No superpower has ever beaten guerrilla tactics. Just like Vietnam, if lots of soldiers are coming home in body bags for a war people don’t see the benefit to them for, the pressure to stop will mount. It’s unfortunate that it will kill so many people before it gets to that point.

Even more sad is that it seems like most of the oil companies aren’t interested in Venezuela as the oil price is too low to take on the risk. The risk of bombs to their infrastructure after costly installations. Risk their investment is removed as soon as trump is gone.

Or easy to band them together?

It’s not that they don’t do anything to help it. They actively try to sabotage it.

Yes. I was making a joke. Consultants often are inexperienced and just make cuts, not improvements. Most of the work is done by cheap grads, who compete for few roles in the hope they make it. Most don’t. The customers get overcharged for poor advice.

Usually, they are just a way for management to have someone to point to for the decisions they make that negatively impact people or the business.

A Linux launcher that can be used to launch games from the epic store and others. So, basically a workaround so you don’t need to use the epic launcher.

When the problem is that your jusges are too political, making it more political seems like the wrong move.

Lol, do you think the racists he’s enabling at all levels of government are a tap he can turn on and off? They are driving out the same people and forcing racist policies on those that don’t agree. Look at what’s happening to trans people. Their documents are being rescinded or they can no longer get them.

Have you thought about getting consultants in to get their institutional knowledge? They hote lots of recent grads who theoretically know what to do…they work them hard and then churn through more, overcharging for their time and underpaying them. Some progress to become senior consultants. Not many.

They don’t get credit for it when they were pressured to do it by their customers. They made a financial decision not a moral one.

It’s not dirt. It’s death threats. Marjorie Taylor Green didn’t play nice with trump for 2 minutes and then quit politics as she got scared of the far right reaction.

Adding to the other comment. You can install more than one launcher and try them out. You select which is your default launcher in the settings. Nova launcher was a great launcher that was highly customisable and many here had it and likely the paid premium version. Then it got bought out and enshittified. Lawnchair is an open source alternative that many like.

Yes. There are stats on how protests of a certain size always leads to change. Voting works. Protests work.

They will try to make protests unattractive. Making them illegal or violent. Either from within or from armed forces. Of they do it wrong, they generate more support. If they do it how they want, they suppress resistance and/or start a civil war that allows them to stop elections.

If they play their cards too quickly, they have less support. If they can gradually ramp up fear of resistance, they have a better chance of succeeding. Too slow, they get voted out. Too fast, they might get too much resistance from people, including those in uniform.

The fact that they are doing school raids the day after murdering someone means they are ramping up pretty quick. The fact that nobody protesting has been killed means they are not ramping up as quickly as some expected.

Will this change now that immigration is dropping and emigration is increasing?

Some of it is not googles fault. Some of it is the fact that seo pays, so shitty clickbait articles that serve ads or affiliate links make money, so they gameified search results that were less useful. Originally, most useful information was provided by hobbyists with no commercial intentions. That became less and less of the internet over time.

It’s why reddit did so well. It was actual recommendations from actual humans for problems, products etc. So then the bots and scammers came for it’s like they came for google.

What if you don’t think of them as people? Does that change things?

Because when military people think they are above the law, we get dead citizens.

Lol, no they don’t. While talking about the dangers of covid vaccines, all of fox news and the maga politicians were getting vaccinated. Trump had experiment treatments for it.

I’d be looking at their recent declaration about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Cut them where it hurts his chances in the mod terms. Affordability all the way. He’s very much a let them eat cake kind of guy. But with big Macs.

Not when you don’t pay that cost. Security, shipping, workers etc , courtesy of the American taxpayer.