Yeah, definitely Spanish does things differently. At least according to wikipedia, most anglosphere countries teach the 7 continent model, while romance language countries teach a 6 continent model combining the americas, and Russia does 6 continent combining Eurasia.

Tbh, most people dont identify themselves by continent, anyway; they identify by country. Exceptions obviously exist (e.g., pan-africanism, immigrants from neighboring countries in a third country).

Exactly, cause it's not just one continent, it's plural.

In the English language, "America" is not a continent, "North America" and "South America" are continents. This also makes way more sense than any other system that considers Europe, Asia, and Africa to be separate continents, but lumps north and south America into one continent.

So you would say that Mexico is in "north america" and Peru is in "south america", but you wouldnt say that either is in "america" or an american country.

When you run in the outside lane, you start a little further around the track, so the total distance is still 400 m. Generally, in races <=400 m, you stay in your lane the whole way, and in longer races, you are allowed to cut in after a certain distance.

It's a restaurant chain that is almost always open to the point that there are some locations that didn't even have locks on their doors until covid forced them to shit down.

If the power goes out, they switch to a gas only menu. If gas goes out, they switch to an electric only menu.

The food is not great, but very often the only option in a given town in the middle of the night. Sometimes, it's what you need.

I'm leaving the typo, lol.

their operating systems could send sensitive information to Beijing

Cool. So let's pass legislation that prevents any auto manufacturer from sending sensitive info to anyone unauthorized by the owner of the car. Just because you buy a car "assembled" in the US doesn't mean that your data isn't being harvested, stored improperly, and sold to all bidders.

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Elbows have always been allowed on the table. The rule for fancy dining was that you couldn't have elbows on the table during a course, i.e., when people are actively eating, but before/after, it's fine. That's a reasonable rule to be considerate of space.

The real reason behind all the gelatin salad abominations is that after gelatin was first discovered/isolated, it was very costly to produce, but new technology made it much more affordable.

Isolating gelatin requires long cook times (which require lots of fuel) at ideally fairly low temperatures. Then there needs to be some level of filtration to make it as flavorless as possible, and then dehydration to sheets or a powder.

Finally, to actually make one of these "salads", you need refrigeration.

Production of gelatin was industrialized to make it much cheaper, and refrigerators became normal household appliances. You went from gelatin being only really used in "fine dining" to something you could do at home. In the same era, pineapple went from being a fruit that only the rich could get to something anyone could, so it went through a similar explosion of popularity.

The alternative funny answer is that the company that sold gelatin, Knox, was run by a husband and wife, and all the crazy stuff didn't start until the husband died, so either he was holding her back, or once she lost her husband, she thought everyone else should, too.

That's the whole point of how any aid works in most situations. Especially with the US's military-industrial complex. Ukraine gets munitions, US industry gets the money. The point is not to build a military industry for Ukraine.

The infamous "government cheese" was given to the needy in the US not because poor people have a dire need for cheese, but because the government wanted to give a lot of money to wealthy dairy farmers.

To suggest that lawmakers don't understand that that is what they are doing is crazy.

If i recall correctly, it's because Illinois considers taking a roadkill deer to be "hunting", so it actually uses up your deer permit which is insane (especially considering not all roadkill occurs during deer season).

People delinquent on child support are not allowed to hunt cause you could theoretically subsist on hunting and not have a job that produces money.

Tbh, I tend to do that sometimes. The number of languages I can somewhat understand outnumbers the number of languages I can attempt to speak.

Especially when it comes to reading: it's a lot easier to see a bunch of cognates and understand the jist of the sentence than it is to come up with those words and conjugate, order, and pronounce them correctly.

On multiple occasions, I've tried to use my limited knowledge to order food or something in another language, only to have the person on the other side look at me confused until I restate myself in English.

I like to think of it like Star Wars where everyone just speaks and responds in their own language.

All concussions are traumatic brain injuries, not all traumatic brain injuries are concussions.

Congress being so bad at legislating has basically forced the Supreme Court to legislate. I obviously don't agree with decisions like ending Roe v. Wade, but abortion should never have been up to them in the first place. Those kinds of decisions should be up to congress to make clear laws.

It sounds like your problems aren't with EVs. It sounds like your problems are with any modern car.

You ever wonder why the other billionaires with space companies have actually flown on their companies vehicles and he hasn't?

I bet he doesn't let his car autopilot him either.

Until you do like step one of taking an appliance apart, and realize that the real manual is marked "for technician use only", and it's hidden inside of the appliance.

My washer and dryer both have good manuals complete with circuit diagrams under the top once i take a few screws out. My chest freezer has one taped up under the hatch where the compresser sits. My refrigerator has one hidden in the door hinge.

If you listen to what he says, the FBI redacted all the files before passing them to the DOJ. The DOJ was only able to release the versions of what they actually had.

Ro went to the FBI to see the originals, but it's not like he could comprehensively hunt through the 3 million files. It sounds like he just pulled out names of people that he found that were mentioned in particularly damaging documents that were redacted only to keep their own names clean.

It'll take a much larger effort to comprehensively go through with proper redactions of victim info, without hiding perps.

The point it seems like they are trying to make (and I have only read up till the paywall) is that there are multiple forms of insulin, and newer versions basically work better. Many people are getting the newer, better drugs, but having to ration them because of how expensive they are. If plain, old insulin becomes cheap enough such that people switch to it (critically, without some extra effort by our healthcare system), a percentage of people will end up dying. Managing diabetes is all about keeping blood glucose stable, and that is asier to do with the modern stuff.

They retitled the article to "Making Insulin Cheaper Isn’t Enough", which i think is a much better headline.

And again, I could only read up till the paywall, so i could be giving them too much credit.