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But that didn't help at all, because it's not weird people who are dangerous.

The most dangerous people are those who take advantage of society's expectations, those who act like it's rude to set boundaries, and those who make sure they have as much of a power advantage as possible.

The ideal thing about living almost full time in the middle of Canada’s boreal forest in a remote wildfire lookout tower is being the only soul around for hundreds of miles. No one except the occasional extremely determined and experienced hiker comes out this far on a four day three night expedition and they never stay long here. At least, that’s what usually happens.

Today has decided to be different because he has decided to be different. Whoever he is, he probably knows exactly who I am and what I can do because he walked right into the minimum distance of my telepathy and just…stopped. Normally, that’s not a problem, people take breaks all the time and the base of the tower is technically a trail marker though I’m not obligated to talk to anyone.

Linguistic explanation: the letter name for H comes from the medieval French word ‘hache’ meaning axe (the same root as ‘hatchet’). It arrived in English with no initial H due to H dropping in French. By the 17th century H dropping was common in English, but by the 18th century it had fallen out of fashion. People started adding Hs back into words, even words that didn’t have a H to start with. Eg humble pie in the famous saying was originally umble pie, a pie made from umbles (intestines). H dropping then became associated with the lower classes. However, not all words were given an H (eg honour, hour) and the letter name for H continued to be pronounced aitch by the upper classes. At some point people started to add a H onto aitch, probably due to analogy with the other letter names. This variant possibly spread more quickly through the lower classes because they were less concerned with sounding posh. Pronouncing H as aitch can therefore be seen as part of a broader language trend to add initial Hs back to words. In any case, it’s a natural language change and therefore not ‘wrong’.

Only the young people don't seem to have picked up on this---and that's fortunate, because someone has to run around making things happen, if only so Vimes and Granny and Rincewind have a reason to get up (complaining bitterly the whole time) and put it all to rights. Without Carrot, Margrat, Eric, etc. these characters don't have that reason; they're likely to stay in the metaphorical gutter and keep wondering where it all went wrong or why anything has to change.

Please.

Just.

If you cannot bring yourself to vote for the president because he's so disgusting of a candidate you morally cannot bring yourself to cross that line, then PLEASE vote for your congresspeople and local representatives who can block, defend, or present new bills, actions, acts, etc.

These are the people who can actually confirm or deny or impede horrendous acts when they happen.

Like. This is the bare minimum. If you cannot vote for the President, please just still vote for someone.