If you ask Greenlanders if they want to be independent, they generally prefer independence.

If you ask Greenlanders if they want to be independent if it means a lower quality of life, they generally prefer to stay part of Denmark.

Denmark subsidizes Greenland to the cost of over €500 million a year. To replace that subsidy, Greenland would need to self generate over €8,700 per person per year. It would also need to do so in a manner that doesn’t invite American intervention.

Public performance in general can be stressful; people get stage fright all the time.

It feels less like “one big problem” and more like death by a thousand cuts.

A lot of sci-fi was generally written to play with a few ideas. I think it would be difficult to create a narrative around several problems with different causes and solutions.

Trump has admitted that there are a lot of CIA agents in Venezuela. It was also suspiciously easy for the USA to get Maduro out of the country.

My guess is that the USA likely expects a coup to happen which will install a friendly regime.

I don’t care enough to have one.

There is currently only one recognized African country, Ethiopia, that recognizes Somaliland. Why only one African country? Because the others are afraid that a reevaluation of borders at best gets you something like the Partition of India at best and at worst gets you war between two countries.

This isn’t white man’s burden shit.

While there has been a taboo against the changing of borders in Africa due to legitimate reasons, it became accepted that South Sudan should be created due to the destabilizing force that the Sudanese government played in the local populace. While the southern part of Somalia isn’t a direct threat to Somaliland, it is obvious that there isn’t a central Somali government able to enact control over Somaliland and the Somaliland government doesn’t wish territorial expansion to become the legitimate government of all Somalia.

In these terms, I feel like the recognition of Somaliland isn’t destabilizing to the region and seems to be a better option than continued anarchy over a wider area.

I also feel like Djibouti is trying to fight against this recognition as this gives Ethiopia another path to sea access.

None at all.

They fry the burgers with mustard; add grilled onions, pickles and extra burger sauce.

I’ll eat at smaller restaurants if I get a chance. I’ve eaten at George Motz’s restaurant in NYC and liked it.

I’ll get an In-N-Out Animal Style Burger. I like it.

In-N-Out

I make it a point to eat there when I can when I won’t anywhere else.

Even if it is a bad choice, I’d rather be part of a bad choice than not.

Leaving them in place

If you’re going to talk about Reddit, I’ve found that there is a somewhat sizeable Indian community on the platform. Some of the videos I watch have the same tone of local American politics videos on Reddit.

My Reddit usage has gone down over the past few years, but a lot of the videos I see on Reddit about India seem to be by Indians for India and have people writing in various Indian languages in the comments. A lot of them seem to critique India as other countries would critique themselves.

That said, you and I may be seeing different videos.

It varies between states, but the state party usually has little control over who actually gets nominated. Most states usually enforce a type of vote to choose who runs in each election and that vote can overturn the wishes of the state party.

The problem is that the Internet has become more dangerous and complicated than before. Companies and people don’t choose the cloud because of the storage, they choose it because they don’t have to maintain the server.

A lot of the increased costs to US infrastructure projects comes from an overburdensome permitting process and politicians being unable to generate public will to cause inconveniences to the public.

The value of removing concrete deck stay-in-place forms after the deck is cured is negated by the value of keeping concrete from falling into people below.

Probably one of Sarah Paine’s lectures.

This is a good one about Sino-Soviet relations.

Wow