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Sunnyvale Councilmember, unofficial account.
Houser, liberal, democrat, Democrat, bicycling bisexual, unicameralist fanatic.
Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. —Terry Pratchet
My God.
November 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Mine is fewer/less.
a man in a dark room says fewer
ALT: a man in a dark room says fewer
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October 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
It being Warhammer, the potential for interesting (and invariably bad) choices to throw at the player are almost limitless. Keep up infrastructure, grow your industrial base, pay the tithe, suppress cults, keep your higher-ups happy--never enough for all of that, something's gotta give.
October 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Planetary governor or, alternatively, Hive City Lord Baron
October 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
One thing's for sure: I won't stop advocating for safe streets for all in Sunnyvale and the region.
September 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
bike dragoons!
August 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The deep irony is the insistence that everything is class politics, despite the overwhelming evidence against such a thing, is proof that ideas have independent causal force. People read Marx and it broke their brains!
August 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We get glimpses of this in Godbreaker as well, where there is an entire political economy of Breaths.
August 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
For Stormlight archive, the entire economy runs off of the spheres used to capture Stormlight. The gemhearts that the Alethi are fighting so hard for on the Shattered Plains are valuable for their use in soulcasting, especially food. Soulcasting itself is critical to the entire Rothar economy.
August 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Well, for the Final Empire there's the fact that the entire political structure is a brutal slave eugenic magocracy, with the entire politico-economic system designed around controlling who has access to magic, and the supply of atium explicitly being used by the Lord Ruler to control the nobility.
August 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
the Cosmere is the shared universe in which most of his original works are set. I think the original Mistborn trilogy remains the strongest, but all of the books engage quite a bit with how the various magic systems impact the economic and political systems of the planets on which they exist.
August 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The economics of magic is something I think Brandon Sanderson has done very well in his cosmere world-building
August 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM