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There’s the joke that the real national sport of Argentina is “joder al próximo”.

Im someone who doesn't strut. My cousin in law has the walk, quick smile, devil may care laugh

My house has 9 skylights, a 20 sq. m deck, a pool and a quarter acre lawn. Add three kids ages 8 mo to 7 years. I get plenty of sunlight.

Of course. And the SCOTUS under FDR was ruling under the threat of court packing. A lot of rulings from then are risible. My favorite is telling a farmer his homegrown pig feed is …

Truncating. OP is right

Our industrial base is gutted and we don't have enough resources. Not enough to sustain our extravagant lifestyles. Europe has to find a way to buy Rubles quickly or choose between…

Well, I would be one to argue that the US de facto defaults all the time. But Nixon’s gold window was the most egregious.

The problem is that the adjective “United Statian” is a mouthful; Yankee (my dad’s favorite) unfair; gringo refers (used to?) to Italians in Argentina. United States doesn't have a…

I have never heard a Canadian say that, in fact as a (also) Latin American immigrant it was made clear to me that “Canada is not America you retard” in high school. I agree with La…

Ive grown to love Americans (of all walks of life) in way I have never loved the people of any other country I’ve lived in. Not even the people of my parent’s country - the loss of…

LOL. Touche. Im a quarter inch shy of 6’2’’. So, indeed, 6’1’’. My old man is 6’4’’ and when I was young he’d rib on me that I never got past 190 (we’re metric background). Now I d…

As a Canadian who’s (very) thankfully becoming American I can guarantee you that American government is very incompetent. At least in comparison to a Commonwealth one. The wait tim…

The idea that the US will de jure default on its obligations is risible. De facto its happened at least once before when Nixon closed the gold window overnight.

OP wrote (admittedly wordy), “metrics like debt to GDP indicate they're currently fighting a bigger war than WWII,” Meaning that the GDP trends as if we’re in a WW3 situation and l…

Even if we assume the measurers of inflation are honest, using honest metrics, inflation is hard to measure and the measurement has a natural skew downwards. We’ve all heard about …

Interesting, but we were both 19 in college.

Ya, that happened to me once (Im almost 6’2’’). A guy who couldn't have been 5 10 was insisting he was 6 and that I was taller than stated. What was weird was that we were alone. H…

Its not the height, its the strut. Online women cant see you strut so heights the proxy. My wife's cousin’s 5’6’’ but Ive seen women go up to him and strike a conversation by the w…

OP was ironic restating verbatim what “conservatives” have been told over the last four-five years when they got ostracized for disagreeing with “liberals”. “Build your own Twitter…

changing company structure while the assets remain in Germany (in fact they are immobile) is peanuts. Pretend change. If they (the Russians) had tried to vent Germany’s gas reserve…

This is Germany doing something to not be seen doing anything. Doing something for lack of a plan is usually a mistake. Everything of value of this subsidiary has (pipelines, store…

The answer to your actual question is rather simple - Maxwell’s law. But there’s a more interesting point in your question “how do you reference a signal?”. If you want to really u…

Well thats the decay, aint it? GPA is a great predictor of ones ability to work hard, finish the stated goals, etc. Basically its great at predicting a good busy bee. But I think i…

“ The thing that really spins my head about this, is that since you never get concrete feedback on whether you're meeting the goals you need to meet, this system forces you into ov…

In high school in Italy (at least where I was from) your final grade was basically decided based on the teacher’s belief of how well you mastered the class. For example: In Latin c…