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The Price of Groceries — Most of the big differences I’ve run into so far have been food and drink related. I was going to do one blog post on the topic, but as I started writing it got a little out of hand, so I’ve split each section into its own post. This is…

Background Spuyten Duyvil is a neighborhood of 10279 people (as of 2011) in the far north of New York City (USA), located in New York state on the east coast of the USA, 15km/9mi north of downtown New York City and 21km/13mi south-southwest of White Plains (both measurements in linear distance).

The United States and China have a complex, bilateral relationship. This video separates facts from competing narratives so that you can get a nuanced understanding and make up your own mind. Sources and further reading/watching: * https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-china-relations * https://www.nytimes.com/article/us-china-tensions-explained.html * https://www.newsweek.com/china-turns-tables-us-says-human-rights-violations-worsened-2021-1683478 * https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/why-taiwan-is-the-biggest-risk-for-a-u-s-china-clash-quicktake#xj4y7vzkg *https://www.improvethenews.org/story/2022/uschina-conflict

On March 20, 2003, Operation Iraqi Freedom was formally commenced against Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athist government. The initial invasion involved 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq after punishing and sustained aerial bombing.The…

At a Subcommittee hearing of the House Committee on Financial Services last week, the USDF Consortium asked for a reduction in regulation on blockchain use by federally-insured banks, arguing that the technology should not be unfairly conflated with cryptocurrency. — The USDF Consortium, a group of US banks who support a blockchain-based interbank tokenized deposits system, addressed the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion at a March 9 hearing un-ironically entitled ‘Coincidence or Coordinated? The Administration’s Attack on the Digital Asset Ecosystem’.

Saving cash, receiving it, or transferring it to other human beings has by no means been simpler. Era has made money transactions a bit of cake — we now have numerous packages that let us manage our budget from the comfort of our very own homes. …