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There's a nail salon in the strip mall with the grocery store I go to that has usually has a Cybertruck parked outside. No branding decals, but I'm sure it ain't one of the nail techs driving that thing.

Yeah. I doubt most people would turn down a direct sequel, but anyone aware of the drama around ZA/UM and DE is probably not expecting anything more than some spiritual successors.

ill give you credit for having at least read some of the silmarillion (or maybe watched that amazon show? do they cover that?), but know this is done begrudgingly and I do not condone this behavior

i doubt any of them have plans or means to secure IP rights to DE or its setting, so I don't think you have worry about any direct sequels.

Palantir. Literally an evil wizard orb.

I don’t understand. He’s a high ranking politician, why isn’t he a cowardly worm who only pays lip service to ideals? Is he at least treating his constituents like ungrateful children?

Its a lower bound not an upper limit.

Kamala Harris has pledged to appoint one Nazi to her cabinet

Be mean to them instead. The only language they understand is smug superiority and condescension.

The laws are working as intended. They’re meant to discourage trans people from participating in anything, not address some kind of biological inequity. Their laws and behaviors being hypocritical is not a bug, it’s a feature.

Stock prices are completely divorced from material reality. The only thing you can glean from them is how much hype a company has in the financial sector.

The historical existence of snow depends on where you’re talking about. Climate is changing but not every manifestation of that will cause less snow. It’s possible some places start getting more as rising temperatures create more moisture in the air in places that are historically cold and dry. For example, parts of the mountains here in Nevada had unusually high snowfall, like Lee’s Canyon While looking at (what appears to be) the historical data for the US overall doesn’t seem to show a significant deviation at a cursory glance.

Saying these things are obviously true while not bothering to check if they’re factually accurate is misrepresenting the problem and leaves openings for climate denialists to make themselves more credible. “You said snowfall was going down but it just saw record snowfall in the news!” Which is a bad argument but a convincing one to people who aren’t inclined to deal with a global apocalyptic problem.