On the ice cube thing:
1) I mean, obviously this is just the result of a Spanish waiter interacting with Yglesias, correctly deciding he was a typical dickhead American tourist and therefore fucking with him by pretending not to know about ice cubes.

2) I read Jimmy Wales& #39; blog circa 2003 as a teenager once and have been immune to all American hot takes about Europe ever since. http://web.archive.org/web/20030418121259/http://www.jimmywales.com/blog/?archive=2003-1">https://web.archive.org/web/20030...

(It& #39;s a bit odd how it& #39;s now trendy to do ponderous takes about how weird Mark Zuckerberg is, but nobody talks about how one of the most important websites on the internet was co-founded by a mad Objectivist who now hangs out with Tony Blair and Central Asian dictators)