This sounds genuinely interesting. Thanks for putting this on my radar!

make the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool look blue, like part of the US flag.

And now it looks corrupted and rotten to the core, like the US.

DC is managed directly by the federal government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

The algae is still there, like the corrupt scum who gave his buddies taxpayer’s money to pretend to get rid of it.

A better question is how you used the card you were dealt - i.e. will you be satisfied with what you’ve done with your life when the end comes.

Because if the answer is no and you feel you have to end it sooner than necessary, you haven’t played all your cards yet. If the answer is yes, the end will come all too soon and the question is moot.

Here’s one. Definitely working for a crime family.

You get to hear about one when you’re rich enough, because you can’t become rich beyond a certain level without being a crook.

They are off the streets. The Trump family, cabinet members and the billionaires rarely mix with the plebs.

Trump lost the Iran war the day he launched it.

Because Trump is too dumb to realize Iran was 100% certain to close the Strait of Hormuz.

In fact, Trump is too dumb to know where the Strait of Hormuz even is - unless he or one of his cretin sons built a fucking golf course there of course…

Good.

Killing in war, when necessary is almost “free”.

It’s thinking like that that’s the reason war still exists. Everybody thinks killing is awful, apart in certain circumstances when it’s okay, when it’s in fact never okay.

Military training exists to brainwash decent human beings with a sense of morality and critical thinking abilities, who know they mustn’t kill and would refuse requests to kill, into killing machines who are proud to follow orders (and then experience PTSD when they’re returned to civilian life and realize what they’ve done).

Therefore, I contend that fully autonomous drones have killed human beings since wars have been a thing, and those drones are called “soldiers”.

Enjoy what you voted for…

Fair enough.

10. Telegraph Operator

The OM who taught me Morse code when I passed my ham radio license in the 80s was a long-retired telegraph operator. He recounted how he got his job:

He saw a ad for a job at his local Western Union telegraph office in the classifieds. He was already a ham radio enthusiast, so he figured he’d give it a shot. He showed up at the date and time indicated in the ad and sat in the waiting room with a bunch of other candidates for a long time. Nobody showed up to interview anybody. So he waited with all the others.

Then finally he got up and went straight to the recruiter’s office without prompting. He said he suddenly realized, while he was waiting there, that among the machinery noises and the clickety-clicks of the paddles, someone was continuously keying “If you can read this, go straight to the recruiter’s door.”

The office wanted only the very best telegraphists who lived and breathed the job. They figured someone who automatically listening to Morse code traffic when they heard something, and not just while on the job, was the kind of person they wanted.

Your brain with a reasonably complex password-building recipe. It’s secure and you’ll never lose your passwords until you reach dementia age.

I renounced my citizenship in 2002, just after Dubya shat out the USA Patriot Act - the first piece of overtly fascist and unconstitutional US legislation. And it was NOT cheap back then.

The US taxes you if you’re an American living and earning money abroad, even if you don’t live in the US and you don’t use any US public service. And if you want off the hamster will, the US makes you pay one last time for the privilege.

Why? Because it’s a mafia state, when it’s not a fascist one too.

Oh noes! Don’t piss off Jared Kushner! He’s our only hope for peace with Iran or something…

Most people who have to eat have no say in the matter.

Everybody I know hates AI, fears AI will take their job, and uses AI all the time themselves.

You know what’s ironic? American products are harder to sell abroad because of the dumb tariffs, people boycotting fascism, and now the screwworms. And all three are directly caused by Trump.