It's the role that always comes first to mind whenever I see him mentioned.

I'm pretty certain he won't be able to hold the entire GOP hostage the way the current shithead does.

Something to do with radar charts, maybe? That is, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_c...

Knowing this, it's all the more hysterical how Musk and co actually believe in the singularity and other fever dreams.

Came here to say exactly this. The whole point about the story is about the basic rules of hospitality.

I am Eastern European. The last few years have convinced me that the aspirational definition of "American" is just Cold War PR talk and was never true.

the children or the celebrities?

I think it's a "we didn't start the fire" situation. Once you start looking critically at the whole post-WW2 history, it's quite amusing how naive we were over here in Eastern Europe to dream of the american liberators. The signs were there all along.

As a non-American, all the stuff (propaganda?) I've learned all my life about how great democracy in America is assured me that there are multiple checks and balances in place to assure this kind of stuff is absolutely impossible to happen. I've been re-evaluating a lot of assumptions lately.

Wow, I even forgot the browser still had this feature. I had to dig up through the unused toolbar icons in Firefox to see what it does since I forgot the key shortcut and it wasn't enabled.

I remember that 25 years ago I was messing with HTML specifically to maintain my own browser homepage.

and by "our" he means "their".

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when your memory fails