Food is relatively cheap in the USA compared to other countries. You also had a lot of immigrant waves come to the USA, find that food was so cheap, and celebrated by creating larger meals.

I feel like the only one that is going to get a lot of push back is #5. You’ve got a lot of countries that don’t want their sea access to be through another country’s territorial waters.

It isn’t that it is super expensive, but that it is being used as a bargaining chip regarding ICE funding and the blame isn’t going to Democrats. A failure of TSA to properly do its job right before the World Cup is going to get blamed on Republicans and the smart Republicans know this.

It also lets Republicans potentially crush a union as a treat.

I can’t remember which show it was, but fans wrote in letters on KFC bucket packaging because KFC was a major advertiser on the show.

They should have a stake, but I don’t see the continent quickly building out the supply chain required for green energy any time soon.

Does Africa need to build it themselves?

Everyone. Iran isn’t going to abide by the international order if the international order is going to allow it to get bombed in a war of aggression.

This is being done as it is the only card Iran can realistically play to get international pressure to get this to not happen in the future.

War crimes are not a burden. After all, he can live with it.

It was more Soviet than Chinese, but I agree with the sentiment.

Well, awards have to get invented at some point.

I can also see an award like this being useful for the future.

I’m not surprised, due to the combination of how Chinese lives have improved and how American lives haven’t.

Come on and slam? And welcome to the jam?

Earth has been known to keep Starbase 1 around for centuries and that space station has nowhere near the historic significance as Deep Space 9 did for Bajor.

I doubt it would have been kept as the space station serving the Bajoran wormhole, but I could see it kept in the system preserved as a historic ship.

That is of it didn’t blow up due to the Burn.

It depends on what you define infusion as. Three big theme of magic versus tech isn’t that magic stops existing, but that tech radically changes the balance of power in how to use magic. To use a fire wizard as an example, the best use of a fire wizard is different between the medieval era and industrial era.

For the medieval era, the best use of a fire wizard is as magical artillery. Sieges are likely broken as the attacking army has enough fire power from their wizards to burn away defenders in a castle. You likely need these wizards to understand strategy, so they will likely be generals or kings. A fire wizard is going to have a high status in society.

For the industrial era, the best use of a fire wizard is as a replacement for coal. Weapons on the battlefield have replaced the need of fire wizards and some weapons have enough range to be a threat to the wizards, negating their need. Instead, a fire wizard is either used to melt metal or to power a steam engine because they are cheaper than using coal. At best, a fire wizard is going to be at the level of skilled labor in this society as their efforts are best used to be an energy supply.

That shift in power is going to have major ramifications on societies.

You have to watch out about that. Star Trek loves the Klingon like they love the Vulcans.

I like magic settings that deal with non-magic technology becoming a threat to magic.

I’m not surprised given Epstein’s links to Mossad.

The USA “won” the War of 1812 the same way it won the American War of Independence, paying to maintain control wasn’t worth the gains of maintaining control.

Eh, I’ve seen collaboration tank due to full WFH. People don’t talk to each other, which means they aren’t asking each other questions or coordinating with others on projects. It also pushes managers to become a bottleneck as individual workers don’t form informal connections with each other to ask for help.

Also, people are a lot nastier to each other when they are outside of punching distance.

And/or ADD