Having traveled internationally quite a bit, I learned very early that every country has its own laws and customs. As a result, I walked the straight and narrow in everything I did - what I packed, how much I drank, not jay walking, etc.
I remember many years ago I had a bad cold in the Netherlands. Went into a pharmacy and asked for Sudafed. The horrified clerk looked at me and told me it was a dangerous drug. (This was when you could still buy it off the shelf in the US.) Added that to the list of things I didn’t pack.
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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