Trademark, not copyright. Legally they are very different.

I wanted to read this, but I couldn't because the text was light gray on white background.

Fixed, sorry about that. Would you mind trying again? I can get the LLM to add a dark mode too.

“In an American police procedural, we would either have…”

In the first minutes of the American show “Keen Eddie”, the titular character bungles a project so badly that he is exiled to London.

It unfortunately lasted only one season.

Wikipedia has an article about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker

It's just like that episode of Star Trek, where Kirk shuts down the alien computer by talking to it in Armenian!

That's also how it seemed after the Iraq invasion and the removal of Saddam Hussein. “Once we get rid of the bad guy at the top, everything in Iraq will get better.”

It didn't turn out well. I hope this one turns out better.

I'm glad that someone decided to be "that guy". Putting the Euler-Mascheroni constant third the list was a very questionable choice.

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Related and perhaps interesting: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/114730157688607856

O'Rourke also said “The Republicans are the party that says that government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it,” which I've thought about a lot this year.

Have you read the opinion?

Yes and I am addressing the quoted remark above which stands out.