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The entire internet was built on advertising money. That's why any of this even exists.

So why all the tax cuts? Sure the GOP are evil bastards who don't believe in it but apparently their voters do.

If you look at Taiwan history when the US gave PRC the UN seat and Nixon visited Beijing it was pretty much decided. Taiwan is no West Berlin and everyone knows it.

A hundred years ago they were practically giving away land in LA. The real estate value has flipped.

What is weird to me as a European is that sports teams in the US can move. Can you imagine FC Barcelona moving to Madrid?

Before the 1990s CGI did not exist yet. You really had to film stuff outside.

For thousands of years all Japanese people had was fish and rice. When countries become wealthy and open up to trade the population wants to eat exotic stuff. What Japan eats today…

When people came from Algeria, Jamaica and Suriname to Europe they were not foreigners they had French, British and Dutch passports. Germany's lack of such a colonial empire kept t…

Fire is not more extreme in Europe it's just that when half of Canada burns nobody notices. Europe is a very densely populated continent.

Meanwhile nobody has ever been able to hack a bank. Probably because they employ the actual pros unlike crypto.

Hollywood auteur clowns shooting om formats that no movie plex actually uses. I admire the grift.

Precisely why the Netherlands does not have nuclear power plants. Cheap coal. Cheap oil. Cheap gas. And now cheap wind and solar. They just absolutely cannot math the math which le…

Those safety measures are mandatory so you don't have a choice. You know in Aircrash investigation when the autopilot starts yelling "too low terrain"? That's lane assist.

American wine is one those things that is easy to boycot. Unlike oil or HBO. Too bad it hurts a blue state and nobody in Washington will shed a tear over the Californian farmers.

Weird in my country we have a culture were scientists love going after eachother- its what they live for! Nothing gives you more fame than destroying other people's reputation. And…

America is the greatest country on earth because someone owns 50 billion dollars.

You're supposed to redistribute the money to the poor. That's what FDR did and was later copied by European socialists.

I don't understand the jury system. If your server is down you don't grab randos from the street to fix it. Hell Americans know this too which is why you have a professional judge …

China actually wants people to visit them and spend money. And although I don't agree with the CCP ideology the Shanghai subway is ridiculously impressive.

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Great you now made the internet unusable for half the planet.

If AI starts putting tech folks out of a job we can end the teacher, nurse and daycare shortage.

Yeah I am not a europhile who wants to deny the last 1000 years happened and start singing kumbaya. Want to know why? Because I don't believe it.

Yes Germany is so progressive that explains the AFD. Look nobody in the Netherlands believes we share values with other countries the EU is just a good deal. The moment that stops …

A country that gets hysterical over abortion and euthanasia embraces eugenics. The amount of vitriol that Republicans throw at autistic people also really reminds me of that Christ…