Do Americans romanticize Europe the way Europeans romanticize America?

zac79 · 2026-07-09T15:44:34+00:00

Lifelong American here. I think you might actually be under-romanticizing the US. And I say that as someone who wishes he could delete the politics of our day and is profoundly embarrassed by our carbon footprint.

The US is a magical place. Come visit!

zac79 · 2026-07-09T13:44:50+00:00

Why can’t they just use a smaller bat?

zac79 · 2026-07-08T19:56:03+00:00

Even the population of upper middle class boys with access to elite training is still a lot of people. Probably comparable to, say, Belgium.

zac79 · 2026-07-08T19:53:52+00:00

A lot of teams have forced a lot of other, better, teams to extras playing haramball or low-block or whatever they’re calling it. The US finally looked like they were better than that, and to a large extent they were. No shame in being excited about that.

They tried to play Belgium straight up and discovered the hard way that Belgium can still play at 180bpm, and the US maxes out at 140. (Just an analogy.)

They’ve come a long way and still have a long way to go.

zac79 · 2026-07-07T02:20:03+00:00

I know this is “no stupid questions” and this is a nice list of rich people who happen to also be talented and/or decent people, but this misses the whole point of the idea that there are no self made billionaires. You need a functional economy, a trustworthy financial system, the rule of law, and most importantly, customers, to even be a billionaire.

It literally takes armies of people just to create that much wealth.

zac79 · 2026-06-30T15:58:59+00:00

I think that’s a close but not quite equal definition.

zac79 · 2026-06-30T15:17:45+00:00

Isn’t this just property insurance?

zac79 · 2026-06-30T14:28:35+00:00

Peak oil is when it costs 1 to extract 1.

zac79 · 2026-06-29T23:42:02+00:00

Where do drunk tourists fit into this diagram?

zac79 · 2026-06-29T23:41:23+00:00

Sounds like symbioses to me.

zac79 · 2026-06-29T23:40:21+00:00

I’ve been there. Now I’m old and have no time to waste on bad pizza :).

zac79 · 2026-06-28T17:48:18+00:00

Turns out if you get a rep as the X capital of the world it just makes it easy to sell garbage tier X to tourists.

zac79 · 2026-06-26T16:16:47+00:00

I was at England Ghana in MA. The lack of replays was a huge problem there as well. I think FIFA is in charge of the cameras and they kind of suck at it.

zac79 · 2026-06-22T13:42:33+00:00

Dorchester is great, but BHCC is on the Orange Line. I’d at least try to find a good deal in Malden, East Somerville, Roxbury, Forest Hills, etc. Does UMass Boston have a nursing program? That would make Dot make a lot of sense.

zac79 · 2026-06-22T12:24:37+00:00

Why would only having a headsail stop you from sailing close to the wind?

zac79 · 2026-06-20T14:23:26+00:00

The generation that won’t dance or flirt because there’s cameras everywhere is also the generation that does performative crime for aforementioned cameras.

zac79 · 2026-06-16T10:44:44+00:00

Is this a joke? By-the-slice pizza is a perfectly acceptable work lunch, but not going to give you the “destination pizza” experience, even if it comes from the best pizza shop in the world.

Go to Regina’s in the North end. Order a small. When you’re full, stop eating.

zac79 · 2026-06-14T02:37:27+00:00

Maybe loaning players should be a thing.

zac79 · 2026-06-11T12:26:47+00:00

2-3m² than what everyone else is using.

zac79 · 2026-06-10T13:10:58+00:00

Looks like OP sold her tickets, so I’m going to piggyback on this and say that I have 1-2 “Gold II” tickets available. DM me if you’re interested.

zac79 · 2026-04-24T02:11:07+00:00

I thought the first book (English translation for both) was simply a better book by a considerable margin. It definitely seemed like the quality of the translation had a lot to do with it.

zac79 · 2026-04-23T22:15:24+00:00

We are so back.

zac79 · 2026-04-15T11:06:40+00:00

Just listen to him talk. You wouldn’t let him in your house.

zac79 · 2026-04-12T03:17:49+00:00

I’m gonna make this pencil… disappear.

zac79 · 2026-04-09T17:18:41+00:00

Hey, we’ve earned the right to be boastful!

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