Sharing things you find useful in your everyday life so that others might enjoy them or recommend things that would better suit your needs.

Weighing only the bad you’ll find no where on Earth is good.

Unfortunately/fortunately works of fiction aren’t binding on geopolitics. (Depending on the fiction)

Elected judges just make the dangers of populist factions like fascist even worse. That’d be a neat sighted decision.

Judges are meant to represent the people. They are meant to represent the laws enacted by them.

Steam allows games that let people role play being a pervert on a Japanese train. I’m not sure they’ll take action on this.

The British anti smuggling operations were largely ineffective before and during the war. Dutch tea wasn’t particularly uncommon. Of the rich smugglers of Boston the most notable was John Hancock, who by all accounts was quite philanthropic with his wealth.

Really good write up summary of the event for anyone interested. There’s also an audio version of it.

https://blog.amrevpodcast.com/2018/04/episode-040-boston-tea-party.html?m=1

center/center

I like most of the changes he did but he really should have kept the original with this one.

America didn’t really win either war but got independence

We call that winning when it comes to wars of independence.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-history-patriot

Fun entomology fact: The modern understanding of the word is directly connected to the people of that continent. But for the success of the American revolution, you might be deeply offended to be called patriotic.