I saw the “break the bulb” solution before I commented. Points for the most straight-forward solution, assuming its a simple light-source and not something more secure that a few bulbs at most.

I mean, my solutions either require more information or for the question to be stupidly open-ended.

I’m fond of “leave the door open”, but that only works if the doorway is visible from the switches and the space between too bright.

“send someone else into the room and call them” requires the freedom to do that, but end-runs the need for me to go into the room entirely.

Gimme two smartphones and I’m video-calling one I leave in the room.

In all of my answers and others I’ve seen so far, we’re either making presumptions or making shit up. The question fails as an “only one right answer with only the information given” logic test, but would work to reveal how we approach problems - a personality test.

India would be on my top-3-shortlist of countries that would have me worried if their government had any success at stamping-out piracy. I could swear most of my downloads have English and Hindi or Bengali for audio/subs with little-else, and it would be soooo much more if I downloaded CAMRips…

I wish you weren’t right, and Peru isn’t really bucking US influence in any meaningful fashion either. I’m afraid their mega-port may not even get built, or maybe environmentally or socio-economically that would be the better result.

I’m neither an expert nor a local to be telling them how to live. Now if only my country wasn’t so certain that “expertise” and violence should rightfully override the sovereignty of others.

They gotta avoid a land-and-sea open-war first. Dock everything domestic and let the buyers’ ships come to them. Refuse to sell to countries that don’t protect even their own ships.

The US Navy is already interfering, and I never suggest they could stop it, but rendering it in-effective/irrelavent after a certain point seems achievable from where I sit. The US hasn’t won a land-war since Korea, and North Korea only really had China’s backing.

Venezuela is surrounded by countries which have every reason to help them end-run US interference, and whatever excuse the US brings to the table this time, its not coming with UN, NATO, or any sort of “multi-lateral”-backing. Again, that’s what the US had in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those still endeded in failure.

There’s no pretending its not about oil and territory this time.

That’s why escorting the tankers is a bad idea. Delay the war by whatever means possible until the US Navy’s interference, at least, can be rendered irrelavent.

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Venezuela borders Brazil, which has deep-sea ports itself and borders Peru, which is getting its own mega-port. Technically, a line down to the Rio Negro River would be sufficient on the Brazil side; Might require dredging in some spots, but its average depth is more than deep enough for the largest tanker-ships, and its wide-enough to fit more than a dozen-abreast.

The US is playing a stupid, stupid game. Committing acts of terrorism and piracy on the high-seas. I don’t want the Amazon contaminated, but should it happen, its not Venezuela or Brazil to blame.

This is the game Trump wants them to play. They should get their client-countries and allied neighbors to do this for them. Build pipelines or transport by rail to ports in other SA countries. He might like that too, but its harder for him to escalate like-so.

When I started on windows, and even with the textual pseudo-GUI’s of DOS, once you got it working you could customize the hell out of everything(or it didn’t pretend otherwise), and it would just continue to work until something physically broke or I broke somethin; with a tweak I would generally just undo and get back to it.

Windows is nothing like that now. My phone is more customizable, smooth, enjoyable and stable than Windows(OOBE, anyways). Its arguably better at things like, idk, working with scanners, which Windows insists are dark magic only the manufacturers can help you with(TWAIN was literally cleaner, and still is, when you can lift the hood to find it); I’m not saying its all-that-weird to need a driver - what’s weird is refusing to look for an entire device-category until a third-party app tells you how, when EVERYTHING ELSE is basically plug-and-play, including the printing functions of networked copiers or fax machines.

Rant from this-specific-day’s bullshit at work aside, my first experiences were with an Amiga and some Apple ii’s, OS2Warp was an experience that barely struck me as much-different than what I was used-to, and I’ve messed-around with Macs as much as much as anyone.

What’s weird isn’t moving away from Windows, basically the most overtly Black Mirror-esque OS of what’s out there today. What’s weird is how hung-up people are on it.

Every brain-controlling or addicting substance or species on Futurama has more to offer; Windows, like facebook, is trying to be the ads injected-into dreams. Who the hell wants that?

You could say the same about US states, and you’re the first person to bring up any real flaw in OP’s post, beyond “stop stirring shit” and “learn how to right”. “low-effort shitpost” would at least be ironic.

I mean, in assigning the different outlooks to specifically Europe/America, sure, but they are far from entirely wrong, even there.

It’s more like America and its banana-republic/media-obsessed/victimized/allied/vassal lackeys versus saner parts of the world, or Rich vs Poor(which outlooks would be flipped in different areas), but beyond that and placing their post in YSK instead of somewhere more centered on conversation or argument, I still saw far more “defensive” comments than OP could bear any real blame for.

It’s amusing how much blowback you’re getting without even having stated a preference. Are people assuming the mods here or useless or just haven’t seen this or what?

People here are way too worked up about motivations they’ve assumed and won’t bother with seeing proved or disproven.

Meannwhile, if I see a post I think doesn’t fit, I figure the mods should be approving posts rather than play whack-a-mole, realize its not my problem, and move-on. As an American, I’ll go on record; The “American” outlook on the “marketplace of ideas” is stupid, precisely because the substantiation part of the sale is essentially optional to most - you can get by on pandering to niche biases as the need arises.

I think the downvotes are mostly for that last sentence. Comes across a little-bit as you saying “YOU SHOULD respect him”.

EDIT: THIS comment makes a little more sense now, but I’ve still only seen these two new accounts with a single post plus maybe a comment each, so far. Hardly enough to skip to a “social experiment” conclusion.

Thanks, I hate it. I hate it BECAUSE I get it, to be clear. F’ing digits …

Think the downvotes are mostly title-realated. but also, you need references. There are definitely communities that are a better fit for this screed, no matter how much you may want it to be welcomed here.

Of course they did. The US bribes them on an on-going basis, and they fear being targetted next.

Reminds me of Massoud Hayoun’s When We Were Arabs. Jews being welcomed and protected by their Arab neighbors(and family!) in Palestine is one of the many truths that Israel/the West wants everyone to forget.

No skin off my back. Sorry, I honestly wasn’t meaning to call you out personally, beyond maybe, hey, this is how to do this next time.

I may just look into whether I can set this community to ding my notifications for new posts … apparently that’s not a thing in the webUI.

Honestly, I was thinking post-approval by mods would be the best solution, for just that reason. Its why I led with the question about the existance of mods. Obviously too much work if its just the single mod who started the community.