The people living their in 20 years STILL won’t control their own lands, you mean. If I’m wrong, I might then consider your implication that those people won’t count as Europeans, but to that I would only say “GOOD FOR THEM THEN!”

Trump didn’t specify how we would remove Maduro in the same way its pointless for Europe to specify exactly how they could or would retaliate. Its more than enough for there to be multiple options to make them all valid when it comes time to say “we warned you”.

Please don’t confuse my enthusiasm for one option that’s been shown to be possible and devestating, for me saying this is the only option Europe should consider. On the contrary, I’m just wishing they would pick an option that matters and run with it already. All they’ve done is show their belly like a submissive dog.

They don’t even appear to care about plausible deniability any more. Arresting Gaza protestors is just such a good, strong-arm look for going against Trump. Fear of Europe must be why so many churches in my area are flying Israeli flags at the moment.

As for how you contradicted yourself, you said “if the threat isn’t listened to then they act on it”, then went on to claim a threat that has to be followed-through on is worthless. On the contrary, a threat that has been known all-along is rendered moot when you spell it out long after the time for it is past.

Its the threat you have to verbalize that’s worthless. Holding a knife to someone’s throat to threaten another person is not the act of someone with any control over their present situation, and its a threat made-up on the spot that’s easilly invalidated in so, so many ways. That scenario is not applicable to Europe versus the US at all.

No one is proposing they rattle their saber. The scale of the threat has long been too great to bother speaking aloud, and putting it into words instead of action would just be laugable.

Again, the “listened to” or no phase is past the horizon, around the curve and honestly several hills and valleys back in the rear-view mirror. A threat that isn’t followed-through on or is spoken only after you’ll obviously never act isn’t even a threat any more; Its a mark of submission.

Nice job contradicting yourself in that second paragraph though. Let me ask you this: Did Trump bother saying we were going to, could, or “should” abduct Maduro in advance?

I held my nose and voted for her. None of my neighbors did. Your sympathy is misplaced.

You’re funny. You think the US isn’t full of people who wouldn’t notice if things got worse on the whole because of how bad they have it already.

The only one proposing its somehow worse that me and my well-to-do neighbors join them and maybe end-up remembering such a basic concept as Class Solidarity is you.

Why is your browser out-of-date?

I mean, I don’t like the site per se, but Firefox isn’t complaining for me, so I am legit wondering what browser you are using that does complain. Are you planning on giving that site your personal information?

Facts ≠ Opinions, although I am going by the title where it says “Can”, rather than “should”. I stated my opinion though.

Maybe Europe would act, if enough former colonies call them cowards.

… the time to do this shit has long been upon us. Who gives a fuck what they can do, until they do it? As an American, I’m begging you, put up or shut-up.

I didn’t vote for the baby in office, and I would gladly suffer to see his toys taken away by the adults.

So … almost sure-fire way to hit 40+ in a dead-end office job?

Shush, cretin. Boob is speaking…

I figured this out in the first few months. Any other driver I tried explaining this to called me crazy and/or a cheater. I made twice what they did in a third of the drive-time, maybe half the time in my car when you count the time I sat Available while playing on my phone, using indoor bathrooms like a human-being, napping/meditating, or stuffing my face.

Sure buddy, I’m just that jealous of your work-ethic and two-door hatch-back that’s probably seen you reported dozens-of-times over. Super-hacker, liar, lazy fuck; Ya got me dead to rights.

Edit: I only drove passengers for the ride-share companies. Washing my hands enough for anything food related on an on-going basis destroys my skin, and my car is nicely climate-controlled, so …

They would literally make more money by job-hopping in pursuit of such a company, but you’re right. Even a single team that remembers what ethics are is a big ask.

I agree that the things they are saying are non-optional aren’t, and that teams can get too large, resource allocations so large they become a hindrace, etc … but calling being intentional about such things “cheap” just invites Elon-stans and their ilk to give their teams, suppliers, and vendors shit over not magically pulling off the unicorn-trifecta,; Without (paid)overtime, no-less.

Do NOT let people redifine the necessities and trade-offs of price(raw materials, equipment, comforts, safety), pay, team-size, or (excessive)managerial/administrative overhead. In the end, they will have you feeling like you owe them for the opportunity to do the work of five people for peanuts.

If you care to check my comment history, I recently got-into-it for trying to redefine “en-shitification” to include things like tech-debt and planned-obselescence. Really, what irks me is that the one has all-but shut-down conversations about the other two. “That’s just enshittification” or “that’s not enshittification” will get trotted-out whenever needed to bring the conversation away from them, or keep it from moving towards the two, because no-one gets promoted by mentioning any of the three, but enshittification is almost-acceptable water-cooler talk, for the moment, with the bonus that it shames the speaker for cussing.

Wrong take on cheap, and addressed to the wrong party in the system. Efficiency and simplicity are already mandatory for being good, particularly in software.

This is why so many techbros should stick to software, or even better, sales. You are not the user.

Most herbivores will eat meat, given the opportunity. Doesn’t make you wrong. In fact I think you understated it. I miss my rabbits.

Oh no, I’m absolutely convinced you are right. Now, convince the moms …

That’s just facebook with extra steps

facebook first went to shit around the time kids and grandparents were allowed to join, so …

I saw the “break the bulb” solution before I commented. Points for the most straight-forward solution, assuming its a simple light-source and not something more secure that a few bulbs at most.

I mean, my solutions either require more information or for the question to be stupidly open-ended.

I’m fond of “leave the door open”, but that only works if the doorway is visible from the switches and the space between too bright.

“send someone else into the room and call them” requires the freedom to do that, but end-runs the need for me to go into the room entirely.

Gimme two smartphones and I’m video-calling one I leave in the room.

In all of my answers and others I’ve seen so far, we’re either making presumptions or making shit up. The question fails as an “only one right answer with only the information given” logic test, but would work to reveal how we approach problems - a personality test.