Probably one of Sarah Paine’s lectures.

This is a good one about Sino-Soviet relations.

It depends on the sport. There are sports where people absolutely play through injuries. Hell, the NFL only recently implemented a concussion protocol.

Wow

It depends on what you want to do when you go back to school.

If you’re switching careers, I’d put the early 40’s as a limit unless the career has age limitations.

If you’re getting a degree to enhance your existing career, I’d put the early 50’s as a limit unless you intend to not retire immediately.

If you just want the degree, there isn’t really a limit.

I gave the only speech at my sister’s wedding that got people to cry. I also didn’t embarrass her in front of her friends.

I expect there will be more wars as countries no longer have a nation to enforce current borders. My guess is that the next international order will look more like the Concert of Europe with varying spheres of influence.

Some people are using it for work purposes when there isn’t a major policy on it.

You can tell because the work is shit.

There have been wargames going back over a decade which highlight how vulnerable current aircraft carriers are to various forms of attack from nations like Iran. I would expect that China would be more than capable of destroying an aircraft carrier, especially if the carrier group wasn’t in the high seas but next to the Chinese coast.

Yeah. Kick them both out.

I don’t see how that affects his analysis, though. An American attempt to oust the Venezuelan government would likely lead to a wide scale guerilla war and South America would likely become more anti-American in the process.

That someone so high up in the administration is saying it likely means there are reasonable fears of this becoming a major issue.

Because it is somewhat competitive economically in certain use cases and a ton of existing infrastructure was already built to use various fossil fuels.

The switch to non-fossil fuels was going to take at least a generation in most developed countries since you need to build out electricity generation and storage.

It was a great way of showing off YouTube talent. There were meaningful trends on YouTube for a while and these videos were a way to celebrate what went viral for the year.

That these videos are harder to make speaks a lot to how YouTube has changed as a platform.

Trump isn’t strategic, but a lot of the people currently supporting him are. As long as they can keep Trump’s attention elsewhere, they can do whatever they want.

This is going to sound strange, but a major problem in the world economy is the lack of Chinese consumer spending. It is at least ten percentage points below non-US developed countries and is a major reason for the trade imbalance between China and the rest of the world.

It has been suggested that the Chinese government increase its retired health care benefits to include more money for emergency events as, currently, a large chunk of that cost gets paid by the retirees.

Wanted (2008)

If I go back in time, with the friend group I had at the time, I could conceivably beat Zuckerberg to market with Facebook.

It is an ok hedge on inflation, but it is pushed a lot by scam adjacent businesses to push up consumption.

How much shit?

100 years: The EU has made English the default language across most of the union. Small nations went first as inter Union migration obliterated the ability for these countries to teach their local languages fast enough. Far right groups tried to preserve their languages, but they’ve largely been demoted to secondary status in their own communities to English, like Irish Gaelic. The last internal holdout is French, Spanish, and Portuguese as there is enough external demand of the language. French language law mirrors Quebec law, Spain and Portugal aren’t harsh about it.

I don’t see that much shift in the Americas except the possible loss of French. Mexico may become more English speaking as more Americans move to Mexico for lower cost of living, especially with retired populations that won’t learn Spanish. Spanish in the Americas may standardize as cross-border media becomes bigger.

I expect Africa to be in a three way struggle between English, French, and Arabic as the lingua franca.

I expect languages to standardize in Asia, but I expect that India and Pakistan will choose non-English languages.

There are tons of technology historically that were implemented with gigantic fundamental flaws which were properly identified and later solved or mitigated. These flaws were openly published and there was a discourse in society about them.

So, unless you can use that knowledge to immediately brick all use of that technology, that flaw is likely less severe than you think.