Costa Rica’s doing OK. They figured the US keeps starting military coups in the Americas, may as well remove that attack vector. Nobody’s calling them a superpower though.

OK, hear me out, let’s start a patent troll corp. and file for all the enshittification ideas ahead of the studio owners.

Well-read atheists have more credibility

Why should we give government or politicians a free pass just because they’re “on our team”? If you can’t find something they’re not doing well, you haven’t looked. Also, a single-axis political spread is passé.

That movie was more about the AMOC collapsing (which is projected to happen between now and ~50 years), but uncharacteristically (/s), Hollywood got the science wrong.

Wait, are you telling me deregulation didn’t help the citizens, only the capital interests?

This is good and you should feel good

I’d guess, in this case, imagining a wrongfully imprisoned grandma is thought to be more immoral than “just” a 50 year old. It also causes readers to imagine their own grandma in the same situation, instead of a stranger.

I thought Station Eleven was pretty good about it, small vehicles / motorcycles for a while, then bicycles and horses + wagons, plus a lot of walking. That was a wildly different scenario though (99.9% of the population poofed in a few day period), so there were a ton of abandoned resources for any survivors.