If opening up is what caused the marriage to fall apart, it was built on a broken foundation and was doomed from the start. You’re only finding out now because emotional unavailability hides that sort of thing.

The owners of the largest military in the world will make it everyone’s problem before it gets better.

Chaotic neutral: Python

This. I will never support a language that uses tokenized whitespace as ‘Good’ aligned.

A big part of the experience is talking to your buddy about the movie after it’s over. Hard to do that when you go alone.

The problem is that incandescent lights are 1) warmer in tone, which is less harsh for the same candle ratings, 2) have a more gradual boundary than LED projector-style headlights, which means you aren’t suddenly blinded when the car coming towards you goes over a minor bump, and 3) aren’t a point light-source with the reflector design they have unlike LEDs, and thus are less painful. NONE of these issues are dealt with in a vast majority of new cars (adaptive-angle headlamps would do a lot to help, but would only fix one of the three issues - and only when the camera can actually figure out when they should be lowering the angle, which is far from foolproof).

If I could easily replace the LED headlamp in my new car with an incandescent lamp, I would - because I could still see decently with my old car’s headlights, and I wasn’t at risk of blinding everyone in the oncoming lane next to me.

COVID and all the resulting economic impacts, whether they were linked in the public’s mind or not.

Because even oligarchs aren’t kings.

There’s always another goalpost.

There’s also the fact that despite the economic recovery post-pandemic, every-day Joes didn’t see the recovery in their paycheck - and at the same time, inflation (price gouging, really) was rampant. The salt of the earth tends to vote by their wallet, and wallets were feeling the pinch at election time.

That, plus Democrats’ well-known propensity for utter failure at messaging, practically guaranteed a Trump victory.