Awesome Alliteration

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

There are two different sites that I can access historical weather averages from. One of them uses a dataset from 1990-2020. The other uses 1980-2010. The July and August average high temperatures on the 1990-2020 scale are 0.8 C (~1.6 F) higher than the 1980-2010 scale. That's not collective bad memory, it's a measurable change in the climate. And that near-degree is averaged across the entire month. So it might mean that every day is about a degree warmer (not super noticeable), but more often it seems that most days are near the older average and then we get a bunch of days of Heatwave Georg skewing the statistics.

What does it say about the Interview with the Vampire TV show that they made Louis a brothel owner in his mortal life, instead of a plantation owner?

I think it says that they recognize that Louis was already trained to view some people as less than himself, as employees, as objects, their time and labour to be bought and sold. He defends them against the cruel, but they're still a commodity to him. It says the writers and decision makers understand that part of Louis's character is that he views mortals as less than, even as he values their lives so much that he feels guilt over killing to survive because I think he knows on some level that the only difference between them is luck.

At the same time, it recognizes that slavery is something you don't let your protagonist do on TV anymore if you want them to be sympathetic. Anne Rice wrote the character with intention, he was supposed to be controversial, just not as controversial as we think of it now. This just updates that choice for a slightly different era. It recontextualizes an important part of the character's backstory, without dulling the edges too far, without sacrificing the nuance more than absolutely necessary. I think that's a really interesting adaptational choice!