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And here we are, not on TikTok or Instagram, and still seeing it

Yeah, that Franch dipping sauce in Breaking Bad was crazy!

Lotsa misinformation coming from that general area.

Assuming the words themselves are accurate, there is still a difference between wanting to "engage more" with Beijing and wanting them to swallow your country whole. Not to mention all the other issues one may vote over

"I couldn't possibly compete with other businesses who would also be required to do the same thing in the same way that I would! It just wouldn't be fair!"

Screenshot taken at 18:07, which puts you at GMT+2. Curious what makes you such an expert in American and Asian secessionist politics from Eastern Europe 🤔

Hi, it's now 2024. To the best of my knowledge the independence movements of Puerto Rico and Hawaii are currently minimal (not non-existent, but even Texas has some weirdo secessionists). While the circumstances of those territories becoming a part of the US may be dicey, "our ancestors made a mistake" isn't really a good reason to cut those places away entirely if modern-day people generally wish to keep the current arrangement.

Taiwan, on the other hand, generally wishes to remain independent from China. False equivalence.

I'm not an avid reader, but I'm a huge fan of a book called Over the Edge of the World by Lawrence Bergreen. That detailed Magellan's voyage around the world. A few takeaways:

• Spices really were the thing everyone in Europe wanted. If a sailor managed to smuggle a backpack full of cloves, it would be enough to buy a modest house. Only one of 5 ships made it back, but it was filled with top quality cloves and that was enough that the trip was STILL a financial gain.

• Nobody really knew where the spices came from. India was a nebulous semi-mythical place, and some believed there were a few "India"s

• Magellan, while Portuguese by birth, basically moved to Spain when Portugal wouldn't pay for him to try to find the spice Islands

• The treaty of Tordesillas roughly divided the new world between Spain and Portugal. The land east of whatever meridian was Portugal's, and west was Spain's. But there were still issues, like longitude not really being measurable at the time and no clear idea who had claim 180° past that meridian. But it would have been to Spain's benefit to find the spice islands past that meridian

Bonus fact: the first human to sail around the world was Magellan's slave, Enrique (last name escapes me). He was brought from Indonesia(?) to Europe, then set sail on this round-the world journey, eventually going near his native homeland. Magellan had it in his will that Enrique be freed upon his death, but when he was killed on that voyage (basically by his own who) nobody was aware of that.

Maybe in that one aspect, but I'd imagine the mandatory labor at likely very low wages will make most people resent it more than anything.

I'll be honest, I'm from Minnesota but haven't seen TMD. But I love when shows emphasize and feature its location. Even if it wasn't filmed there, The Mary Tyler Moore Show kept things reasonably Minneapolis-centric. Cheers/Frasier in Boston/Seattle, The Drew Carey Show is proudly in Ohio, Seinfeld in New York, Full House in San Francisco, more recently Breaking Bad in New Mexico... We've got a huge country, let's use its different settings!

Unfortunately so many places are lucky to offhandedly mention where it all takes place, trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator IMO.

Not really. There were plenty of random pages, but you really had to seek it out to see it. Now an overwhelming majority of non-ad posts are stuff like this (and I wouldn't be surprised if they pay to have this stuff seen, basically making it an ad)

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