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It's sci-fi with good character development and moral conundrums. It doesn't take itself too seriously and doesn't rely on flashy graphics. The characters are supportive of each other. Like if you took utopian leftist drama kids and told them to make a sci-fi show about humanity trying to do it's best.

Poverty nostalgia?

Exactly!

Zelensky wasn't elected to be a wartime leader; his mandate from the public was to do the opposite. Perhaps he has won over some citizens during the conflict, but he owes it to the people of Ukraine to give them the choice to pursue peace.

Been thinking about the Klingon and Hirogen species recently (and I guess Ferengi to a lesser extent). How do cultures so devoted to hunting, killing, pride, and honor, have the infrastructure in place to become space-based empires? Like, it takes millions of people doing boring jobs like math and engineering to make space travel possible, but if they're all motivated by murder and glory, how do they accomplish anything on a grand scale?

Considering how many I've blocked, there's gotta be

Does he get to keep his seat as a rep for Bakersfield, or is he out of the House entirely? If it's the latter, only 434 to go

Me, a war profiteer

I went to Millennium, a fancy vegetarian restaurant in San Francisco (now it's in Oakland) with a friend's wealthy dad, who treated us. It was about $200 for the 3 of us. The food was good, but not good enough to go back. Just give me a $5 bean and cheese burrito, please

Well since the Acela train can go up to 150mph for 49 of it's 457 miles, the US has just as much high speed rail as China and actually it's better because slower trains let you see more scenery and you're not beholden to authoritarian concepts like being on time to things

Elephants lay fat trunk

What the heck is that watermark

Cars aren't good at going slow. They need a "chill mode" setting where light pressure on the accelerator for 2 seconds doesn't move you from 20-30mph before you realize it. I like going the speed limit and have a hard time only going 20 on some roads because it's just so dang easy to accidentally bump up to 30mph. Automatic transmission problems

doing a bang up job, fellow workers

"This Perfect Day" by Ira Levin was good enough when I read it 15+ years ago.

"The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin does a lot of world building (in short, anarchist separatists fled Earth to terraform the moon to be barely hospitable) and a fun glimpse into a would-be anarchist society

Also Portland but the werewolf is homeless