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I think it’s a group of obnoxiously self-righteous people who get to tell themselves that they’re taking real action to make a difference but really aren’t doing anything useful at all, and their stunts probably actively turn some people against environmental causes. They’re the exact same kind of people as the NIMBYs who pat themselves on the back for getting a new 50% affordable-housing apartment building canceled because it wasn’t 100% affordable.

And that their two-letter country code, commonly seen in Swiss domain names, is CH for Confoederatio Helvetica.

When they try minor defendants in the USA as “adults,” aren’t they saying the kids aren’t what the seem to be, that they aren’t actually their chronological age? “Young at heart,” an “old soul,” saying the same thing.

The problem here is trying minors (disproportionately minority minors) “as adults.” The notion is absurd. We have a separate juvenile justice system for a reason. No, we shouldn’t start trying adults as children; we should stop trying children as adults.

On an iPhone, share menu, print, then share menu from the print page. This gives you a save to files option. You can then physically print the PDF at your leisure and however is convenient for you.

I think it’s pretty solidly in the Tex-Mex category, which is so much more popular in America than actual Mexican food that “Mexican” is better considered a casual alternative to saying Tex-Mex. If you actually mean authentic Mexican, you should probably specify that, or even better, name the specific region. It’s normal to see a restaurant advertised as Oaxacan or Yucatan, for example.

This seems backwards from what a manufacturer would want to do. The concern with variances isn’t really having too much but having too little in the bottle. If you aimed to put exactly 600 in the bottle, you will sometimes end up below 600. It would make more sense to label it 600, aim for 618, and be confident that you’ll always fill it to at least the advertised 600.

Going further back, you can try property ownership records

Important caveat that many (most?) businesses lease their space so there’s a good chance the legal owner is just something like “123 Main Street Partners, LP” (often literally just the actual street address as the substantive part of the name), which won’t tell you anything about what business was there. The lessee’s name, however, is likely to be on some permits, so that would be another approach if the registered owner ends up a dead end.

The abbreviation i.e. is short for “id est,” literally “that is.” English-language alternatives would be “that is to say” or “in other words.”

The abbreviation e.g. is short for “exempli gratia,” meaning “for example.”

Yes, but X is still using “Twitter.” It takes an extended period of complete abandonment before you can petition to have the trademark canceled.

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Do you have a source for that? My understanding is that the recent review looked only at oral usage and made no determination on its efficacy as a nasal spray.

They say they contain a combination of paracetamol, phenylephrine hydrochloride, and caffeine.

Incidentally, the US FDA has just completed updated studies on phenylephrine, more rigorous than when it was first introduced, and determined that when taken orally it is fully metabolized before it makes it to the sinuses and is completely ineffective. It’s going to disappear from shelves soon.

Just to be clear, I didn’t think that you were being offensive. It came across entirely as a good faith question from a foreigner, but it ties into (ironically arrogant) advocacy from some foreigners who call Americans arrogant for using the term American.

Telling people what they’re allowed to be offended by is usually a bad choice.

Let em call me whatever they want in whatever language they have.

That’s not what this is about though, which is precisely the point. In other languages, “America” means something else, and they all have other terms to refer to people from the US. The whole discussion is about what Americans should be called in English.

The proper term is American.

everybody born in the american continent is technically “american” too

The implied context of your question is in English.. In the English-speaking world, there is no American continent. People from North America are North Americans; people from South America are South Americans. People from the United States of America are American. There is no ambiguity. There is also no good term to collectively describe everyone from the Americas but there’s also rarely any need to discuss that.

I consider terms such as “USonian” and whatnot to be highly offensive. Nobody should tell a people what they are allowed to call themselves in their own language just because the same word means something else in another language. It would be like telling French people they’re not allowed to call their arm a bras because it refers to an article of clothing in English. Other languages where America means something else already have their own terms for people from the US. English, however, has no real ambiguity except that caused by those trying to shame Americans for calling themselves Americans.

Visa and Mastercard are not card issuers.

Yes, I’m quite aware of that but you said “banks and credit card companies” so I also included, well, credit card companies.

This article provides details of why Delaware is attractive to banks

The article points out that all of those paperwork incorporations of companies that are nominally based in Delaware don’t equate to that many jobs because the companies are actually based elsewhere. Delaware is a bit player in the banking industry.

Anyway, this is veering way off topic. The point is that Biden did not make student loans bankruptcy-proof. You can’t attribute bipartisan legislation to a single non-sponsor, minority-party member who happened to vote for it. I don’t care if he changed his middle name to “I love big banks.” The original statement was still ridiculous.

He was known for being very friendly to banks and credit card companies, as a Senator from Delaware would be inclined to be, considering that Delaware is home to many of those types of businesses.

Is it? Visa is in San Francisco, Discover is in Illinois, and Mastercard and Amex are in New York.

JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley are in New York. Bank of America is in Charlotte. Wells Fargo is in San Francisco. Those are the nation’s six largest banks. Delaware doesn’t make an appearance until #94 on the biggest bank list.

Delaware is a popular state for essentially paperwork, due primarily to its efficient and well-established Chancery Court, but it’s not really a major player in the banking industry. There aren’t a many people or businesses in Delaware involved in banking beyond the local branch stuff in every community.

He was still only a single yes vote on a bill that only 25 Democrats voted against, and it most certainly was not his bill.

The original claim was “Biden made Student Loans impossible to forgive via Bankruptcy.” You can argue that Biden could have or should have done more on the topic but attributing this solely to him is just ridiculous, and that’s before delving into the reasons why a senator with a reputation for working across the aisle and building consensus might strategically accept provisions he doesn’t really like in a bill in order to achieve other, higher priorities.

when Biden made Student Loans impossible to forgive via Bankruptcy

That’s a curious way to describe Republican-led, bipartisan legislation with where Biden was one of 18 Democratic votes in the Senate.

What I’m curious about is why does her law firm do byod?

Trump is no longer able to hire attorneys from large firms. He’s toxic to their other clients and also tends to not pay. You have to be an ideologue without any other big clients in order to work for him. From their website, she seems to be the head of a four-attorney firm.