Do I know anyone here on Mastodon, who lives in Greenland?
@randahl You mean the state of Greenland?
@Luxonardo @randahl
So now we'll call it Whiteland? 
@Ginafla @Luxonardo @randahl There's an interesting short story as to why it is called "Green land". Basically, the guy wanted to make it sound better to the inhabitants of Iceland, and other places, to convince them to sail there to colonise it with him.
Point 2 on here: https://visitgreenland.com/articles/10-facts-nellie-huang/#:~:text=Greenland%20Really%20Was%20Green&text=It%20actually%20got%20its%20name,than%202.5%20million%20years%20ago.
@Ginafla @Luxonardo @randahl ugh they probably will
@Luxonardo
Pretty useless comment, isn't it?
@Luxonardo @randahl Is that summer on both poles or is that just what Canada and Chili look like all year now?
@Luxonardo @randahl Except for that large chunk of Whiteland
@randahl Unlikely, as there's 30 thousand residents I think.
@stevebrady the population of Greenland is 56,000.
@randahl Dunno if you KNOW anyone, but taking @stevebrady at his word that there are 30k residents and dividing by the world population of about 8 billion, then multiplying by the number of active Mastodon users (751,893 according to https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon) gives approximately two Greenlandic people on Mastodon.
@FishNamedDog @randahl @stevebrady thank you, and this is what we're all here for!
@Rob_l @randahl @stevebrady deep dives into the data supporting random meaningless comments? yesss!
No hut I will boost, while we are o that topic anyone in Panama?
@randahl Intermittently @Ruth_Mottram I think
@martinvermeer @randahl only for fieldwork! But I have colleagues who *should* be there or on their way (weather depending).
@randahl If Trump tries to use the U.S. military to invade Greenland, it would be a real mess: Greenland is part of Denmark, which is a NATO member, and Denmark could then ask other NATO countries to help fight off the invader. Since the U.S. is part of NATO that includes us. There's a treaty, the North Atlantic Treaty, that is implemented by NATO, and under the U.S. Constitution, treaties are the "supreme law of the land". Legally we might have to fight ourselves.
Putin would love it.
@NMBA @randahl It is not obvious that Trump can decide to quit NATO because the U.S. ratified a treaty that formed NATO. Treaties, along with the constitution, etc., are "the supreme law of the land". Trump can request that the U.S.
withdraw from NATO, but might need congressional approval. It may depend on the
text of the treaty, plus various Supreme Court precedents (I'll leave that question to lawyers).
@NMBA @syferdet @randahl But "Teflon Don" (I prefer "Mango Mussolini", although that is probably unfair to the real Mussolini) might have to contend with the custom of having members of the military take an oath expressing loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, not the current president. How that would effect the outcome is an open question: they are not supposed to follow unlawful orders and there is a procedure to handle that case.
@randahl hello from USA land 
Cause you're not getting answers on your question, but a lot of blabla around Greenland... I'll add some BS too...
I know at least a guy who is born there and a Danish guy who was in jail there...
The guy who was born there told me the most crazy conspiracy theory I ever heard - Shiva (Hinduism) was born there as a Viking and went then to India...
