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Also beans. Can we bring back the beans, you know, for the newbies?

The worst is when one of the two questions is an open problem.

These Vital Farms eggs come with an insert with a QR code that allegedly shows you pictures of the specific farm your eggs came from. I've never bothered to look it up though.

At least you don't need to worry about hills in New Orleans.

I bet they had crappy throws or no throws, too.

For those who may be from the Frozen Nawth, Mardi Gras parades, particularly in New Orleans, are all about the free giveaways.

Even if you never plan to return, you are still (legally) on the hook to file a 1040-NR form with the IRS every year.

There's a foreign earned income tax credit: this reduces your US tax bill by any income tax you paid to your residence country. For many expat working stiffs, this means they don't have to pay anything to Uncle Sam, but they still have to file a tax return.

This type of control is known in industry as "bang-bang control." Among other factors, it doesn't help that the delay time between twirling the control and feeling the temperature change is often tens of seconds.

Comparing national militaries is a complicated and tricky business. I would like to recommend Perun on YouTube. Usually pretty good defense economic analysis in digestible one-hour PowerPoint presentations. Some comparative material.