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Do candles count as adequate light?  Like, several?

Several, maybe? Forget the exact levels, but it's actually fairly difficult to damage your eyesight with low light levels, apparently.

It was an issue with dim candlelight or something, but less so with other stuff. Hell, unless you're making them yourself, the candles just being made to modern-ish spec might be enough to make the difference. Folks have sunk some effort into researching the issue, in any case.

People are actually paying attention a little, mostly. World loses like a solid dozen or more large ships each year, iirc, nevermind smaller ones, it just usually doesn't make the news much.

i haven't seen snow at home in well over twenty years

gib snow plz, it'd be hilarious except for the vehicle and maybe exposure deaths

I think they're trying to say you could do the latter without doing the former. Which is one of those, "Maybe, if the american right-wing suddenly vanished in a puff of morality" things, i.e. completely (presumably willfully, considering shit ain't exactly been subtle over the years) ignorant of efforts in reality to stop marginal voter fraud.

Can actually get better than online registration, especially in rural or poorer areas -- this is your regular reminder than a lot of places in the US have shit internet infrastructure, and reliable access is not, at all, something everyone in this country has. Mailing stuff to people (postage prepaid, damn it), having voter registration stuff readily accessible at places like libraries, food pantries, etc. Have a bloody person driving around a few times a year officially knocking on doors and checking with homeless folks. Stop screwing around and get freaking aggressive with getting the vote out.

Frankly, among the best ways would just have it be opt out. You're born stateside, you get vote access the same day you get your birth certificate, active just as soon as you hit voting age. You're a citizen in any other way, you're automatically registered, flat out. None of this special registration horseshit, if you're a citizen you get a vote. Can work out details about location and proof later, but for the love of fornication, the base state should be fucking enfranchisement, it shouldn't have any hoops to jump through to get at least that much.

Ooh, yeah, I did basically the same thing like (if not quite like that). A month ago, now? Four, five weeks? Had most of my grip strength back by the end of week three, I think. Which is when I incidentally went to the doc for something else and might-as-well'd an xray to make sure there wasn't anything serious damage since it was still hurting and somewhat weak.

Incidentally, if you have the finances for it, doc recommends getting it checked, like, now, instead of three weeks from now. Things could have gotten detached or somethin', and rolling the dice on it getting back into good shape on its own is, well... rolling the dice, on your dominant hand.

Yeah, at that point you can still come in and read but we're not letting you check out any more books until you bring the others back (or pay us)

... though for hundreds of dollars, it also depends on the book. My joint has one that's like... five hundred bucks to replace, ferex. Not because it's particularly rare, but because it's a binder full of hundreds of color pictures of local wildflowers and it turns out that's really friggin' expensive to print >_<