Wasn't tipping primarily exempt from the minimum wage because FDR had to get the support of the entire democratic party to get his reforms passed, and the southern Dems refused to vote for anything that would make them have to pay black people. So tipping and agricultural labour was exempt from minimum wage laws, because otherwise the new deal would have gotten blocked by the presidents own party. And FDR figured that there wasn't enough of those labourers to kickstart a revolution by themselves, so he agreed to it.
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never knew that this country had an actual economy that was so heavily reliant on pharmaceuticals. Pretty fun one, even if the size and industrialization makes it pretty easy to guess the general area.
I thought that the main way Americans coped with their declining standard of living was by taking all their frustrations out on retail employees / customer service workers. In that case, deputizing retail workers seems like a bad idea, since a lot of people will presumably get caught in the crossfire when a customer finally pushes them too far, particularly since retail is such a low paid / high stress job and the people who hold these jobs don't necessarily have it in them to not fight back
The vikings also specialized in hitting areas with litteral no defensive fortifications. The english had placed their monasteries on the rocky eastern shores to prevent them from being overrun by the locals, as the local population would occasionally attack them, but since monks generally did not fight back, attacking them was sort of like attacking a university, whose students are armed with sticks, while the vikings had axes and swords. An axe typically beats a stick, particularly if the stick is wielded by a guy who mainly does yard-work for a living.
MANPADS does sound like one of those hyper-masculinity-as-a-grift type of products. Maybe selling "tactical manpads" as an alternative to diapers for old people will be a viable business in 20ish years, when most of the war on terror vets reaches the age of incontinence
Been seeing a bunch of those stickers in my neighbourhood for a couple of months now, and they contain no useful information except for a QR-code, which made me suspect it as some kind of op by a bored intelligence officer.
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Sort of cheated with this one, because I guessed Morocco, Algeria and Syria on my phone while on the train. Then I came back to my office, looked at a map of North Africa and realized I had completely forgotten an entire country.
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Fuck those small ass pacific islands. Nothing narrows them down and you're pretty much forced to rely on Geocluess for the answer.
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Thought this was Ghana at first, since I remember that they used to be called the Gold Coast. Then the arrow told me it was in eastern africa, so I guessed Eritrea (know fuckall about that country, but i know that ethiopia grows coffee and eritrea seemed a decent guess as they have similar climate and a coast-line. THen guessed Kenya and finally hit the mark at the fourth time.
If you're going to protest being drafted, this is one of the more effective ways you can choose.
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Guessed Morocco at first, because I know they export quite a lot of important fertilizer-regents, and then saw that it was in eastern europe, so guessed Romania, which seemed a decent guess based on the size of the economy and the relative industrialization of the country. Then guessed Bulgaria, because I frankly don't understand the differences between most of the Balkans and my guesses were mostly geoclues. Finally arrived on the right answer after digging deep and thinking about poor/small states in the nothern balkans.
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first time in a while I've managed to do this without consulting a map. Kind of got lucky with my first guess and then tried to hone in by remembering roughly where places in west africa are in relation to another. Though the export total made it real easy to skip over all the small economies.