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My traceable great-great-great grandparents were Japanese siblings who came to the US in the 1850's pretending to be husband-and-wife while Chang and Eng Bunker (i.e: the original Siamese twins) were Asian slave-owners who married a pair of white southern sisters in 1843. American racism gets...

I was being concise.

The IQ stuff you drag in to conversations is really irritating. You, I, and everyone else are double cousins at a mininum. The Y-chromosome guys get was passed from just one guy all the way to you from father-to-son without interruption. The mtDNA everyone gets is mother-to-daughter without...

I think US immigration should be "Everyone except for terrorists is accepted". That guy over there who doesn't speak a single word of English? He probably wants to be in the US and really doesn't want to be kicked out.

"Americans think 200 years is a long time. Europeans think 200 miles is a long distance". EDIT: If you're really unlucky when going east across the US you get to deal with I-64 across the Mississippi River when you're almost out of gasoline during rush hour and you have to pull off and buy...

The US-Mexico border is about 1,950 miles long. London to Moscow by car is only about 1,800 miles. LA to NYC by car is much longer and you're going through several mountain ranges, several forests, at least one desert, at least one swamp, an a plain where you're not going to see any trees for...

A rural American farmer might call that their back yard fence.

Agreed, but some positions are salaried and exempt from overtime pay. They're usually held by the managers and executives who sign off on other people's overtime. They are not held by the people who actually have to do it.

When it's 9-0 the Supreme Court is basically saying "Someone done fucked up, here's why, and knock it off because this is BS."