Perhaps you could get AMD to pay you $35 billion for the hypothetical potential of amusement later on.
That is not dead which can eternal lie.
Those are awesome. It doesn’t quite reach those heights, but I was always fond of the opening theme from Ski or Die.
Great, who’s going to go tell Richard Feynman?
Take one of the most violently-contested parts of the Earth, a center of blood feuds that have been raging for, depending on how you count it, between eighty and six thousand years, a place that has become synonymous for “a location of endless conflict,” take that piece of real estate, enhance the violence, and then tell yourself you’re going to build a bunch of high-end condos and invite rich assholes to move in.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’m mainly thinking of Tony Blair making the same case for invading Iraq that George W. Bush was, just with the accent.
I’ve got a friend trying to move from the United States to England to escape our current shit show, and I’ve been telling him that England tends to do what America does, just with a posh accent to give it an air of legitimacy.
Okay, well, the last time I made this joke it came true, so I’m going to throw some salt over my shoulder after I say it, but how about instead of that, we just give Russia about 20,000 square miles of Alaska. We can start with the entirety of the Aleutian Island chain (about 6,800 sq. miles), and then work out some chunk of the mainland for the rest. That seems reasonable.
And if that does come true, then by God I’m going to go out and buy a lottery ticket.
My five year old loves On The Town with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.
/nominativedeterminism
“If you build it, they won’t pull out when they come.”
Don’t forget about PFAS!
Could they do the thing that airports do with geese, where they get a Labrador to run around and bark at the birds and the birds say, “Ehh… fuck this area” and leave of their own accord?
a goofy mascot that keeps doing weird things.
Sounds like exactly what a king should be.
Cockroaches do a lot of litter cleanup out in nature. I worry about what might happen if they vanished. But those malaria mosquitoes can fuck right off to Hell as far as I’m concerned.