Brand recognition. Which apparently is the only thing that matters these days.

They get in the way of parking spots. The steel cages must rule supreme.

Because nothing helps a struggling economy like legalized nepotism.

China just needs to do what Trump wants and refuse to export things to the US for a week or two. That should be enough for the people bankrolling Trump to get rid of him.

I count 5 languages and 8 countries for OTAN and 3 languages and 5 countries for NATO, so if anyone is being entitled and not respecting the plurality is the anglophones.

They know they can just leave right?

And analytics. And offloading as much computation to the client, because servers are expensive and inefficiency is not an issue if your users are the ones paying for it.

Pre-industrial societies still expected children to work from young ages. And they would often switch to adult labour in their early teens.

They could be welcomed into the EU in a heartbeat.

Assuming they completely changed their food and product regulations and adapted everything from agricultural and animal husbandry to building codes to match the EU overnight.

Otherwise it’s more of a decades long process.

Even CETA is still not ratified because Canadian ranchers and farmers still insist on using growth hormones and have trouble dealing with European GMO tracking and labelling.

Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.

If you ignore all the folk tales about people one upping the devil or the local equivalent… everywhere, yes, it’s a uniquely American trait.

You don’t lie, lying will get you into trouble. You just don’t mention it if they don’t ask. And if they don’t ask it’s probably not that important. Most job descriptions are like Christmas wishlists anyway, they will be happy if they get half of it.

Gender is why we need all the different pronouns in the first place.

Yeah, it just went from “God personally came down from the heavens” to “I prayed to a dead nun and my hemorrhoids got better”. By 2100 finding a coin under the sofa will be considered a miracle worthy of canonization.

Better this than an open plan office.

Since you probably buy stuff made in China like everyone else, you tell us.

Oh, yes, the “the admiral went to a farm upstate” is always a classical.

On the other hand, if he’s dead Russia can’t keep pretending he’s not forever. What are they going to say? He survived a bombing and then died by falling down the stairs 48 hours later?