Timmy has a competing lemonade stand with your kid, and he charges $1 for a glass and you charge $3 for a glass. Rather than lowering your prices, you place a $2.50 tariff on any lemonade from Timmy in your neighborhood. Now everyone pays $3.50 for his lemonade, and it only makes sense for your kid to charge $3.50 as well, because Timmy’s lemonade has to get to your neighborhood while yours is local, so why not pocket that 50 cents.

In this scenario, Timmy cannot sell his cheaper lemonade to your neighborhood at a cheaper price. Everyone in your neighborhood must pay the new inflated price. People in other neighborhoods will go to Timmy, so only your neighborhood buys your lemonade, although some people will try to circumvent the tariffs by buying Timmy’s same lemonade for $2 in a neighboring area.

Populism is fairly simple, you just parrot the following talking points:

The system isn’t working. I am fighting the system. Elect me and I’ll take the fight to them.

What isn’t working should be as vague as possible, so the voter believes it is the thing they’re angry about. When elected, the candidate should continue to complain about the system and crow about how hard they’re fighting for you, so you keep voting for them.

Unfortunately, this eventually leads to you actually passing legislation that makes everything much, much worse than it was. You can keep blaming the other side, but eventually, the jig is up.

Great, now I’m hungry for apples.

If it’s a cycle, ask them when the dinosaurs will come back. When they say “not like that,” ask if the continents will come back together. When they say that won’t happen, ask them to confirm that everything is changing, except the climate.

One major concern here is that the additional moisture will increase the power of storms as well. A great analogy I heard from a climatologist was “this of ice as money in the bank. Once you take it out, it gets spent on weather.”

You guys have one chord and think it’s a song.

“Grow up, this was my vindictive swipe at my ex-wife to stop her royalties.”

It need to come back on VR head sets.

Actually legend says it’s a Plate ‘O Gold.

Again, calling it a win for the church that no underage children show up in the story.

The trades are so terrible in the south, it’s too damn hot and getting hotter.

He’s all ass and no hat.

What about Earthmoon Savings Time?

It was pretty cool. I went with friends, and we got very drunk on a drink called a Warp Core Breach and then did the experience. I remember being impressed at the pacing and the acting of the members running the ride.

This was during the Borg 4D period, and it was pretty novel for the time. A pain to get to from the strip, though, probably part of its undoing.

Apparently america was great in 1864, in that halcyon third year of the civil war. Who knew these idiots wearing these hats were asking for cholera, starvation, and losing to the north.

Pretty sure Radha Mitchell only does front end development.

If you don’t always need glass jars to pour your bacon grease before you wash the pan, you are clearly not eating enough bacon

In the US, DeWalt and Milwaukee are tradesman-grade tools if you get the 18V-20V versions. But I agree that the average person can buy any Ryobi or Harbor Freight special and get by fine.

Ukraine is a great name, maybe your parents were just cartographers. You buck up, Ukaine, life will get better soon!

The Hitler stuff is so annoying in this one. Societies without time travel keep complaining about killing Hitler… have you been to a timeline without Hitler? Count your Hitlers, people, really. Also I know the time traveler’s convention a few years ago won’t have punch, so I don’t want to go but want to go.