Season 3 was top tier, and the others had moments, but you could tell the creators were middle grade writers at heart

Private sufficiency / public luxury

Not calling anyone out, but there can’t be a serious econ or politics discussion without ecology

Restaurants that all look like the Krusty Krab

My subjective list of best national and regional cuisines, not in order

Mexican
Peruvian
Iberian
Italian
French
Moroccan
West African
Ethiopian
Turkish
Levantine
Persian
South Asian (all sub-regions)
Chinese (ditto)
Japanese
Korean
Thai
Vietnamese
Indo-Malayan

If cellular agriculture can become scalable, seafood should be the easiest to sell. No one likes eating fishbones, and sushi and shellfish have easy shapes to replicate

The midlist treadmill is set to 15mph

Schumer went to bat for the climate provisions of the IRA right after the DSA landslide of 2020. He was resistant before then. Primaries are the best way to make leadership do anything

My theory is that GRRM is wedded to having a 7 book series, but can’t wrap it up that succinctly. Add onto that being way past retirement age, being rich as hell, and the show ending panned, he’s stuck in a vortex of demotivation