Was it US customs or the Canadian TSA equivalent?

US customs were less friendly in my limited experience.

While there's U.S. Customs agents in Pearson, the entirety of security is done by CATSA. I cannot imagine U.S. Customs doing any sort of pat down. I'm not sure they'd even be allowed to do anything like that in Toronto. I think they're pretty much only allowed to screen and admit or reject.

I'm not sure that is true at all. I think the sleepwalkers are just as likely to blame immigrants, foreigners, <insert out group> and continue to hand the current regime more power.

Yeah, on second evaluation I think you're right. People are less likely to be motivated to act, and more likely to be more easily manipulated.

I'm not sure. If he called them "Freedom Taxes" or "Patriot Taxes" or "Foreigner Taxes" I'm sure the base would have supported them.

That's the beauty of it: the base refuses to even acknowledge that it is a tax, and that it is paid by Americans. The word "tariff" bypasses decades of anti-taxation programming with astonishing ease.

And reporters are not allowed to ask questions of the people inside. And the voting public wouldn't care if those questions were ignored anyway.

>WTF is wrong with these social apps!?!? Who wants to chat on a tiny screen when they have a computer available. Especially for local apps that function only when you're home.

I agree with you personally... But at this point it is clear the answer is "everyone". The average consumer is not using a desktop for personal computing daily, just work.

Jodel seemed to hurt itself badly with unskippable video ads, at least within the local community I am in that used to have a niche group of users.

Similarly, in the US YikYak was also popular at colleges but killed itself by forcing user accounts instead of full anonymity.

>Personally, I think Iran is ignored more because Palestine is sucking all the air out of the room than anything else, especially with all the graphic videos/photos.

>Sudan on the other hand... there's really no excuse for ignoring that.

Palestine has the focus because America tax dollars most directly fuel the conflict and it is the most one-sided.

Iran is an internal conflict and Sudan is a civil war - neither of which are as directly funded by the US. Also neither has a perceived clear solution. In the case of Israel, the US should have significant leverage that it does not have in those other conflicts.

>How much worse could you get from a society where 80% of people are living in extreme poverty and where in a good year inflation is 250%?

That plus a power vacuum. So maybe Haiti?

The heuristic is that it would be in their interest to trumpet their successes.

The heuristic is that DoD doesn’t do counterterrorism. I don’t expect DoD to prevent terror attacks just like I don’t expect the FBI to blow up bunkers in Iran. We don’t need numbers to be able to confidently estimate that the number of Iranian bunkers blown up by the FBI is approximately zero.

Not if revealing success also reveals methodology and “trade” secrets.

Its perfectly reasonable to suppose undisclosed successes are imaginary as that is the overwhelming likelihood

What could these secrets be other than a completely illegal comprehensive web of domestic spy apparatus.

Isn't that what parallel construction is for?

“We have a mole in X network that gave us details about the attack.” Would be the most obvious.

The only plausible avenue I see is Gemini ingesting Google press releases about how cool their AI is.

Leave it to the reader to decide how informative that would be.