Fulcrum?

And if a good writer puts out bad writing, it is frequently because they stopped thinking, or no longer wanted to think.

Imagine the country we would have had if everything hadn't been broken down and sold for parts every eight years

Every fucking time. Republicans break the country. Democrats have to fix it, voters blame Democrats for not fixing it fast enough, rinse and repeat for my whole goddam life

I saw the original Broadway cast. Paul Giammati!

Yeah, professional trades need to be administered by the professionals, not a separate class of administrators. This is why the law has largely resisted enshittification -- there are generally legal requirements that lawyers run law firms.

They think laws are an insult to their authority.

Dwarf Fortress *just* patched in the long awaited "siege update" with dedicated siege mechanics including tunnelling enemies and improved seige engines.

I haven't had a chance to play much with it yet, though. Star forts don't map well onto square pixellated map systems.

I think we can say, based on recent examples in Britain and America both, that the legal system we have is currently showing itself incapable of holding the powerful meaningfully to account, regardless of examples from China.

also prob. best to not call it a "justice" system; begs the question

Anyone who would push back has long been pushed out of the room.

"rescued in the edit" applies to the original trilogy also