Gah, what a great movie for a myriad of great actors. Prequels to Wash (Tudyk), King Baratheon (Addy), and Vision (Bettany)

I think you mean Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein

Hope there aren’t any flags or posters that can murder a poor tourist.

Haven’t heard a single speaker other than for a tour guide and those are clipped to their belts and connected via a cable to a mic.

I’ve been to a few of them, they’re pretty excellent. At least the ones I’ve been to had good signal and wifi throughout the park. Also a ton of staff to help.

Edit: I guess I’ve been to the national parks that are not IUCN certified like some of the historic mountains. Still awesome parks.

Where was the heated protest? It was ICE being a shit and targeting communities based on their visual demographics again. No protestors were there, for support of the illegal renditions or against.

Possibly because Americans as a general group are more diverse than any other country and so run into the “doesn’t look like me, might be scary” conflict more often…

That being said, every country has this. From France giving their black players a whole bunch of racist shit, to the Greeks killing refugees that don’t look like them through negligence, to the Germans who still shit all over the Romani people for having a different appearance/culture.
It’s not a unique feature to the US.

As for using colors to describe people based on their skin tone… Every language does it as far as I can tell. I don’t understand why you find that odd. It can be a useful descriptor and if you want to be shade specific, you’re more than welcome to.

IIRC there’s only like 54 years of natural gas supply at current consumption rate with all known deposits tapped. So the less use the better. Coal is supposed to be in the 300-400 year range.