Whoa! Thanks for the info, that’s really cool

I think that largely depends on how easy it becomes for Americans to travel to Cuba. I imagine there’d be a bubble for most economic exchanges in the get go, but after it would normalize more.

I’m not really sure what constitutes “big” or how large the medical tourism industry is, say, between Mexico and the US, but I know it exists.

I’ve heard that Cuban healthcare is very good, but I’m unsure how accessible it would be to Americans. Being an American, I really don’t know much about Cuba… but I’ve heard a few general things.

I think Cuba uses the Cuban peso, the real hasn’t been in use for centuries.

It’s a small economic quirk, but I imagine many Cubans would be selling their old American cars to collectors State-side for a quick cash influx.

And Americans would be eager to travel to Cuba for tropical tourism. That feels like a longer lasting economic change.

Of course there’d be a bubble market on Cuban cigars that would arise, climb, then settle as the demand declines as the idea of a Cuban cigar becomes more normalized.

I’ve heard Cuba has some novel treatments for lung cancer. I imagine there’d be a market for medical tourism that would emerge from that, as I sincerely doubt the FDA would evaluate and approve a foreign treatment created under a Communist government with any haste.

I make big batches of lentil or chickpea curry, freeze half, eat the unfrozen during the week, then next week do a different recipe, freeze half, eat the unfrozen half, then thaw the first variety I made, and so on, so I have a constant flow of frozen and different curries.

You can also just thaw one if you can’t be assed to cook that week, too.

To make em into a lunch, I usually make rice and a coleslaw or other quick prep veg so you get some nutritional variety up in that batch

They prolly pull in more donation money when they’re the powerless minority party making big promises they never dream of pursuing.

Night time security shifts might work well for this. A buddy mine did that for a while and called it “money detention” for all the activity he did during. I think he mostly read comic books.

Wild question I never thought I’d be asking, anyone know a stripped down SMS app I can use instead of the default?

I don’t want to see AI features and I don’t wanna participate in helping anyone build a LLM

This alliance allows the US to maintain a stronger foothold in the Middle East and exert hegemonic power via proxy.

This isn’t the only reason, of course, but it’s part of it.

Converting to Judaism isn’t as simple as it is to convert to Christianity.

It will take years of study and effort.

That aside, the govt of Israel will not “offer” you a chance for a Birthright trip. You have to apply for it and demonstrate you meet the requirements. I don’t see why you wouldn’t qualify, but the Israeli govt is rather close minded about these things. (EDIT: Someone else in the thread has said Birthright Israel accepts converts explicitly, so you should be good here)

THAT aside, don’t go to Israel, don’t give them any money. What they’re doing right now is absolutely monstrous and it’s morally inexcusable to support them.