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Chopper

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  1. It could be worse. Our only luxe theater option is a cinemark with nice recliners, but to get it delivered you have to order food when you buy the fucking tickets. The alternative is to walk all the way around to the concession, and then wait for your food.

  2. 4 hours ago, PTINS said:

    The companies earmarked to come fix Venezuela are probably Exxon, Chevron and Conoco/Phillips. Conoco and Phillips are 2 separate and distinct companies, from the combined companies assets of Conoco and Phillips, that were spilt apart between Conoco, the production company, and Phillips, the refining and petrochemical company. They are separate entities, but joined at the hip, contractually.

    Things still not going well in Venezuela

    Dumpster Fire GIF

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    Edited by Chopper

    only 8 percent of detainees due to the new ICE interior US enforcement activities have criminal records - Kocher is an asst prof at Syracuse

    "The graph <above> compares the total number of people in detention on two dates: September 21, 2025 and January 7, 2026. These numbers only include people in detention as a result of an ICE arrest, thus reflecting what is typically referred to as “interior enforcement.” ICE detention includes people arrested by CBP at or near the border, but these cases, by definition, tend to have no U.S. criminal history.

    ICE officially classifies these cases as “Other Immigration Violators”. In the public domain, these cases may also be referred to as non-criminal detainees. ICE has claimed publicly that these cases may include people that represent significant safety threats, but the agency has failed, to date, to provide data to support these claims beyond the occasional anecdotal narratives."

  4. 2 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    They have not thought about Cuba without electricity/water/food/etc. nor have they thought about Venezuela without food.

    I need to go read the VZ thread but I wonder if they've thought about the VZ insurgents riddling the VZ oil infra with huge blasts, like what UKR has done to RUZ but worse because they're just a few miles away from the targets.

  5. The focus has been on the US overthrowing the Cuban government, as it did in VZ, for reasons I can only think are due to dotard vanity.

    Unfortunately Cuba is dependent on VZ oil to run their power grid and if supply falters the island's electric and water infrastructure will be threatened.

    The Communist-run nation, a nearby neighbor and long-time foe of the United States, suffers daily, hours-long rolling blackouts that have decimated productivity and tested the patience of its exhausted residents.

    Cuba depends on Venezuela’s crude and refined products - transported to the island by small vessels and a shadow fleet of sanctioned tankers - for a large portion of its consumption, according to shipping data and analysts.

    CTVNews
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    Cuba on edge as U.S. seizure of oil tanker puts supply at...

    Mexico ships Cuba little oil and isn't about to increase the qty.

    Jorge Piñón, of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, who tracks shipments using oil tracking services and satellite technology, shared similar data this week with the Associated Press for the same period. He had tracked 22,000 barrels per day and said that the figure dropped to 7,000 barrels after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Mexico City in September 2025.

    Meanwhile, in the last three months, Maduro’s government exported an average of 35,000 barrels a day to Cuba, approximately a quarter of the island’s total demand, according to Piñón.

    The academic saw no likelihood that Mexico would increase its shipments: “The U.S. government would go bonkers,” he said.

    Los Angeles Times

    Mexico becomes crucial fuel supplier to Cuba but pledges...

    Mexico has emerged as a key fuel supplier to Havana as the United States prepares to seize control of Venezuelan oil and the administration of U.S. President Trump hardens its stance toward Cuba.

    I wonder what happens when Cuba has no electricity and no potable water.

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    Edited by Chopper

    $1700/mo for a high deductible (10k), high OOP plan (10500) through the marketplace in CO for my wife and I, self-employed in CO. Had to switch insurers (from Anthem BCBS to some new plan in CO) otherwise it would've been $2300/month. I'd say it makes me both angry and depressed nearly every day. But my qol would be in the shitter if I didn't have health insurance in previous years.

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