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I learned English when I was a child because all the media I wanted to consume were not translated into Dutch.
Makes you wonder if universal translators ever become the norm people will still bother to learn foreign language.
Actual poor people suffer the most from air population. They are the ones who live next to busy roads...
NYC has a better subway system than most Euro cities. Probably because NYC has the advantage of being old before cars became affordable.
For a few decades it seemed planners all over the world really had this crazy idea that everyone would just drive around for everything. Just put 10 lane highways straight through your town!
I am imagining Mexican cartels smuggling hardware into the US...
(But seriously I do not know how good US Customs is but in my country every day millions of packages from Asia arrive and they are checking not even a percent).
This is why in my country there are rules about what you can name your child. To prevent situations like this.
The Netherlands has Caribbean islands off the coast of Venezuela. If the US blows up a bunch of fishermen by accident it would be awkward. You can actually sue the Dutch government for this kind of thing and win.
When Escobar was shot did people run out of cocaine?
Americans just want to blow shit up and kill people- preferably with million dollar missiles.
The Trabant was a normal car if you look at what the rest of Europe was driving at the time. In fact the DDR did not economically collapse until the late 1970s.
Ofcourse the real problem was they could not actually make enough of them. You could go to a Citroen dealer and pick up a 2CV the same day.
The support of Israel relies on two things: the Holocaust and the old Testament.
To be fair China challenging white people rule is kinda bad if you are white. I suppose us Westerners can now kinda feel how the Ming must have felt in the 19th century?
And yet this issue only seems to impact North America. So much so that the EU doesn't even consider iMessage a "gatekeeper" of the industry (WhatsApp is though).
Everything bad that happens in America is a plot by foreign enemies. It exonerates Americans from introspection I suppose.
Using more difficult words that still boils down to love and sex.
Honestly thank god for J pop and K pop at least I can't understand a word of it.
What propaganda is TikTok pushing?
Besides if your country is strong enough you should be able to shrug it off. France recently put the right to abortion in the Constitution despite American media.
Because contrary to what tourists think Amsterdam is not a theme park. Normal people live and work there.
When tourists come home drunk at four in the morning they wake up families who have to get up at 7 to go to work and school. There is a reason why we seperate tourists in hotels.
AIRBNB stopped catering to digital nomads and went straight into the hotel business.
Do you want confessions or justice?
The best I can do is pirate software and use ad blocking tools. Still a slave but not a paying one.
The way I see it you could assassinate Bell or Watson and someone else would invent it just a little later.
The US invested in an airborne command center so that even in the event of a catastrophic sneak attack someone would still be alive to order a retaliation strike.
People have different ideas about life. If you can get a 9-5 job that pays the bills why join the military and be deployed overseas for months on end not being a part of your family?
The civilian sector has the same problem with truck drivers and maritime shipping.
Singapore is also a great place for corrupt leaders and crime cartels to invest money. Especially now that Hong Kong has been returned to China.
I remember reading that although France had a completely independent nuclear force they did secretly cooperate with NATO on targeting sites so that none of their nukes would be "wasted".
Well the hobby began in the UK with the upper middle class.
If you take free speech to its extreme spam filters should be taken down, no?
Ofcourse no actual real life user wants to inundated with spam, scams and advertising.
That already happened. Wiki the OPEC crisis of the 1970s or more recently Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
I have healthcare and if you need a hearing aid you get one so who the hell cares how expensive it is?
Europe has rivers and canals.
In a newspaper I read they have a column where they let police officers talk about the worst call they ever took.
Reading it makes me wonder why anyone would ever want to be a police officer. God knows it isn't the pay.
Things happening on the agreed time.
Taken for granted up North. Impossible down South. I guess clocks just stop working ;)
Phones come with 12 nowadays. But honestly most people don't need high end PCs.