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.

Rules are there to punish bad morality.

Trump and Vance are seen as morally good, so the rules don’t apply as they can do no bad. Things that the Others want, such as DEI, are naturally morally bad and every rule to punish them is fully enforced, and a few new rules are added as needed.

Rule of law and consistency do not apply for them.

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.

One theory is dreams are you brain doing maintenance on memories. Doing a defrag, cleaning dust, something like that, but we don’t really know for sure. You briefly relive those memories. Another part of the brain sees those flashes of memories and tries to make sense of these, like a narrator that forgot the script at home. And that’s what you experience as a dream. You just had a strong response to this particular memory.

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.

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

“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.

Time to educate Trump in the fine art of export tariffs.

The answer to that is giving Ukraine more and more support, weapons and material until Putin changed his tune. Or you play the sniveling coward and start negotiating these earnestly. We all know what path Donnie boy will take.

Hence the car sales show at the White House, generating some PR to pump up the stock. It worked, for now.