Surely not the AI!

“Time will numb you to anything. There is nothing that a determined human being cannot come to cope with in time. It doesn’t mean that the pain of the loss is gone, or that its embers cease to burn deep in your core. It just changes. It changes from the incapacitating agony of a gut punch to the solid, deep aching of a broken bone. It becomes familiar. You carry it with you, accepted, never to leave.” ― Ed McDonald, Crowfall

I got a new pipe for pipe tobacco! I'm usually a cigar smoker, but I wanted to complete my old-man arc and just dive into pipes lol

Any tips to keeping it light while not outright lying? Might be too early to say "supervillains may not exist but we have something similar, billionaires"

We read a lot of kids books that touch on the subject: Swimmy, the Lorax, Yertle the Turtle, click clack moo, and just a lot of social justice and lgbtq+ books. They don't have to understand marxism and you don't have to bum them out either. Kids aren't stupid, they can understand why we dislike people like Musk hoarding wealth.

Aside from that we take the kids to [light] protests. We have them read the signs and try to plainly answer their questions.

Orphan X (Nowhere Man) books are awesome! Very much what you're looking for, but way better than Reacher Books in my opinion, and there's a ton of them if you do end up enjoying them!

Left wing ... ehh, I mean it's an action fuck em up book series. Probably not very left wing, I don't remember it being as such.