to say it coststwo and a half dollars though. I understand that with French and Danish you arent actually doing the math and just think of that string the same way i think of “ninety two” but it’s still difficult to wrap my head around.

Inability to get water to annexed Crimea was a major reason for Russia to invade Ukraine. The water wars have already started

Looks like they are all at GM and Stellantis with no new strikes at Ford simce Ford seems to be negotiating reasonably

I send a check to my trash service because they want to charge a fee for me to pay online. That requires a stamp, and my mom sends me card a every few months despite us texting regularly.

Millennials sure lost a shit ton of money to crypto scams over the past 6 years.