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That explains why they are young women, but not why the stereotypical “French maid” costuming.

The use of “maids” may stem from viewing them as “servants”, along with a desire to avoid an outward appearance of violence. Not that Voltaire doesn’t want violence, but he wants to keep up appearances.

I think it’s more likely that he makes a corrupt bargain with them, because it would amuse him to stir up their side of the world by letting their “Royal Uryuom” plan succeed.

About half of the electric cars around here are Teslas, but the majority of those were from back before Musk took his hard right turn. I think that half of them are owned by current or former Tesla employees and their families. There are plenty of Nissan Leafs, Chevrolet Volt/Bolts, and even a few Mustang Mach-E’s and F-150 Lightnings around here. Maybe one car in five is electric, it seems.

It should be noted that under war conditions, the theft of the vehicle and supplies would be considered valid as long as they weren’t pocketing somebody’s personal effects for themselves.

I live about six miles from the Fremont, California Tesla factory. We don’t have hurricanes here, but this is earthquake country. I got the solar panels because with the subsidies, it’s actually cheaper in the long run than paying the utility company—my loan payment on the solar/battery system is $160/month, which is comparable to what I was paying for electricity. As for the coins, yeah I get that the bullion ones are super-high purity, but I was responding to Darth Fluffy’s suggestion about buying up old silver US dimes and quarters from pre-1960. Silver coins made for general circulation as legal tender at face value are usually 90-92.5% silver by weight.

I have about 60 days worth of storable food and water for my entire household hanging around, and that is the majority of my disaster prep. I also have about a cord of firewood as well as solar panels and a battery for my house. Most silver coins are sterling (11 parts out of 12 is silver, with the rest mostly copper), but US silver coins were 90% silver.

If the world has collapsed so much that even coins are no longer accepted, then people are more interested in bartering for usable goods directly than in any such thing as a universal medium of exchange.

He’s not Pennywise—he’s Poundfoolish.

I read quite a few of his books as a child, but I did not know that he died before the end of the 20th century.

As Humphrey Bogart said at the end of Casablanca, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

It would be amusing if he were to insist upon being addressed as “Uncle Kevin”.

Tedd has a driver’s license, but not a car. The Dunkel twins, Justin, and Susan are the only ones out of the main teenage cast who have their own cars (Jay apparently has one too, if she was using it for the pizza delivery job).

Given that a typical three-bedroom home costs over a million in lots of major US cities these days, I am pretty sure that her savings are in the millions, if not the tens of millions. Pandora also had such accurate predictive abilities that it made her bored, so she would have easily been able to play the stock market. Or heck, just buying a few thousand Bitcoins back when that many would have been less than a week’s wages, and holding them until now.

He probably saw that it was called “British” and assumed that it was a satellite of the UK.

Oh, I never meant that they were cynically trying to exploit her—just that they care more about long-term consequences than about making a quick buck, as it were.

Susan is golden in this page. As for getting an Immortal indebted to you, our cast are playing the long game—getting her as a reliable ally is much more valuable than a one-time boon.

Nyeh, what’s up, Doc?

And television was envisioned as a tool for remote education—apparently Philo Farnsworth did not even foresee that people would be mainly watching the exact same stuff that they were already watching at the cinema?

So this, and the previous page, basically say that the text on copied spells are “written” by the Wizard who copies them, rather than by Magic Itself.

I heard that they did in fact wreck several over the course of filming the show.

At least it isn’t Kalamazoo.

Yes, the “sane” thing would be to cap the amount of money that can be received from such activity (e.g. no one may earn more than $10k per month).

He’s been superseded by Luigi.

Jay had her initial spell when Pandora awakened her, but she understandably doesn’t use it due to the associated trauma.