Absolutely same

Considering the distance between LA and NY is roughly the same as Turkiye and Portugal, we do tend to get a little single-minded in the experiences of others. But learning more about the world is never a bad thing. America is cooked

Surprised by how much is in English, but also surprised that China isn’t the hellscape that we’ve been fed through the media. It’s middle class people in both countries talking about real things in a completely new way.

One thing that surprised her, everything in China isn’t just cheap crap. It’s american companies that cut corners by ordering crap and shilling it to us and then blaming China for it being cheap. China makes quality products, but the US will never see them, and so we live with the perception that everything from China is crap, but only what we don’t tariff to death makes it through. It’s cool to see her perceptions of the world change.

I’m not some tankie, and I don’t give a shit about tik tok, but there’s a massive cultural exchange happening that’s too huge to filter off the rip, and I feel like folks are realizing there’s a lot more that unites us than divides us. Our billionaires don’t like their billionaires and so we beef? Nah, not my fight

You should, my wife is one of these folks and she’s having a very eye opening time.

Heck yeah! I appreciate it, I’ll do my best to post regularly!

This is clownery, humanity is infinite monkeys, and we wrote Hamlet ages ago.

The ice cream joint neat my house makes a honey apple gelato that’s pretty incredible, not sure why we don’t see it around more

This is one of my core memory games that my family and I played a ton together. Such a weird one.

This is the best one

Always dug the word “queue” you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.

Walmart, Amazon, Blizzard, EA, Apple, McDonalds, Then some of the mega brands when I can avoid them like Unilever, General Mills, etc

I give em the bird every time I see em, because I know this is settled law.

I figured it’d at least be a little older than 1859, but the Four Mile House in Denver is apparently our oldest structure.

Looks like the movie you’re referring to is ‘Barbie and the Secret Door’ (2004). If not, it might be in this list https://www.polygon.com/23803316/barbie-movies-ranked-animation-where-to-stream