Also! You're the sort of person who has a vizier! Enemies laying in wait are to be expected, possibly including ones in the pay of the vizier!

Same sort of Convert Enthusiasm as with certain tradcaths, I think.

A number of these societal shifts are also really beneficial to an Asshole Class: consider the alternatives (arson, beatings, murder) to negotiating with an organized workforce, and how being divorced is probably more fun than being poisoned.

The executive having that recourse against the legislative feels like yet another flaw in this system.

IIRC he was hustled out of "line" positions early, so not even really that.

No! That was Kash Patel, director of the FBI.

4 million in the Bolivarian Militia.

Not sure what the "Citizen Security Organs and... Comprehensive Defense Commands" are. Might be internal security agencies and preexisting regular armed forces structures, might be something else.

Musk missing, as ever, that he would be the sort of person to have a drone keeping him company (and not in the fun/cool/dangerous SC way), and that he's basically Veppers.

Helps that he's so firmly of a given time, too.

ST has an out with their ship-linked approach: the crew can change while the ship endures (see Discovery for a prime example).

Nicely done.

The pickup of Theseus, sometimes.

Not a redneck, but have a Tacoma that's on that trajectory. Would be really cool to hybridize it somehow (are wheel drum motors a thing?), but I absolutely don't want a new truck.

SHIP STILL STUCK! would lend itself to rap...

...redneck shit, either the dangerous/stupid/fun triad or the tinkering stuff. (there's probably a bunch out there that I've missed)

Also... interesting... seeing suburban money showing up to do what were farm kid and trash activities: 4x4, dirt biking, quadding. Why is *all* your stuff new?

See also: got the piece of shit truck/car/whatever to start! Cue whooping and howling.

Maybe something ameliorative going on with physicality, craft, knowledge, and problem solving.

Not my genre, but I don't think I've heard any modern "that's so country" country songs speaking to that sort of...

stan rogers' shipwreck song was so inspiring it saved a man's life in an actual shipwreck, hard to beat that

"Old film" filter of some kind with flash? I think?

Also, what looks like a projection screen (covering something openwork and interesting: bookshelves?) really isn't helping.

They look great, though!