I'm talking about 1803-1808 Lewis and Clark expedition. He had aged 30 years and experienced new things. There's no need for sarcasm here we can just discuss things you know. It's not reddit.
I think it depends on where you are and even what the economy is like. I experienced bad service in countries that paid low wages and tipping wasn't normal. I experienced bad service when restaurants were shortening hours open because they couldn't find enough people to work and workers could be bad servers and still not get fired. I'd prefer a consistent experience with a robot over inconsistent experience with a human server not to mention not having to tip. And regarding use cases, if 1 out of 10 instances required a human it's still faster than 10 out of 10 instances and don't get me started on "I don't have to write it down I'll remember it all". The robot will remember.
I heard a podcast about this I forget which one but they said basically that corn was slowly developing and spreading north but it was not developed to support large civilizations like it did in the central and South America. Had Europeans not come for another 100-200 years I think it would have adapted to northern latitudes and the base for large populations and large cities would have been there. Yes the natives had corn in the north but it was a strain with very few kernels compared to what was being grown in central Mexico. I can’t recall the details but that’s the gist . I think they said only one million natives existed in the continental US when colonists first landed too
Thomas Jefferson viewed them as equals and wanted to prevent white settlers from going west of the Mississippi and allow the native Americans to stop warring and enslaving each other, trade and develop schools etc . Perceptions changed later in the 19th century as did policies but the White Americans had been interacting with natives for 250 years by then . It’s not a monolithic attitude and it’s an oversimplification to say they were seen as inferior
I have this in Spanish and it's frustrating. I assumed that at some point it was subtitled by one group and then later maybe dubbed by another company. I know in places like Italy, most foreign things are dubbed, and in other places in latin america most things are subtitled at least and dubbed second which leads me to this theory. But really I have no clue. A quick google search turned up the first result talking about your idea of matching the lips better and also this "Translators/subtitlers are often given scripts which don’t match exactly what was shot. The subtitling team often has no contact with the sound team, so they may have two different translations. "
So We should have just supported them developing intercontinental ballistic nukes while they have continued to chant death to America and called for the destruction of Israel to wipe it off the map for decades and heavily find terrorist groups. If only we had left them alone they’d have developed into a perfectly rational democracy like all the other Middle East / western Asian countries guided by principles of freedom and womens rights would have flourished? Nothing we did truly changed their path and they can complain about us destabilizing their new democracy 70 years ago but they control their destinies and they chose to follow extremist Islamic leaders violate international laws and norms torturing embassy personnel. They’re the ones committing mass executions of political prisoners, allowing 10 year old girls to marry, using chemical weapons and nerve gas etc. They can blame us for all their woes but they’ve been belligerent and working against us and burning American flags for 50 plus years.
This confuses me because at my high school the kids who did anything like this would be sent to the principal's office, then disciplined with on campus supsension or at home suspension, then eventual expulsion where they'd land at the school for bad kids. I never saw the behavior you describe so it sounds like you and your friends / classmates were just absolute horrible people back then.
I like how you wonder how you can educate children without making them resent it like it's the systems fault for creating a boring classroom that therefore made you terrorize some poor teacher when really you were all horrible bullies to the teachers because you chose to be that way.
I hated being in school too but what I did was show up, take notes, go home do homework, repeat until I graduated. I didn't tell the teacher to shut up or play cards or steal stuff or play cruel jokes like you.
This is an oversimplification. If someone is in your house and especially if you have kids you are going to do whatever you can to protect your kids not have a conversation with the burglar or warm him off with aiming a weapon. You don’t know if he’s armed and what he’s capable of, just that he’s in your house and potentially everyone’s life is in danger. I agree with you when someone steals a car from the front yard and the homeowner has legal basis to shoot that person over their car but in my home? It’s life or death.
A buddy got pulled over by a cop who gave him a warning and then told him he recommended for him to remove his sigsauer sticker because people will walk through a parking lot looking for trucks typically with weapons manufacturer names and break in looking for a weapon to steal.
What the point? Exceed your potential. Set goals like becoming rich, climb a mountain, start your company, fail many times if it takes it. Take 6 months off for around the world travel. You said you dont have the drive as before. That’s your choice. Drive is something we can choose and cultivate. If you’re happy the way you are then that’s one thing but I for one am not going to lean on my insignificance when compared to the universe to justify why I don’t do things. If you want it, go for it!
When I had two major crisis hit at the same time last year I made sure to get out of bed no matter how I felt and go run for about 45 minutes rain or shine every day. I had been through stress anxiety periods before and found it to work wonders. It kept my head above water last year and things are much better now and I am still exercising training for a half Ironman. It’s so amazing how much it helps. Also walking it sounds like bs but it really works for me.
Mine died when I was 28. The way I felt was like when you finish the video game civilization and can continue playing but there’s no more winning or point. Emptiness. A few things I’d say is one if your mother is still alive don’t neglect her like I did. Channel your grief into appreciation and love for those who are still with, know the pain fades.
I cannot recall where I read this but isn’t there a connection between a professional sports team and reduced crime? I believe there was a study showing it decreasing when a team was formed and increasing when a city lost its team.
This isn’t a binary thing where you have to have a perfect justice system to criticize any other system especially like Saudi where they are executing convicts who are bloggers and Shia and political enemies.
I lost 60 pounds and of that 45 was only normal walks and diet - counting calories. The thing that helped me in the beginning was to think about calories equally, which they’re not, and think about spending them like coins. So I could spend them on a burger fries and a shake and then I was out of coins for the day or I could eat 600 baby carrots same thing. Later as you get skinnier that doesn’t work well but when you have a lot to lose it works great. I also set small goals realizing I haven’t weighed below 238 in 5 years and 230 in 7 years and so on so I would be able to be like well yeah I only lost 10 pounds but I’m the skinniest I’ve been in 5 years! That combination of tricks but listening to David goggins audiobook and signing up for a difficult fitness event to motivate me achieved the weight loss goal
I can’t help but find a sick satisfaction from this article after recently reading rape of Nanking and a recent pacific war book about Japanese rape and cannibalism of Captured US marines and a book about the OSS in Burma and the Japanese routinely cutting off penises of young boys and shoving them in their mouth as they lay bleeding to death while the Japanese raped and bayoneted young girls and the village burned.
I would just add that services like privacy.com that allow you to create burner cards or cards with specific limits has really helped me with things like gym membership or other places that may make it hard to cancel.
This is why I was enjoying living overseas in different countries because there were so many new experiences some frustrating some good but it did feel like time was moving slower.
Yes. Crazy to think a lot of places won’t even let you order a small size combo anymore. Their smallest is what I remember a large to be years ago and often I’m upsized and charged for a large unless I opt out and tell them I want a medium. They don’t even ask usually. McDonald’s is the one I’m thinking of though they’re not alone.
Edit also this type of restaurant portion sizes bleeds into me preparing food at home for myself or my family.
I guess it depends on what you’re worried about so if it’s identification and targeted ads you’re probably right but I was just worried about losing access if I close or get banned or something from my Facebook account for whatever reason.
This is the big point even if we have to have a meta account we are not at the whim of being suspended from using our headset because of something we said on a separate social media platform
I haven’t used it for that purpose but I follow Alanah Pearce and she swears by it for helping her drop weight after she gained a bunch because of an injury. I’ve heard a few other anecdotes about the app she used helping others too called supernatural. Also the boxing ones too.