And aquifers are being sucked dry.

There are a lot of regions that are put into the wrong time zone, because that’s easier for business. They’re not even close to 12:00 being the middle of the day especially during DST.

He’s expecting everybody to kowtow and afterwards do everything he says to receive some of that sweet sweet trade.

America is dead. Only Murica remains.

Padmé, not Leia, but yeah.

Step 4: the rich that bought the gold uses it to privatize all water and power to get it working again, now becomes even more rich.

If you want to reward your high profile friends so they can cash out with tangible assets before the whole currency or economy crashes, this is how you would do things.

It has a heavy dose of “what do you mean, reality doesn’t conform to my wishes?” It’s something every autocrat runs into.

Part of? They want it all, just not saying it out loud most of the time.

That was always projected for 2101, 2011. But things start to get bad from 2050 on.

“can’t complain”

That would never work around here. We complain about everything. And then we’ll complain how much everybody is complaining. Our happy state is complaining.

According to the other comments, they ask “How are you?” ans the response is “eVeRyThInG Is gReAt” and this gets written down as a 5/5 on the happiness scale.

The Muri kingdom, full of fascist Murcians

The French burn cars everytime they’re angry, it’s not really a Tesla thing. And they get angry a lot.

Just like Israel has prisoners but Hamas has hostages, although functionally there is no difference.

Trump just doesn’t like royal competition nearby on his path to becoming king

In happens in a lot more places. Regulations make sure goods and services are up to standards. Without those regulations, you have check yourself each time if things are acceptable, adding costs.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” ~Antonio Gramsci

I think this captures the state of the world pretty well. The traditional values, the leaders of the world order as we know it are decaying. Nobody has any idea where things are headed. In the meantime all kind of figures crawl from under their rock to party and grab whatever they can

Depends on the strain, but up to 75% of birds die from it. But once you have one sick chicken, it spreads rapidly to ask others and very often to neighbors a few miles away by wild animals. To keep it from spreading quickly over the entire country, every chicken within a few miles is culled as standard practice if bird flu is found.