Oh for the old days when no one wondered why >50% of European Internet connections were routed through MAE East.

Possibly ominous of needing reading to glasses make it clearer?

And the City Fathers in Cities in Flight

It appears from the PDF that most of the island area that disappeared did so between 1947-1962. If it is accelerating, the data presented seem inadequate to show it.

... that you find they were wired backwards.

Well, they have a perfectly valid complaint provided the phone is attempting to manipulate them or obtain something of value in order to give up its "hostages". Hey, why not go to "The phone has kidnapped the images of my child and is implicitly threatening to murder them if I enter the code wrong too many times!"

How about anti-radiation missiles?

Obviously, the United States should immediately also deploy a missile system capable of delivering a nuclear weapon to North Korea.

It's dual-use. One side sandpaper, the other toilet tissue. Reading the instructions is highly recommended.

After all, traveling anywhere is a privilege, not a right

To compensate they're increasing the units of Victory Chocolate from 3 to 2.

Outside the Slow Zone

Note: the urinal cameras are for scientific research purposes only

"sorry, hoarding food is now a firing squad offense"

Well, I don;'t think that the indirect effects are being much included at all. For example, the United Nations' Green Revolution was responsible for keeping perhaps a billion people from dying of starvation. They and their descendants now are causing a fair fraction of that "damage". Are the US and other First World nations wholly responsible for correcting this damage as well as their direct effects, or in this case would it be appropriate to expect those whose lives were saved to contribute a portion of t\heir own upkeep, so to speak?