I love the exchange, but the backdrop of capitalism demanding results is grim.

I just want everyone to enjoy exploring and sharing without worrying about grants...

The only vaguely concerning bit I see here is the penultimate sentence. Evading consent is sketchy, but I'm not a behavioral psychologist and thus have no working knowledge on how that would impact his "treatment".

They had a hot war on, so it was a bit different.

That said, I don't know how things were for tourism agencies from '33 on. I imagine the "right" kind of tourists were made very welcome to enhance the Reich's cache in the int'l community.

Am I misreading this? He thinks there would be less "false" journalism coverage if reporters shot more senators?

I mean, I guess? By shooting senators you'd shut off a valve of significant disinformation...

True, but that also speaks to the effort NYT is willing to put into reporting on allied/adversarial media suppression.

Just another day vs. this is clearly a Very Bad Thing.

Sounds hazardous.

If anything this is very tame.

Do we have modern sexualized plate carriers? I know we have the cat-ear helmet bit, but how far can we go?

Dunno, probably depends on how "foreign" you look to the seller.

This is terrible design. You'd want it oriented vertically (gravity is basically free energy!) And some unacceptable loss-of-camel may occur due to circular saw use instead of a complementary-conical camel-squisher.

Killing the emergency rations now means they won't be fresh in an emergency!