This is to make sure they are not overwhelmed an hour later when the next wish restores their sight permanently.

Bah, those are (mostly) immutable characteristics! You may as well bemoan opportunities missed because you weren’t born a French noble of the 14th century.

No, but the meme implies she meant cologne.

I dunno, I like going slow- that is to say near the limit- and will have people ride me the entire time in a passing zone or blaze past me in a double yellow.

Edit: It’s the best because I get to watch these same cars pull into the parking lot 500 yards down the road. Really saved them the extra fraction of a second.

Damn. If only there was a way that cars could pass each other.

This assumes that either the populace that would fight for a freer regime is in the permanent minority or that there exists no part of the populace that would simply not fight for either regime.

I seem to recall that ~40% is the magic number of strong supporters (not necessarily militant supporters) that the regime would need to effectively suppress dissent through violent and non-violent means, but that’s a half-remembered number that I cannot source.

Just so. The periphery of the parks may be visited- a shared border between worlds where the most intrepid of both may briefly meet, but just as bears and raccoons are driven out of suburbs, so too should people be driven from the deeper parks.

As for the sanctity of life, it’s more of a balancing in my eyes. No life should be valued so as to cause undue stress to survivors. But I suppose my rather callous attitude is anathema to most.

Absolutely not.

Alas, I am but a blue collar shmuck without the patience to slog through theory nor the oratory skills to convincingly pass on what theory others share.

Yes? I’m not so optimistic about humans becoming interplanetary, but if it were to happen, I’d make noise to try and limit any human settlement. I’d argue that if humans want so badly to be off this rock, they can make space arcologies designed around themselves rather than inserting themselves where they ought not be and fucking up wherever they land.

I believe more important is to train on your kit. If you know how your gun works with ‘muscle memory’, you won’t even need to think about dicking around with the manual safety- it’ll be done my the time you think about it.

Even if you get one without the manual safety: train on that. The familiarity and comfort of the wielder is far more important a factor than any particular component of the gun.

Lessee… I suppose my hottest take is that no lives are sacred. I believe that human expansion into more ‘wild’ domains is a mistake and that national and state parks’ availability should be limited (geographically - you may not venture into the Deep Parks). This probably borders on some vaguely eco-fascy beliefs, and I recognize human’s inexorable curiousity and desire to explore, but you will never find me mourning a human victim of a wild animal.

Has she considered infodumping? I hear that’s a great hook. Might even be able to stay in the plane museum if that’s her interest.

Ah, sure. Alabama. You probably weren’t coming here anyway (even I don’t wanna be here), but I’m just learning things for the protracted lean times that are coming.

I recently learned blood is a decent egg substitute. But you don’t want to be using the tainted blood of the poor for this kind of thing. You’ll just get microplastics and lead and such in your food.

Glory to you, cat.

Mad even better by the “no weapons” sign posted over the “A”.

Looks fun. If only I wasn’t absolute garbage at rhythm games.

Had to look up Chisinau, but it looks nowhere near the Transnistria region that has been … contentious. Was the move difficult regarding personal goods/customs/etc?

Only in the professional sense, medicine and engineering as concepts of let’s not have these people die of what we know to be preventable has been around a lot longer than agriculture.

Every year I check to see if we’ve finally made it past January.

No luck yet.