How about Venice?
I read it as scenery. Probably because the thread is about travel.
There's a principle in alcoholics support groups called "fake it til you make it".
Fake is a sort of meaningless word. You are the sum of your own choices, throughout your life. There is no such thing as some sort of "true" you that is inherent and unchangeable, all of your attitudes, emotions, likes/dislikes are like clothes you wear. They can be changed with a pattern of choices that fall under your overarching will.
It's not easy, though, not by a long shot. So, one technique is to fake it til you make it. Pretend at first, fake whatever trait you are trying to establish. You'll find over time your willpower turns that into the new "true you". You can change various aspects of yourself, it's all under your power.
It's a hell of a steep hill to climb alone though, so you might want some help along the way. Addiction support groups serve this purpose for people trying to get past their addictions. You might need some pharmaceutical assistance though, if you have a chronic problem, so a doctor might be a wise move.
If they didn't want them, they could just ask them to leave. If the leader disagreed, the people could vote for a different leader.
The Green Berets are the army's spec ops that focus on training foreign fighters, specially chosen for things like foreign language proficiency. They're not Rangers or general light infantry. Ideally they're not really supposed to get into direct combat, as they're rather time consuming and difficult to replace.
I would bet a whole bunch of money that we actually do have Green Berets present in Ukraine as well, though the only people that would know that for sure would be the US govt, the Ukrainians and probably Russian intelligence.
If the 101st Airborne gets deployed to Taiwan, then I'd be worried.
He's how I caught up with the big, popular stories after dropping comic books years ago. His audio performance is simply superb, don't even need the visuals.
RIP Ben. In memory:
Going for a walk can sometimes scratch that itch. Instead of checking the news of a national or global scale, which you can't ultimately do a lot about anyway, you're checking "the news" of your immediate environment with your own eyeballs. It usually doesn't change a lot, but what else is new?
Not a big fan.
Frankly though I think Snowden gets way too much credit. Anyone with any sense that looked at the Patriot Act knew what was going to happen, and people were raising alarm from the beginning. He just confirmed what already should have been very obvious.
Yep. One "klick" is one km.
Oh, is this the new Scientology doctrine now?
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Carrolade
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He specifically withheld an order of cluster munitions over concerns the Israelis were using them improperly, well after the invasion was underway.
Not too different from Biden withholding the bomb shipments over Rafah.