UPS and American companies in general
But this is USPS, which isn’t an American company, it’s a US independent agency.
Their mandate isn’t (AFAIK…) to make a profit, but rather to serve the mail requirements of a very large country.
Personally, my experiences with USPS have been generally positive, from passports for infants to free change-of-address forwarding service to tracking down quasi-scam products from Amazon. YMMV though.
Anyway, how’s your sex life?
“It’s not that I’m against vaccines, it’s just that I want my body’s own antibodies to fight off the virus.”
I think there’s a bias in the US against this sort of thing that doesn’t exist (or not to the same extent) in Europe due to the age of the cities/buildings.
In the US, a building from the 1700s is a historic artifact to be cherished, while in parts of Europe a building from the 1500s is just the local pub.
So, the US is often hesitant to modify these old buildings, but Europe seems to have more of a perspective of “it’s a building, not a museum, let’s give it new life by modifying it.”
This is just from the perspective of me, from the US — and I think these old/new buildings are really neat!
In English, it’s usually used in a context where there’s some humor, frustration, or irony involved, like in the comic.
Anybody want a peanut?
Well yes, but so is Canada, which has a higher HDI than the US.
Parent was asking why Mexico is excluded from the list while Canada is not.
By “don’t have incentive” I’m just referring to an on-paper incentive from an HDI ranking.
Canada has roughly the same HDI ranking as the US, whereas Mexico is somewhat lower. So from the “looking for a better life” perspective, Canadians don’t have an incentive to move to the US (other way around actually, from HDI).
Just a guess though.
Janeway’s toilet would just be full of coffee that’s had the caffeine extracted. So…decaf. Blech!
Not to mention mortgage interest.
If I wanted to give it a bold facelift I’d just use the top one and remove the letters. Gives it an arrogant, “if you have to ask what this is…” vibe, which is probably a good thing for them.
Economic policies, sure. But there are social policies and perhaps more importantly a culture of intolerance that can affect people over a wide range of economic status.
I think I’d just add “straight white people” to the qualifier and then I’d agree though.
https://www.gocomics.com/shen-comix/2019/11/15
It was originally posted in 2019. Joke of course being that things associated with the 1920s would be relevant again in the 2020s.
Comic then shared as a meme with the 3rd panel being replaced with other panels. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/things-were-bringing-back-in-the-2020s
IIRC that was the release that cleaned up the make output substantially.
Not on Netflix in my region :(
I really don’t think it’s the devs driving these decisions…
Ok so it is fully qualified then? I’m just confused because it sounded like you were saying I wasn’t using the term correctly in your other comment.
English isn’t even the official language of the United States — we don’t have an official language.
Various states have official languages (19 states + DC don’t have any official language); of these states, English is indeed official, with a few states also recognizing native languages as official alongside English.
Of course that’s beside the point, as even calling this sort of racism “thinly veiled” would be far too charitable.
I’m pretty sure that’s exactly why referring to women as “females” is problematic — using male/female as nouns is fine for animals. Humans, not so much…