You were overqualified for the position if they’re making you go through that amount of bullshit.

Colombia is more vulnerable but it hasn’t developed a lobby like Venezuela and Cuba have.

Sheinbaum in Mexico and Lula in Brazil are later in the itinerary but they’re going to be more difficult. Especially Brazil now that Bolsonaro is in jail.

If Trump felt beholden to congress, he would not have gotten approval. He would have had to spend years spreading propaganda and trying to build up a case, like Bush did. All that effort might have prevented him from doing it at all.

Didn’t stop Bush did it?

More importantly, doing this is trying to peel off people who might waver because Maduro is unsympathetic

Saddam was even less sympathetic but the Iraq war was still wrong. Most of the US understands that. It’s bipartisan amongst the populace at this point. Call it Jungle Iraq. Your son is going to die for oil… again. That’ll alarm people way more than the bazillionth instance of presidential over-reach.

Protests are shouting matches. We’re not talking about general discussion. Do you censor yourself in general discussion because conservatives play gotcha games with you? How is that honest communication?

Maybe that’s what they intended but I’ve noticed a trend of liberals immediately triangulating themselves into this “least-controversial” legalistic take because they don’t want to talk about Maduro. A stalinist waving a PSUV flag is more helpful at that point.

I’m not accusing you in particular of this or OP for that matter.

Why are you playing by conservative gotcha games then? Just say what you believe and say it as loud as you can. It is indeed a shouting match, not a debate.

I literally said I know you oppose the action. Put that on the sign, its the most important thing.

Liberals, please stop with leading with the legal minutiae. Stop pretending that you would’ve been fine with this if only Trump had congressional approval. You know it’s just about oil and imperialism. Trump literally spelt it out for you. Stop censoring yourself because you think its “strategic”. Its not.

Chocolate filled but not really restricted to children. They also aren’t like mandatory.

In the US, I’ve seen advent wreaths at churches but not in anyone’s home. But I’m sure some people have it in the US. Usually wreaths are hung on the front door as holiday decorations.

We do have the christmas calendars and jokes about eating them all at once.

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”

He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

Philip K. Dick, Ubik

JUNGLE IS MASSIVE

IIRC he’s said its from when he was a teenager on mushrooms.

That seems like a flight of stairs up.

Its long been known.

🤙

Anubis forces the site to reload when doing the normal PoW challenge! Meta Refresh is a sufficient mouse to block 99% of all bot traffic without being any more burdensome than PoW.

You’ve failed to demonstrate why meta-refresh is more burdensome than PoW and have pivoted to arguing the point I was making from the start as though it was your own. I’m not arguing with you any further. I’m satisfied that I’ve convinced any readers of our discussion.

You will have people complain about their anti-fingerprinting being blocked with every bot-managment solution. Your ability to navigate the internet anonymously is directly correlated with a bots ability to scrape. That has never been my complaint about Anubis.

My complaint is that the calculations Anubis forces you to do are absolutely negligible burden for a bot to solve. The hardest part is just having a JavaScript interpreter available. Making the author of the scraper write custom code to deal with your website is the most effective way to prevent bots.

Think about how much computing power AI data centers have. Do you think they give a shit about hashing some values for Anubis? No. They burn more compute power than a thousand Anubis challenges generating a single llm answer. PoW is a backwards solution.

Please Think. Captchas worked because they’re supposed to be hard for a computer to solve but are easy for a human. PoW is the opposite.

In the current shape Anubis has zero impact on usability for 99% of the site visitors, not so with meta refresh.

Again, I ask you: What extra burden does meta-refresh impose on users? How does setting a cookie and immediately refreshing the page burden the user more than making them wait longer while draining their battery before doing the exact same thing? Its strictly less intrusive.

And how do you actually check for working JS in a way that can’t be easily spoofed? Hint: PoW is a good way to do that.

Accessing the browsers API in any way is way harder to spoof than some hashing. I already suggested checking if the browser has graphics acceleration. That would filter out the vast majority of headless browsers too. PoW is just math and is easy to spoof without running any JavaScript. You can even do it faster than real JavaScript users something like Rust or C.

Meta refresh is a downgrade in usability for everyone but a tiny minority that has disabled JS.

What are you talking about? It just refreshes the page without doing any of the extra computation that PoW does. What extra burden does it put on users?

LOL