It depends on the form of strike. Are they outside with “Krusty Krab Is Funfair” signs? Are they sitting at home playing solitaire? Did they join the rival business?

I was thinking more along the lines of original Star Trek, where you had aliens posing as Greek gods, disembodied immaterial Galactus hands stretching out from planets, and parallel universes where evil versions of the characters can cross over from, and yet where at the end of the day, the characters can nod their heads and give a toast to “the godless universe”.

It was very much like Doctor Who if Doctor Who didn’t just explain everything with a simple “it’s all wibbly wobbly”.

Even the people who revere God but not “no matter what”?

How would you define a cult?

The most concise way to think about it is to think Freemasonry combined with Star Trek.

Everyone thinks they need an opinion on everything until they order a sub from Subway and the server asks if they want 25 or 26 sesame seeds on their buns.

That my parents passed away.

What do you mean?

What were you doing to end up with a program that was interrupted like that by the minute?

I don’t read as much as many people strive to, and that’s by design. Growing up, books were all the rage, and in some ways still are. Reading one book a week was the kind of thing people bragged about. There’s like this aura to books where people think they’re these precious things which at most can be “imperfect” (cue flashbacks of school book report assignments), and what they don’t tell you is how prone to being junk they can be depending on who someone is. How does someone think something like, say, the complete L Ron Hubbard collection is going to influence the experience? I read to map out the rabbit hole, not just because words exist, though the medium doesn’t matter.

Was it through streaming, cable, or some other digital thing?

I don’t see advertising as straying away from being a sub-conversation of intellectual property. If a service emphasizes its usage, I’m either going to honor it all the way through or switch to an alternate medium.

In some ways I feel like I’m already going through something like that.

You will never see ads skipped through where I am. What’s the issue with them?

I turn a quarter of a century old.

My birthday.

Then I guess the answer would be the time recently me and my friends lost a certain election.

I’m not sure if I would qualify as the demographic you seem to anticipate. I am an ethnic Pacific Islander with a Kiwi accent currently in Vermont whose family comes from a place with what may be referred to as an English pidgin, and I’m told a combination of hypergraphia, selective mutism, and overall neurodivergence affects the linguistic experience as well. I would probably hold the title for the person with the worst communicative experiences here, yet at the same time might be able to bestow some help upon you, if that’s alright with you.

How would a loser be defined here?

Ahsoka Tano.

All I need is my warm clothing and a place to be snug.