It sounds like you’re telling me to stop caring about climate change cause I’d be happier

They’re mostly not being used for that and they come at a huge cost

Without spoiling too much in the book he isn’t muscley on earth but is once he is in space for a well explained reason. However, he’s also meant to be clean shaven in space due to the same reason and it looks like they’ve changed that so who knows.

I don’t like the idea of limiting company size - there are a lot of advantages of scale. Instead let’s say any company over 1000 employees must be fully employee owned

Every interaction I’ve ever had with police I’ve been the one attempting to de escalate. Literally 100%. What’s frustrating is you speaking calmly and clearly pisses them off even more because they feel like you’re speaking down to them. They feel like they are supposed to be the reasonable ones and you’re making them look bad. Which of course you are, because they’re not.

Pretty sure in OPs head they are the psychic tyrant

What’s more, there’s a reason people write books. Information is best conveyed via narrative with context. You can throw all the stats you want at someone, if you don’t give them a story to tie them all together it’s just noise. That’s why we have teachers instead of just textbooks and textbooks instead of just encyclopedias

They weren’t invited by the states governor

Is an American tourist really expected to know all that? How many locals even know all that?

Not everyone uses sugar.
“Better” is subjective

Engineer out the electricity?

My industry is desperate. I hire people that are barely qualified if at all just based on if they seem like they’d be able to learn. So I recognize I’m an outlier, but just saying such situations exist. I’ve been doing this about 15 years and I’ve never once had more qualified candidates than roles to fill.

Industry dependent I know but every time I’ve had two good candidates I’ve just gone ahead and hired both

Yeah if you’re gonna do a fraud at least put the minimum thought into it. It’s disrespectful is what it is. Gives honest grifters a bad name

Did they say anything inaccurate or does reality just make you uncomfortable?

Actually when you live in a democracy it is. Or at least, if you don’t you still get the consequences when these kids start voting.

The difference would be that presumably we’d be holding that prisoner despite Russians wishes not because of them. We paid for them (are paying?) to hold this guy. He’s not their prisoner, he’s ours. The whole situation is fucked but that analogy isn’t quite accurate.

Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans

Seems like a great opportunity for an actual televised protest. Line the parade route with opposition

Yeah I’m confident I could learn to run a cash register pretty dang well in less than a month. No way I’m learning plumbing that quick. Also, I’m confident I could teach myself to run a cash register. If I tried to teach myself plumbing (like, no books, internet, etc) I’d be at pretty high risk of a literal shotshow