A lot of them sound Indian. There’s a huge Indian transplant community in the UAE, and I guess they all learn English from them?

Hyperloop is more of a Gizmodo thing.

That’s not fair: the Japanese had every idea already. I swear to god, they’re the strongest evidence for the existence of time travel.

Is that Patlabor?

It’s also not unique to China. My cousin in Brazil told me for any project he wants to do, he budgets an extra 5-10% for bribes. It’s just something you plan for.

“Well, sure, but not in our dreams—Only on TV and radio...and in magazines...and movies...and at ball games...and on buses...and milk cartons and T-shirts and bananas...and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No, sirree.”

Me too. I’m just not hopeful.

I have a feeling we will all wish Trump was a little less competent by the time this is over.

If we’re lucky.

The problem is Trump is pretty much year 3000 Nixon.

Missed that. Which thread?

I want him to go get a beat-to-hell C4 and soup it up.

New Yorkers hate him and they hate parades that block crosstown traffic. He’d certainly get turnout, but I’m not sure it’s the kind he wants.

Firebrandy is what I will call the hooch I make under my bunk in the work camp.

That would be both the single most obvious thing and the most likely to be corrected for.

He’s in good company: Stalin and Putin have also been featured.

 also, what if they are boys??