Sludgehammer

I'm guessing the hype train has slowed down, the initial investment money has been pocketed uppermost management so now the middle managers have been tasked with "Make the company profitable somehow or your fired." So they're hiking prices to try and fill a massive hole in the budget and they're using AI slop production as a fig leaf to cover it up.

You could also try leaving a sprinkler watering your plants. I've managed to get tomatoes through mild (and some not so mild) freezes that way.

Don't forget the voter suppression before the election. They'll have long list of blue voters that must be purged because maybe one of them is illegally voting.

Honestly, I was expecting Christian nationalist. Especially since over the past decade Taylor's gone from the right-wings idealized "aryan goddess" to "Evil woke woman who must be degraded at every opportunity".

What would that pan even be used to cook? I'm having a hard time picturing a use for it.

So wait, the registered Republican shooter was taking orders from the Democrats? Oh man, Trump's admitting that he's even lost the "deranged shooter" demographic.

Probably that and some sort of "White Replacement" conspiracy theory.

~~Videotaping~~ Publishing this crime spree is the best idea we ever had!

There was a whole stupid controversy in my town when a (very stylized) statue of Athena was going to be put up. Lots of performative pearl clutching about a statue of a "pagan god" being erected. Finally the town just renamed it "Vision" or something and put it up anyway.

YA novel with a movie adaptation. Never read it but from what I've gathered it's basically the Hunger Games with the sorting hat from Harry Potter putting teens into social factions rather than houses.

That'd make sense.