If you return ‘too many’ items they may suspend or even ban your account. I’m not sure what the threshold is.

And these disruptions can be more than just an inconvenience. People can lose their jobs for being late. They can miss medical appointments and procedures.

Tariffs hurt America. The messaging is that simple.

Watch as we fuck up the messaging.

I had similar thoughts. Someone more knowledgeable would probably call them “healthcare professionals”, or “healthcare practitioners”, not “doctors and nurses”.

And you’re right, as important as they are, they can’t do their jobs without the infrastructure you’re pointing out. Power and water are more essential, as they enable everyone all of the time. And waste piling up would create serious problems fairly quickly.

This reminds me of the Silo series, where every level thinks they keep the Silo running.

I use bullshit answers for these, and save them in the notes section of my password manager.

Google voice is hit or miss. It’s worked for a lot of smaller sites for me, but the bigger / more corporate it is, the less likely it seems to work.

I mostly agree. I do miss some niche communities, though.

The world would be a better place if we could replace every corporate climber type with this guy.

Seems like maybe another trope is a character refusing to eat when they are upset or grieving. This happens in real life, too, of course. But it’s kind of a frequent go-to for writers.

The literal-minded still struggling with figurative speech, I see.

I suspect 90% of them don’t care. The 10% that do care already judged me as soon as I walked in.

Sideline interviews.

I am interpreting the top half as play fantasy games all day and not actually live in olden times.