kauraaaa
also the OST by Lera Lynn is very good, still comes to me some days fun fact, in the series it was actually her playing at the bar :)
agree with the notion that any homebrew business is questionable but he is a mathematician
also I think Boondocks has done a hell of a job satirizing this and many other issues while getting a point across very clearly author is definetely a Huey
Nice wordsmithing, quite self indulgent while presenting to be benevolent. I do agree with a lot of points but conclusions are a miss. I would say that the biggest issue here is that the world is accelerating more and more. Information barrage is intense and squeezing books for entertainment is a non-trivial task. While author talks about US, similar trends are present globally without the force of spooky "imperialistic hand".
9.5h is already quite generous tbh
we have about 6h now where I live now and spent a few years further up north where it is even darker
extra weirdness point for the fact that "sisu" means kind of persistence/willfullness in Finnish language https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sisu