Elon Musk would be on Kamala Harris’ cabinet, amongst a coalition of rivals. Because the most important thing to do with power is give it to the people you say are ideologically opposed to you. This is why they’re throwing the election to Trump as the most efficient application of this methodology

They’re more than willing to put pressure on the left leaning members, and work against their reelection. They just won’t do it to anyone who’s pushing for neoliberalism or for achieving anything they use to get elected. Manchin basically ran the party for a while and now he’s a republican.

Smarts don’t make you an expert on climate dynamics, and I don’t trust some guy on Twitter to be a good judge of “smart”. The phrasing is pretty telling though “smart people I know”, vs “people smarter than me” means he’s including himself among the “smart people” pushing for this.

So heavily propagandized to love capitalism that people keep recognizing it’s the problem then try to resolve that dissonance by making up a specific type of capitalism that’s bad, rather than the whole.

Ornstein and Smough

It’s just an empty suit!

There’s a nail salon in the strip mall with the grocery store I go to that has usually has a Cybertruck parked outside. No branding decals, but I’m sure it ain’t one of the nail techs driving that thing.

do you think the bulge size was specified in the prompt

well given the pier was used to commit perfidy they may prefer people forget it.

Yeah. I doubt most people would turn down a direct sequel, but anyone aware of the drama around ZA/UM and DE is probably not expecting anything more than some spiritual successors.

ill give you credit for having at least read some of the silmarillion (or maybe watched that amazon show? do they cover that?), but know this is done begrudgingly and I do not condone this behavior

i doubt any of them have plans or means to secure IP rights to DE or its setting, so I don’t think you have worry about any direct sequels.

Palantir. Literally an evil wizard orb.

I don’t understand. He’s a high ranking politician, why isn’t he a cowardly worm who only pays lip service to ideals? Is he at least treating his constituents like ungrateful children?

Its a lower bound not an upper limit.

Kamala Harris has pledged to appoint one Nazi to her cabinet

Be mean to them instead. The only language they understand is smug superiority and condescension.

The historical existence of snow depends on where you’re talking about. Climate is changing but not every manifestation of that will cause less snow. It’s possible some places start getting more as rising temperatures create more moisture in the air in places that are historically cold and dry. For example, parts of the mountains here in Nevada had unusually high snowfall, like Lee’s Canyon While looking at (what appears to be) the historical data for the US overall doesn’t seem to show a significant deviation at a cursory glance.

Saying these things are obviously true while not bothering to check if they’re factually accurate is misrepresenting the problem and leaves openings for climate denialists to make themselves more credible. “You said snowfall was going down but it just saw record snowfall in the news!” Which is a bad argument but a convincing one to people who aren’t inclined to deal with a global apocalyptic problem.

I eat there because it’s half decent fast food chicken that isn’t ChikFilA. I throw out the sauce.

If this appeals to you I suggest trying out Shadow of the Colossus. It’s not exactly what the OP is describing but there are long stretches where you just ride a horse through scenic wilderness.