If the USA cared about the Venezuelan people they'd lift the sanctions. The USA cares about toppling a regime that knows its sitting on an oil gold-mine and wont let American companies freely run away with it.
You'd think people would give up on claiming we're trying to take other countries' oil when we didn't take any of Iraq's and instead became an oil exporter ourselves.
Yeah, yeah, we've heard this all before, literally dozens of times.
Sovereign states that have important natural resources or geopolitical position are always run by Bad Guys that we need to invade and kill. The media said so!
If you devote like, half an hour, maybe 1 hour, to hear Maduro and Cabello (who is more straight in his evilness) talking and to check the stories of exiled people from Venezuela instead of repeating any narrative then maybe you can buile an informed opinion and not empty useless comments.
Like Afghanistan? Or Germany after WWII? You talk of these 'Foreign forces' as some sort of benevolent power liberating people from tyranny for charity. Wait till they stay back to extract payment for their 'efforts'. We have watched decade and decades of this moral grandstanding destroy weaker nations. And need I remind you how much these 'foreign forces' are responsible for creating the hellish conditions in South America though their interference in the first place? It's just replacement of one tyrant with another. Another that brings in weapons and troops from outside the country.
But just so you picture it: things are so dire there after 25 years that people would even cheer at any country intervening.
So let’s pause for a moment and think: what is the best alternative? Keep enduring the regime like the Cubans have been doing for double the time we have? That’s also a depressing outlook.
Of course it is. I'm not denying or downplaying how bad it is. These situations are scary as hell. They're not supposed to happen. And it must change. Venezuela deserves peace. But now imagine the alternative you're thinking of.
To start with, who was responsible for the political turmoil in South America for much of its history? Imagine another invasion. Do you expect them to withdraw as soon as the current Venezuelan regime has fallen? The regime that's virtue signalling now has a history of proudly brandishing their xenophobia and racism. What do you think life will be like under a remote controlled rule by them? There are plenty of examples around the world for how that will end. Is that the change you wish for?
> what is the best alternative?
The best alternative is for the native population to bring about change without foreign interference. But honestly, I have no clue if that's practical at all. I don't know any other solutions either. The people must decide for themselves as to how to resolve this. All I'm saying is that you must be careful about the intentions of anyone who steps in offering help. I sincerely wish that the Venezuelans win peace. Good Luck!
Thanks mate, that’s what the people have been trying for many years but it’s an uphill battle when they have the all the repressive means and the population does not.
Why would you think that? It's much more urgent to replace commonly eaten foods like beef, chicken and fish than foods that for most people are little more than a curiosity.
With that said, vegan caviar has existed for years make of algae, and it's honestly not far from the real thing.
Streaming services could have some kind of global agreement and offer physical media on demand printing discs or any format when sold. Quite simple to implement with the streaming source available and a respectable market at global scale
They haven't demonstrated that in a like-for-like comparison. Tesla's autopilot, in circumstances where it can be engaged, and with human supervision, has more miles between accidents than average human drivers in all circumstances (such as older cars, worse roads, and worse weather). But in the circumstances where Autopilot can be used humans are also much better than that average.
From watching a number of videos, I'm also under the impression that Autopilot is currently still so unreliable that the average beta tester of the system is overall _more_ attentive (and often more stressed) to the road than they would otherwise be, so they can intervene in questionable cases or even just override otherwise embarrassing road maneuvers.
Given that the typical Autopilot ride has multiple disengagements that also makes it really hard to judge the performance of the system properly - if you always have to have a hyper-ready human waiting in the wings to catch mistakes to produce nice stats, that's certainly still far away from what most people want in such a system. You'd need to demonstrate better safety without disengagements and without a human backup, as the human drivers you compare to don't have one, either.
Marques Brownlee demonstrated this nicely in a recent video review of his daily work commute using Autopilot.
Safer than human driving isn't the bar that needs to be cleared. I consider myself a much safer driver than the average human (which also includes 70 year olds with driver's licenses) and I don't drive when I'm sleepy or drunk or even a little impaired. Even if the claim that it's "safer than human driving" is true, I would only ever use it if it was safer than my driving.
Fun fact: most people believe they're a safer than the average driver. Many people even believe this while driving drunk. Unless we start putting interlocks on all cars (which isn't entirely hypothetical[0]), they're just going to keep driving around drunk. Would you rather they drive drunk, or have an imperfect system that's better than drunk them, driving a car that also has an AEB (Automatic Emergency Braking) system?
I know I am not as good as the average driver, simply because I have much less practice, but I make up for it by extreme vigilance and caution, and I've never been in any sort of accident or moving violation.
I think the world would be a better place if most people believed they were bad drivers like I do, and were much more vigilant and less aggressive.
And of course the pragmatic reality is that nearly everybody considers themselves "better than average."
Tesla isn't merely competing with the actual average human driver, they're competing with the average human driver's unrealistically rosy perception of their own driving prowess.
A good example of how nearly everyone can be above average is number of arms. If, like 99+% of the population, you have two arms then you have an above average number of arms.
This is the type of question that will start arguments on both sides, but the truth is no one outside Tesla could possibly have the data to say one way or the other.
What they have now is a small subset of "driving" so not really useful to compare as it's misleading at best. Otherwise you could say student drivers are the best drivers since they almost never cause accidents.
It can make sense to upload volunteer's data (also let them view it before uploading), yet this is not a valid reason to make a device refuse function without the cloud.
And still your comment is about 'US invading Venezuela' and not about the people suffering.
Maduro is a scum that has took Venezuela by brute force. Any effort to wipe him out will improve dramatically the lives of millions.
But please go on with your 'US invading countries' narrative and don't even think for a minute about the people.