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.

In party primaries, which are used to some states, the election of the party’s candidate in some states is a public election where anyone can vote, even people from other parties. Dove states require you to auto register for that party, but not all of them.

So your party’s candidate gets chosen by everyone, not just members of your party.

Decades of conflict have seen millions leave the countryside for the cities, fleeing wave after wave of violence at the hands of guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, drug cartels and the state. And even where fewer people were displaced by conflict, youths have continued to drift to the cities, driven by a wage gap that has traditionally seen rural workers earn less than their urban counterparts.

Found it. Lower pay and quality of life than living in cities.

Different states have different rules on who can run in a primary, with some states being very lax and letting anyone who can run no matter party affiliation. Also, in some states, people can vote in any party regardless of party affiliation.

This was done as several states recognized that the two party system didn’t always produce the best candidate. Instead of creating systems allowing for more parties, these states created systems that weakened the power of that state’s or the counties’ political parties.

Blow shit up so Iran can’t attack back for the next generation.

AIPAC spent millions on a Democratic primary in NJ because the frontrunner said that Israeli air should have conditions.

A Bernie Sanders campaign organizer ended up winning the primary.

I know one engineer who bought the Meta glasses due to the form factor. For others with the Go Pro, they usually mount the cameras on their hard hat, which makes it easy to see since black hard hats are rare.

And part of the Republican panic about demographic shifts making their party unelectable was Texas.

Texas being a battleground state for Republicans could doom the party to generational minority status.

You aren’t a Turk?

It depends on who.

For immigrants changing their mind, they are either going to approach it as moving back to their old country or being an immigrant in the new country.

For most native born Americans who I know who did or will, they will also likely self identify as immigrants.

It will be the elderly moving to Latin America to retire who will likely refer to themselves as “expats”.

I’m surprised there haven’t been more shootings of the wealthy since Luigi given the positive response to him shooting a health care millionaire.

Outside of signals intelligence, what benefit is this going to have for South Korea? Canada had a decent military, but it is a shell of its former self.

I don’t know if it is pointless, but it didn’t serve its intended function.

It a lot of ways, it is like the King’s speech in the UK, which lays out the political agenda of the executive rather than comments on the current status of office.

Too bad they only did President’s questions once.

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.