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I wrote a free guide for GameFaqs while living in Japan learning Japanese, the FAQ is still up there 25 years later.

I feel seen.

In the current situation with Israel if the US wasn’t propping up Israel than I doubt Israel would be brazen enough to attack Saudi Arabia which would mean we also wouldn’t have the need to reclaim Bagram airport in Israel’s defense.

The current situation with Afghanistan is the result of another US effort to externally support a country in a military campaign back in the 80s.

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I hope all this never gets far enough for us to find out.

I posted this as a response to a different comment here but figured I’d copy/paste it in response to your question too;

Saudi Arabia has an alliance with Pakistan, including using nuclear weapons as a response in Saudi Arabia’s defense.

If Israel attacks Saudi Arabia, Pakistan responds. Bagram airport is only a couple hundred miles from the Pakistan border and an excellent place for the US to intercept any response from Pakistan headed towards Israel.

Saudi Arabia has an alliance with Pakistan, including using nuclear weapons as a response in Saudi Arabia’s defense.

If Israel attacks Saudi Arabia, Pakistan responds. Bagram airport is only a couple hundred miles from the Pakistan border and an excellent place for the US to intercept any response from Pakistan headed towards Israel.

Booooo for being right!!!

Yes, I know this, though a lot of businesses don’t actually do that.

That’s not my point though, limiting your competition by raising expenses to a higher level for smaller businesses would help McDonalds. There isn’t much hope for him to get the minimum wage lowered to make it “fair”, what CEO of such a public company would want to make that stand. By pointing out the unfairness would be to make it more expensive for his competition that don’t have to play by the same rules would help McDonald’s by hurting the local Mom and Pop or smaller restaurant chains. by hurting his competition. He gets to appear to take the high road by pointing out others should be held to the same higher standards and do the right thing. McDonald’s is already making it work at the higher wage because of how big they are, but their competition for food options probably won’t be able to do the same.

This is similar to how WalMart, Home Depot and etc expanded back in the day. Pay more, lower operating costs per sqft of retail space and less expensive prices than the mom and pops. This runs the smaller competition out of business because they can’t keep up and now WalMart/Home Depot or whatever has a much bigger piece of the local market as there are few options for consumers to spend their money with.

Mcdonald’s has gotten much more expensive in the last several years while also losing customers but he can’t lower expenses so he is trying to raise the operating costs for everyone else since he knows McDonald’s can survive for longer at the higher expense then almost anyone else.

I think this is actually a play in the other direction. Make everyone else come up to their mimimim wage and tax tips. It’s a business decision to make a walled garden that is hard to achieve. McDonald’s can survive it but many other food options will have to close, driving more people to McDonald’s.

I’m with you, stranger!

Dive out of sight

Mind if I hang out in this void space with you until things die down out there?

I know, right?

Seems like there would be a better way but I guess that’s just how things were before cardboard was invented.

Crackers came in barrels, honestly that is the real answer. Back in the day it was how crackers were packaged/stored/shipped.

Yes! When I saw this post the Nokia 7380 was instantly where my mind went. I had the exact same phone, it was rad.

I remember at the time it was referred to as a “lipstick style” case. Loved that thing. I still have it in a box of old electronics somewhere, been thinking about digging it out and seeing if I could get it working again but assumed it wouldn’t on the current cellphone frequencies. I stopped using it when I got the original iPhone at release, so that was 18 years ago I guess. Haven’t not had an iPhone of some variation since.

The simplicity of it is what I always loved about the form factor. Yeah, it sucked for texting but maybe I shouldn’t be writing long texts nowadays anyway. It was fine if you are just replying with a couple words to a text. That reflective one way mirrored screen, real leather and simplicity of the buttons was a great mix of form and function for me at the time.

Your picture didn’t load for me so I am attaching my own;