Danquebec @ Danquebec @sh.itjust.works

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But what about "seconhand smoke", if I may call it that?

You'd be surprised at the mental gymnastics they can pull off.

If the new country refuses to assume the debt, creditors can hesitate to lend to it because they can expect that the same thing can happen again. It depends on their perception of the new government, or of its new constitution and laws.

The days of the US empire are over; and now begins the age of a new Chinese empire.

How is that going to protect us from the US?

Yea how does this even make economic sense?

Well, your solution works. But if you want to subdivide the season into neat and regular weeks, it's not possible. So the next best thing is subdividing the year into weeks while disregarding the seasons.

Don't subdivide the 73-day seasons.

Instead, subdivide the year into 73 5-day weeks.

A year made up of 5 seasons and 73 weeks.

Which is also why I hate that our calendar starts at year 1.

Not if you divide by 5. It gets you 73 days each.

Some parts of Japan, such as Hokkaido, can be considered to be colonized as its native people are the Ainus, not the Yamato people (the Japanese ethnicity).

The Yamato themselves didn't didn't exist for 40'000 years. It was during the 4th century BC to the 7th century CE that their main ancestors, the Yayoi and the Toraijin, migrated to Japan and displacd the Joumon people to the North. The latter had been in Japan for a much longer time.

There was a Welsh tourist in the US who was doing household chores to stay in people's houses, and she was being detained because she should be on a working visa, and wanted to leave but they wouldn't let her. She wasn't taken while trying to leave, she was prevented from doing so. Which I think is quite fucked up as well.

The US is the one that has all the cards but it's the EU that's unfair? How does that work?

Sorry, I misread your comment.

I've never tried this.

I love so many things about Rise of Nations that it wouldn't fit in a Lemmy post.

Also, they have excellent music.

Apart from Denmark. I know only one band from there.

It was Rise of Nations for me.

Thank you for your insightful reply.

I also found this: https://www.citizensforethics.org/news/analysis/trumps-politicization-of-the-u-s-marshals-service-is-a-threat-to-our-democracy/

It says that one of the primary functions of the US Marshals Service is to carry out judicial orders, but it reports to the president. This looks like a flaw to me.

Sorry, I'm a foreigner and I don't understand much. Someone cares to explain? Should the police normally enforce judicial orders and sentences? Why do they not? Is the police personally loyal to Trump?