HobbitFoot @ HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club

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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.

Yeah, I'm going to keep working here.

Iceland would be better for data centers because it also has a steady supply of geothermal energy.

As for ramifications, I can see a lot of changes to American buildings as they have to survive more extreme weather events.

It is estimated that there are a lot of rare earth minerals there to create fancy electronics.

The pool is funnier.

I feel comfortable expressing them, but I see others get uncomfortable when I'm expressing them.

Trump is bad for farming, but good on low capital gains taxes.

Microsoft didn't really bet on the HD-DVD. It was a separate add on supplied at cost because that was the best deal they got from either consortium.

In contrast, Sony was absolutely shipping the PS3 as a loss leader to get drives out there, similar to how Sony used the PS2 to make DVD's standard.

The Venezuelan government could likely consider this to be an act of war based on international law. The question right now is if it wants to.

Technically, Trump performed this attack without declaring war and his war powers without a Congressional declaration. Per American law, the USA isn't at war with Venezuela. If Venezuela declares that this is an act of war, it gives Trump a better pretense to get war declared on Venezuela. It also vastly changes how neutral powers can treat both countries during the war.

Countries have fought wars without declaring wars before. The military action surrounding the invasion of the Falklands was done without either nation officially declaring war.

Spock is going to have to give back that valuable whale vomit.

Not from a moral but a practical matter:

• Iraq had engaged in two wars of conquest against its neighbors in the last few decades. So you had more regional support for the invasion than for current regional support for the invasion of Venezuela. Turkey did refuse to use its country as a staging ground to invade Iraq, but several Persian Gulf states hosted coalition troops.
• The USA attempted to make its case diplomatically before invading. Sure, the case for the invasion of Iraq was built on lies, but at least a case was being made diplomatically. Also, the USA was citing UN resolutions as a justification for war even if it was incorrectly doing so; that hasn't happened in the taking of Maduro.
• There was a coalition of the willing that was invading Iraq, not a solitary country. The USA wasn't going alone and was apply to rely on multiple countries approving this action even if it didn't have UN approval.
• Bush wasn't threatening to invade several allies before invading Iraq. While there was dubious legality to the invasion of Afghanistan as it was a non-state actor which attacked the USA, the USA was at least and to cite self defense in is invasion.
• The world's opinion of the USA was a lot higher at the time.

I don't know about the average Venezuelan, but I've seen the reactions from the Colombian and Brazilian presidents; they considered the election of Maduro to be illegitimate but also heavily criticize the kidnapping of Maduro.

It gets really bad when you wonder why the Mushroom Kingdom isn't ruled by a toad while the multiethnic Koopa Kingdom is ruled by one of its ethnicities and yet is inclusive across various ethnic groups.

I wouldn't be happy about it.

Edit: I've been introduced to the concept early in my life that my life can end unnaturally. I've also experienced enough to know that there are cases where extended life isn't worth it and choosing to die is the preferable option.

Right now, I'm not there. I've also had to deal with something potentially fatal and I've been mostly emotionally able to handle it because there was a path forward to a healthy life.

If that was to change, I would likely spend my savings enjoying my life before either looking myself or letting whatever sickness take my life without medical intervention.

I expect the hardest part of that decision will be to tell my family because they don't have the same viewpoint.

Unless the USA invades, I imagine the process won't be fully controlled by the USA.

Currently, the Venezuelan Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, is in Russia. She would likely be acting as President Anna isn't at risk of being kidnapped by the USA. The question right now is whether the Venezuelan government can maintain its chain of command as the USA attacks it.

The USA is likely hoping for a coup where the current government falls. If that happens, the successor will likely be a choice of the Venezuelan military and internal security ministries.

It was centrally located for the time, but it was still established with the idea it would have coastal access.

And it was a decent location that followed the European model of having the capital not on the coast but inland enough to defend. Caracas matches that location as well.

Moving the capital is a major logistical hurdle in peace or war.

In war, it is usually a bad sign if a government has to abandon the capital. The only cases I can think of where a government had to abandon the capital but ended up winning the war was the United States in the War of 1812 and Mexico during the French installation of a Mexican king, both cases where the war ended in part because the war became too costly to the occupier and the occupied could trade massive amounts of land, someone Venezuela can't really do.

In peace, there is a massive amount of infrastructure that needs to be built to support the administration of a government. Germany chose to keep several government agencies in Bonn during unification given the large number of government buildings available. South Korea's attempt to move the capital to Sejong has been slow and has only moved some ministries. Indonesia and Egypt are having issues funding their relocation attempts. Venezuela, in contrast, is fucking broke.

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.

It depends on what space object you want it to be used for. A mini sun doesn't sound like a good enough reason.

A way to give Mars protection from solar wind would be to install a highly magnetic satellite at the Sun-Mars L1 Lagrange point; the wake from that satellite could provide an effective magnetosphere around Mars to keep hydrogen gas in the atmosphere.

A potential way to launch spaceships from Earth would be to install a space elevator through the Earth-Moon L2 Lagrange point; the tip would act as a slingshot throwing ships out of orbit.

Maybe there is a space faring civilization monitoring a less advanced civilization. The best location for a potential base may be at the L3 Lagrange point on the other side of the sun.