Given the width and breadth of the Legendarium, I'm not sure which is more baffling: the unnamed blue wizards who are only ever mentioned in passing, or the fact that of the 9 nazgul, only one has a name, another a title and the rest are like idk
This goes back to the notion that people wildly overestimate the amount of money we spend on foreign aid, by like several orders of magnitude in some cases
Right? And the "we shouldn't spend money on X so we can spend money on Y" is fundamentally a conservative, pro-austerity argument. I'm pretty sure the largest economy in the history of the planet has room in the budget for foreign aid *and* disaster relief
There is no wonkiness Goldilocks Zone
I saw a post that was something like "do you think the government should have fired missiles at the hurricane" and it was perfect
The problem with talking about "a retreat from disaster-prone areas", esp in the context of Helene and Asheville, is that there's nowhere that is safe from disaster, and talk of abandoning "coastal settlements" is just degrowth with extra steps
My 5yo's school is on a major street and every single day i see someone driving wildly unsafely (usually in a fucking Tesla)
And he doesn't even get the easily verifiable facts correct. California went red in '88! We've had two republican governors since then! Plud the real tipping point for the state was the psychotic anti-immigrant Prop 187 in 1994
I've read this story at least 20 times and it never ever gets old
There was a lot of this going around in 2000, sadly