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.

16 - parents

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.

Probably kinda.

I imagine that someone who can’t draw for crap using AI to create the visual component to their stories. They may also use AI to create character “voices” who say things in their specific manner

Manga production costs drop as a writer doesn’t need as many skills to write them and the AI handles more of the heavy lifting when it comes to generating content.

Eventually one of these slop mangas becomes popular enough to get animated. Since it is animated, it becomes a lot easier to make. My guess is that the beginning looks like AI empowered rotoscoping, human actors provide the movements which become the basis of animated characters. You can even do voice modulation too, so the vocal performance gets swapped to the right voice.

These animes might be less popular, but if they are being made at a fraction of the cost of human animation.

The funny thing is that normalization of Cuban relations is only going to royally piss off the medical industry in the USA.

It looks like you’re doing a great job at protecting yourself against a horrible life, but it looks like you haven’t planned out creating a good life.

I’d save your money and have it grow, but I’d start looking into low/no cost hobbies or something to add some joy in your life.

It depended on the country. Countries like the UK and Poland played a major role in fighting operations and deserve praise for their contributions.

Other NATO countries contributed a lot less.

No, but I have things I like to do outside of work and my work funds those activities.

Based on your responses, it seems like the only thing you like to do is to see your net worth go up. Any reason why you don’t have any hobbies?

Do you like working?

If you didn’t have to work, what would you do? Do you still want to work? Would you do something else? Do you have any hobbies?

I’m asking because I’m planning on taking a sabbatical from work because I’m tired of working and I want to enjoy some time away from work.

No country wants to build a tech infrastructure that they don’t control.

He didn’t. Mamdani won a majority of NYC, but he lost the conservative parts to Cuomo.

That said, Mamdani got a decent amount of small business support for campaigning on streamlining a lot of the city’s regulations to bring down costs. This includes getting rid of the secondary market for various medallions.

The teeth were very valuable.

The Thick of It

A show regarding a random UK ministry and the random cluster fuck off politics. The 12th Doctor is an enforcer from the PM’s office with a prolific use of profanity.

The writer ended up creating Veep in the USA.