It’s actually quite easy there. You work a couple of days a month and there are gyms for working out everywhere. I’d probably trade that for the power issues once a decade.
How much actual time have you spent without power, pumped water, climate control, phone service, refrigerated food supply, or fuel in a tropical climate?
Me, nine years. Intentionally. In a location far enough from population density that sustainability was obtainable, but with the option to hike out and avail myself of any and all of those conveniences when the rain was low enough to make the fast flowing waters passable - sometimes using a rope safety line to wade out, other times dry crossings. The first two years were much harder, but by the end the excursions 'out' of the jungle were not more frequent than once per quarter, sometimes as few as twice a year.
Change those wild conditions to a location with significant population density and citizens habituated to any and all of those conveniences; even in a small measure, and things are confoundingly harder with significant risk to life through the interruption in those services without the surrounding natural habitat and developed skills to survive.
So, the 'there are workout gyms everywhere' is a tone expected from a frat brat, crypto bro with limited applied experience and a vanishingly small capacity for empathy. Is that the note you were trying to hit?
You also get reported for catching too many fish, or growing too many plants. Because if you did that, you could sell them, or save up enough to leave.
what a wild comment, could be right up there with "slaves had it easy", you feel that being forced to live in third-world conditions and then being denied fuel as an act of war is somehow a paradise?
go flip your main circuit-breaker for a week and lock away your phone/tablet, let us know how that "paradise" goes for you
there's like three MILLION immigrants from Cuba here who fled seeking asylum for damn good reason (it's why our moron-in-chief thinks seeking asylum = from insane-asylum)
this is a test of the ability to solarize under disaster conditions, of which there is a great interest in seeing Cuba achive not just internaly but as a model for global de-carbonisation and also the political objective of the destruction of the petro dollar by many of americas foes, and former or semi allies.
the only people rooting for Cuban and other countrys to fail are those who are cruel, mindlessly greedy, and fully invested in the
FORMER status quo, and have no way to hold there power and wealth durring the switch to non hydro carbon energy.
keep in mind that the latest pv panels going into production now are yielding 1000watts per panel @$250/each, which works out to $250k/megawatt, with essentialy zero maintenance costs over 30+ year service lives, and you can farm food under them.
the end of scarcity is nigh.
Why are we torturing and making innocent people suffer this entire year just to try to punish their leaders who certainly won't be suffering at all at their privileged level?
People there in hospitals are certainly dying without power
This not only makes absolutely no sense but is truly a war crime
They don't even have conventional weapons, forget nuclear
WTF is the point? Oh yeah, the cruelty
Every single cabinet member needs to be impeached for enabling this
And then maybe some close examination of military "leadership"
It's more than torture, it's a deceptive disregard for human rights and agency. "Deceptive" in the sense of offering plausible deniability for death tolls caused by indirect actions such as blockades (an act of war), food shortages, or power outages.
Because the US is a bully demanding servitude and compliance, that’s all it is. Decouple as much as you can, as quickly as you can, as the rest of the world is demonstrating. To not be bullied, you must step out of the reach of the bully.
I put it to you that at most the US is helping to torture the Cuban people, a job that the Cuban government has been taking the reigns on for decades. It's not as though this is a crisis that emerged out of nowhere, or that Trump spent 50+ years grinding their economy and social structures to dust with mismanagement, corruption, and brutality.
I don't think it's worth it personally, but the Cuban diaspora in the US overwhelmingly does. I'd take it up with them, but maybe don't accuse them of torture right out of the gate.
It’s actually quite easy there. You work a couple of days a month and there are gyms for working out everywhere. I’d probably trade that for the power issues once a decade.
You think so?
How much actual time have you spent without power, pumped water, climate control, phone service, refrigerated food supply, or fuel in a tropical climate?
Me, nine years. Intentionally. In a location far enough from population density that sustainability was obtainable, but with the option to hike out and avail myself of any and all of those conveniences when the rain was low enough to make the fast flowing waters passable - sometimes using a rope safety line to wade out, other times dry crossings. The first two years were much harder, but by the end the excursions 'out' of the jungle were not more frequent than once per quarter, sometimes as few as twice a year.
Change those wild conditions to a location with significant population density and citizens habituated to any and all of those conveniences; even in a small measure, and things are confoundingly harder with significant risk to life through the interruption in those services without the surrounding natural habitat and developed skills to survive.
So, the 'there are workout gyms everywhere' is a tone expected from a frat brat, crypto bro with limited applied experience and a vanishingly small capacity for empathy. Is that the note you were trying to hit?
You also get reported for catching too many fish, or growing too many plants. Because if you did that, you could sell them, or save up enough to leave.
what a wild comment, could be right up there with "slaves had it easy", you feel that being forced to live in third-world conditions and then being denied fuel as an act of war is somehow a paradise?
go flip your main circuit-breaker for a week and lock away your phone/tablet, let us know how that "paradise" goes for you
there's like three MILLION immigrants from Cuba here who fled seeking asylum for damn good reason (it's why our moron-in-chief thinks seeking asylum = from insane-asylum)
this is a test of the ability to solarize under disaster conditions, of which there is a great interest in seeing Cuba achive not just internaly but as a model for global de-carbonisation and also the political objective of the destruction of the petro dollar by many of americas foes, and former or semi allies. the only people rooting for Cuban and other countrys to fail are those who are cruel, mindlessly greedy, and fully invested in the FORMER status quo, and have no way to hold there power and wealth durring the switch to non hydro carbon energy. keep in mind that the latest pv panels going into production now are yielding 1000watts per panel @$250/each, which works out to $250k/megawatt, with essentialy zero maintenance costs over 30+ year service lives, and you can farm food under them. the end of scarcity is nigh.
Why are we torturing and making innocent people suffer this entire year just to try to punish their leaders who certainly won't be suffering at all at their privileged level?
People there in hospitals are certainly dying without power
This not only makes absolutely no sense but is truly a war crime
They don't even have conventional weapons, forget nuclear
WTF is the point? Oh yeah, the cruelty
Every single cabinet member needs to be impeached for enabling this
And then maybe some close examination of military "leadership"
It's more than torture, it's a deceptive disregard for human rights and agency. "Deceptive" in the sense of offering plausible deniability for death tolls caused by indirect actions such as blockades (an act of war), food shortages, or power outages.
Because the US is a bully demanding servitude and compliance, that’s all it is. Decouple as much as you can, as quickly as you can, as the rest of the world is demonstrating. To not be bullied, you must step out of the reach of the bully.
I put it to you that at most the US is helping to torture the Cuban people, a job that the Cuban government has been taking the reigns on for decades. It's not as though this is a crisis that emerged out of nowhere, or that Trump spent 50+ years grinding their economy and social structures to dust with mismanagement, corruption, and brutality.
I don't think it's worth it personally, but the Cuban diaspora in the US overwhelmingly does. I'd take it up with them, but maybe don't accuse them of torture right out of the gate.
They aren’t doing communism right it seems.