Finishing both The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin, on my e-reader, and The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Diniman, listening to the audiobook.

I worked for the stormwater division of my city up until recently.

We had 6 people responsible for the inspection of over 30,000 pieces of stormwater infrastructure all of which needs to be inspected within a 5 year cycle. We also have to deal with citizen complaints, assisting other departments, updating maps/inventories, writing EPD/EPA reports, etc. and all for 15-18$/hr. My experience is far from abnormal as well.

We need city level government to actually give a shit about stormwater infrastructure to even get things working halfway properly let alone setup safety features.

Literally not at all. It's a completely different genre.

Also, if you're not in a rush, just email the authors!

A vast majority of professors and researchers hate the publishing industry as much as anyone, and will be happy to shoot you a pdf if you're interested in their work!

It's definitely not a contraction.

-er is the agent suffix in English. Effectively it turns words into those who do something related to that word.

Hawk > Hawker = One who "hawks" Run > Runner = One who "runs"

In principle this implies the existance of a verbal form of the root word, such as the two above examples.

Witcher, as used by the fantasy series, is a weird one because it's actually not related to the agent suffix.

The Polish title of The Witcher is Wiedźma which just means "witch". When it was translated to English they adopted "witcher" as a masculine form to the oft feminine "witch" by using the ability for the -er suffix to indicate a profession or association with a noun in English i.e. Cash > Cashier, someone who handles cash/payments (actually derived from french with the -ier suffix, but point still stands). In the cass of Witcher it is one who works as/with witches or else one who is associated with Witches.

The law you posted doesn't disallow this.

The repairs or alters section is following from "for a fraudulant purpose".

You csn hate a company and like a product. They aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm extremely anti-gatekeeping any hobby, and I've never gotten any bad vibes off him. He nearly always addresses the fact that many of the minutae that he focuses on are for the extreme nerds with extra money/time to spare. He even regularly talks about how many of the ideal processes he talks about, he doesn't do because it's a PITA.

He's very slow to recommend expensive/time consuming products, and he's quick to offer more reasonable alternatives.

That said, he's a coffee nerd with money to spare, so he definitely gets excited and involved with things that are a bit beyond your average bear.

Look I know it's called historyporn, but that's supposed to be a euphemism lol

That's the joke

That' factually incorrect. You, sort of, defined the idea of racial superiority and purity. Fascism is not an ideology, but a system of government. It can often include racism and racial purity, but it is not required.

Fascism is:

A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

It's an attempt to align with the West. Most Western countries are protestant/catholic and celebrate on the 25th, so if your goal is to westernize not only politically, but culturally, it's a step towards alienating those who cling to The Old Ways lol