They were talking about buying Swedish Gripen instead of US F-35. I’m not sure exactly how far along those plans were.

Unfortunately depending on where you live this may just be reality.

Setting up a website, paying for an admin, bandwidth only to hand money to you makes no sense.

It’s specifically designed to give you the rush of gambling. Dream about winning big, the excitement of doing your analysis deciding who to bet on, you bouncing on your couch when you’re watching, the rush when you get it right.

You would not expect me to build a rollercoaster and then give you money to ride on it?

I’ve used the same pfp which is a photo of myself with a funny mask since 2007.

Need a longer runway.

The warmup takes ages, no matter what I’m doing.

It does not sound like something I’d get into. But if I know the Internet then there is an (unfulfilled or I’ve just not heard of) niche market for that too.

When the battery does not hold long enough. I don’t care enough to put effort into my phone anyway. I pick between the cheaper models at the local store despite work paying for it.

When we had a couch at the old office I used to have a nap in it during the afternoon coffee break.

It looked easy but It’s ludicrously difficult to do. Russia tried something similar in Ukraine and got bogged down in a war they still have not got out of.

The fact that it worked and did not turn into another black hawk down scenario is like you say months of preparing, someone on the inside high enough to have information and dislike Maduro enough and a good batch of luck.

Running fast food chain at day, liposuction clinic at night.

Europe would not be able to help much even with greenland under control. The US navy is much stronger and a lot of Europe’s navy is tailored for coastal defense.

The reason why I think he would not invade canada (or greenland) is that NATO would effectively dissolve which would be good for China.

How did the US get the intel to find out where Maduro would be at what time in order to execute the operation?

Is it reasonable to belive that they could do the same with the other countries?

It makes you more inclined to eat more calories than you need.

Possibly natural resources.

Place to put ports or airbases. Though they can do that if they ask Denmark nicely, and they have an airbase there called Thule or something iirc.

I think the devil is in the details.

How accountable are the top? What incentives do they have when they make decisions?

What alternatives exist that is better without becoming byzantine in their implementation?

I have only talked to one Venezuelan, she is not going to miss Maduro.

Still something very dubious to do that they did not do because of the plight of the Venezuelan people.

I hope (but don’t really expect) that the Trump admin figured out approximately what will happen after he is gone. A decade of civil war or cartels dividing up the country won’t make anything better.

Play around with the words. A good rule of thumb If you can’t change the word white/black without coming across as racist then you are a racist.

Feel free to do the same with man/woman, gay/straight or whatever your favourite disadvantaged/advantaged is.

Apes.

Repeating what the previous poster said with your own words may have been something your teacher made you do. It has little value beyond improving your language skills.

Reminds me of my very short prank war.

A colleague did the tape on mouse prank on me.

Then I switched our wireless mouse dongles, when I heard the “ha ha, you got me there” and be noticed nothing was wrong I started wiggling my mouse on his screen.

Then next week I wrote a script that ejected his CD tray every half an hour or so.