Only one oil country switched to Euros and an invasion switched it back to dollars.

A lot of the international banking structure was built on American systems of banking, so the dollar got baked into a lot.

Until Trump, the dollar was generally seen as more stable given its longevity and being the currency of the largest superpower.

Also, compared to the Euro and Yuan, the American dollar has an internal hedge when it comes to energy prices given that the USA can supply most of its energy needs by itself. It is hard to handle an oil shock when the currency’s value drops because the internal market can’t afford oil.

There is usually some guidance, although the regulations are usually written with more wiggle room than structural standards because of varying site conditions.

However, the hill causing an increase to the speed of the car and that the area has a known pedestrian draw to it would tip the scales more towards installing a stop sign.

It isn’t sustainable at scale and the devs have stated that they don’t see it as an issue since they don’t want a single instance getting too big.

Eh, I like you.

Baby Boomers are the reason why high school became so culturally relevant.

You had a large cohort of students coming of age together at a time when the country was wealthy enough where you had a class of people who had gone through puberty but wasn’t being given the full roles and responsibilities of being adults. This new separate age group between kids and adults was relatively novel.

You also started seeing a major change in cultural forces like music and cinema which catered to this set of consumers. This catering became very important as companies realized this was when adults formed a lot of their tastes and preferences. Cultural output started focusing on this age group as tastemakers.

Israel had a larger hand in Benghazi than is being let on and Israeli intelligence provided Republicans with a lot of intel regarding the attack as Obama was starting to rift with Israel on how to handle the Middle East.

Nah, sailors wanted to fuck seals.

Between Europeans and the Americans, the Americans lacked pack animals and a region which could create bronze. Also, due to the European exposure to pack animals and other reasons, lethal diseases went mainly from Europeans to the Americans instead of the other way around. It also isn’t a good sign when a foreign civilization has the technology to show up at your shores while your civilization doesn’t.

Between Europe and the rest of the Old World, Europe wasn’t able to colonize the rest of the old world until after the Industrial Revolution started. The Industrial Revolution started in Europe mainly due to increased state competition compared to other parts of the world and higher labor costs making capital investments worth it.

Yep. Good catch.

No one really dances since you can get enough motion by shaking it. Also, toilet paper is non-existent at urinals. That said,

Shake it once, that’s fine Shake it twice, that’s okay Shake it three times You’re playing with yourself again

Given the knowledge base in inducing hair growth, I would think that developing a treatment like you’re describing would be in the realm of possibility.

That being said, a medical treatment to loose all hair likely wouldn’t sell given the human aesthetic preference for a head of hair seeming to be almost hard coded in humanity as a sign of virility.

The tech is likely there, but the demand isn’t.

We had the +1 to gpa for honors/AP classes in my school as well. Our gym wasn’t given the +1, but the school made sure that our class was kept away from the general population.

I went to a well funded school district in an affluent part of the state.

It was standard practice in the state for the schools to separate out the “honors” students from the rest of the student population, to the point where PE was one of the classes with honors students kept from the main student body.

It was wildly apparent that students in the honors classes were treated with a lot more favor than students in general education.

It depends on what job it is. I don’t see a bank having a problem with it unless they have a uniform. If you were doing any field or machine work, I could see a safety issue.

No, but it is more a sign of what a restaurant or store will focus on. If the raw ingredients are of lower costs than rent and labor, it may make more sense to provide more food.

For restaurant culture in the USA, there is generally a focus on large portions, free tap water, few courses, and turning tables over quickly. A lot of early fast food chains were effectively food factories, skimping out in rent and reducing labor costs because those are the major costs.

There can still be value in some old things like maintaining old equipment or preserving old media. The demand may have collapsed, but it didn’t collapse to zero.

Food is relatively cheap in the USA compared to other countries. You also had a lot of immigrant waves come to the USA, find that food was so cheap, and celebrated by creating larger meals.

It isn’t just one country doing it, it is just the one most reported on in English language news.

Then they need different efforts to get their word out.

Also, I pointed out another leftist party which has been able to break through the noise.

I know of the Working Families Party and that party has had some success either winning their own election or running as Democrats.

A major job of a political party is to organize. If a party can’t organize while other ones can, maybe I shouldn’t support the party which can’t organize.