And Argentina is already in BRICS.

AFAIK there are rarely whales born in captivity and nearly all were stolen from their pods and thrown into a swimming pool.

LOL I still have an account on Off Topic but have no reason to ever use it again.

Apparently the people who live there are sick of it all and are starting to push back. Should be interesting to see if there are new laws or regulations.

I took it to mean that these were unusually extreme even for there.

Because the problem was never the genocide. It was who can be a victim of it or not.

Better headline: Police shoot indiscriminately and kill one person while injuring two others.

I’ve known several people who are half Japanese and whose grandmothers would never forgive them for that fact. They’d love all the cousins and shit on them. It’s really sad.

You might be surprised at how cheap these things can go. They are a lot to maintain but may not be so much to buy.

Yacht lol. It’s a sailboat.

This is my belief. Companies will hire people in their existing foreign offices and that talent will never come into the US.

I suspect that these are fully separate things. They won’t find people in the US with the required knowledge of skills and hire them in other countries instead.

You do realize that they actually want to decimate the tech industry and stop funding for all scientific research?

They may be able to order the finance people to do it.

It’s probably not personally affecting enough of them yet.

The moral here is not to do public bathroom hookups in Indonesia.

The funny part is that there was a lot of propaganda. Example: no taxation without representation was actually false. The population in the UK was much higher than in the colonies, and since the colonies had members in parliament, they actually had a higher level of representation than other citizens.

But even back then, the UK was a democracy. The US took a look back at ancient Greece and combined that with a lot of 18th century philosophy to make the government we see today.

They basically ran up and said "Hey we are liberating ourselves from the British. How about we help you do the same and with the French too and then we can all be one happy family. The Canadians did a “nah, that’s all right, thanks” and walked away.

Honestly I believe that the US would have been in a better place if we remained like Canada or Australia. We could have avoided hundreds of years of bullshit.

Yeah this was hilarious hubris. The Yanks believed that everyone thought as they did.

You could say the same about Australia and Jamaica being part of the British Commonwealth. Historical politics is complex.