Arturo Serrano

Colombian here. I speak Spanish and English. I can read Portuguese, French, Catalan, Italian and little bits of Romanian and Esperanto. I have minimal understanding of Japanese, Dutch and Hindi.

Colombian here. Mandatory military service is morally indistinguishable from slavery. I only was spared from it because I used a loophole that lets you skip it if you’re already in college.

Starship consoles are now fully holographic. No more exploding consoles.

My gigantic list of RSS feeds was painstakingly built by going to the Wikipedia article of the list of newspapers and news agencies in each country. That’s a good place to start collecting the sources that interest you.

We’re two guys.

When I proposed to my now husband.

And we like to put cheese in hot cocoa.

We eat a banana with our soup.

And we still haven’t gotten to the part where government workers, all the way up to the president, are forbidden from making any public statements in favor of candidates or campaigns.

My first stop is always Wikipedia. The rest of the internet is a minefield.

In the case of Colombia, there are independent investigation agencies that aren’t subject to any of the three branches, and specifically the judiciary branch has a committee that investigates disciplinary trespasses by judges. Also, there are three separate “Supreme Courts”: one handles typical everyday cases, another handles conflicts between citizens and the government, and another handles Constitutional violations. So there are several protections against a rogue Court.

Switzerland works just fine, and the head of the Executive is a committee.

In Spanish, we have these words:

hay (there is) ahí (over there) ay (ouch)

And it’s infuriating when people can’t pick the right one in writing.