In American banking companies, Vice President is usually the first promotion you get.

They are buying the Mac Minis since they are a cheap way to run a server where this would work. They aren’t create a safe environment for AI, but an access point on local hardware.

It hasn’t really been an economic necessity or cultural priority like other countries.

Most countries who have a population who speak more than one language usually either have a variety of languages spoken within/near the country or rely on ESL speakers to participate in the international workforce.

With English being the current lingua franca, Americans already know the current dominant language. There is really only one major language which is relevant to neighbors, but Americans are usually in the more dominant economic position and there is a cultural aversion to adopting Spanish more.

I generally have vivid dreams, so those aren’t uncommon.

The weirdest one was I was having a nightmare and “woke up” in my room, but I was still dreaming. It was a struggle to wake up from that, which isn’t normal at all.

I also feel like the problem with starting with Marx and getting into socialism as a government type is that Marx was an economist writing about economic forces while a lot of his work has been coopted into political theory.

Which makes discussions on government structure hard with a lot of leftists because once you remove discussing the economics of a society, having a discussion on political freedoms only becomes very problematic.

For instance, I saw some English speaking communists discussing a Chinese analysis of their government, which the analysis states that the Chinese government isn’t a democracy. It is true, China would describe itself as a technocracy, with trained political leaders in charge who are shielded from disruptive democratic whims. However, you could see the issue of them accepting that political power should be held only by elites.

Messy urban warfare.

Assuming cooperation with the Mexican government, the USA would likely launch several raids against cartel strongholds similar to the Maduro raid. Whether the cartel leaders are brought to justice or just immediately assassinated is up for grabs, but I expect several extrajudicial killings.

The situation will devolve as the power vacuum causes additional killings including some punishing of the Mexican federal government. This destabilization is likely going to require an occupation; I expect that the USA would want Mexico to fill those posts first but may get pulled in as the Mexican military runs out of logistical capacity and the US military has to start filling in more and more gaps.

At a point, the war against the cartels becomes viewed as an American occupation instead of an internal Mexican action and it causes the population to turn against both federal governments.

I think it has to do more with experience in the USA.

For a large part of the USA, Mexicans are the dominant immigrant group. Americans also have the most experience with portions of Mexican cuisine that they don’t have with other regions. So, people hear Latin American and auto complete to Mexican because that is what they know.

Usually top for a certain period of time like six or twelve hours.

Yeah. If you’re Donald Ducking it, you’re likely going to have problems getting to the store.

Realistic? The current status quo of everyone pretending Taiwan isn’t a country and China not invading.

China isn’t going to accept an independent Taiwan for a variety of reasons. That likely won’t change unless there is a war.

I find myself shopping in a few stores that I’ve had good experience with their clothes.

The blue states aren’t safe either.

Most of the people ICE murdered were in a state so blue it didn’t vote for Reagan.

XBox will still get development as long as Microsoft wants gaming on PC on a way it can somewhat control. Part of the reason why the XBox got made was because Microsoft already developed the software required to make a console.

I feel like D3 had to both be a new version of D2 and not be a simpler WoW. WoW lifted a lot of its initial design from D2 and improved on it. I could see Blizzard trapped with trying to make another Diablo without killing WoW.

Plus my mom was pretty controlling on many aspect of my life, and studying abroad was one “mom-approved” way to be independent.

I know the feeling.

Epstein was a spy who was expected to gather intelligence. Of course he was going to build his intelligence network with anyone that he could corrupt.

Part of it is a different signaling of wealth. Goods outside of real estate get cheaper all the time while experiences don’t.

Part of it is a way to signal willingness to experience the world differently. Saying that you’ve been in a place and experienced it gives greater authority on that place even if the trip is a curated experience.

Poorly.

But he’s the one to stop the genocide!

They spent all their money on overdubbing lines.