I’m from Pennsylvania. Agreed that New Yorkers as a whole are ruder and pushier than your average Northerner. To be clear, I’m talking about people from in and around the NYC area, though. They don’t represent the general demeanor of people from the rest of the state.

Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:

• A member of the New York Yankees.
• A derogatory term that people from the Bible Belt who still haven’t accepted the result of the American Civil War use for people who live north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
• A more neutral (maybe slightly derogatory?) term that people from the UK use for all Americans, regardless of where they live in the US.

It’s easy to be cynical and point your finger at the corporations and politicians. They certainly play their role in the problem, but placing blame solely on them is really uninformed.

People in the US are spread way the hell out. It’s difficult for lower population areas to institute mass transit that is economically viable due to the low density and distances involved.

And as far as major urban areas with really high population densities? Not everyone who works in a large city lives there. Some people travel 1-2 hours one-way to make more money in the city and live somewhere much more affordable in the suburbs. It’s very hard to effectively service all of the suburban areas that surround large cities.

Bottom line, it’s as much of a logistical problem as any other reason.

The consequences of what exactly? Living in a really big country with a much lower population density than Europe?

At home? Sure. On my company-owned, locked down, and corporate IT monitored work laptop? Not an option.

What’s the problem? I loved her in Escape from L.A.

In this case, “proposed by Donald Trump” is like saying that a ventriloquist dummy with a hand up its ass and someone else mouthing the words has proposed something.

So the receipts for basically everything I’ve bought for the past year or so? Got it.

Hang on just a minute… Eyekaytee@aussie.zone is extolling the virtues of capitalism! Surely, education and scientific research have nothing to do with significantly improving the average human lifespan over the past 100 years or so!

…until one of the warring countries runs out of robots anyway. That’s when the real fun starts!

And the stores lowered their prices, right?

My 50 year old knees: “Fuck you!”