It isn’t a contradiction but clarification. Your response implies a binary truth where only one statement can be correct. I’m noting that both statements can be correct at the same time.

Before you try to think I’m going to argue otherwise, cartel violence doesn’t justify an American military response.

The current administration may be trying to manufacture consent for a military operation, but cartel violence in Mexico has been an issue for decades. This has included the assassination of Mexican politicians.

Older siblings usually mature faster because they are typically pushed to be responsible for younger siblings in some form.

Why was that a mistake?

Picked a wrong week to quit smoking?

Letters are only for those cross-continental, cross-oceanic relationships.

Letters were commonly written for people in the same city. Some posh neighborhoods in major cities would have hourly mail service.

I wanted to design bridges. I design bridges.

Depends on if this is work or not.

If it is work and I’m pressed for time, I usually start to interrupt them and give a summary based on what I know and ask them to fill in any gaps.

It can be disorienting for some staff because I can tell that they practiced trying to lay out everything perfectly so that I can understand them and that they have problems trying to parse everything out to create the delta between what they know and what I know.

If the USA was going to pick another language, it would be German.

A lot of initial theory was written when the idea of complex markets and how they functioned was a relatively new idea. Compared to previous economic systems that were implemented, capitalism involved a lot less government involvement.

Crony Capitalism came about as an idea when established companies found it was cheaper to buy off the government for a better regulatory environment.

In theory you can have capitalism without crony capitalism, but it generally requires political power to be very diffuse and not concentrated in certain industries.

I feel like part of the problem was that Microsoft tried porting instant messaging and video calling services into the Office suite for decades and it didn’t stick. I remember previous attempts like Skype for business and Lync, with few people in the companies I worked at incorporating it into their workflows.

It took COVID and full remote work to push people into using a program like Zoom over SMS and phone calls. Once most of corporate America switched to using Zoom for conference calls, Microsoft had to rush out a new product that could unseat Zoom quickly.

The official name for Mexico is the United Mexican States, a similar name to the United States of America but focused on the region of Mexico, the area which has Mexico City and the State of Mexico.

The problem with applying this to the USA is that, unlike Mexico, the USA was a collection of various colonies with different political and religious traditions coming together rather than the more unified viceroyality of Mexico.

Using words like Atlantic or Piedmont wouldn’t work well as the words described the colonies as is but the nation was partially rebelling to be able to settle lands on the other side of Appalachian Mountains.

Columbia might work as the word was used as a by label for the USA, so the United States of Columbia. This would likely cause Gran Colombia to choose a different name for their country.

Outside of Columbia, I can’t think of a name which would act as a label in which all colonies would agree.

Yeah. I wouldn’t expect people who want algorithm-fed video to switch to a text based platform like Lemmy.

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I taught a friend how to drive and he was in his mid 20’s when I taught him.

A decent first step is trying to figure out what the picture looks like.

What kind of job do you want? What kind of family do you want? What kind of place do you want to live? What hobbies or activities do you want to do? The picture will be blurry and that is ok.

From that, you can start to plan out what you need to do to make that picture. Do you need a certain education? Do you need to live in a certain part of the world? Do your goals match your drive? Are your goals reasonable?

And it is fine if your picture changes over time. It does for everyone. However, having a picture gives you something to plan against.

The tactic hasn’t worked for the party, but it has worked for me.

I feel like the administration has been trying to provoke violent retaliation against ICE and keep being disappointed that the only deaths are from the other side.

Fuck off. I’m pissed about ICE killing others as well.

Only because the cop who murdered him was there to find non-citizens.

One of the things that the Cuban government has done right is its medical industry. The Cuban government is able to create world class doctors relatively cheaply and can provide relatively good health care given its relative poverty.

A normalization of US-Cuba relations is likely going to open up Cuba to American tourism.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a massive influx of Americans going to Cuba to get medical treatment there.