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Truck_kun, to news in China ‘world’s biggest debt collector’ as poorer nations struggle with its loans

Hopefully this will be helpful (to understanding this type of debt):

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/09/27/american-creditors-say-china-should-honour-pre-communist-debts

Not saying it will be repaid, but at least the article goes into how debt is handled when governments change hands.

Truck_kun, to memes in Sure Doesn't feel like one.

That their local representative was anti-gun control before this shooting affected his own local area, only proves your point more. That he changed his opinion is a good thing, but too little too late.

Very impressed that he publicly came out to accept responsibility for the Maine shooting with his previous opposition to gun control though, and is now advocating for it.

Unfortunately, it may take several shootings in all the representatives’ and senators’ home towns that are in opposition to actually flip them (even then, it wouldn’t change many of their minds, unless it actually personally affected them), and the country shouldn’t have to suffer that. It likely will literally take a constitutional amendment to prevent the supreme court from overturning any legislation enacted (or at least stripping it down to become fluff legislation with little meaning, or effect).

Truck_kun, to science_memes in Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin

I don’t science anymore, but living in a F country, I keep in mind for conversions:

0C is freezing point of water ~32F 20-22C is room temp ~68-72F 30C+ is Unhappy temperatures/hot.

Really only things I need to remember, and gradient based off of. It can get up to 45C where I live, but that would never be important to me. I hate the heat, if it’s 30C+, the degree to which it is hot matters little, I’m going to just want to stay out of the sun or go inside.

Truck_kun, to news in An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel

Really? I primarily hear about American, Chinese, and English tourists behaving badly.

I don’t actually travel, or encounter a lot of German people; what exactly is it that German tourists do that portray them so poorly?

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