Not a movie, but mysteries at the museum puts me to sleep every time. They reuse the same overblown words for everything so it winds up that every single item they talk about sounds alike. Between that repetition and the guys metronomic cadence and almost whispery voice, puts me to sleep every time.
My military training barely allows me to throw sandwich crust out the window. (There's a place here that makes AMAZING grilled cheese sandwiches, but somehow the crust get super dried out and hard.) We were so ingrained with not leaving evidence behind that I'll let my car become a dumpster of evidence of ADHD before I throw anything that a critter won't eat.
Edit: I also throw it hard enough that it clears the road and doesn't endanger my critter friends cleaning up after me.
I think you read my response through a filter. China has tons of Americans there doing just fine. Just don't go public with any dissent and you're fine. That's not the case with the other places I mentioned.
Your initial post acted like there's nowhere on earth that is just straight up dangerous for westerners and that's purely fantasy. Yeah there are places Americans consider more dangerous than they are, I'll give you that very minor point. However, there's also a real legitimate reason that Americans pretend to be Canadian when traveling. And there's a legitimate reason that places are hostile to Americans, but not Canadians. You're just being ignorant with altruistic values, but it's ignorance all the same.
Edit: or at least, that's how I'm taking your ignorance, with a whole bunch of benefit of doubt.
There was one time I almost got in trouble with a gf at the time. I was driving and I saw an F430 driving the opposite direction, and I said "oh fuck, I'd kill to be inside you." Apparently there was an attractive woman on the sidewalk at the same time, but on the opposite side. She said "EXCUSE ME?!?" Then as I looked at her from the opposite direction, she realized I didn't notice the attractive girl, "you were talking about a car, huh?" I hadn't noticed the girl, and she hadn't noticed the car. I've never seen eyes roll harder than that.
Cyclist gets detained in Russia, basketball player detained in russia, tourist gets put into coma before dying for stealing North Korean poster, hikers detained in Iran. There are a lot of people with passports and these glowing ideas that were all the same, and going to places will broker friendships and change things. These may be enlightened ideals, but very, very stupid actions. Going to Mexico is fine but you better fucking be smart about it. Go with a large group and stay where you're supposed to, you should be fine. My company had at least 2 security guards for anyone taking business trips to Mexico because they've had to pay ransoms in the past.
To act like going to dangerous places is enlightening is a very stupid take. Look at how many journalists died in Gaza, and those are a supposedly protected group who generally know what they're doing. Extreme tourism is absolutely stupid in my opinion. I traveled enough while in the army and don't currently have a passport, nor am I interested in getting one. If I ever leave this country again, it will be permanent.
It's a blend of art and engineering. I don't appreciate a lot of traditional art. Music, movies and TV, but not theater or paintings or most sculpture. But a good looking car just draws your eyes to it like an attractive person, but it's rude to stare at people. It's almost rude to NOT stare at a Porsche 911 GT3 RS.
Then there's the beauty of the engineering. Thousands of parts working together to make one beautiful machine do what it's supposed to do. It's like how society is supposed to work. But instead of a GT3 RS, we've got a '96 Dodge neon with no working starter, only two working forward gears, a door that won't open and electrical issues.
In today's world it's harder and harder to justify being a car guy, but I've loved em since I can remember.
Edit: I would add to that, the same feelings I have about cars being a blend of art and engineering, is the same reason I have a great respect for architecture. True great architecture is also a blend of art and engineering. You can replace the Porsche with Notre Dame, while the F-150 can be replaced with a modern factory. Utilitarian garbage.
Command and conquer, rush the resources, keep the other side in poverty by surrounding their base with turrets and laugh like J.Jonah Jameson as they try to aquire more resources, or build advanced buildings.
I did that on command and conquer generals. The aurora plane was kind of a pain in the ass because you couldn't really swarm them, because you could generally use 2 for any building. But if you got good at it, it was very hard to defend against.
With this administration? Maybe.