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This is not true, as there is no continent called ‘America’. There is only ‘North America’ and ‘South America’. American is used by people in the US because the USA stands for the United States of America. Just like how the Mexicans use that term because the UMS stands for the United Mexican States. Being offended at the use of American just for people from the US is simply due to a lack of education. The term you ar…
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McDonalds can fire you for any reason in my state. At any time. When you're renting yourself to authoritarian institutions like corporations, there is no "self respect" required for you to always take the best deal for yourself whenever possible.
> McDonalds can fire you for any reason in my state. At any time. Yeah but if you show up for your scheduled shifts and are on time, sober, don't steal, and are moderately competent, they won't.
If labor history in any place where firing is at will should have taught anyone anything, it's that many, many companies, for all kinds of stupid, greedy or sometimes necessary internal reasons do indeed often fire employees in droves despite their rigorously showing up for their scheduled shifts, sober, honest, and competent...
What cloud landscape do you live in?
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This is not true, as there is no continent called ‘America’. There is only ‘North America’ and ‘South America’. American is used by people in the US because the USA stands for the United States of America. Just like how the Mexicans use that term because the UMS stands for the United Mexican States. Being offended at the use of American just for people from the US is simply due to a lack of education. The term you ar…
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https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/America
Not all countries see North America and South America as 2 continents. Rather, they're regions of a single continent called America, like South Asia is a region of Asia.
There's more to education than the US-American perspective.
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Consulting with people's opinions in the Spanish-speaking world really does not matter, because they're still wrong. The Darién Gap physically separates North and South America.
There's a better argument that Eurasia is a single continent, than there is North and South America.
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/* https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/America Not all countries see North America and South America as 2 continents. Rather, they're regions of a single continent called America, like South Asia is a region of Asia. There's more to education than the US-American perspective. */ Consulting with people's opinions in the Spanish-speaking world really does not matter, because they're still wrong. The Darién Gap physically sep…
America was first a single continent. That's why it's not "The United States of North America" nor "The United States of the Americas". "America" in "USA" refers to the New World, like it continues to do today in the Spanish-speaking world.
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I can't speak to sleep, but you are wrong about the calories. Kurzgesagt has a really interesting video on it: https://youtu.be/lPrjP4A_X4s The caloric part quite blew my mind. I know its not the most scientific source but digging deeper in it it does seem to match up.
This is one in a long list of reasons why I continue to view calories as a useless measure. I don't really give a damn about how much water I can heat up by burning my food, that's not how my digestion system works. It was a reasonable enough analog when we had a very rudimentary understanding both of what's really in food and how digestion and the metabolic process works, but its horribly outdated today. I can say h…
Yeah I think people are missing the transition phase of this equation.
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This is one in a long list of reasons why I continue to view calories as a useless measure. I don't really give a damn about how much water I can heat up by burning my food, that's not how my digestion system works. It was a reasonable enough analog when we had a very rudimentary understanding both of what's really in food and how digestion and the metabolic process works, but its horribly outdated today. I can say h…
> I can say having recently gone from coding at a desk 8 hours a day to working full-time on a farm with no heavy equipment, your food intake absolutely should increase. Yeah I think people are missing the transition phase of this equation.
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/* https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/America Not all countries see North America and South America as 2 continents. Rather, they're regions of a single continent called America, like South Asia is a region of Asia. There's more to education than the US-American perspective. */ Consulting with people's opinions in the Spanish-speaking world really does not matter, because they're still wrong. The Darién Gap physically sep…
Whatever your personal criteria on what a continent is, historical convention bears more weight. You yourself recognize this if, despite your criteria, you're not willing to correct other people and tell them that Europe and Asia are not continents. America was first a single continent. That's why it's not "The United States of North America" nor "The United States of the Americas". "America" in "USA" refers to the N…
Only out of ignorance of where they landed, and what it was. As we learned more this evolved, at least it did in the Anglosphere. No one was ever ignorant of the fact that Europe and Asia were one. That's a very different historical origin as to why each is divided and referred to as they are today.
It would be like naming all bodies of water the Atlantic, at one point that would have been accepted. It would not only be wrong, it would also be as culturally imperialistic to do to everyone else as forcing North and South America to be 'America'.
This is the first map of the New World, and at the time I would have agreed that America would have made sense.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Map_Juan...
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What kind of reference is a "Kurzgesagt" video please? Not only has the this channel been in more controversies than needed, they seem to also spread missinformation
As I understood, kurzgesagt is produced by scientific consensus from a large number of scientists. As a big fan, I'd be interested in hearing more about the controversy and misinformation.
