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Cheaper than the free nozzle and hose, that have been rotting in the back of the shed for the past 2 years? I don't think so.

Yeah. The Anschluss-Thing is a little bit more complicated than just "Germany annexed another country because it wanted to".

The German unification was just ~60 years beforehand and during this time it was a real possibility (or at least it was widely discussed) that all german speaking territories would join the newly formed nation, including the german speaking part of Austria-Hungary. The idea was again discussed after the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918. So the idea was still in the heads of the people.

Additionally Austria had a strong pro-nazi movement, so a large part of the country just accepted the new leadership.

In present day Canada there is no strong movement to join the US. There is a huge cultural divide. The last time the idea, that Canada should join the US, was seriously discussed over a hundred years ago. The last time the border moved was in 1908. So for basically everyone alive, the US-Canada-Border is just a fact of life.

Other than the medieval church, global academia has the fundamentals right, imho. The methods are flawed but the general goal is the right one.

The problem in the US is not a fundamental flaw in academia, but lack of political understanding that a state benefits from educated citizens and fundamental research that isn't immediately monetisable. That resulted in this weird situation, where the most prestigious facilities are just sport centers with a side hustle in education.

In the future the methods of today's global research will more likely be seen as something like greek philosophers. The goal of generating knowledge was right. The method of just writing down what your two remaining neurons, that haven't drowned in wine yet, produced and never verifying it, was... let's call it flawed from a modern perspective.

The word you are looking for is enthnicity. Enthnicity describes the (self-)perceived belonging to a population group. This is of course highly subjective.

There is undeniably perception of grouping in the US based on heritage, where it doesn't really matter when your ancestors arrived, just from where. So from an American POV it makes sense to call him Italian, because he is in the same perceived group as all the people from Italy.

On the other hand from a European POV it doesn't really matter, where your great grandparents come from. You are part of the US-Group, so you are American.

This is not an exclusive US Problem, but a general migration problem & it happens everywhere. Comments like yours are the reason, why people from migrated families feel like they are in-between cultures. Instead of writing snarky comments on the internet, just accept that your perception of ethnicity is part of your ethnicity and other people can have other perceptions.

Programmed emotional support isn't new. ELIZA was written in 1966 & surprisingly effective given the crudeness of computers at the time

2 Letter TLDs are always country codes (and ccTLDs are always 2 Letters long). So moving them to another category is technically possible, but unprecedented and improbable.

The location of New Zealand is in a superposition that collapses, when observed (i.e. drawn on a map). The crux is that the superposition doesn't just encompasses earth

Yeah you can do that. You would be wrong and people around you would wonder why you switched the subject. But you can do that.

There is a fine line between valid criticism of gender roles & sexism.

An example of the former would be, "Men are dangerous for women". Of course not all men are dangerous, but it describes the experience of many women & how they have to navigate the world, to not be assaulted.

This one describes the dynamic of a relationship between individuals & assigns a thought pattern to one of those individuals, based on their gender.

Maybe I missed some nuances here & I would be glad to be enlightened, but this looks like plain sexism.

Yes even Putin. Putin deserves to be put in front of a court of law & sentenced to live in a high-security low-luxury prison. Death sentences or perpetual fear of life are always undeserved & as a punishment, incompatible with a modern society.

Well from personal experience I would argue that there are more than 2 points in life where you age dramatically, because never in my live I have been 44 or 60 years old, but still had at least one phase in live, where my body suddenly felt a lot older.