that last sentence is doin me 'ead in m8

Pona mention!

pona o tawa sina :)

anyone under 30 I do :)

but on a serious note I would chalk that up to post-WWII US influence, do you think that British colonialism was a bigger influence? or that it predates WWII?

i mean sure initially and the same is true of why French and Spanish are spoken in so many places on the planet.

I don’t think it explains why it’s such a common backup language in so many parts of Europe today though. I think the majority of the internet being in English is probably the reason for that and I don’t think that can be chalked up to anything other than US influence

yeah I heard it mentioned in passing in a video essay and looked it up to see it was the highest grossing domestic movie in China when it was released, definitely on my watchlist now

doesn’t sound like an arthouse masterpiece but fun action schlock I agree lol

i think so, mrdown had a good point about science and business but I think another big point that hasn’t been mentioned yet is the internet. a quick Google search (proper citation needed) showed a bunch of numbers all over 50% of the internet being in English.

now I would be interested to hear positions arguing that’s not US influence… I can’t think of where they would place it but I’m interested to hear theories

what about Wolf Warrior 2 tho

what was the subculture OP??

comfortably.

i just spent a month and a half in El Salvador and it was lovely

this also didn’t make sense to me lol, id rephrase the title as “Right After Winning the 2016 Election, Trump Called Epstein”

I’m invested, no guesses but would probably have a few if a hum was added

edit: I’m trying to make it Britney, toxic or baby one more time maybe?

that’s true there’s a form you need to fill out but still, better than paying taxes to a place you’re not.

to be fair it is pretty comprehensible but I am amazed at your eleven-comma-having paragraph sentence.

bravo! long live the comma!

not always true, quoting an older comment of mine:

on the off chance it applies to you, the FEIE rules state that if you spend 330 days (out of a 12 consecutive month period of time, important to note that it does not have to be a calendar year) outside of the US, you don’t have to pay taxes on the money you made during that time

i won’t usually make the case for a usamerican concept making sense (because most don’t), but the UK standard is kinda backwards, innit?

like, a “Public school” (UK) is very much not open to the public … a concept commonly referred to as being “private”, yeah?

am i missing something??

are you referring to the UK or the American concept of Private schools? It’s backwards over there, right? Private are the basic schools most people go to whereas Public schools are the fancy ones rich kids get sent to?

do you remember where you heard about that auction find? I’d love to see some pictures or video of that restoration if there are any