I wonder how little will be left of the US once Trump is dead
phoenixz
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This article has one nauseatingly quote after another
"My view is that the United States could take all the seafood Greenland could produce, and cut out the middleman, and keep it from China—and you could bring back all-you-can-eat shrimp at Red Lobster.”
For the next three days, Landry wandered around Nuuk, with Boassen as his fixer, and tried to hand out MAGA hats. “If you come to Louisiana and you come to the governor’s mansion? All the chocolate-chip cookies you could eat,” he told a group of boys.
American officials and businessmen ate musk-ox hot dogs and discussed their ambitions for Greenland’s future.
According to Drew Horn, the senior Administration official who was co-leading the Greenland P.C.C., the group routinely discussed the potential for friction with Denmark, and took “deliberate efforts meant to appease Danish concerns.
And it just goes on and on and on... Americans are pigs
He also did a prime-time interview with One America News Network, portraying Denmark, whose realm includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands, as an illegitimate colonial power that is committing “atrocities” against Greenlanders and “weaponizing” anti-Trump propaganda to turn people against the U.S. “Unfortunately, the natives, the Inuits and the Greenlanders, in my opinion, are suffering something we call, here in America, Stockholm syndrome,” he said.
Jesus fucking christ, what a paragraph
Oh yeah, Denmark is committing atrocities, sure! And the US has no nefarious intentions with Greenland at allz they just want to be their friends! Sure!
Who believes that shit? Well obviously this guy actually beliefs this shit, but he appears to suffer from some mental illness.
All of this is insane
I once was attending a really weird classical concert
It was in a tiny Mexican town in the middle of nowhere, the majority of the town having less than 10.000 inhabitants
The main church in the main square was the setting for a night performance of some famous classical orchestra from New York.
Mind you, this is already weird because the place is really in theiddle of nowhere, it's only farmers and poor people there. Don't get me wrong, it's great that this orchestra was willing to perform there, and the people deserved something nice, but very unexpected.
So they setup in the church, all cramped because there isn't that much space, people sit down, the orchestra director gives a little speech in English that gets translated, and then they are about to start. The director taps his stick a few times, the first tune comes out and POOOFFF. electricity gone. Pure darkness. Comedic timing could not have been better.
This was before mobile phones (this was around 2005, IIRC) so nobody had a flash light. At first it was everyone giggling a little bit, and someone quickly ran outside to fetch a flash light so that the director could be visible and talk a little more about who they were etc until power would come back.
10 minutes in, the power does come back, so we can start playing, yay, everybody happy! So the orchestra starts playing, it's beautiful, and then I see this poor sweet large street dog wandering in, looking for scraps to eat. The dog goes straight for the orchestra playing and starts mingling with the musicians, walking under their legs, sniffing their bare legs (it was hot, most were in shorts) pushing them aside while they are playing, slapping their legs with his tail.
The show must go on so nobody does anything to stop the dog (there was no space for anyone to walk around there) but since none of the musicians expect a wet nose on their legs, you constantly hear some musician suddenly screeching their instrument and looking at wtf is that, then continuing to play and the dog goes on to the next musician who then REALLY toots their horn, literally, because out of the blue, the dog jumps with its two paws on their lap. Soon you hear laughter from the audience and orchestra alike, and everyone just went with it, because it was awesome and funny.
Hands down the best classical concert I've ever been to, it was so beautiful and so much fun!
Why would anyone play that shit?
I see a lotmof replies being very negative about this, and I get the gut reaction, but this actually maybe a good thing, sort of. We don't want it, but we may really need it
We've allowed assholes and billionaires to destroy the planet for such a long time that we will likely need measures beyond capturing CO2
Hell, capturing CO2 itself doesn't make much sense until nearly all CO2 generating power sources have been replaced, and we're not nearly close to that. And even when we do start really capturing CO2, if we spend half the world's energy budged in that, we'd still need to keep that up for decades at least to get to acceptable levels. Yes, we've been pumping CO2 into our environment at alarming rates for a fucking long time, and all the energy we got in exchange also needs to be spent (plus a whole lot extra) to get it out of the atmosphere again.
One of the things we can do is using the same pollutants from back in the 80s that caused acidic rain. Obviously this isn't what you want, but one of the side effects nis that it cooled the planet, which IS what we want. This could buy us maybe a few decades of reprieve while we fix the CO2 issue
Yes it is, and yes, billionaires need to disappear
Having said that, we may not have an option. We've allowed assholes and billionaires to destroy the planet for such a long time that we will likely need measures beyond capturing CO2
Hell, capturing CO2 itself doesn't make much sense until nearly all CO2 generating power sources have been replaced, and we're not nearly close to that. And even when we do start really capturing CO2, if we spend half the world's energy budged in that, we'd still need to keep that up for decades at least to get to acceptable levels. Yes, we've been pumping CO2 into our environment at alarming rates for a fucking long time, and all the energy we got in exchange also needs to be spent (plus a whole lot extra) to get it out of the atmosphere again.
One of the things we can do is using the same pollutants from back in the 80s that caused acidic rain. Obviously this isn't what you want, but one of the side effects nis that it cooled the planet, which IS what we want. This could buy us maybe a few decades of reprieve
I'm sure the Cheeto will come up with the next distraction
US presidents are just walking distractions from the crimes they're committing, but trump is a fucking expert at that
In the right countries you can still play in the street, even while cars exist
Then again, you live in the USA z so no surprise there and good on you for using an example of something bad and portray it again as something great. Goes well with your AI talk
Great, now you can suffer AND work!
I gettit, it's impressive, it will greatly increase their happiness with the little they have, but why conflate this awesome thing with "now get to work, you serf!"?
This happens so much it warrants its own site
Joh Oliver had a nice piece about this
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Obviously he won't explain exactly how that miracle would happen, just that AI is magic, like Jesus Christ himself. AI will wave it's hands and magically 7 companies will feed all the world or something, right?
No more billionaires, I WANT WEALTH CAPS!