There is no year 1 in our current calendar system either. The Gregorian Calendar begins in 1582. The Julian Calendar includes year 1, but changed in year 8, so 0001-01-01 is a slightly different day in the Gregorian Calendar, the Julian Calendar, and the old Julian Calendar. 2000 years after Julian Calendar 0001-01-01 is late December 2000.
This has less meaning in China because China used its own calendar until 1911. People living in China 2000 years before 2001-01-01 would not have called it year 1.
The thought of Japan buying American cars is hilarious. American car companies only care about making oversized trucks and SUVs now. Even in America, if you buy a sedan you are most likely getting an import. In the most popular 25 sedan models in America according Kelly Blue Book, the top 5 are all Japanese and there are only 3 from American brands.
Why does that mean it’s not signalgate? The name watergate comes from the luxury Watergate hotel in Washington DC where a crime was comitted. Having this conversation on Signal is unquestionably illegal, whether extra people were invited or not, and the scandal is because the conversation being on Signal, not because somebody may have been drunk.
In December, CISA, a US government agency, surprised people by recommending Signal. Is the UK not having a problem with sophisticated cyber attacks?
You can’t produce the same ridiculous gibberish. Translation isn’t just replacing each word with the exact equivalent word. It’s hard enough just making sense out of what he’s saying when he starts saying one thing and the dementia kicks in and he starts saying a different thing. Imagine trying to translate it into a language with a different sentence structure while still capturing the incoherence and limited vocabulary. Even if you manage it, people will think it’s a bad translation.
The American education system has failed you. I’m assuming by “a progressive candidate” in this case you mean a third party, but in a first-past-the-post voting system, voting third-party is a protest vote. At best, people voting third-party shows that voters don’t have confidence in the major parties, but at worst it helps your least preferred of the two major parties win the election because you’re not begrudgingly voting for the candidate you hate less. A third-party president is an unimaginable upset.
But if you’re not living in a swing state nobody cares how you vote for president anyway. Hopefully you got a good option for Congress in the primaries. That’s the only thing I had any chance of influencing at a federal level for this election cycle. I’m not in a swing state and in the final election I only got one option for senate and all one candidate could say was that they weren’t the other candidate.
Probably less. He could change his mind at any time.