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' 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

(It's a bit odd how it'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)