Ok, but when they do the movie can we get Matt Damon to reprise his character from the Green Zone who transferred to the navy in disgust after the events of that movie, and he gets to say lines like “I’m so sick of this shit”, looking straight at the camera, while boarding fishing boats looking for drugs from ‘sure thing’ intel?

I didn’t watch the end of that one, but I assume he lived to the end??

I would call it a eukaryote cell level breakthrough.

‘nice watch!’ then move in and quietly say “oh, hey, it looks like your barber missed a spot back there”

You just need to understand how to talk to them:

We bring the foreigners in, give them a first class AMERICAN education and then send them back into the world. They now are effectively a double-agent, preferring to deal with Americans in business, promote American superiority in the world by telling everyone what a badass they are for getting into Harvard, and have been indoctrinated on American values which they then seed into whatever population they are returning to. This is one of America’s effective long term methods of world domination in action and it would be stupid to halt it.

And then make up some fake examples of it paying off big time.

For just $1 billion down payment, I will build it in 2 years for half of that. I pinky promise.

Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.

I don’t know, but I started realizing that nearly all of the holiday traditions I’d ever participated in originated by way of some well received piece of advertising. It’s all a mess. It’s all people lying to each other for power, influence, and resources back to the very beginning. The internet certainly allows for messages to travel and build to critical mass faster, but humanity and this behavior originated together, only the tools change.