Just stop going to the u.s. Frankly, the place is a dump and its people are ignorant and crude. I never thought I'd have an unironic conversation with someone arguing against the existence of evolution until my last trip to the u.s. They are superstitious and even the most liberal of them has politics to the right of your government's fascist wing, and a bizarre attitude toward sex where their behavior is nothing like their rhetoric.
Sure, there are always individuals that buck the trend but overall the u.s. Is an embarrassment and getting worse.
Anecdotally, I am in the Midwest twice per year and have to listen to people complaining about the Jews and the niggers, and about various conspiracies about global warming, and how there's no way we're descended from monkeys.
I don't hear any of at shit where I live in Europe, except for some of the racist stuff but in a more nuanced manner.
F'en BS. You visit the "Midwest" twice a year and there's just people throwing out ethnic slurs all over the place? And the most "liberal" people you're talking to are far right fascists? Sorry, simply BS.
Stop making stuff up. You're not impressing anyone with your nonsense. I await your even more strongly worded rebuttal to being called out. I'm sure it will be super convincing.
This is rural MN and NW WI, but even then do you find it hard to believe? 45% of Americans believe in creationism and the u.s. has some of the worse race relations on the planet. What sort of bubble do you live in?
I've spent significant portions of my life in rural MN as that's where I was born. I'm in rural MN and WI for 2-4 weeks a year now. My father is buried in a speck on the map that has no stoplights or stop signs. So no bubble at all.
I understand anti-Americanism plays really well at a lot of places online though. So keep the shtick going, I'm sure you'll impress someone.
Sounds like the bible belt[1]. Come visit the rest of the US, it's a vastly different experience. Not that we don't have our share of issues, but explicit hate speech is vastly reduced, people believe in climate change and evolution.
Also, I have to call bullshit. Unless you are hanging out at a Klan rally, or maybe your relatives live in a trailer park, the likelihood of hearing any of that is slim to non-existant.
This would be Switzerland that passed a law against building minarets, didn't give all women the vote until 1989 and hates Balkan immigrants with a passion?
I'd be interested in the stats in the other direction - how low of a chance of someone born in the upper quintile ending up in the lower quintile. The u.s. seems to be disproportionally high in mediocre people being at the top, being there through famil money.
Basically britain's upper class twits satirized by Monty Python.
This history sounds weird for me as he was in a relationship for 5 years and haven't even tried to marry with the girl to fix his status. The only safe way to stay in US is by getting married, what give to the skilled workers the same level of opportunity given to illegals. An immigration policy that encourages the fraud.
"You" is plural. According to [1] "you" and "ye" were plural (and "thou" (nominative), "thee" (accusative), "thy" (gen) and "thine" (gen) were singular). Fascinating!
I went through the questions and when I first saw the results I was impressed, but then I realized the "most similar" covered about 75% of the u.s. For my results it basically just made the confederate states least similar and everywhere else dark blue. Guess I'm a Yankee.
I'm sure the PM is overjoyed that this story kicked up again right now. Anything that distracts the press from his embezzlement scandal is likely very welcome.
The funny thing is that the PM also put out an arrest warrant for a British journalist (Gordon Brown's sister-in-law) for covering the corruption case. If he hadn't done that, I wouldn't have heard of his whole scandal before this.
They weren't flying in salt water fish to North Dakota in 1905. And so their sushi was probAbly local fresh water fish.
They probably all got worms, or maybe even had worms to begin with. The freshwater clam lifecycle is one of the more complicated life cycles and interesting.
There was a french colonel who was a rival of Teddy Roosevelt when Roosevelt was raising cattle out west. I don't recall his name, and my google fu is failing me. Anyway.
One of the colonel's enterprises was a stagecoach line to take salmon from Seattle to New York on ice in 7 days. So, anything's possible.
Even in the early 1900s, as far as I can tell people living in North Dakota would likely not have been unfamiliar with interesting seafood (or at least had neighbors who were).
As part of the ancestry of that Swedish immigration wave to the Midwest, all I know of is lutefisk, which is by no means sushi. It's about the most vile thing you can imagine - dried cod turned to fish jello in lye. You can smell it from miles away when it's being cooked, and... well, the smell is worse than the taste, but to think of equating that with sushi...
Lutfisk does not taste much at all and can be pretty decent if prepared properly. You generally want some strong tasting condiment to it like fresh ground black pepper on it though.
Also re: worms, I've been fishing most of my life and other than some swampy places like Louisiana or some mucky looking rivers/lakes, worms have never been a problem?
Could be biased, I do most of my fishing in the Colorado rockies and have not had problems with worms there.
Even a wealthy person in 1905 couldn't get fresh fish from the ocean. The Wright brothers didn't even fly until 1903. And the train from either coast would be a couple of weeks.
As someone else mentioned, it was probably tamago, or maybe beef. Or maybe even local fish but pickled, which would have gone with the vinegar rice.
Or maybe they used local fish raw and just risked getting worms.
That makes sense. Assuming they had freezer cars on the trains. Or I guess you could try freezing the freshwater fish, or holding it at a temp close to freezing for awhile.
A couple weeks? I don't know much about the state of the railroads in 1905, but the Pony Express could get a letter halfway across the continent, on horseback, in 10 days. Fifty-five years beforehand.
It seems entirely reasonable to me that a person in North Dakota could get fish delivered from the coasts, on ice, in a couple of days. Now, did they? I honestly have no idea.
Heck, half of the point of the article seemed to be that we seriously underestimate the people (Americans, in this case), of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
