There’s a documentary predicting just that.
Haha, you beat me to it!
Nitpick: they’re hot peppers.
(Of course.)
Nitpick: “Idiocracy” is not predictive. Rather than a crystal ball, it’s a mirror, reflecting current (at the time - and things haven’t changed all that much) society but dialing things up to 11.
Yes, I remember it now! Over time it is becoming less and less like a comedy and more and more like a dread. 
Pickled pipers picked a peck of peter peppers?
Of course there is the typical barrage of “challenges” and “life hacks” that appear on various sites,
This piece delves shallowly into the subject of why teh stewpeed spreads so easily, blaming it in part on the plasticity of addlescent brain.
We got competent people running the Gov NOW?
Dan
Nice!
Hey! I work in government!
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I see your point.
“When Britain is turned into a Martian desert, will they defend a Martian desert as per their fifth article? There will be nothing left.”
Like NATO couldn’t figure out where the nuke came from and turn Moscow into a plain of glass? I think we have us a Russian Lauren Boebert.
If it only, or even primarily, showed up in adolescents, the world would be a very different place.
In terms of government, I think it can sometimes be difficult to discern the difference between “incompetent” and"corrupt".
Poisoning a university’s cherished oak trees because you’re a fan of a rival football team is dumb enough, but this person may have established a new level of crazy.
Whoops! Just kidding, y’all. 
The reactor in question:
It apparently worked. Utah won 35-7 over threats of nuclear destruction.
The white woman who called 911 on the black bird watcher sued her employer for firing her, and she just lost her lawsuit.
Up next: a GoFundMe to finance her appeal (and support her).
Oh, I saw one of those when our HS physics teacher took us to see the TRIGA at Reed College. The operator pulled the rods and turned out the lights in the room so we could see the cherenkov radiation of a running reactor. I thought the core was a bit larger than 2’ across, though.
U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams on Wednesday rejected Amy Cooper’s claims that her former employer, investment management company Franklin Templeton, defamed her when it repeatedly said the firm did not tolerate racism.
It can’t be defamation when it’s provably true.