I don’t think most adults have that capacity, but doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed to vote.

As George Carlin once said, imagine the average American, then realize half of them are stupider than that.

If someone annoys you by being happy all the time, you may want to reevaluate your life.

Smile all the time and then people can’t tell. Plus people will find you more friendly.

Tsunami sirens are a thing in places near where I live.

Theres also a siren for the volunteer fire department about an hour away from where I live because it’s a small lake community that has poor cellphone coverage.

The implication is that they’re not into small talk.

You can choose to continue the small talk and they will probably continue responding, but they are letting you know that they’re not really into it.

I honestly haven’t considered that one, definitely more likely to be followed, but I suspect Panama would likely sabotage it before letting it fall into US hands at this point.

Any sort of physical aggression would probably be unpopular with US citizens again because there’s no provocation from Panama, US ships use it all the time so there’s really no reason to take it by force. Once there are losses of military men and women in fighting over it it would likely quickly turn it into a deeply unpopular situation.

There are militarily strategic reasons to take Panama though, which is why the generals may still agree. If trump were to declare some sort of semi-war on China for example and the goal was to reduce Chinese global shipping capacity.

Given that Trump is CiC, I’m sure all the Generals brushed up on it.

I honestly suspect that if Trump were to order an invasion of Canada, the military would refuse.

There’s far too much goodwill among the military and populace to invade Canada without some sort of provocation happening first. It would likely just be taken as an unlawful order and refused.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say you’re not in North America. I don’t think there’s anywhere you can buy land for $5k in a city around here. This changes things unfortunately,

For smaller values of land you want it to be more of an impulse purchase rather than logical one.

If you’re in a country where $15k is a substantial sum of money, then this simply won’t work.

If you want this to work you need customers who won’t even bother comparing it to other properties, you need to make it easy for them to see way more than $15k of value for their life (camping, relaxing, sporting, etc.) and make it REALLY easy for them to buy.

Scam or not, you should at the Timeshare industry as an example of how this is normally done.

Are you going to get 3 times the current price of the land consistently doing this? Probably not.

Can it increase the price a little bit? Yes.

A lot of it will come down to who can buy the land, if it’s just random $10k properties in the woods, you may be able to land some random customers who will pay $30k because you brought it to their attention.

If it’s $200k properties you’re trying to flip for $600k, it’s very unlikely to ever happen.