Why aren’t the old Apollo designs being reused for a moon landing? (by either the Americans or the Chinese)

If you want to address this question, show him some videos about Boeing and Airbus and how they can’t bring back airplane models they stopped production on because of massive supply chain issues. See if your friend is willing to accept that they can’t bring back the 747, for instance.

If this is a problem for aircraft, it is likely also a problem for spacecraft.

But it isn’t uniquely American.

Regarding those from “The Old World” this phenomenon isn’t unique to the USA. Most other countries in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa exhibit tying ancestry to not being of the land since time immemorial. It just happens to be that Americans tend to produce the most cultural discussion about it in volume, especially in the English language.

The big thing is recognizing that the culture of the land doesn’t match the culture of your “people”. It can be tough to reconcile that, especially if someone is from a mix of different origins.

I’m such a mix that really can’t claim a single European heritage. My family has mixed old traditions together and tossed out others for others which conformed more to where my family was.

I don’t see the need to be X enough for something.

I feel like it’s a continuation of what we’ve already seen with digital animation. You can do traditional ink animation, but no one does it any more because digital is so much cheaper.

This is typical for international sporting events.

They tried teaching Spanish in my elementary school with videos that no one paid attention to. A lot of schools don’t even go that far.

But if you’re looking at an American choosing a language based on potential job opportunities, Spanish is likely going to offer far more upside than French unless that American has certain ties which would make French more relevant to them. For large parts of the USA, knowing Spanish will be more locally relevant than knowing French.

It isn’t saying that French is a bad language for Americans to learn, but that most of the country would likely see Spanish as more economically useful.

But we’re talking about economic utility. Quebec isn’t Canada; it is much smaller.

In contrast, Mexico has a GDP near Canada as a whole and there isn’t a bilingual legal framework to support business deals. Furthermore, there are more Spanish speaking countries to make deals with in the Western Hemisphere; the closest that French has is Haiti.

Quebec isn’t Canada.

Having to get documents translated is a cost of doing business in Canada. You don’t have to speak both languages to conduct business in Canada.

They could, if they were economically relevant on the continent. Spanish and Portuguese are far more relevant when interfacing with international trade in the Western Hemisphere.

I pointed out cultural reasons for maintaining a language as well. The USA, as a country, has no current cultural reason to have portions of the country maintain a different language.

It hasn’t really been an economic necessity or cultural priority like other countries.

Most countries who have a population who speak more than one language usually either have a variety of languages spoken within/near the country or rely on ESL speakers to participate in the international workforce.

With English being the current lingua franca, Americans already know the current dominant language. There is really only one major language which is relevant to neighbors, but Americans are usually in the more dominant economic position and there is a cultural aversion to adopting Spanish more.

I also feel like the problem with starting with Marx and getting into socialism as a government type is that Marx was an economist writing about economic forces while a lot of his work has been coopted into political theory.

Which makes discussions on government structure hard with a lot of leftists because once you remove discussing the economics of a society, having a discussion on political freedoms only becomes very problematic.

For instance, I saw some English speaking communists discussing a Chinese analysis of their government, which the analysis states that the Chinese government isn’t a democracy. It is true, China would describe itself as a technocracy, with trained political leaders in charge who are shielded from disruptive democratic whims. However, you could see the issue of them accepting that political power should be held only by elites.

Messy urban warfare.

Assuming cooperation with the Mexican government, the USA would likely launch several raids against cartel strongholds similar to the Maduro raid. Whether the cartel leaders are brought to justice or just immediately assassinated is up for grabs, but I expect several extrajudicial killings.

The situation will devolve as the power vacuum causes additional killings including some punishing of the Mexican federal government. This destabilization is likely going to require an occupation; I expect that the USA would want Mexico to fill those posts first but may get pulled in as the Mexican military runs out of logistical capacity and the US military has to start filling in more and more gaps.

At a point, the war against the cartels becomes viewed as an American occupation instead of an internal Mexican action and it causes the population to turn against both federal governments.

I think it has to do more with experience in the USA.

For a large part of the USA, Mexicans are the dominant immigrant group. Americans also have the most experience with portions of Mexican cuisine that they don’t have with other regions. So, people hear Latin American and auto complete to Mexican because that is what they know.

My mother believes we dont need an external help and that i can do it by myself as if its my problem

If you throw something out, what happens? Does your mom complain? Does she fill the space with something else?

Also, what kind of stuff is it? Specifically, how close to garbage is it?

Yeah. If you’re Donald Ducking it, you’re likely going to have problems getting to the store.

Yeah. You have a large number of attractive and poor people trying to get prestigious roles and a few gatekeepers who know they can get what they want from at least some of them.

I wouldn’t be surprised if a human was cloned. The issue right now seems to be resolving the ethical issues over the technical ones.

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