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What's the desired strategic outcome here - to remove the incumbent president and his political party from power and replace it with one more favorable to US oil interests? And to do that without putting ground troops in to some Latin American Vietnam? Good luck with that.

Maria Machado? I thought independent observers mostly agreed she won the election?

It'll be the usual playbook: replace Maduro with a pet dictator. It won't go well for Venezuela and it's people, but since when did the USA give a damn about people?

Things can not get worse for Venezuelans than they were under maduro

Hyperbole - they most certainly can get worse

You know what's worse than a shitty economy under a dictator?

Your family dying in the rubble of a bombed house.


Personally I’d rather be buried in rubble than starve to death

It's not an either-or, lots more people starve during wars as well.

And yet droves and droves from south and Central America want to come here and live instead!

Also do these countries governments care for their own ppl? Seems like no as if they did ..they wouldn’t be corrupt 2nd to 3rd world countries & their citizens wouldn’t be fleeing to America in droves


You might want to look into the history of why South and Central America have been blighted by corruption and dictators - the USA has had a large hand in it.

I'm 100% certain the douche who runs Ryanair is extremely concerned about paper waste.


Building a tourist app for my local city here upstate New York, since nobody in the local government office can be bothered.


Good luck! It can positively impact the whole city, by a lot.


The guy made an honest mistake - like that time I mistakenly stayed in the bar across the street from one wedding venue (that I had been invited to) and then tried to mingle with the crowd once they came out.


How come I've got to this years old and only learned today that there's a "school for poetic computation" that's mentioned in the article.


And that has courses described as: the study of art, code, hardware, and critical theory through lenses of decolonization and transformative justice.


Sounds like a course description written to receive grant money.


The only thing he's missing is that he did this "for charity".


Next he goes to fight poor children in Africa.


He'll probably win, poor children are actually not such good fighters.


Good God, the absolute stench out of those capsules in Tokyo would not be the first thing a weary traveler would want.


It's f*cking hard work, for those in any doubt. It's the most difficult web server config file you've ever to edit at 4am to resolve some production outage, for years, without any hope of let up. Is it rewarding, yes, but it's a duty and there's no backup or timeout, you get to experience this 24/7 for at least a few year while they're young.


counterpoint: it's not

you don't have to sift through some indecipherable mountain of information to find a solution

you just have to provide some basic mammalian service like provide warmth or food in a first world country

it can be stressful but it's actually quite simple


The early years are a ton of simple work. Later, it becomes incredibly complex and difficult. Try dealing with bad choices, power struggles, figuring out and enforcing rules.... Now try it as a typical techie person who has trouble engaging with things they don’t enjoy and doesn’t understand people.

Sifting through an indecipherable mountain of information is fun. I’ll do it in my spare time. My reaction to some ridiculous bug report is, hell yeah, let’s go.

The hardest stuff in my life has nothing to do with computers and it’s not even remotely close.


Accurate. There’s this seemingly never ending stream of moments of desperation, where there are no good answers.

But also if you asked me, “what led to most of the goodness in your life?”, I’d answer:

Moments of desperation


But if you remove all the AI nonsense from corporate websites, how will the clueless bozos in charge make kissy faces to investors using "AI" anymore?


Neither, just enjoying myself either way.


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