I wouldn’t judge a cake before eating it.

Considering that it was the creole whites who did most of the brutalizing, and actually intensified said brutalizing as soon as they became independent, i’m not sure the government of Colombia would have the moral higher ground on that regard.

I think banning tipping altogether is a net good. Yes, the worker will not be making an extra money, but i expect that many restaurants would try to pay minimum wage and not a living wage. This would force the worker and try to get a tip on every customer still, by taking all the shit the customers throw at them. They…

In my materialistic conception of spirit, if a machine has thought processes analogous to those coming from a biological brain, it has a spirit just like any person and animal.

To many, compromise is a 4-letter word. But politics cannot be done, specially in transition situations like this one, without compromising. Even compromising with evil.

Austin PD must think that jaywalking is one of the worst offenses... around 10 cops to arrest two men (and later a woman) for jaywalking (and complaining to the cops).

All the stars for your comment.

Not the appropriate website to say that...

Chance that is made even lower by the fact that many countries where death penalty has been abolished refuse to have extradition deals with countries that still keep death penalty on principle.

You don’t need that (which is impossible, on that time-scale, without supernatural intervention). If you could simply pull a Temudjin and unify all the nations north of the Aztec empire, or at least a good bunch of them, that unified front would be enough. Even after losing 90% of the population to the European…

Look at the Spanish colonies. A much higher density of native inhabitants forced the colonial power to seek arrangements with them rather than simply erasing them. In many of the Hispanic-American countries, a good part of the local nobility was indeed descendants of the precolumbine local nobility.

Oh yeah, i completely missed your very original point. That Columbus shouldn’t have a day. Because nobody else had said it in this thread.

And since you had nothing original to contribute, you just repeated the same idea we all agree on, only sprinkled with a fake factoid.

My point was nitpicking, because i’ve seen in the comment that very same thing said several times, and it rubs me off the wrong way, as if anything that is not US/Canada is not really America.

Unless you go by a novel definition of continent according to which the British Islands would not be part of Europe or Japan part of Asia, yes, he set foot in the continent. Additionally, he set foot in the mainland: Honduras and Nicaragua.

Pretty sure Columbus set foot in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Haiti/Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. Pretty sure all of those places are America.

Think that Jezebel or other sites on the same line have a self-selecting audience. People who generally feel contented with their life and who don’t feel that they had to deal with gender/race problems, aren’t going to come here looking for validation.

The US has nearly 400 million people. Taking an average of 4 people…

Thanks for pointing that out. I was thinking “maybe they are called los Damas because the leader was a woman?”.

Wait, you can write the tip as a percentage?

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Wow, original! Protestants have been saying that for only 500 years about catholics.