nah, they just told him who had hits out on him, and that he’d be fed to the wolves if he didn’t help.

The protective punishment of the state is probably a lot lighter than the street justice of global networks of criminal gangs.

…are we accidentally going to open a portal to hell by trying to get doom running on something it shouldn’t? Is that how it finally happens?

That would be the Ultimate Doom. Real Doom too.

That’s about caffeine, not coffee exactly, also beware studies that say ‘might’.

I had that, it was a combo of too much build up in my system, and the particular stain.

I got healthy for a bit then I was fine (not much of that strain left, so I pul it on the bottom of the pile).

Suggest returning to an different favourite or one you like and know well. But listen to your body - when it says stop you stop. If it’s saying quit, then you don’t have much choice.

You could throw one at someone with a message attached.

He’s Mr. Burns but less lovable and entertaining.

On YouTube, people like Bisan Owda visit some of these places, you can see what it’s like.

Next you’re going to tell me they were never open source (they were never open source).

Nitrogen suffocattion isn’t painless if it’s done completely of nitrogen.

You’re talking about regular oxygen suffocattion caused by decreasing the oxygen available over time.

What you’ve essentially said is “the guillotine is immoral because if you cut 1/10th of the way through, then 1/9th of the way through, then 1/8th and so on… Then it’s REAL painful!!!”

No shit.

I hear ramping up electrocution over a 20 minute period is also not great.

Yep, it’s not like we can vote him out.

Now if all nations became energy independent, and/or green energy reliant, then you’d see these counter-OPEC wars slowing down and halting… And the oil would be worth less, and those OPEC nations would no longer be perceived as a threat to Western Oil interests.

Go ask ChatGPT which nations are in OPEC. Some (or their regions) are listed (as unstable) in this thread.

They compete with Western Oil interests.

That is why these regions (africa and the middle east) are destabilized, that is that status quo, has been for decades. That’s the point, that’s normalcy for US hegemony (and western oil interests).

As for the other two issues you raised. Ukraine and Taiwan… Taiwan is never going to happen for a multitude of reasons, that’s just saber rattling. Always has been (hence why it hasn’t been attempted, even Mao knew it couldn’t be done).

Ukraine is serving it’s own survival and damaging Putin and the Russian economy in the process - there’s no real risk for America there, only a reward.

So all of this is why we have the major wars and current state of the world. Most of it represents “the center holding” as Biden put it. It makes sense if you understand the players and geopolitics.

THAT’S NUMBERWANG!!

Behind The Bastards… Tells you about history’s greatest bastards.

I think US oil interests might have a thing or two to say about declaring Iraq not a country.

The US could be in a leopards ate my face situation if Israel pursues that line of thought into taking destructive military actions in Iraq.

Amazon has a healthcare company now too…

…and they own twitch.

The problem is getting the pictures to work from. People who don’t want to be found aren’t giving the CIA pictures of their locations, and I’d imagine the CIA already knows what road signs look like in different countries, or where certain mountains and other features are.

The problem is getting the pictures. It’s intel collection, not processing.

Latest version of Firefox?

Bush Gore 2.0

Back when Florida threw out all those votes because Black people didn’t trust the system down there so they ticked, and wrote in “Al Gore”… Officials called this “over voting” even though the same candidate was ticked and written, they threw those votes in the garbage and Bush won.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_elections_in_which_the_winner_lost_the_popular_vote

So had someone not liked the pager, and given it away to a family member or friend, that person would have suffered the explosion.

Sounds like a terrorist war crime to me!