For anyone considering transitioning to dodge the draft, please consider you may actually be transgender, approaching transition from a direction that relieves guilt over gender conformity is pretty common.

Schrodinger’s war: it’s only a war if they’re confident in winning, otherwise it’ll be some euphemism like police action.

One place I used to live public transit was publicly funded and fares collected went towards supplementing road maintenance.

I believe FFXI is available for free download and self server hosting. XIV might go that way eventually too, but hosting your own mmo server is probably the way to go.