Oh, I'm very sure that HBO under it's new ownership will love to stay true to the story of a violent revolution against a christofascist right wing government

I'd love the epic fantasy North by Northwest. Or epic fantasy Three Days of the Condor. I don't need another epic fantasy John Wick. Just heroes who start out as village sports heroes or mid-level bureaucrats. I suppose since this is November, it's up to me to make the fiction I want in the world.

Well, you're a major apple influencer and Scalzi is a major food crime influencer, so it makes sense that the company would send you some samples.

I mean, the guy played one of the key heroes fighting a second wave of fascism and it would be hypocritical to get paid by a major corporation capitulating to a second wave of fascism to portray that character again.

It's not even Charlie Brown anymore. We're in "you're not here for the hunting" territory.

My whole life, we all mocked machismo or men trying to play as "macho" and now it's basically an entire political party.

Jesus hung out with sex workers and notably did not hang out with Nazis, or any ethnonationalists.

"Sweetness heart, what watch?"

"Ten watch."

"Such much?"

Anyway, it's the motto change is almost entirely emblematic of our current politics. One side believes in a pluralistic society where despite our differences, we're one people with common purpose. And the other side are a bunch of god botherers terrified of the spread of Soviet communism.

Welcome. Sorry about the record heat, but maybe you're happy to not be so cold.

Also true of all sorts of government workers, researchers, teachers, etc.

Well, I just mean the function of the service. Whatever we reconstitute afterwards.