Did you know those AC units are the perfect height for their sharp lower corners to reach the top of a kid's skull? I ended up learning that fact the hard way.
So a reincarnation based religious system that spans countless realities, creatures, and millennia is somehow beholden to this reality's 76 year old country led by a dictator? Makes sense.
How are you enjoying The Republic of Thieves so far? None of the books after The Lies of Locke Lamora have hit the same high note since. I'm still waiting on the Thorn of Emberlain to come out but after so many years I fear the author's run out of ideas on where to take the story next.
I'm almost done with Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb. I'm contemplating jumping over to The Magic of Recluce by LE Modesitt Jr or maybe The Scholomance series after this.
Now this should be the quote of the year. America fucking blew it. It got high on its own farts and basically elected an idiot - twice - to destroy all the soft power this country built over a century. We deserve what's coming to us. America needs to be humbled by having its former allies turn its back to it the way America did with Ukraine.
You bring up a good point with culture and expectations. The job required occasional unpaid overtime since it's a salaried position.
The US uses up the entirety of the Colorado River. It's an arid riverbed by the time it reaches the Mexican border. These water treaties need to be overhauled before wars start over them.
This country has a major reactionary problem. Too often we see blue and red waves as a reaction of either conservatives shitting on Democrat presidents on TV/social media or reality punching common people in the gut under Republican administrations. There has to be a way to keep voter's disgust of Republicans in place year over year.
So shakedowns and show trials should be only for the lower classes? No, let the rich have a taste of their own medicine for once.
You leftists sure are a contentious people.
"Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all sausage."

The Controlled Opposition Party strikes again. Can't wait for them to write another strongly worded letter while begging for more donations smh.