Category Archives: Politics and Society

Articles about society, people, and politics.

Will Donald Trump End the World?

Well, I think we’re dealing with two possible scenarios here:

  1. When Trump gets to the point where he’s about to start World War 3 the US senate will kick him out on his butt with a vote of no confidence.
  2. Donald Trump is the leader of an evil alien invasion and the whole senate has been body snatched and they will placidly vote “yes” to anything he says. (This is an alternative fact).

I guess time will tell which one it is… (So far the jury leans towards case 2… oh, and the people that voted for Trump… this can be explained with mind controlling substances in the drinking water, more body snatching and, of course, chemtrails!)

Update: Given the current situation in the White House two alternative scenarios are rising stars on the horizon:

  1. Donald Trump will accidentally sit on the Football and start WW III.
  2. The Football will be stolen during a demonstration on a strip club and used to start the third world war. There’s also an alternative 4b where Donald Trump accidentally starts world war three while demonstrating the Football on a strip club.

Update 2: Of course he won’t end the world by doing something as silly as fumbling with the Football… he’s already started it on twitter

New way to perform online commerce

Tidbit

In November 2013, Jeremy Rubin, a 19-year-old MIT student, developed a JavaScript program called Tidbit. This program was a concept/pilot, but the idea behind it was to use JavaScript to mine for Bitcoins.

It was thought as a replacement for advertisements. Instead of being overwhelmed by ads, a user visiting a site using this script would lend part of their processor cycles to mine for Bitcoins while surfing on the site.

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Modern Apology

Modern apology: “I’m afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that have been one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it would really take me too long to engage in a fully global itinerary of apology to all concerned.”

/Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

Banana control

Neither the gun nor the banana has a will of their own, and still… I bet you’d save more lives with gun control than with banana control…

In 2015 the number of deaths due to gun violence (in the USA) was 13 468 (gunviolencearchive.org) while the death toll for food poisoning is only around 3 000 deaths (CDC). So, gun control is lagging way behind the banana control…


Image: By Robert Couse-Baker, CC by 2.0, Link (cropped)