Billy Joel was a major baseball fan, so I expect some baseball references in the new song.

Home run records shatter in the 90’s caused by steroids.

Yankee dominance in the 90’s but couldn’t win in 2001.

World Baseball Classic where the US doesn’t win.

Dumpster Astros.

Alot

I didn’t want to install the official Reddit app on my phone.

Public performance in general can be stressful; people get stage fright all the time.

Prestige and desire, likely.

You would probably also see the state require some labor from people in order for society to function; I imagine that certain classes of skilled and or dangerous labor would get them from having to contribute to some manual tasks.

What?

My school had regular pizza and beer nights.

No one carded for the beer, so the underage people got to drink.

They don’t write your age on anything and they don’t announce it, so you should be fine.

I got mine based on inspiration from Voicemail: The Musical

It feels less like “one big problem” and more like death by a thousand cuts.

A lot of sci-fi was generally written to play with a few ideas. I think it would be difficult to create a narrative around several problems with different causes and solutions.

Yeah, I’m going to keep working here.

I feel comfortable expressing them, but I see others get uncomfortable when I’m expressing them.

Colombia and Brazil both declared Maduro’s election as illegitimate. They have also been in opposition of the capture of Maduro by the USA.

The Venezuelan government could likely consider this to be an act of war based on international law. The question right now is if it wants to.

Technically, Trump performed this attack without declaring war and his war powers without a Congressional declaration. Per American law, the USA isn’t at war with Venezuela. If Venezuela declares that this is an act of war, it gives Trump a better pretense to get war declared on Venezuela. It also vastly changes how neutral powers can treat both countries during the war.

Countries have fought wars without declaring wars before. The military action surrounding the invasion of the Falklands was done without either nation officially declaring war.

Not from a moral but a practical matter:

• Iraq had engaged in two wars of conquest against its neighbors in the last few decades. So you had more regional support for the invasion than for current regional support for the invasion of Venezuela. Turkey did refuse to use its country as a staging ground to invade Iraq, but several Persian Gulf states hosted coalition troops.

• The USA attempted to make its case diplomatically before invading. Sure, the case for the invasion of Iraq was built on lies, but at least a case was being made diplomatically. Also, the USA was citing UN resolutions as a justification for war even if it was incorrectly doing so; that hasn’t happened in the taking of Maduro.

• There was a coalition of the willing that was invading Iraq, not a solitary country. The USA wasn’t going alone and was apply to rely on multiple countries approving this action even if it didn’t have UN approval.

• Bush wasn’t threatening to invade several allies before invading Iraq. While there was dubious legality to the invasion of Afghanistan as it was a non-state actor which attacked the USA, the USA was at least and to cite self defense in is invasion.

• The world’s opinion of the USA was a lot higher at the time.

I don’t know about the average Venezuelan, but I’ve seen the reactions from the Colombian and Brazilian presidents; they considered the election of Maduro to be illegitimate but also heavily criticize the kidnapping of Maduro.

I wouldn’t be happy about it.

Edit: I’ve been introduced to the concept early in my life that my life can end unnaturally. I’ve also experienced enough to know that there are cases where extended life isn’t worth it and choosing to die is the preferable option.

Right now, I’m not there. I’ve also had to deal with something potentially fatal and I’ve been mostly emotionally able to handle it because there was a path forward to a healthy life.

If that was to change, I would likely spend my savings enjoying my life before either looking myself or letting whatever sickness take my life without medical intervention.

I expect the hardest part of that decision will be to tell my family because they don’t have the same viewpoint.

He pretty much is.

The Pope has some soft power when it comes to some morality, but countries routinely ignore the Vatican and it doesn’t really cause an issue.

The relationship is worse with a lot of American Catholics, who haven’t been happy with the last few popes due to their liberalness.

Trump has admitted that there are a lot of CIA agents in Venezuela. It was also suspiciously easy for the USA to get Maduro out of the country.

My guess is that the USA likely expects a coup to happen which will install a friendly regime.

I don’t care enough to have one.