Plenty of people make their own bullets/shells

For very, very small definitions of “plenty”.

Are they though? Stocks are up at the moment, and Trump tends to chicken out of policies that hurt the stock market numbers. But, in the long term a lot of this chaos will probably hurt rich people. For example, the best students are now choosing not to study at schools in the US because of the ICE crackdowns, when they graduate they’re much less likely to work for an American company. And then there’s the long-term economic damage due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. That will probably result in years of higher prices and inflation that will hurt businesses.

Rich people tend to mostly like stability. It allows them to make long-term investments knowing that the rules won’t change before those investments pay off. Trump’s administration is anything but stable. Backing off of terrible policies when the markets react isn’t as good as not risking those stupid policies in the first place.

Yes, they’re getting some temporary wins, because Trump has gutted parts of the government that oversee or enforce rules. But, if I were a rich person I’d be very worried about the long-term damage he’s doing.

Nope.

Easy rule, don’t put anything in the oven that doesn’t belong in the oven

Who’s to say what belongs in the oven?

For example, bread recipes sometimes tell you to proof the bread by putting it in the oven with the heat off but the light on. There are similar recipes for making yogourt. Or it can be a good place to dry seeds.

Those things “belong” in the oven. But if you turn on the oven without taking them out you might be very sad. That can happen if you’re turning on the oven in person, but it’s easier to verify the oven is empty when you’re doing that.

It’s an alternative to using more serious threats, like physical violence. The state can freeze your bank accounts to get you to comply with its demands, or it can send a SWAT team in to arrest you.

Yep. They’re also typically loud and expressive, not quiet and submissive. So, if they encounter ICE they’re not likely to just play nice and deescalate.

I can’t imagine this World Cup happening without at least a dozen Brazilians disappearing into ICE detention.

disrupt the logistics of protests

Again. This wasn’t just a protest.

Especially if you forgot that “X” was still in the oven, for various values of “X”.

Then again, a well designed smart oven might include a burn sensor that would shut the thing off if the smoke got too bad.

Apache license, source on Github. If they piss off their users, someone will fork it.

Fifth:

• Somebody wrote a cool want ad as a work of fiction.

Also, it reflects what people are willing to pay for a once in a lifetime experience.

I used to be that the ticket prices were high but reasonable. FIFA didn’t want the bad press for charging higher prices. Now, they’re willing to squeeze fans for every fraction of a cent possible and leave those fans angry and upset. They know people will grumble, but they’ll still pay. Their reputation is so bad that it can’t really get any worse, so why not gouge fans as much as possible.

IMO the Qatar one was safer. Qatar is a country that wants to be seen as a tourist destination. I’m sure there was a concerted effort to look as good as possible during the world cup. I imagine that during the World Cup the police were instructed to be even more lenient towards tourists breaking the rules because they knew that there was a ton of media in the country, and they wanted that media to tell a story that Qatar was a great place to visit, to live, or to set up a company.

The Trump admin cares a lot more about satisfying their base when it comes to cracking down on “immigrants” than it cares about tourism. Tourists are definitely still a valid target.

White, straight-presenting, not obviously something other than christian, and are doing a very standard business trip or holiday trip: you’re probably ok.

Anything else and the risk goes up. Even something like taking a trip that starts in Seattle, goes up to Vancouver and then comes back via Canadian flights might be suspicious enough to cause problems.

Probably 99% of the people who go to the World Cup will be fine. Even the ones who are non-white, or are obviously muslim or something. But, I’m positive that with the thousands of people making the trip, there will be tens, maybe hundreds who the Palantir AI and/or racist ICE identify as suspicious, and they will be hit with real trouble.

Everybody has an accent. But, do you mean that you can still tell that English isn’t her first language or something?

A friend of mine is a champion unconscious code switcher. I lived in Australia for a bit and I don’t think my accent drifted much. It was enough of a problem that when I went to restaurants and asked for water they’d look at me confused, so I had to learn to say “whoa-tah”. This friend came to visit me in Australia and within a week he was using Australian terms and drifting into an Australian accent, even when talking to me, and it was completely unconscious.

No, neither are diphthongs. I guess the two examples I chose can be pronounced as diphthongs.

“é” the “acute” accent is pronounced like day, fiancé / fiancée. English has a tendency to make those into diphthongs, especially if you’re speaking slowly. But if you’re speaking quickly and it’s between consonants like say “mandate” you don’t really hear the second vowel sound in that supposed diphthong. But, it’s just the /e/ vowel sound in IPA. In any case, it’s a sound that English speakers make and can hear.

“è” the “grave” accent is pronounced like pet, jet, etc. It’s /ɛ/ in IPA.

They could have just used the pen and paper with no cash.

The people who side with the so-called “trucker convoy” that was mostly non-truckers defend it as simply being “free speech”, and “being critical”.

But, what actually happened is that the so-called “truckers” occupied downtown Ottawa for weeks, including areas with high-rise residential buildings. They prevented any traffic from moving, and harassed anybody who came nearby that weren’t part of the occupation. They also leaned on their horns at night keeping people nearby from being able to sleep. Eventually two of the organizers of the occupation were tried and convicted for “mischief”, a crime that can lead to up to 10 years in prison. They got off extremely light with home detention for 1 year and another 6 months of a 10 pm curfew.

The “director House”?

Why would someone praise someone they thought was American for having the perfect American accent?

Fallout boy?