I’m a structural engineer. It is part of the job.

I’ve been mostly right.

I wished I worked out more right now. My problem is that I’m spending more and more spoons on my job and I don’t have enough remaining to exercise.

Tracking devices like Apple Tag.

It has its uses, but it can also be used to track people without them being aware.

Yeah. I wouldn’t expect people who want algorithm-fed video to switch to a text based platform like Lemmy.

Yep

16 - parents

I taught a friend how to drive and he was in his mid 20’s when I taught him.

Flying back from Vegas and the flight I was on got cancelled. They drew out the process to cancel it so that it didn’t get cancelled until another flight already took off. They gave hotel vouchers, but so late that it wasn’t worth it getting a hotel for 5 hours. They played loud music in the airport to keep people from sleeping.

Also had a flight going back home after Christmas that was so delayed I ended up driving back.

A decent first step is trying to figure out what the picture looks like.

What kind of job do you want? What kind of family do you want? What kind of place do you want to live? What hobbies or activities do you want to do? The picture will be blurry and that is ok.

From that, you can start to plan out what you need to do to make that picture. Do you need a certain education? Do you need to live in a certain part of the world? Do your goals match your drive? Are your goals reasonable?

And it is fine if your picture changes over time. It does for everyone. However, having a picture gives you something to plan against.

Do you know the deaths that happened post World War I? Do you know the deaths that happened in World War I on the scale compared to what was before?

You seem focused a lot on “America bad” and I can’t argue that an American led international order was bloodless, but the lack of a power is going to lead to increased conflict. After all, if it wasn’t for the USA, why wouldn’t Venezuela invade Guyana?

Trump has made the American Empire caustic to the international order in part because he is leading the charge to discard the international order for something else.

I feel like the issue at hand is that revolutionaries want to promise a better tomorrow without building a non-American world order without acknowledging that the various wars between the world wars are only going to amplify and that many of the intermediate powers don’t share the same political end goals.

And you just talked past the crux of my argument where a shrinking American presence can lead to war without addressing it.

Maduro said that he would invade another country. He probably would have done it if it wasn’t for a rapid American diplomatic response, the one before his kidnapping.

Borders will be in flux and those borders in flux will lead to war and death.

Not every country could be Japan or France because there was a stronger country enforcing current political borders.

In no way does this justify capturing Maduro, but Maduro was talking about invading Guyana last year. We’re already seeing various Middle Eastern countries build spheres of influence in the various civil wars in Africa, hoping to fill the void of a shrinking west.

At best, the world will have a peace similar to the one in Europe post-Napoleon where every major power gets their empire to do with as they please.

One of the things that the Cuban government has done right is its medical industry. The Cuban government is able to create world class doctors relatively cheaply and can provide relatively good health care given its relative poverty.

A normalization of US-Cuba relations is likely going to open up Cuba to American tourism.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a massive influx of Americans going to Cuba to get medical treatment there.

The funny thing is that normalization of Cuban relations is only going to royally piss off the medical industry in the USA.

It depended on the country. Countries like the UK and Poland played a major role in fighting operations and deserve praise for their contributions.

Other NATO countries contributed a lot less.

I wish Lincoln accepted that set to fight in the Civil War.

No country wants to build a tech infrastructure that they don’t control.

The Thick of It

A show regarding a random UK ministry and the random cluster fuck off politics. The 12th Doctor is an enforcer from the PM’s office with a prolific use of profanity.

The writer ended up creating Veep in the USA.

and he’s really into nightlife and partying.

Everything else I wouldn’t blink at, but I would wonder what kind of places Dad likes to party at.

It is more that there are fewer people who are more like-minded.

If Lemmy were to get larger, moderation would become more required.