I think your third theory will definitely happen. It seems to be a cultural obsession to believe that their heroes are still out there hiding from the spotlight.

Theory number two is quite plausible too. A second coming of Trump could certainly happen. It terrifies me that thousands of years from now, he could get exalted enough that he is discussed like a messiah.

Theory one is a bit further fetched, but maybe a handful of nutters?

Sometimes I wonder if the Republican Party will keep chugging along with an AI generated Trump for a few years after he croaks.

Nobody else seems to have his weird appeal and ability to let stupid statements roll off his back. In the hands of anyone else, this administration should have been overthrown as a clan of self-interested moronic tyrants. And yet with Trump, somehow middle America cheers on their own money being taken from their pockets.

I have little doubt that you could generate a bunch of asinine tweets and videos and use an obese body double on a golf course while they try to find someone else who makes Americans celebrate their own demise.

I love that. The enthusiasm of someone who can write 15 pages about penguin migration or medieval catapults is infectious.

If you end up murdering your own arch duke, I want no part of it!

Can’t blame them - I’d leave Florida for Spain too

This bums me out too. Just because something is necessary or inevitable doesn’t make it easy

And magic school was a change from detective children back in the day. YA changes with each decade, and if it gets kids reading, I’m ok with it

I suppose you’re right - it could be done on a small scale. I’m so used to seeing massive vats at the sugar bush that I didn’t even think of a small volume in a pot

Definitely not China specific. At minimum, let’s add my Indian parents to the list

I can’t describe how many patients I see in an average week who are taking homeopathic stuff for their dental diseases and ask me hopefully if it’s working. No, magic toxin water has not cured your gingivitis or rebuilt your cavitated tooth.

I think about that often. The people who have the most kids are generally the ones who can’t afford them and have a harder time providing extra-curricular activities or those with more extreme religious beliefs who may opt out of scientific education. If your average Mormon has 3-4 kids and your average astrophysicist has 1-2, the population trend must eventually follow.

I also read it about being a reframing as being a helpful friend and claiming not to have any self-interest

Though it does give him an out to move the troops to Cuba at his whims.

That’s what I meant as well - we are saying the same thing. I think I misread your comment as that being the threshold to make it worth it. Don’t mind me, my brain is mush after work lol

If you scoured the world for the most punchable face, you’d surely come up with Sam Altman

We awkwardly completed her filling without speaking much. Just another shitty day in healthcare

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Glad to hear - we don’t hear about it as much up in Canada lately. The news cycle is always desperate to keep up with whatever the orange buffoon is fucking up next

Unless picking up the bill stops someone from earning for some reason, most people should earn their hourly wage plus $100

Darwinian evolution is as much luck as it is skill

No, but bagels are a lesbian food