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She’ll go insane when she realizes that, as a Wizard, she could hypothetically learn Nanase’s fairy-doll spell for herself.

So mocking Cleveland is fashionable again?

My cats like to touch the screen on my phone and it responds to them. If they knew how to read, then they would probably order a bunch of stuff for themselves.

Tedd, though, is now known to be irreplaceable. As Arthur said, Tedd is the only known active Seer whom he can trust—and there were only five active Seers in the world out of a potential several thousand at the time of Magic’s not-change.

It seems that others (possibly including Arthur himself, who was likely still Edward’s superior back when Will and Gill first gave Tedd the device) wanted to prevent Tedd from getting to where they are in the first place. There is sense in that perspective from the government point of view—do you really want some kid messing around with classified technology with the explicit goal of finding a way to create transformations which could be used to perfectly impersonate other people?

It’s not so much that Florida attracts weirdos as it it that it repels the non-weirdos, and the weirdos come in to fill the vacuum thus created.

I see no evidence of the weirdos of Florida desiring a normal life as opposed to doubling down on the weirdness.

Well, there’s been no end of people comparing Biden to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was the most recent president to have died of natural causes during his own Presidency.

If Trump dies of anything besides natural causes, his supporters are going to make a huge martyr out of him.

Frankly, I don’t even care whether he’s jailed or not as long as he no longer has any influence over national or international affairs.

The people who claim that Mystery Meat actually comes from some animal considered inedible to humans are greatly underestimating the economic efficiency of the modern meat industry. The wholesale price of meat is almost entirely taken up by the cost of feeding, butchering, and distributing the animals, with a profit margin below 20%. Chickens are especially efficient at producing a high amount of meat per pound of feed, and we have a whole industry devoted to producing more than a billion of them per year in the USA alone. As such, there is not really any cheaper way to produce meat than what is already being done. At best, you could get cut-price feed that is of dubious quality, and find workers who work for even less than the undocumented aliens that the industry already uses. Using any non-traditional animals would make you unable to take advantage of all of the optimization the industry already has, and thus would not be cheaper to produce. About the only thing that would be cheaper in bulk is fishing bycatch—all of those fish that get pulled up in nets that aren’t otherwise wanted for sale as food. What you’re more likely to see in actual Mystery Meat is the use of less popular cuts of the usual food animals, that nobody wants to name because kids would say “eww”, such as the liver and heart.

My guess is that Arthur copied a subset of his own personality and knowledge onto Kevin.

Sorry, we only use liquid iocane here.

But did you know that I know that you know that I know that you know that I know?

Having lived in Japan and spoken Japanese fairly well after the first year, I can say that one tends to need to switch mental gears when switching from one language to another, and it is often easier to continue with the current language in one’s own head than to bother switching, especially if one is currently thinking about words read/heard/spoken/about to speak in that language. For Nanase to think about her mother’s Japanese speech in “English mode”, she would need to mentally translate it to English, which feels like unnecessary effort if one is not translating for another person’s benefit. tldr: It’s easier to think about Mama’s Japanese words in Japanese mode than to mentally translate it.

If that is true then Tedd is either ill, or has done something unusually straining just now. . . I seem to recall from the whales encounter that using the gauntlet’s overcharge mode is straining, especially if done for too long. Tedd had used that mode to be able to see the whales, which Tedd just now had surmised to be living on just one of many layers of their reality. Might Tedd have just now been attempting a similar experiment and overstrained themself?

Perhaps this is a sign that the blocked magical energy in Moperville has finally started to find its new draining point? If Sarah has been continuing to use her spell frequently, then that could have drained all of the remaining ambient energy immediately at hand.

They could use somebody with Roy’s relatively high sensibleness here.

Makes more sense than some of the other abduction theories out there.

Ah, my error on the terminology there.

They don’t sell the Throwback version in your area?

What made EGS magic immune to science is that it would change the rules with the deliberate motive of preventing people from understanding it.

EGS magic is (or was, prior to the decision to stop changing) one of the few types of magic that could NOT be reliably analyzed via the Scientific Method due to completely violating the Copernican Principle, i.e. that the rules of the universe are the same for all people in all times and places.

Speaking of authority figures, Tedd was given this “assignment” by the same person who created Kevin. It is likely that Kevin believes Arthur to be an authority superior to all others.

So the Earth ia occasionally sharp?