A QA engineer walks into a bar and orders a beer.

She orders 2 beers.

She orders 0 beers.

She orders -1 beers.

She orders a lizard.

She orders a NULLPTR.

She tries to leave without paying.

Satisfied, she declares the bar ready for business. The first customer comes in an orders a beer. They finish their drink, and then ask where the bathroom is.

The bar explodes.

But that’s a problem with the system, not with wanting to live as long as possible.

Fuck the system.

Burn it down, rebuild, and let’s go full Star Trek.

They’re dictators and wealthy psychopaths.

They don’t need people to donate, they’ll simply take what they want, like they’ve always done.

They’ll just live in a bubble. They practically already do, for their own safety, because almost every person on the planet wants them dead, most with good reason (some just want to take their place).

Lick my balls.

Dymaxion.

Waterman is nice and all, but I don’t like the way it splits Australia and New Zealand, or how it puts Antarctica in a separate bit like Alaska in USA maps.

Dymaxion offers a nice continuous view of all the continents, and can still be folded into a sufficiently spherical globe-like thingy.

It’d be nice to have an alternative version that made the oceans continuous, though, for people who like ships and stuff.

Huh. This one comes with its own theme tune.

The part you’ve missing is that it’d be Trump selling Alaska, not the USA.

He’d do it in such a way that he’d get most of the money, while presenting it as the yugest deal in history.

His base wouldn’t like it? Who cares, certainly not Trump. It’s not like he plans to hold any elections ever again. (You underestimate how much of a cult MAGA is, though; most of them would happily drink whatever coolaid he tries to sell them.)

It’d be economically, politically, and diplomatically disastrous? Sure, but what has he done that hasn’t been one, two, or more often than not all of the above? He doesn’t care either. He’ll keep on grifting until he dies or until he can’t squeeze any more money out of the country, at which point he’ll scamper away with his gains.

Plus, with Alaska in Russian hands he and Putin could invade Canada from both ends, and soon sign another yuuge deal splitting it up in whatever way benefits Putin the most. A definite win-win in Trump’s eyes.

It’s been common knowledge for a long time that Trump is Putin’s asset, because Putin’s got dirt on him that even he is embarrassed by (and also because he loves dictators so much that he’d do anything one asks of him even without the blackmail).

Only an American would assume that when someone says people they mean companies instead of, you know, people. 🤦‍♂️