I knew a girl who once worked on a supposedly clandestine “special ops” tv show. She messaged me halfway through shooting explaining how disillusioned she was with the whole affair. I asked if, that notwithstanding, whether she had a lovely time in Costa Rica … she was horrified that I knew her location as all public releases of the tv show had them being “special ops” in Africa somewhere.

As you pointed out, Facebook Messenger let that cat out of the bag.

K.

I believe you are missing the forest for the trees. First, I acknowledge your examples are separate ideologies.

That concept also applies to the right… social conservatives, right-libertarians, and neoliberal ideologies are equally separate. However, those practitioners have no qualms about banding together to suppress dissent (or until such time they are the only voices).

Where the left leaning practitioners are unable to do so, they will be forever tyrannized by the banded majority.

To put it more succinctly, the enemy of my enemy is my friend (when freedom is on the line).

That’s literally what the article says

Farley said he brings his whole leadership team on his trips to the country, where they drive as many of the latest cars that they can.
“Then we pick the four or five that we love and then we put them on a plane and fly them to Detroit. And then we drive the crap out of them, and then we take them apart and we put them back together,” he said.

1. A 2019 estimate suggested that about 10 percent of Israelis held more than one passport

Source: https://www.dualcitizenshipreport.org/dual-citizenship/israel/

2. Population is Israel roughly 9.5m. Rough math = 1m with dual citizenships. Add another mill (or even better, 2m) that could qualify for another passport.

What do you want to do with the remaining few (only 6m or so) that have no grounds to qualify for another citizenship?

I don’t want my sarcasm to be overlooked. Your core argument is that someone’s ethnicity should be enough for then to ‘fall back on’ should their country cease to exist. And further, that they would congratulate the party responsible for invalidating their country. That’s a stupid and petty argument.

tf? What ‘native countries’ do you think exist to people that have been citizens of a different sovereign country since at least 1948? Will they return to Czechoslovakia? Or maybe Yugoslavia?

I’m also sure that the Austro-Hungarian Empire would be chomping at the bit to restore citizenship. Someone tell the Ottomans that the Habsburgs are on the march again.

One animal is a koala. The other is a kangaroo. Both uniquely Australian. (The frog could be from anywhere)

:)

From the opposing position, my last three companies have placed me in the position of automating necessary tasks just to keep up with the task list, with absolutely zero support from the applicable Dev team. What’s worse, I’ve had tickets in for ~19 months requesting minimum necessary business and functional requirements, and I get passed around like a bloody hot potato.

My choice becomes, fail in my role, or try to spin up some automation myself. The second choice is the less-worse outcome.

That your company has an in-house software dev team is impressive. Does the revenue-generating business have access to that team?