I’ve heard good things about a ton of these. I’d most like to play Slugblaster, Sentai and Sensibility, and Avatar

This. I use symfonium for my audiobooks. Great app.

You can copy Spotify playlists to other services

Those are called interstate compacts, and they tend to be specific to individual laws. I was thinking more along the lines of military alliances, so kind of a more advanced form of this type of political alliance-making

It was a distraction

I figure we’ll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.

I feel like they’re just using it to indicate an upward inflection towards the end of tbe sentence. Know what I mean? Like those youtubers who always talk like they’re asking? a question?

Yep, exactly this. He’d rather destroy the entire country than lose power, in part because as soon as he loses power he’s likely going to prison for the rest of his life.

He absolutely is giving away money. Absurd amounts of money.