when will we get authentic cuisines instead of the sickly sweet glop that everything gets turned into to placate the wrong palates of americans? is this another one where one has to wait for the boomers to die off? or perhaps generation x?
Tag: us
Declaration Of Dependence
In what is certain to be regarded as a defining moment in the nation’s history, leading US political figures gathered at the Capitol today to sign their names to the newly drafted Declaration of Dependence, formally proclaiming America’s total reliance on China.
War on drugs
the war against terrrrrrrrrrrrrists will have an even worse efficacy.
2016-03-22:
Nixon Policy Advisor admits he invented War On Drugs to Suppress ‘Anti-War Left and Black People’
But her emails
And in his first 40 days on the job, the White House email system was down 23% of the time.
more technological illiteracy / amateur hour. and these people are fit to shape technology policy?
The equilibrium trap
the quality of governance in the US tends to be low precisely because of a continuing tradition of Jacksonian populism. Americans with their democratic roots generally do not trust elite bureaucrats to the extent that the French, Germans, British, or Japanese have in years past. This distrust leads to micromanagement by Congress through proliferating rules and complex, self-contradictory legislative mandates which make poor quality governance a self-fulfilling prophecy. The US is thus caught in a low-level equilibrium trap, in which a hobbled bureaucracy validates everyone’s view that the government can’t do anything competently.
US Bathrooms
why do bathroom stalls in the US rarely have real doors going all the way to the floor? some mullah decree against hanky-panky?
Your toilets are too low down and the stalls have massive gaps around the door so that people can see in. You can put a man on the moon but can’t design a setup whereby I can have a shit in comfortable privacy. Sort it out America.
+1
We ask citizens to bear with us as we modernize every toilet stall in the country by doubling the width of the gap between each door and its surrounding frame.
this is a national priority in the us.
Poorly targeted PSA
why is the DHS running these ads in the NYC subway when the bigots are elsewhere?
The dumbest platform yet
i don’t usually link to articles about the latest crazy in US politics (not enough signal), but this is well written, funny and disturbing all at once.
Let me be clear. The opinions and analysis of this all-white, moralistic, American Taliban have no purchase in the land of black folk. It’s not like the Official Committee Of Black Folk (I’m a rotating co-chair for the Northeast Directorate) sits around wondering what THE FAMiLY LEADER thinks about our family situation, but still, to invoke slavery in “defense” of marriage exposes a complete lack of historical understanding and common sense, much less sensitivity.
1491
lots of lost history there
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge numbers of Indians who actively molded and influenced the land around them. The astonishing Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had running water and immaculately clean streets, and was larger than any contemporary European city. Mexican cultures created corn in a specialized breeding process that it has been called man’s first feat of genetic engineering. Indeed, Indians were not living lightly on the land but were landscaping and manipulating their world in ways that we are only now beginning to understand. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.
2022-11-23: Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward?
Only in the late 17th century did the French and the English begin to push into the heartland, engaging complex configurations of Indigenous power in contending for control of the Great Lakes and the Ohio River Valley. Yet even then colonial gains were precarious and provisional. By the mid-18th century, Indian rebellions had rolled back European incursions; the Spanish, the French, and the English clung mainly to the coasts and rivers. The vast interior of the continent was largely unknown to them, and the tidy lines of the 13 colonies were more aspirational than actual.
2023-09-08: Nice visualization
The year is 1518. Mexico-Tenochtitlan, once an unassuming settlement in the middle of Lake Texcoco, now a bustling metropolis. It is the capital of an empire ruling over, and receiving tribute from, more than 5 million people. Tenochtitlan is home to 200.000 farmers, artisans, merchants, soldiers, priests and aristocrats. At this time, it is one of the largest cities in the world.
Today, we call this city Ciudad de Mexico – Mexico City.
Not much is left of the old Aztec – or Mexica – capital Tenochtitlan. What did this city, raised from the lake bed by hand, look like? Using historical and archeological sources, and the expertise of many, I have tried to faithfully bring this iconic city to life.
License Mafia
the license raj comes to the us
In the 1950s, when organization man ruled, fewer than 5% of American workers needed licenses. Today, after 30 years of deregulation, the figure is almost 30%. Add to that people who are preparing to obtain a license or whose jobs involve some form of certification and the share is 38%.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 