Right now, and for the last 10 years or so, seems like Russia is in control of much of the political narrative. Since the internet unified the world, I definitely see more of the Russian influence than before.

He died in 2024.

someone who is English and Swedish would not be because they are just white

Nah that’s still a mix, a mix of two things commonly referred to as ‘white’ currently. The standards of ‘which races are white’ has changed over the last hundred years.

That’s like 4 people.

Here are images of the moon’s surface where you can make out details like rover tracks.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10818

Some families are much more connected to their home country than others. Americans 3rd gen and beyond often have very little connection. The issue is where Irish culture is distinctly different from Irish-American culture, Italian different than Italian-American. You can’t go “back” to the home country and fit in. It’s not the same.

Without cars there would be A LOT more people on the sidewalk. In the past, before cars, there were so many more people on the street it’s not even funny. The roads were full of people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDMsHtCgnkc

So why was NOW the time? What’s the USA really gaining here with these strikes?

It seems naive to think that you could accomplish regime change with only air strikes? America tried occupation, tried training Afghanistan, none of that worked.

Putting other people up to random ‘tests’ that they don’t know about, that seems like a bad system. Though your specific example about kids is clearly an important thing to be worried about.

There seems to be an anorexia fad. People who didn’t even need to lose weight now look anorexic after taking it. Feels like we’re back in the 90’s. Baggy pants, midriff shirts, and being incredibly incredibly thin.

What? I like… use pillows. They get old. Sometimes they get gross. Sometimes they get thrown away. Sometimes I buy a new pillow. I’m supposed to be ‘fluffing’ them? Seems like extra work. Sounds like you work for your pillow. Your pillow should work for you.

Takes like, 2-5 years not 6 months. Buy from Costco? IDK.

That kitten meow where they haven’t learned how to meow yet.

Google “why did sailors drink alcohol” if you want some sources.

“Beer and wine were invented because drinking water was unsafe.”

No, people have generally always known how to find clean drinking water and understood its importance. Beer and wine got made because they were delicious, nutritious, and got ya drunk.

Sounds like someone who misheard a different fact. Which is why sailors drink low proof alcohol on long voyages. Because they couldn’t safely store water for such a long time. Water turns green and becomes undrinkable if you store it in a barrel. It’s one of the things that helped unlock ocean travel in the 1400’s.

Alcohol occurs naturally in nature. It did not need ‘inventing.’

Does your friend consider themselves on the left or the right side of the graph?

Any graph like that where it puts their own beliefs as ‘smart’ and others beliefs as ‘dumb’ is inherently a pretty useless graph. Graph says them smart, you dumb. Does the graph not convince you? LOL.

No, not the right country or the right stereotype. Like men might shorten ‘muchacho’ to ‘chacho’ while women would be saying ‘muchacha.’

Choudhury’s mugshot was held on the police system only because he had been wrongly arrested in 2021 when he had been attacked on a night out while at university in Portsmouth. The police released him with no further action. Now he has had a second mugshot taken he is afraid the automated system could trigger more wrongful arrests.

When was the first one? 1995? TIL there was a movie in 2021 that was so far off my radar I missed it entirely.

Yes. Sony has the rights to everything Spider-Man except for modern normal Spider-Man (Tom Holland is Marvel). Sony made Spider-Verse, Madame Web, Venom, they can only make Spider-universe stuff. They could make a real Spider-Gwen movie and it would probably be a hit. That’s what the trailers for Madame Web looked like it was going to be, until I made the mistake of watching it.