“across north America” sounds much more wide spread than 1 in America and 3 in Canada.

I think you read my response through a filter. China has tons of Americans there doing just fine. Just don’t go public with any dissent and you’re fine. That’s not the case with the other places I mentioned.

Your initial post acted like there’s nowhere on earth that is just straight up dangerous for westerners and that’s purely fantasy. Yeah there are places Americans consider more dangerous than they are, I’ll give you that very minor point. However, there’s also a real legitimate reason that Americans pretend to be Canadian when traveling. And there’s a legitimate reason that places are hostile to Americans, but not Canadians. You’re just being ignorant with altruistic values, but it’s ignorance all the same.

Edit: or at least, that’s how I’m taking your ignorance, with a whole bunch of benefit of doubt.

Cyclist gets detained in Russia, basketball player detained in russia, tourist gets put into coma before dying for stealing North Korean poster, hikers detained in Iran. There are a lot of people with passports and these glowing ideas that were all the same, and going to places will broker friendships and change things. These may be enlightened ideals, but very, very stupid actions. Going to Mexico is fine but you better fucking be smart about it. Go with a large group and stay where you’re supposed to, you should be fine. My company had at least 2 security guards for anyone taking business trips to Mexico because they’ve had to pay ransoms in the past.

To act like going to dangerous places is enlightening is a very stupid take. Look at how many journalists died in Gaza, and those are a supposedly protected group who generally know what they’re doing. Extreme tourism is absolutely stupid in my opinion. I traveled enough while in the army and don’t currently have a passport, nor am I interested in getting one. If I ever leave this country again, it will be permanent.

“my will to live” should be on the left, where there isnt anything. Where it is states that you have a ton of it, and much less desire for revenge.

Thank the aquatic birds.

I’m being funded by penguins. I don’t know why, I don’t even like mackerel that much but these fuckers swam from Antarctica, up the Mississippi, up a few tributaries, to deliver more fish than I know what to do with. So I can’t tell them to fuck off and that I already am on their side. That’d just be mean. So anyways, anybody want some fish?

WW3 isn’t starting over Venezuela.

Diabetics piss has so much sugar in it that you can make high end whiskey with it.

Always has been.

Keep your creepy thirst to yourself.

Honestly the game I miss most from retro days is vigilante 8.

Agreed, but we’re not the only ones that will fall with it.

As if the rest of the world will outlast America by much. The whole world is going down with the climate. America is just trying to go down first, and hardest. We always gotta be #1 at something!

Damnit, I forgot about that part, and was so focused on how bad it was. There were hardly any dinosaurs in that movie, just monsters. And no, I said the name as I meant it. Afterbirth or stillbirth is far more accurate than rebirth. That was by far the worst movie in the franchise, which is saying a lot. And probably one of the worst “A” movies this decade. Like the guy that sacrificed himself, and then that was undone? Felt like a focus group move and a bad choice. The dude that was rushing to the docks in a 17+ year old EV that still had a charge? That same guy wasn’t even in the room when it was found out that there was a boat there at all. It was a C movie with A movie funding. Absolute garbage movie.

But you are right about the political aspect of sharing medical technology vs capitalising it.

But God damn was that a bad movie…

Jurassic world: afterbirth. It was so bad and so nonsensical, there’s nothing to be gleamed from it other than cash grab. And cash grab is… Universal.

It was never really that much of a democracy.

Trust the overseer to do what’s best for you. /s

One night in ft Gordon we were doing an FTX and we got out there late and set up the tents in the dark, n in a field of tall grass. No sooner than the tents were set up, an intense rainstorm came through and dumped a metric fuckton of rain in 15-20 minutes. And as quickly as it started, it was over. Afterwards there were so many fireflies it looked like a fantasy movie. I had never seen anything like that. I’ve been all over the world, hell I grew up in Boulder, on of the most beautiful places on earth, but I’ve never seen anything even close to that. It was absolutely magical. And my kid gets so excited to see 2 or 3 and it makes me want to cry.

My kid saw bottled oxygen at a sporting goods store and said it was dumb. Then he asked if we could buy it. $20!!! For a 25(?) oz bottle.

Just straight lazy… Shame.