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It is air conditioning. It just happens to be dumping the energy into the river instead of the air.

New systems like this in the USA are illegal despite how energy efficient it is.

“You aren’t autistic, you act just like them and they aren’t autistic.” - Your parents, likely.

Did your mom teach you? Because she’s really talented.

How is he doing that with his mouth?

Actually, it depends on the state/city. There is no federal sales tax; all sales taxes are determined at the state and municipal level and are only charged at the final point of sale. Some states or cities allow for limited versions of what you’re talking about; Washington State rebates sales taxes for Oregon residents.

However, why isn’t this typical across all states? It turns out that taxes tourists is generally more popular than taxing residents. This is especially true if the tax is enacted by referendum. For instance, a lot of stadiums are publicly funded via hotel room and rental car taxes.

Snapchat isn’t owned by Meta?

In the context of “what did the military action physically do?” it is important to recognize the difference between direct action and additional effects caused by the reaction from the affected government.

The attack on Venezuela was orders of magnitude less than the attack/war with Iran. Yet, Venezuela gave up financial control of its oil supply while Iran might be getting unprecedented control over a strategic waterway. If a government is going to resist American imperialism, it needs both the means and the will to resist. Iran has it, Venezuela didn’t have it, and early indications seem like Cuba is more like Venezuela than Iran.

I’m not surprised. Not all combatants have stopped fighting, so the war isn’t over. Even if it was, this was a purely defensive war for Iran with only marginal gains.

Control of the gold and oil wealth was given by the remaining government and its release wasn’t enough to topple the Venezuelan government.

I don’t want the USA to invade Cuba, but I don’t think that Cuba could credibly resist an occupation.

Cuba is isolated from any ally who could offer military supplies, including drones. It is also fairly close to the US mainland, allowing for easy supply from the US.

What I expect would happen is that the US would force some minor restoration of capital to pre-revolution owners and install a government filled with a mix of government collaborators and Cuban-Americans with a mandate to transform the Cuban economy.

Unless the new government is wildly incompetent and corrupt, I expect that there would be enough stateside support to ensure that the new government is successful for the first few years. Keeping enough collaborators, which is something likely to happen with Trump, would likely prevent the whole government from engaging in an organized resistance. The likely dropping off the embargo will also allow an increase in economic conditions on the island, muting resistance of the rest of the citizenry.

Yeah. The USA engaged in one raid to take the current head of state but left the rest of the country mostly intact.

I’ve heard some companies still post to monster.com

God, they are the worst who do this.

Yeah. I feel like Japan has the best solution, which is to use specialty incineration plants with massive outlet filters to scrub the exhaust of toxic chemicals.

What is Meta even building any more?

A lot of conspiracy discussion websites were manipulated in a way to get Donald Trump elected president.

Most major streamers tried to follow the Netflix model where they had enough for everyone in order to justify its subscription. It may be better if the major companies broke up their subscriptions so people can subscribe to far less content.

For physical labor no one wants to do, you can finesse your response to be less “not my job” and more “I have other tasks I need to do now as part of my job”. It may sound similar, but one is making it so that you are determining what is and isn’t your responsibility and the other is pushing that decision on someone else.

Someone else hired you to push people around. You can’t override your boss, so you need to focus on the work they give you and take the breaks you can on their time table. A nurse may have deserved status, but unless the chain of command runs through them, you got to follow the chain.

Still applies more to Trump than Biden or Harris, given Trump’s open corruption feeding into crony capitalism.

Like I’ve said before, it feels like the term is being changed because the argument behind how I’m using it is hard to refuse, so the choice is to try to redefine the word rather than discuss the argument.