Honestly the only friends I still speak to from college I met in my last year. By then maybe you start having the same classes with certain people so it's easier to introduce yourself or discuss homework. If you still want to meet people the last year or two are the best time to make real connections. But as everyone else has said life tends to open up in different ways after college anyway

I've actually really been enjoying the Warhammer 40k books, started with the Ultramarines omnibus, fun sci Fi fantasy

Buffer like Asta/tingyun/yukong? Or if solo Natasha isn't enough the March or fire mc

Not technically in tech, I'm an oceanographer but work with numerical modeling so ehhhhh

Man I love aqua teen. Just found out that the adult swim website does 24 hour marathons of some shows and been watching through metalocalypse too

Of course there's cycles but even removing decadal trends, it seems like there's there's still an increasing trend in terms of intensity. And slower years of extreme events in there could be somewhat related to the climate hiatus period but I'm not 100% on that. And you're absolutely right that prediction and modeling has gotten substantially better but that doesn't mean these storms won't still be costly. It's an interesting issue for sure