> Canada speaks French and English

More like the Quebecois speak French and English, while the Anglophone Canadians only speak English and barely learn the most basic French outside of school.

It's nice to see how accurate the "experts" really are at predicting the future.

I'm reading Half American by Matthew Delmont about Black servicemembers in WWII. The sheer waste of man power and talent is maddening and the coddling of white supremacists is enraging. He doesn't get into draft numbers, but I'd like to see a comparison. In the south during WWI, Black Americans were disproportionately drafted. I'm wondering if the discrepancy went away for WWII b/c it was more popular.

Also, I mentioned this in another thread, but I wish I could write movie scripts. Some of these guys served in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion before hand. There's a woman, Salaria Kea, who volunteered as a nurse in Spain and in WWII and could only get work outside of the war in the US in TB wards at hospitals b/c of prejudice. She apparently went on to do a bunch of work in the civil rights movement. Someone else brought up Edward Carter who was an officer in Spain and then had to deal with the US army's prejudice during WWII.

It's insane that we have movies about people like Desmond Doss that had to be totally hyperbolized when we have these other stories that probably have to be down played to be believable.

Also, the section on the Port Chicago disaster made me so mad. White officers basically wasted 300 soldiers lives for petty bets and the navy blamed the enlisted men. It was just a galling dereliction of leadership and duty.

I'd definitely recommend the book.

It could, but instead we've decided to go with the bleed as few workers dry as much as possible while paying them as little as possible to keep the people at the top hoarding as much money as possible approach instead.

Oh they knew the coup against Tutsi power was about to be violent. It started with the assassination of the president by having his plane crash, they weren't planning for a peaceful transition of power

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I get that, but I still don't believe there'd be a way to get to 300 to where we knew and could predict that at birth for 2023.

In Africa, English and French are mostly second languages used in order for different ethnic groups to communicate with each other

Hutu and Tutsi are not ethnicities only dependent on their second language, it is an ethnic and class division supported by the Belgians. Divide et impera, classic stuff

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They're saying modern medicines of 2023 would mean that someone born on 2023 would have a life expectancy of 300 years

Yeah, I do realize how life expectancy works, but there would be no way to get from where we were to 300 in just a century unless a true fountain of youth was found. Life expectancy uses historical data.

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When the local government renovated Jallianwala Bagh they kept the walls and the well the same way.

False. US gets involved only when there are benefits for US corporates.

If they were paying for and supplying weapons, it would be surprising to not know what the weapons were for.

The article does not indicate what would have been the motive for France to participate on the level suggested in the article and claimed by several commentators. Selling a few guns seems hardly to be worth the risk. I've read in such journalists as Kapuszinski that African politics can be quite chaotic and unpredictible. I would venture to guess that the French didn't believe what they first heard and then floundered trying to find an appropriate response. Nothing I have read here seems like more than a deflection of blame from the African killers, and the extortion of guilt offerings.

Life expectancy is the number of years that someone is expected to live from a specific starting point. Typically birth. So, yes, people in 1923 could expect life expectancy for people being born in 2023 to be 300 years.

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That's not how life expectancy works. If the life expectancy for 2023 would be 300, it means people born in 2023 would live to 300 on average.

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Lot of stupid comments like yours. No need to do a tour of the World. Tutsi and Hutus shared the same country for millennials. No reason for one to speak English and the other French. They all speak Kinyarwanda, the local language.

Obviously written by a 200 year old from 1923.

My job could be done in 4 hours a day if the regulations were lessened a little bit. We have a strict 24-hour turn-around-time limit, but if it were 36-hour then I could go in once a day and do everything from the last 24-hours all at once. Instead I work 4 10s and have a lot of down-time.

I can certainly stream a "talking film" from a Chinese server instantly though