Brandon

They tend to block certain types of traffic rather than cut the whole internet, which usually cripples their internal economy. (I speak to people within Iran regularly) It’s becoming increasingly difficult to cut internet to average people without hurting your own government offices, etc. even if they hit the “kill switch,” as seen in Venezuela, satellite internet can quickly patch over it, as Elon did by making starlink free.

If that person’s basement is located in Iran, one could argue it’s better than a mainstream journalist who is reporting from outside Iran. Of course they would need to use a VPN…

Notice our website does not blame a specific political leader. Also, we had a discussion about what led to Venezuela’s economic crisis years ago on this site with an actual Venezuelan brother. You may wish to read it to educate yourself. Here’s a quick summary: When Hugo Chávez died on March 5, 2013, Venezuela was not yet in full collapse, but the country was already fragile and heading toward crisis. The situation can be summed up as “stable on the surface, unstable underneath.” Further I’d like to point out the so called “freakonomics” effects where any supposed good deed always causes some innocent suffering, for example my friends in Cuba were mentioning their electrical grid runs entirely on oil they buy from Venezuela. With the Trump now stealing it all, the little bit of electricity they had will now go to zero. Are we to cheer on violent overthrow of a government and ignoring the suffering to our brothers and sisters? Your attitude is very tone deaf here.

Please don’t speak for witnesses in Venezuela unless you have some real quotes from them

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2026/01/03/donald-trump-wants-to-run-venezuela-and-dominate-the-western-hemisphere - bypass paywall: https://archive.is/S3jwF

That has always been the case. Conventions never followed circuit boundaries.

Patterson is my favourite. If I could only do two it would be Warwick and Patterson. But highly recommend do all three (but not in one day! Never heard of anyone doing that) If you can only do one this year, you can always make a goal to do another in a future trip.

Surely there’s more than that, unless you’re only counting english ones ?

@daico @jwmanubcn send me a dm with your telegram username

I just got back from travelling with family. I think I’d be scared to travel by myself. Not sure why, just haven’t done it I guess. Central America is beautiful.

What is JW Conf? I always thought if we ditched zoom for our own solution, we’d just use JWS Studio (which the branch developed itself) I also know Apple TV supports Zoom and FaceTime (which is technically available on all platforms), although it requires setting your iPhone on the mantle to create the camera input…

It seems by the wording that she was of the other sheep? Just like brother Lett’s wife.

I use this, it’s similar to google my mymaps: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/

As a suggestion for next time, have a stronger case before jumping on the conservative talking points bandwagon.