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Bawfuls29 karma

He moved to Florida at age 5. His mother suggested in an interview it's intentional.

Robinson’s personal sensibility is what drives Current Affairs. And one thing you should know about the editor and his voice, in a literal sense, is that the British accent is kind of fake. He moved to Sarasota, Florida, from a village outside Cambridge, U.K., when he was 5 years old, in 1995. His father worked at an international corporate training firm and the family decided that they might find a better future in the United States. His parents became citizens in 2001, and Robinson along with them.

"Nathan realized early on that people love listening to a British accent. It gives you this air of authority that Americans seem to like," his mother, Rosemary Robinson, tells me when I reach her on the phone in Florida. "I think he worked very hard to keep it."

https://www.theringer.com/2017/3/23/16044958/new-left-media-current-affairs-chapo-trap-house-crooked-media-9cb016070532

Bawfuls22 karma

nuclear subs use some of their available power to produce fresh water from salt water, which is why water was not one of the three categories OP listed as a limiting resource

Bawfuls21 karma

gonna guess that her actions over the intervening year may have informed his thoughts here

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What was it like to be cut out of the Kershaw extension talks by the new ownership group, as Molly Knight chronicled in her book?