Col on Mastodon provided me with more inspiration earlier, this time with a post linking to a Sky News article entitled “Nearly all US aid programmes worldwide frozen after Trump order“. POTUS1 also questioned the need for FEMA – the USA’s own disaster management body tasked with assisting states in times of dire emergency. But anyway…
I wrote a program designed to guide budding diplomats through the maze of decision making when it comes to aliens.
No, not 👽 aliens, but I’ve no doubt the same logic will be applied when The Space Browns arrive to save my Cleveland Browns.
The program is thankfully devoid of AI, and honestly it’s pretty BASIC.
1 REM ### DecSurpPop v0.01a ###
10 DealWithKids = 0
20 USForeignPolicyKids = 0
30 Month = 0
40 HellFreezesOver = 0
50 WHILE USForeignPolicyKids = 0
60 DealWithKids = 0
70 Month = Month + 3
80 IF Month = 3 THEN Month = 0
90 USForeignPolicyKids = RND()*1776
100 IF USForeignPolicyKids = 1 THEN HellFreezesOver = RND()*2025
110 WEND
120 IF HellFreezesOver = 1 THEN END ELSE GOTO 10
There are no integers on 90 & 100, it sounds too much like “integrate”.
Disclaimer: I am not a professional programmer, so before using this as an integral (ugh!) plank of your basis of government a check of its syntax may be appropriate.
- An acronym for the current President Of The United States. Please check which you’re following on any social or government account – it’s been rolled over from the previous incumbent. ↩