Maybe The Onion has a book section.

Ask the US to do it for a fixed low price and see them refusing the orders.

Classic. The only reward for good work is more work. Then management is surprised people deliver mediocre work and mediocre effort after they don’t get a raise (again).

The history how Vietnam tells it is such a contrast. It boils down to colonizers trying to take their land and they pushed them out. Also with USA basically saying to France: “step aside, I’ve got this.” and then losing.

It would be a lot easier if the kids at 12 years old could tell their exact life’s plans so we can tune their curriculum to all their future needs.

They’ll check for more testosterone than average and then move to disqualify.

Knowing the Germans, they’ll lobby even harder for tariffs and subsidies for fossil fuels, claiming that their customers demand the authentic vroom vroom noise. Meanwhile customers are looking at way to expensive SUVs as the main model being sold.

Or at least pay out the unused days as additional wage and they really don’t like that.

the drought is real, but so are awful water management, subsidised waste, thirsty crops in the wrong places, and political appointments that put loyalty above expertise

That’s certainly not exclusive to Iran. Other places will have the same issue sooner or later.

Nothing remains, except for the debt that needs to be paid back to big banks owned by rich people

Or spell script

https://github.com/sirbread/spellscript

In April 2011, during an interview with Wall Street Journal, Mr Musk was pressed to give a time frame as to when humans could land on Mars. “Best case, 10 years. Worst case, 15 to 20 years,” Mr Musk responded.

https://x.com/steinkobbe/status/1531381173901004801

If the government vehemently denies it, it must be true.

In reality, there’s a whole hell of a lot of bad things that can happen in between

And they’ll be blamed on the scapegoat du jour instead of the real inconvenient cause.

Let’s just build a new web based on the old BBS terminals, and 16 color images. Too much graphics was a mistake.

Exactly. It’s the classic salami slice method. Push a bit more, and if nothing happens go a bit further. They’ll keep doing that until they’re standing in Brussels or there is a serious reaction and pushback.

Whose bread I eat, his song I sing.

That’s like asking if boys don’t want to do stuff unless they can turn it into a game or competition.

That’s the story of humanity. It’s always alarmist BS until some higher up gets personally burned and it’s suddenly red alert.

The equivalent of saying “Ayyyy” because The Fonz said it.