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.

Alzheimer’s

Neurosyphilis, probably.

Did she prove it?

Favourite of all time?

Wing Commander (2 if I have to pick one, otherwise 1, 2, and secret missions).

Monkey Island (3 if I have to pick one, 1 to 3 otherwise).

Third is difficult, but… Disco Elysium, I guess…?

(What games I’ve spent the most time playing, though…? Definitely Crusader Kings 2 and 3, followed by Stellaris.)

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).

Already burned the White House down once, can burn it down again.

It already has.

They’ve drunk their own coolaid. They actually believe their own bullshit. They’ve offloaded what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs. They have them manage their schedules, summarise their emails, write their emails and speeches, and make every single decision for them.

They’re brain-dead computer operated zombies.

The problem is that they keep getting paid absurd amounts of money for being completely useless (and that they’ve always been so useless that no one can tell the difference).

I can’t help but picture the business card scene from American Psycho, but they’re comparing the “AI” assistants they use instead of their cards.

Which would have been several orders of magnitude less harmful than everything Trump has done (which includes sending the nation into chaos anyway).

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It would.

It would also be several orders of magnitude less harmful than everything Trump’s done.

something trump has not done yet

Have you been living under a fucking rock‽

not allowing him to take office when elected would be disastrous

It would have been many orders of magnitude less disastrous than the alternative.

Sure, cutting off your cancerous hand would’ve been traumatic. But survivable.

Now, however, said hand is so far up your arse that it’s ripped apart your colon in several places and you’re bleeding to death while experiencing horrible agony, and spraying all your neighbours with blood and feces.

You could have recovered from getting rid of Trump, but there’s no coming back from what you’ve allowed him to do to your country, and the world.

You can die due to having too low morale, too.

Or killing yourself as an intimidation tactic during an interrogation, regardless of your stats.

Practically all versions of the detective are susceptible to self-inflicted demise in one shape or another.

Nah, Measurehead is adorable. A native Revacholian playing ur-racist out of what he’s learnt on the radio while dating a “Kojka” he can’t have sex with because his own racism prevents him from getting an erection in her presence.

Evrart (and Edgar, though we never meet him) Claire are downright terrifying.

Extremely intelligent, constantly ten steps ahead and in control (except for the tribunal, the entroponetic phenomena underlying the events of the game, the deserter, and, possibly, the Detective) even over the Wild Pines woman, extremely charismatic despite their appearance, and yet absolutely malicious and self centered.

They’re like sharks, perfect, cold, inhumane, apex predators evolved to completely dominate their territory.

Measurehead can never really hurt you. Evrart Claire can kill you by making you sit on a chair, and he’s fully aware of it.

An elected official who repeatedly stated and demonstrated his intention of preventing any future elections and destroying democracy.

An elected official, therefore, who should never have been allowed to run for office in the first place (this isn’t the only reason he shouldn’t have been allowed, of course, in a sane country he’d also been unelectable due to his criminal record, lack of any semblance of mental health, and intellectual insufficiency, but it’s the most important).

They aren’t continents; calling them continents implies a planet, but the planet is long gone, broken apart into isolas (containing both land, including full continents, and sea) floating in the Pale, which is very much not fog.

The Pale isn’t… anything, really. A literal lack of being. Not matter, or energy, but space-time broken down into pure entropy where direction and time lose all meaning.

This, but unironically.

Congratulations, you just discovered the paradox of tolerance.

And, yeah, essentially, in order to survive, a democratic society cannot allow those who seek to destroy it to participate in the democratic process.

Looking up “displeased white cat wearing cowboy hat” on duckduckgo (and, by extension, I assume also bing) produces pages and pages of slop and no useable results, but google images still produced some real pictures.

It seems that the concept is somewhat common amongst stock image shops (though specifically white cats are rarer); for instance:

Shutterstock

Vecteezy

I’ve also found several sites (which might be scams) supposedly selling cat hats using these images, despite the cat clearly not looking very pleased with the product in question: