azkedar

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

In the US and Canada at least, there are laws that cover granting birthright citizenship to people born in their airspace of those countries. And since they share a border, it could happen, in theory. Would also depend on the citizenship status of the parents, I imagine…

In practice, I would hope you are right, this would not cause any issues. But if it happened, it would probably get news attention, and who knows what follows from that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Twins born on an airplane in flight could be born in different countries.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The use of “six figures” as a measure of affluence goes back to at least the 60’s… if we use 1970 as a baseline, a salary of $100,000 then is $800,000 today, accounting for inflation.

Inflation isn’t the whole picture , but helps to demonstrate how dated the phrase is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It’s true, but I wonder what aspects of the books they feel needed such a notice in order to provide context.

I can only assume they thought readers would be surprised or put off by something, or do they put a caution notice on all of their books written in the early 80’s?