I also feel strongly that the Hat Man's answer to the girl's question was "M'lady!"

Because we financialised it everywhere, at every point. Construction and ownership. And the large corporate interests expanded everywhere it wasn't financialised in their attempt to continue never-ending growth. Politicians and those who got in early and smaller investors went along with it because it was convenient and they aren't incentivized to think of the long term consequences. Now growth is hitting a wall because it was never real growth, and the whole system is either stagnant or collapsing.

Well, good news I guess, with the way the climate is gonna go now you won't be living long at all.

Well, also protection from prosecution.

"...but I have never bothered to check because I hate sand."

Because

Remember how they couldn't get the cyber truck to not rust? Or the bullet proof windows to work? Or how the milage for most Tesla's was impossible, so people thought their cars were broken, and instead of either confessing or fixing the mileage they created an elaborate scheme to cancel appointment so people couldn't get their batteries looked at? These are the people you trusted to put a chip in your brain...

pesant-minded

My comrad in class, unless you are a multi-millionare we are all peasants together. Many of us have excellent minds, as you likely do yourself. Do not tie our mental capability to our economic caste.

So now you know they were never actually a "law and order" party, just as they've never actually been a "fiscal responsibility" or "liberties and freedoms" party. These are just words they say to their base when it is convenient.

zero other providers in my area.

Your current ISP:

A good skirt is like a good presentation. Long enough to cover the essentials, but short enough to hold the attention.

For when your duce is so gnarly the lingering stench could soffcate a small child, and there is a lineup outside, and you realise your only option to avoid needing to look the next person in the eye and own your shame is suicide.

Good god, imagine if that money was spent on something meaningful like climate adaptation or building housing. Hell, reinvest it in the your companies, at least it would create something. What a staggering waste...

Drums, drums in the deep ...

A little friendly takeover of Cuba, a bit of a laugh with bombing Iran, just joshing around with some domestic concentration camps, annex Greenland and destroy NATO for the lolz, you know how it goes!