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vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Everyone claimed we invaded Iraq back in the early 2000s to take their oil, but the US spent a whole bunch of money on the military operations, and opened up oil and gas to basically every other country, including geopolitical rivals like China and Russia. Maybe "oil" is too simple of an explanation.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Normal Venezuelans saw absolutely zero benefit from whatever oil revenue there was, so even in the worst case scenario, which is not a given, their lives would not be different.

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Venezuelans for the past 5+ years have been the most or almost the most numerous asylum seekers in the US. And "poor economic conditions" or general poverty is not a valid reason to claim asylum

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Can anyone provide any attempt at rationalizing their decision? Could your computer overheat and explode if you do this? Could hackers take over your computer and play a flashing light pattern that will give you an epileptic seizure?

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

There are packets at the bottom of the network stack

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Okay, but it doesn't mean they're regular people. Owning a single one of those plots out them in the 1% of household net worth, even if they had 0 other assets.

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

He purchased each plot for between $5 and $15M. The article describes the residents as "Doctors, lawyers, business executives and Stanford University professors".

I would not call these "regular people"

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Whole neighborhoods in Miami where the primary language is Spanish and many of the inhabitants barely speak English

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

iToilet, an app which directs you to the nearest decent toilet any where in the world, was also how Costanza made his millions(before losing it to madoff) in the seinfeld reboot that happened within the Curb Your Enthusiasm universe

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

I'm pretty sure everyone gets to choose what makes them happy. Sorry, I guess, if criticizing the life choices of a dead person are what makes you happy.

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Does it lead to obviously better results in quality of life compared to people who don't riot quite so frequently?

Is the average londoner worse off than the average Parisian? What about the average British person vs the average French person? I just pick the UK because it is nearby, approximately the same population and same GDP

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

I think you need to make the judgement if a long video is long because it's worth it and needs to be that long, or because it's padded for some reason. When I come across a padded video that I still want to consume for some reason, I usually just paste the url into gemini and ask for a tl;dr and get a few paragraphs to read summarizing the video.

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

I'm also curious who the market is for a thinner phone. I imagine pockets on some clothes women commonly wear might work better with a thinner phone, but those pockets are almost always too small in other dimensions to actually hold the phone

vor 10 Monatendiscuss

Their app being top of the line, because they coded their app in their app, would certainly be a nice natural endorsement of the product.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

Do any 3P clients let you point their app to backends other than reddit.com? Or are you just saying it would be easy for app developers to quickly port their app to non.io?

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

Most people in the UK will support the monarchy regardless of what they do. Including meddling in political affairs and not being figure heads.

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

It's cute you believe that. Ever read the Black Spider memos?