Sounds good to me, I’d love a cheap small electric car

The article notes China has a strict self-defence only, no first launch policy.

Their entire arsenal is mobile in order to facilitate that kind of strategy.

The US, which makes no such promises, keeps missiles in dedicated launch facilities ready to go year round, is also expanding and updating its arsenal of nuclear weapons.

Which seems more alarming?

Oh that makes a lot of sense, shoulda thought of that!

Well it made me wonder about the author’s intent. Why choose this quote in particular? What does this quote imply that they felt was important to communicate?

Honestly, I don’t think the quote really says much of anything. I think you could find someone saying this at any convention be it political or, I dunno, Star Trek.

But the rest of the article is about demonstrating fractures in right-wing unity and so maybe the author wanted to imply that the guests feel their attendance is obligatory more than desired. It’s a stretch to argue that, but I struggle to think of another reason to include it.

Bizarre to end the article with a quote that seems like it’ll start a new segment about, like, the opinions of attendees from a heretofore unmentioned attendee, then just end.

“I just felt like I had an obligation to be here,” said Daren Struiksma, 20, of Harrisburg, South Dakota.

Okay? Why mention that?

For those wondering, this article is from a week ago and references the first stolen ship, the US did not yet capture a second ship.

Comnunism, yeah?

Did a person make this?

Yeah, this was my point with the “nothing” statement. Obama oversaw and approved some absolutely horrendous things.

I thought I read they did storm the streets of Caracas, during the last Trump admin, in support of Maduro, during a previous coup attempt.

Like the US got caught sponsoring mercenaries and trying to ship in a load of guns to start a coup. I don’t imagine everything is peachy in Venezuela, but I do wonder how much of that is due to meddling by foreign powers versus corruption.

News in Latin America is hard to trust one way or another, because it always seems like it’s being twisted to support one goal or another. Like, I know the state media is biased, but I also know the Western media is eager to support bloodthirsty actors who want to pillage their resources.

Oh wow that’s really gross, I had no idea

It’s a weird argument, because he got the peace prize really early into his presidency; before he could have an impact to get America to drop 100k bombs vs 200k, but also dropping a hundred thousand bombs seems like a hundred thousand more bombs than one would have to drop to be called a paragon of peace…

The peace prize did seem pretty pointless since Obama won it for doing nothing. Like don’t get me wrong I voted for the guy and wanted him to win, but it was pretty dang empty to give him the peace prize, especially since he then went on to be in charge while some really ugly stuff went down.

I’m not exactly sure what they’re getting at, but I did see someone from the Nobel Peace Prize committee call for Maduro’s removal just as the US has been ramping up its “anti-narcotics” operations in around the oil and lithium rich country, complete with extra judicial killings of Venezuelans, telling other nations to avoid their airspace and very recently seizing an oil tanker ship…

So it kinda feels like the Nobel Peace Prize committee is trying to add justification to the cause for war that the US is trying to drum up, which is wantonly egregious, so maybe they’re implying that both the Nobel committee and Eurovision are tacit supporters and backers of imperialism.

Was it drinkable before 2000?

Ah, more trivia! I had Crown Royal a couple of times in the 2010s. I think they should produce something else.

Well there ya go, didn’t know Crown Royal was a Canadian made product. Ya learn something every day huh?

What a FASCINATING concept!

I thought that too, at least when I was trying all this on my Pi Zero 2 W but I think the 5 is x64 innit?

I take on projects on my weeks off, tho, so maybe I’ll set up a dual boot during my Q1 week off and take it from there.

That’s true and it makes sense.

But the frequency of issues requiring extra work is far higher with Linux than Windows, in my experience, and it’s often a much longer process to fix with Linux.

With Linux, I often run into issues that I’ll patiently tinker with for hours, but eventually run into a wall, resolve to address another day. And I’ll learn a lot about computers along the way! That’s fine and even fun when it’s my self-hosted recipe app (which apparently simply cannot run on a Raspberry Pi except for all the people who said they got it working on their machine yet their solutions don’t work on mine), but it’s far more frustrating when it’s an application for something more basic like music or video playback, word processing or spreadsheets or internet browsing.

Of course all the same kind of problems can occur on a Windows machine, but, at least in my life, it happens less than once a year as opposed to Linux where it seems to happen once per “new thing” I try to do. Some day I’ll do it. But right now, Windows 10 “just works” in a way that’s more valuable.

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