I don't know how you're going to make an accurate estimate based on this single pic. One of my best friends is an arborist and it can get very complicated in ways that aren't obvious to non-experts.
TheSanSabaSongbird
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There are a ton of variables involved in pricing. Every case is different.
Yeah the Amazon is a trip. I was down there for about a week, and except at night, there was no point at which I was not basically dripping with sweat. I'm told that your body eventually acclimates and it becomes less of an issue, but a week was definitely not long enough for me.
I did too, but what we do have proof of, in the form of hours and hours of grisly trauma-inducing footage, is quite bad enough. While we can rightly condemn its overuse, there is no universe in which the Israelis can be blamed for reacting with force.
Yep. You don't need a fancy graduate degree in IR to know this. US policy in the Middle East has always been a pretty open book. The fact that it's often been disastrous isn't evidence of some vast conspiracy to keep the Arab world down. To the contrary, it's evidence of deep stupidity, hubris, arrogance and wilful ignorance on the part of US leadership. Never attribute to malice that which can more easily be attributed to stupidity.
Oh good, whataboutism always takes a conversation to interesting places, said no one, ever.
Came to this thread for my daily dose of trite cynicism. Was not disappointed.
Oh good! I was hoping for some defeatism in the face of a relatively positive bit of news.
Too right. My old man spent his 19th birthday at Dragon Mountain in Vietnam, outside of Pleiku in the Central Highlands along the border with Laos. He was a Huey door-gunner with the 4th ID and survived being shot down.
Every mission he flew, he knew could be his last, and they used to use gaffer's tape to patch the bullet holes in the fuselage of their UH1s because otherwise they'd "whistle" when they were coming up on an LZ or evac zone.
My dad was the guy in the doorway with the M60, and that breaks my mind in the sense that I can't imagine being that age and fighting in a real war.
Dang! Bill Westlake no less! Me and Bill Westlake fist-fought each other in junior high school and again shortly after we'd both graduated from highschool in our shitty northern California ag-town.
We hated each other back then, but I feel nothing but brotherly feels for him now, 30 years later.
I hope you are thriving Bill Westlake. I hope you have done well in life and I feel no animosity toward you whatsoever.
This is a pleasant fiction, one that feeds into a broad sense of anti-Americanism in ways that are not well thought out, but that are appealing to knee-jerk notions attached to an understandable animosity toward US power.
The truth is that the US is a giant country consisting of hundreds of millions of people from all over the world and you discount us at your peril.
Sure, we're a "nation of immigrants," but at what point does one stop being an immigrant? How many generations does it take? And if I'm still an immigrant even though my family has been here for generations, then by rights I should have a "home" country that I can easily return to, but I don't. Sure, I could in theory immigrate back to Ireland and the UK where my ancestors came from, but you and I both know that no one would ever consider me "Irish" or "British." I would always still be an "American," which brings us back to the original question of how long it takes people to stop being immigrants.