I have always wondered how bad sanctions against us (US) would be if we didn't specifically position ourselves right into the middle of being able to just say no to all of it.
I went to the BMV here to get my license renewed. I am in line about 3-4 people back and an old man, presuming like 75-80 is at the counter. Lady is effectively yelling at the dude he is so hard of hearing, "put your face against the visor, you will see a light blink to the left or the right, just tell me which side you see the blinking light". A regular peripheral vision test.
Man puts his face against the visor, and stands there. Lady asks "do you see a light?". Man responds "What light??". This goes back and forth about 5 to 6 times. Eventually the lady just says "THERE IS A LIGHT ON THE LEFT DO YOU SEE IT?". The Dude fully pivots his entire body to look left within the visor, "oh yea I see a little light". She asks for a signature and he goes to get his picture taken.
Man in front of me turns around, he and I just look at each other in disbelief that he just legally got permission to drive a car. He cannot hear anything, and can barely see anything, in a car on the road.
This is something I have suggested around my circles for a long time. But to keep it away from "age-discrimination" I'd be happy to have a re-test every 5 years when your license expires. Alternating between retaking the written test and practical test. So driving test every 10.
As an American, it's complex in that it's definitely illegal, but it went faster than expected and we aren't really in a "just put them back and apologize" situation. So now what?
I had this thought on "if I was president" and in theory the executive order would be legal and "generic enough" to not be seen as a targeted thing.
"Any Federally Name entity should have their name reverted back to how it was named at conception or its last Congressional approved name."
Gulf of Mexico comes back, Trump's name gets just eradicated from existence, DoD is back.
I am sure there are some things I obviously missed the history of name changes on, but still probably an overall positive to just removing that shitstain "legacy" from our history.
My assumption is that since magically every single drone without fail was shot down and they masterfully saved the mansion from this devastating attack is that... Russia sent the drones themselves at the mansion so they could shoot them down and blame Ukraine for attacking "civilian" targets, because Russia would never attack civvies.
The US doesn't blockade the entirety of Russia or China despite the Communist/Socialist political standing of either country, it does however do it to Cuba. Cuba does nothing to the US agenda that isn't also done by Russia or China, other than the latter two have economic scale.
I'm all for lifting the restrictions on Cuba. I don't understand why they are still in place. Presumably they were put there because of the cold war, but we are all buddies with Russia now, why are we still mad at Cuba?
Unfortunately I have a cat and 0 windows pointing towards the sun, so plants don't grow well in my house. The cat has eaten every plant I've put inside except 2 cactus
wait, you finish your lasagna with just plain pasta? You don't cover it with more sauce and cheese?