The district containing Charlottesville always votes religious right-wingers lately. They removed Denver Riggleman because he officiated a gay wedding, to put up an anti-gay marriage candidate. The city itself doesn’t vote this way, but that’s still the representative.

In the town of Thomas Jefferson, who listed the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom as among his 3 proudest accomplishments.

Probably PayPal?

Unironically, same here. Reincarnated as a Sword was good, I’m hoping the Vending Machine is just as solid.

I did miss the science-heavy elements from earlier in the show in this season and I have a few issues with pacing of this season, but I found the season to be quite enjoyable overall. The split-cour feels rough given where we left off in this episode, but at least we have confirmation of a second half in October. The acquisition of a catalyst for continuous nitric acid production should be a big boon, I’ll be curious to see how exactly they manage to depetrify the ship’s crew, as many of them seem to be damaged. They were meticulous about reassembly earlier.