Shucks that was clever

Just say you made a French variation of it.

Pentel Graphgear 1000. Best pencil ever made

I worked in a factory for a bit. HR designated people as “heavies” or not which meant they could lift 50 pounds. No test or medical exam was done to create this distinction. All men were marked heavies and all women weren’t. It was a way for them to discriminate job roles based on gender without saying it.

Boosts are normal. This specific boost was noteworthy because it had a one-way texture so Olof could see the other team but they couldn’t see him.

I miss being able to play Rivals of Aether 2 with a GameCube controller. My to my knowledge there’s no good way to connect one on Linux.

Made weekend plans with friends

Honestly give me a knife to slice things with and that’s a half decent meal

Fun fact, in Japan, they drive on the left. As a result, they also walk on the left on the sidewalk. However in Osaka, they walk up stairs and use escalators “international style” on the right. They still walk on sidewalks on the left side. The rest of the country is not like this.

Yeah the game runs ok from what I can tell. I’m used to the Xbox controller now but I wish I could use the GameCube. It’s super odd to me that this hasn’t been addressed. Surely a driver is not that complicated to make for such old hardware.

I can’t connect a GameCube controller. There’s some ancient thing on GitHub that claims to do something but I feel over my head trying to do it and it hasn’t been updated since like 2016. On Windows, you download Zadig and run it and you’re good to go. I’ve had to switch to an Xbox controller for Rivals of Aether 2 online.

What about a GameCube controller? Still can’t use that on Linux (at least I haven’t figured it out).

Yeah it’s a really well rounded hatred.

Cult Fav did a great head-to-head of a bunch of blenders. They weren’t specifically looking at durability but it comes up when they cause a couple blenders to overheat or start smoking.

I see it as a gateway. A lot of people will go to the protest, talk to other people, and maybe get involved with something more meaningful.

I’m from the US southeast so I’ve seen plenty of these people. IMO, they should be avoided. There are plenty of devout Christians that are quiet about it and they’re fine. They’re often good people actually. The ones that are extremely forward about it are performing for their in-group. The in-group is all that matters. Since you aren’t in it, you don’t matter to them. At best, they’ll hang out in order to proselytize to you. I find them condescending and intentionally disconnected from the outside world. Effectively, they’re in a cult.

No US losses, not a single soldier?

7 soldiers were injured by shrapnel or gunshot wounds. There hasn’t been any announcement of US deaths.

Not a wall of bodyguards around Maduro?

The Cuban government provided elite guards for Maduro. They announced that 32 of them were killed in the raid.

yet they didn’t have any radars set up to detect air infiltration?

They certainly did. Detecting aircraft doesn’t mean you can do anything about it. This was a big operation with explosions all over the city. Many of those were knocking out air defenses and targeting air bases. Some of the aircraft used were stealthy and might have evaded detection before striking air defenses. 150 aircraft from the Navy, Air Force, and Marines were used.

All of the equipment shipped in from Russia and China leading up to this moment, no missiles that could’ve taken out those low flying helicopters?

I’m not familiar with China’s military aid. But IIRC, Russia flew one transport plane with “air defenses” which is more of a symbolic gesture than a solution. Let’s not forget that using advanced aircraft to strike deep within contested airspace is kind of the US military’s whole thing. By the time the helicopters showed up, any air defenses that could have brought them down were already dealt with.

They capture Maduro AND his wife? Why his wife, it just seems an unnecessary liability to add to the equation.

Yeah idk. That is weird.

but what they haven’t taken over Venezuela?

…yet. My guess is that they learned from Iraq. In Iraq, they did the same kind of thing to Saddam and then took over and tried to run the country. That turned out to be a huge political problem for the US for decades. They want Venezuela to essentially be a vassal of the US, which they can do without directly running the country. Likely they are using the threat of doing this again to push Venezuelan politics toward giving concessions to the US.

Feels like a psychological operation to make us believe the US hegemony is alive and just as invincible as it’s always been

At this point you are purely reaching for conspiracy to fit things within your preferred narrative. The rest of your post is very conspiratorial. A lot of parties are kind of shocked at the moment and waiting for some of the dust to settle before taking concrete action.

White supremacists liked American History X. The lady running the summer camp in “Jesus Camp” said she thought the movie was a good portrayal of her ministry.

You are taking disconnected elements and spinning a huge narrative with big reaches which just isn’t necessary to explain the actions of world leaders.

That is straight up Q anon conspiracy nonsense. The reality is that geopolitics is complicated and interdependent. The US has sewn influence and is very powerful on the world stage. And, when push comes to shove, a lot of world leaders don’t care about rule of law or norms as long as the bad things are being committed by an ally a long way from home.