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It sounds like you're telling me to stop caring about climate change cause I'd be happier

They're mostly not being used for that and they come at a huge cost

Without spoiling too much in the book he isn't muscley on earth but is once he is in space for a well explained reason. However, he's also meant to be clean shaven in space due to the same reason and it looks like they've changed that so who knows.

I don't like the idea of limiting company size - there are a lot of advantages of scale. Instead let's say any company over 1000 employees must be fully employee owned

These people must be so scared all the damn time. Imagine being so overwhelmed by reality that you create such nonsense. As if tax has ever been anything but ' I have an army outside, you give me your stuff now. I'll be back next summer'. I'd love to see a movie about a group of sovcits in a post apocalypse. Do they act like laws are still real? Do they create new laws? What is their basis of reality?

Every interaction I've ever had with police I've been the one attempting to de escalate. Literally 100%. What's frustrating is you speaking calmly and clearly pisses them off even more because they feel like you're speaking down to them. They feel like they are supposed to be the reasonable ones and you're making them look bad. Which of course you are, because they're not.

Pretty sure in OPs head they are the psychic tyrant

What's more, there's a reason people write books. Information is best conveyed via narrative with context. You can throw all the stats you want at someone, if you don't give them a story to tie them all together it's just noise. That's why we have teachers instead of just textbooks and textbooks instead of just encyclopedias

They weren't invited by the states governor

Is an American tourist really expected to know all that? How many locals even know all that?

Not everyone uses sugar.
"Better" is subjective

Engineer out the electricity?