I can't think of a realistic, non-cynical reason that doesn't begin and end with "oil" for even looking funny at Venezuela. The whole "drugs 'r bad" thing doesn't wash.
There are a couple of things I can think of. There's the human rights stuff with torture chambers and a third of the population leaving which doesn't seem to bother Trump but the Venezuelans don't much like.
Gotta be honest: "the human rights stuff with torture chambers" sounds like a bonus to a Trumpista. MAGA is not known for its progressive stance on human rights. More the opposite, really, as long as it's not them doing the suffering (or even being mildly inconvenienced).
Here's a thought, and I'm just spitballin' here: maybe they could do both? Sure, writing an encyclopedic tome about three lines of code is probably a bit out of bounds, but overexplaining is only bad when it's your wife or girlfriend. It might be a good idea to be absolutely clear about things.
The only way we would ever answer to the ICC is if anyone could force us, by military threat. That's the only way people are put in front of that court.
I had a whole pile of recommendations from people on LinkedIn - only one of whom I had ever worked with and the rest were from people who knew me socially, but otherwise had little or no knowledge of what I actually do.
Not to mention the aluminum plant was making something actually useful to society at large. What is there now is a giant space heater used to scam people.
Are the areas that we are placing windmills regularly navigated by submarines? And wouldn't windmills cause as much, or more, issues for an adversary submarines?
That sounds just like the argument used to replace programmers and we see what kind of hell that's causing.f
Which is not to say you're wrong, but maybe we should look at ways of making the transition better, easier and less stressful. Perhaps actually giving people a choice, rather than having technocrats ram it down our throats.
I think that choice is already happening in a way that is as natural as we're going to get. I found the recent legal business with Perez Hilton kind of interesting. Take this passage from this story https://www.cjr.org/feature/perez-hilton-og-original-news-in...:
> Still, there was a problem. Hilton’s insurance would not foot the bill for a lawyer to defend against a subpoena. He would have to cover his legal costs out of pocket. Instead of finding an attorney, he did two things legal experts always advise against: he decided to represent himself and to use ChatGPT to help draft his legal briefs. At first, this did not go smoothly. An early filing written by ChatGPT, which Hilton nicknamed Dad, invented several legal references. “There’s this phenomenon called ghost law,” Hilton said. “They make up citations, they make up anything.” After a set of embarrassing errors was called out on social media, Hilton started double- and triple-checking every citation, and asked ChatGPT to review its own output. The process went more smoothly from there—so much so that Hilton came to see AI as a great legal leveler. “Now that I know that I can so effectively use ChatGPT, I’m not going to be paying a lawyer unless it’s absolutely necessary,” he told me.
The (imperfect) tools gave him the ability to keep his case alive, and he was eventually taken up by the ACLU. While Hilton is far from a sympathetic underdog, the levelling effect is pretty compelling.
Enjoy your part in creating misery for people who just happen to not be white.
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