... this map? GDP per person would be better. But then Africa would disappear.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun.

- Tom Lehrer

... an approaching worldwide shortage of adenochrome.

... Argentina.

Won't someone please think of the poor chickens?

We already have right to work states. Just enforce them by blocking interference from outside jurisdictions and that should suffice.

One party system? Not so much. We are sitting on a 50-50% knife edge right now. And the DSA threatens to split the left's vote since we don't have a historical culture of coalition government.

Right. And drugs. Bans worked so well for fentanyl.

I'd bet that they can.

Why not just ban that? And why should the Chinese bother with individual surveillance when they can buy data in bulk?

Imagine a world with Star Trek replicators. Bums would be like, "Wine. Ripple. In a brown paper bag." Do you really think you could get them to do anything?

But bandwidth is free. Or so they tell me when they want me to load their tracking/advertising JavaScript.

Where do I send my power bill to get it paid?

Nothing that Superman can't do better.

Soon just half the population of the USA.

[ducking and running]