I see that you don't like the UN, but I don't understand why.

In terms of metric, we are in agreement.

As far as Venezuela goes, do you really think it's a good thing for a country to unilaterally decide to bomb another country and cause regime change? I strongly dislike the Chavez/Maduro regime, but I dislike unilaterally invading another country even more.

It's really hard to see a difference between what Trump just did and what Putin did in Ukraine (except the USA is much more competent).

But seriously, do you think it's good for a country to unilaterally decide to kidnap the president of another country?

Under US law, he will be treated as any other person (unless somehow he can claim diplomatic immunity or something).

The really wild thing was the extradition, which wasn't done by treaty, and in violation of the UN charter.

How can you be so certain?

In America almost all liquid containers have milliliters printed on them

Many parts of the world take some time and effort to grok. Analogue clocks, fortunately, are not that. A 5-minute explanation and then some getting used to it are as much depth as people need to reach full fluency.

I'd save my worries for the people who haven't learned to read, or something else that takes some sustained effort.

I don't know, I was going to make a joke, but we still have three more years to go and I'm nervous. The only hope I have is that America will learn not to elect reality TV stars as presidents.

There's no broad demographic that isn't selfish, greedy and irresponsible. Rich people have somewhat more power to be irritating.

Engineering is poetry.

How did you handle polar coordinates in algebra?

Gives out money for special ed, sets standards, and makes sure schools aren't discriminating against black kids (you don't think they would actually do that, do you?)

Yeah, Americans are better. We would never do something insane like bomb Venezuela.

My guess is they don't use it, so they forgot how.

In America, we use both systems because mental math is easy for us.

That's not what the study said. The study said that happiness is not correlated to inequality. Inequality is different than how much money you have.

If you're going to criticize a study, at least think first.