I recently moved to the Czech Republic and found out that their hotdogs are already like this. The meat cylinder goes into a tube. It makes so much more sense than the sandwich!
"In the middle of 1985, I got an invitation from Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian and a billionaire at the time, to come to his apartment in Olympic Tower. I went, and while I didn’t particularly go for the apartment, I was impressed by the huge size of its rooms. Specifically, it had the biggest living room I’d ever seen. I had plenty of space in my triplex, but I figured, What the hell? Why shouldn’t I have exactly the apartment I wanted—particularly when I built the whole building?
I decided to take over one of the other apartments on the top three floors and combine it with mine. It has taken almost two years to renovate, but I don’t believe there is any apartment anywhere in the world that can touch it. And while I can’t
honestly say I need an eighty-foot living room, I do get a kick out of having one."
Literally just drew a line in MS Paint. The kind of idea a 5 year old would come up with if someone asked them to come up with the dumbest idea they can think of.
Right, once you have a global alliance that includes every nation there's no reason for that alliance to exist. Or standing armies. Or nuclear submarines. You can't ever let people get to the point where they start to question the need for mindless death instruments and the psychopaths who wield them.
On 21 December 1991, Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, sent a letter to NATO asking it to consider accepting Russia as a member of the alliance sometime in the future. In the letter to NATO, Yeltsin stated, "This would contribute to an atmosphere of mutual understanding and trust and would strengthen stability and cooperation on the European continent. We regard this relationship as serious and wish to develop this dialog on all fronts, both on the political and military levels. Today we raise the issue of Russia's membership in NATO, however, we see this as a long-term political goal".
Then, a bunch of stuff happened and both sides realized it was advantageous to not have Russia in NATO. Turns out it's easier to win elections when there's a cold war going on. You can read about it here.
Fun fact: a lot of these attempts backfired when circumcised men mistakenly thought that they were now immune rather than just less likely to get HIV, so they had more unprotected sex and the infection rates actually increased.
There were huge countervailing forces then. New Deal US. Soviet Union. Socialist parties gaining power the world over. The rise of fascism was limited to a few powerful countries, not systematic like it is today.
I recently moved to the Czech Republic and found out that their hotdogs are already like this. The meat cylinder goes into a tube. It makes so much more sense than the sandwich!