Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

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    10 months ago

    is a kids’ book

    Which is not the same as “childish”.

    The black-and-white Christian morality

    The fact that humans make mistakes doesn’t change that there are right and wrong things to do. LOTR shows lots of the former, and it showing the latter doesn’t make it childish.

    and “good monarch” stuff

    Since that “good monarch”'s good traits were about not breaking things that work and fixing things that don’t work, I think it was an intentional utopian picture. Sort of king Canute the way he is sometimes portrayed.