I’m going to buck the trend here and advise the more conservative position. I took a developer job in the insurance industry right out of college, and I have no regrets. The work is rarely exciting, but it’s stable and not very demanding. I have great work life balance. And developer jobs in non tech related industries seem to be largely immune to the upheavals and layoffs currently affecting the tech world.

Iirc they did know, or at least Arwen did. Elrond says something to the effect that she will be giving up her eternal life when he’s trying to talk her out of being with Aragorn.

Yeah you’re right. I have read the most recent one, I just miscounted.

I quite like Mat too, but never could get behind Nynaeve as a character. All the Aes Sedai, even the young ones, seem to have this attitude of “I know everything so I’m closed off to new information” which is infuriating to me. Egwene and Elayne outgrow that somewhat by the end, but less so Nynaeve.

Tough call, but I’m going to go with Wayne from Brandon Sanderson’s Wax and Wayne trilogy.

Learning that they believe in ghosts, flat Earth, or anti-vaxx conspiracies.

I disagree with most of your points, but damned if you’re not right about that. The DNC shares a lot of blame for inflicting Trump on us, after straight up rigging the 2016 primaries against Bernie. Of course the Republicans also just rolled over and let him drive their entire party off the alt right cliff, so maybe the lesson is that all politicians are weasels.

That said, if the choice is between a corrupt and spineless weasel and a rabid hyena intent of tearing the country down around his ears, I’ll pick the one that’s less likely to bit my face off.

Just going to leave this list here of about 30,000 lies Trump told while in office. None of these are a matter of opinion, all verifiable untruths by public record.

I won’t deny Biden lies too, he’s a politician they all lie. But Trump was on another level.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/