I thought people in this thread were talking about not scrubbing the inside of the machine walls and I could relate.

This comment made me realize people meant they just don't clean the basket... What the fuck

Like, if I make something that doesn't leave any significant residue I might dump the crumbs and use it again but even a little oil and it's getting cleaned.

Check out Dreaming Spanish's method and content (Comprehensible Input)

Over a year at it and my progress has been amazing. About 1000 hours now. (though I need to do more speaking...)

I can understand everyday speech, TV shows, books more than well enough to enjoy them thoroughly. I still get lost sometimes but that's expected at this stage.

I had the opposite experience with it lasting longer. My homemade sandwich loaf will not last more than a week without molding... Supermarket bread (the mass produced stuff, dunno about the made in store stuff) is packed with preservatives and seems to last at least two.

But it's so much better that it was never going to last that long anyway.

I usually make two and freeze one

I won't even get started on how that's not even true within the first world, but our first world conditions are built upon and kept alive by oppression of the third world/global south so yeah a cruel system of oppression is exactly what it is.

There are exceptions for the very few things the US authorizes to export to Cuba, but in general:

779. What are the “180-day rule” and the “goods/passengers-on-board rule”?

The 180-day rule is a statutory restriction prohibiting any vessel that enters a port or place in Cuba to engage in the trade of goods or the purchase or provision of services there from entering any U.S. port for the purpose of loading or unloading freight for 180 days after leaving Cuba, unless authorized by OFAC. This restriction is applied even if a vessel has stopped in Cuba solely to purchase services unrelated to the trade of goods, such as planned ship maintenance.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/topic/1541

Kids don't theoretically need a SSN and they can apply for their own at 18. But it makes things unnecessarily hard.

No of course not why would the most powerful man on earth and former VP to the president who made that progress with Cuba have any responsibility to change anything.

He had the power and has not done it. It IS as bad as Trump's actions to uphold them.

I was more pointing out how Biden has done little or nothing to REVERSE Trump's regressions despite having the power to.

Huh sounds like the people who have 3 blocks have a lot of influence. Considering the stakes shouldn't the ones with the big towers be trying to appease the ones with three blocks?

I mean this doesn't sound insignificant at all. I thought they were "not moving any metrics"?

The US has an embargo, but Mexico and Canada don't.

Technically, but the US has sanctioned companies in other countries who do business in Cuba scaring off a ton of possible choices. The companies have to choose between the richest company on earth and Cuba. Not much of a choice.

Plus IIRC boats that go to Cuba can't go to the US after for some period of time. Which considering location makes it hugely inconvenient for shipping companies.

Plus since the US and US based companies control a huge portion of the world's financial systems Cuba is locked out of all of them

Then Biden got into office and uh,

Nah that's not unusual. Brain trauma or degradation can and often does leave someone with a beating heart but little to no hope of ever being conscious again - hence the term brain death.

miniscule amount of votes they do get - you're not moving any metrics

If that's true then why do you care? It's a miniscule amount that's not moving anything.

Can we make a simulation of a CPU by replacing each transistor with an LLM instance?

Sure it'll take the entire world's energy output but it'll be bazinga af

The ones that didn't fled the government under penalty of persecution. Honestly brave and an example to aspire to.

We've reached an impasse in which you seem to be solely interested in arguing about semantics regarding hypotheticals with no basis in reality whatsoever. This conversation is going nowhere and has no point.

But it doesn't. If they started a genocide against Israel, they'd no longer be the oppressed but the oppressors. And therefore they'd have no "resistance" to justify such a thing.

In any case Palestine doing a 180⁰ and becoming the genociders is a ridiculous line of thought with no purpose.

That's absolutely absurd. If Palestine was capable of inflicting genocide upon its oppressors, they'd not be in this situation to begin with. Can we talk about reality here?

That would hardly be different than genocidal war crimes done to Palestinians by the IDF.

Palestinians would almost certainly never make it to the hospital before being gunned down, whereas Israel can march in an army to perpetuate such atrocities with relative ease.

But sure, if such a thing happened you'd not find me condemning it. Israeli colonialism and genocide would be to blame for it. If Israeli violence stopped, so too would Palestinian violence. Israel has the power here unfortunately.

Let me just redirect your whole comment back to:

Resistance by Palestine is valid in any form given it's position. Whatever worthless criticism you may have of the means of Palestinian resistance should be blamed on the Israeli regime for forcing them to this point.

The oppressed do not have the luxury of precise and swift strikes against their oppressors. We do not get to judge the systematically and brutally disadvantaged Palestine and it's resistance not being able to capture the core government out from behind one of the most advanced militaries on the planet (backed by one of the others).

All resistance on their part is justified. And insofar as any of those deaths may have been regrettable, they should be held against the settler-colonial regime for forcing this situation into existence.

Israel's violence against Palestine is enormously unequal, disgustingly normalized, and systematically devastating. This has been going on for decades. To sit there and finger wag them fighting back is arrogant and frankly further enabling the situation. "Oh you deserve liberation and justice but only if you do it the right and proper way!" As if they can face such an overwhelmingly unfair fight as equals.

Palestinian violence is but a reflection of Israeli violence and all fault and consequences from it lay unequivocally at the feet of Israel.