As an Aussie living on the north side, the water spins the wrong way down the plug hole. It is only a tendency, but it happens often enough to not be a random direction. And the left/right thing ... It took ages to get used to the idea that in the northern hemisphere, your image in a mirror is reversed.

Water spin has been debunked, the Coriolis force is just too weak to have any noticeable effect over the minor non-symmetries of the vessel and random currents in the water

Worth mentioning that the title is completely wrong; it is in fact a list of stuff that is backwards in the USofA.

mirrors don't flip images. Take a word written on a wall. Face it. point to the perpendicular wall on the side of the first letter. Now turn 180 degrees (imagine there's a mirror there) and look at the mirror on the opposite wall. Do the same thing, point to the perpendicular wall on the side of the first letter of the word. You are now pointing at the exact same wall as last time. The mirror didn't reverse anything, it's you who's backwards.

Feynman talks about this in his "Symmetry" lecture, and how there's no way to discern "left" from "right" without a shared artifact. (You can try to get clever and use a magnet, but there's also no way to discern magnetic north from south without a shared artifact, so that's ultimately the same convention.) It's like how any complex number can only be a±bi; a+bi doesn't actually mean anything by itself.

In accordance with American establishment narrative IMO. The Rest of World see America as running it's own very successful empire. Post scarcity is a crisis for capitalism because it's current form relies on an ever expanding market. Having an (expanding) empire keeps the dream alive.

> Having an (expanding) empire keeps the dream alive.

A trouble with naive expansion is that logistic-S curves can't stay on the exponential path when one approaches 50% market penetration.

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39729186

An interesting and little known fact is that New Zealand is often used as a beta test site. They had ATMs in the 70s because the kiwis act like westerners, but if things go wrong, nobody notices. Similarly computer based police databases. Hopefully they can show us how UBI works...

It's yet another.. just more adds..

There is another motivation for the state to run isps other than censorship. Socialists may consider the internet infrastructure, just like roads. This article does feel a bit like propaganda for truth justice and the American way..

"Socialists may consider the internet infrastructure"

In general yes, but which countries in question would you judge socialist?

And the socialist countries from before, well I rather would describe them as a constructs, where everyone was employed by a state owned company.

I came here to just say that

"What's it like to be a bat" posed the question; "the character of cats" (horses; or dogs) goes some way towards answering it. Does the reviewed work extend our knowledge? Do I really need to sign up to find out? Animal communication certainly is an interesting topic IMHO but yet another rehash of "animals see things differently" is, I suspect, just click bait. Tell me if it's a descent litt survey.

I thought Dennett introduced the distinct spellings in The Intentional Stance (Bradford 1987). We needed the distinction working with Belief, Desire & Intention (BDI) agent architectures where all three are explicitly represented See Bratman Israel & Pollack .. forgotten the reference but that was Martha Pollack; and Bratman is the Philosopher.