I think “cash and run” is rather simple minded.

Imagine doing a larger “raid” at a farm or cobstruction site and take tractors, machines and equipment in the hundreds of thousands or even millions…

As these are also in more remote places it would take longer for any responder to arrive.

“We were able to determine that to the best of our estimation he was an ICE agent. … We will not look into it any deeper than that,” he said.

So having a shoddy fake card that looks like it could be real on a shoddy video camera is good enough for the police to not investigate further? Human traffickers must be having a blast in the US right now.

Yeah. Tucker is a racist POS but he understands that the US is digging its own grave with having Israel drag it into yet another failed regime change war. Also wanting America to be “Great” and having it fiddled by the lobby of a foreign country doesn’t go well together.

That makes gender more like “ethnicity”/“race” rather than “culture” don’t you think?

Problem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality.

That person you gave as an example? In the US, Canada or most European countries he will be treated better than an actual Citizen born and raised in the respective country who is perceived as “black” or “brown”.

The government was elected by the people.

You are German or you are at least able to speak it well. You know what is going on. You know how it is consistent. You know how much the country has shifted back to the right/far-right. You know how supposedly progressive parties are complicit in this.

The CSU, the bavarian sister of the CDU and party who runs the ministry of the interior had meetings with Trumps republicans to learn how to do Trumpism from them.

Merz said he supports Trumps demand for 5% of the German BIP being used for military expenses. That corresponds to half of the total government budget in Germany.

The new government is even more fiercely pro Israel than the previous one and like the US attacks the authority of the ICC and ICJ, which are core institutions of a rules based international order and by extension European integration.

If you expect liberation or standing up for good in the world to come from Germany, you will be disappointed.

Don’t worry. Germany always sides with genocide and the new government is eager to lick Trumps boots.

You don’t need Israel for a trade passage. The US is trying to pivot away from the region to focus on East Asia, where China is. The US no longer needs the Middle East for strategic reasons as the US has developed its own Oil and Gas resources.

Israel is a liability for the US geopolitically. Of course there is a strong Israeli lobby and there is the intelligence ties, surveillance tech and the like. However i think this is more based on blackmail than a genuine need for the US to get this tech from Israel. The father of Ghislaine Maxwell, who ran the child rape circle with Epstein, had ties to Mossad and other intelligence agencies. It is quite plausible that Mossad has a lot of material on the people involved.

Those are images of Tuaregs, the nomadic people living in the Sahara. You see only few wearing white garnments. The majority wears shades of blue or even black. I trust the people who actually live in the desert to know about how to deal with the sun and heat:

I dont think that poor UI programming for dedicated programs is an argument for browser based solutions.

I have issues with poorly programmed UIs in browser based tools all the time.

My uncle. Very smart very neuronal. He knows the entire Internet, can you imagine? the entire internet. Like the mails of Crooked Hillary Clinton, that crook. You know what stands in that Mails? my uncle knows. He makes the best code. The most beautiful code. No one has ever seen code like it, but for him, he’s a genius, like i am, i have inherited all his genius genes. It is very easy. He makes the best code. Sometimes he calls me and asks me: you are even smarter than i am. Can you look at my code?

Yeah, if they cant bother to check for an opt-in, how should we trust them to respect an opt-put?

On that level you often only have two, one or sometimes no candidate.

There is no need to enforce a more complicated system that needs to be explained to everyone, risks more people accidentally voting different than they wanted or invalidating their vote by misunderstanding the rules.

I have helped with elections in Germany where the parliament has two votes. One for the local candidate FPTP and one for a party, where the parties proportional rates are then assembled in the parliament. I had to explain people the votes and what they do all the time. Because the two votes are on one paper it is a mess to count, as you can’t just stack them easily because of the possible combinations.

When it gets to state and national levels having proportional systems for parliaments and ranked choice for single candidates i am all for it. But there is no point in pushing for a more complicated system for smaller elections.

FPTP is fine in many small scale applications. How should a town of 5,000 people elect their mayor otherwise?

Well, if i have the entire game on the physical device and it doesn’t come with arbitrary DRM stuff, i can still enjoy it in 20 years on the old console even if all the servers are shut down.

I recently saw that used Gameboy Advance SPs go for the same price like when they were new. Old Gameboy games also go for similar prices like when they were launched. Because no matter where or when. As long as the console and the cartridge themselves are working and there is electricity, the games can be enjoyed.

That is a gigantic difference from a consumer perspective, no matter what the physical production costs are.

Almost anytime i want to do something a bit more interesting in Excel i have to look for a solution on the web too. And i am considered one of the better Excel users in my working environment.

That still has a wide range. If you are camping on a camping ground you will have sanitary rooms, dish washing places, likely a hot shower, maybe a kitchen and official fire place.

You wrote “camping in the mountains”. That could include official resting spaces where you just have some benches and maybe an outdoor toilet, or well just pitching your tents somewhere and figuring out the rest yourself.

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Everyone should read 1984.