It predates Illuminatus!, which came out in the early 70s. The foundational text of Discordianism, the Principia Discordia, was published (i.e. photocopied and sent out to fellow fringe dwellers) around the mid-60s. Illuminatus!, however, popularised it.

Does he have a large adult failson he could parachute into the position?

The Helmsley Doctrine (“only the little people pay taxes”) is now law

Musk is neither a Tesla nor an Edison; he is a Barnum.

“…caught trying to plant additional explosive devices”

I wonder how hard it would be to make some minimal placeholder resources/assets, sufficient to build the game and for it to run, even if it won’t look good or be particularly playable.

What shape is Russia’s egg industry in?

“And so, I am putting America’s best homeopaths and aromatherapists on the case”

So, guaranteed roles for conservative white men then?

I’m guessing they don’t actually have any offices, assets or staff in Sweden.

Signal don’t block users from countries where they are banned, and in fact have options to make bypassing firewalls easier. OTOH, it’s a lot less likely that they might be arrested and extradited to Iran or China while on holiday.

They’ll presumably remedy this by giving husbands extra votes on behalf of their wives and children, as in Franco-era Spain.

What proportion of their GDP is that?

To be fair, until you can see both sides of each horse, that technically doesn’t disprove it

People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.

I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

Garbage-tier life goals

Presumably quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.

There was a modern handheld with this form factor maybe 8 years ago named the Gemini. It shipped with a version of Android, though could be flashed to run a Linux, if you didn’t mind not knowing if will wake up from sleep. I still have one sitting in the back of a drawer.

Trains in Germany are delayed a lot these days due to a backlog in track maintenance (though there’s now a program to overhaul the system), though a typical German train delay may be 30-60 minutes for an intercity connection, rather than 5 hours while your Amtrak train waits in a field for a succession of freight trains to pass. The Germans complain about it (and are right to), though it’s all relative.

Hamburg is a pleasant city. The area around Altona and St. Pauli can be interesting to explore. If you’re interested in travelling, it’s also easy to go elsewhere. Berlin is about 2 hours away by train (and worth a visit; there’s a lot going on there), Amsterdam is a slightly longer journey, and to your north is Copenhagen, about 5 hours away by train (which will halve in a few years when the undersea rail tunnel opens). Beyond, you can reach Paris, Warsaw or Stockholm within a day, and there are sleeper trains to places like Vienna.