I love fireworks. The big ones should probably be limited to professionals. The small ones should probably be limited to, like, skate parks or something else that's not flammable.
The only way a ground war in the US can happen is a civil war. Nobody wants to invade the US, nobody has the power to invade the US, and if somebody did, everyone would die in nuclear fire.
Also hoping for a war in the US is gross. The empire wouldn't experience shit, it's an abstract concept. The actual people who live there, and the people fighting, would suffer pointlessly. Hope that the empire dissolves with as few wars as possible.
Direct wars between coalitions of the largest industrial powers can't happen anymore. They all have nukes now, everyone would die before the actual war part started. And besides, these wars were a product of a multipolar political system, which we don't currently have. We're in a monopolar system that's turning into a bipolar one. So the closer model would be Cold War 2.
Of course China's foreign policy is very different from the Soviet Union's, so I don't think it'll look like a series of wars between a US proxy and a Chinese proxy. If I had to guess, I'd say wars between US proxies and non-state organizations receiving material aid from nearby countries which in turn all happen to have strong economic ties with China.
As always, it doesn't matter if a war is a "world war" to the people who live near it. Even a "small" war is a world-ending disaster for anyone near the front lines, regardless of this international political theory stuff.
Other countries looked at the US's two party system when forming their democracies, and deliberately avoided that, through parliamentary systems or some sort of proportionate election.
Way back when Stable Diffusion first came out, people noticed that you can give it an address and it'll guess roughly the right kind of building fairly often. I assume the current generators can too
"What have I listened to the most" is something that any pre-streaming music player would give you for free, any time you want it, instead of one a year when Spotify wants you to.
I got mine a gazillion years ago and they don't make them anymore, it's a Nature Bright Per3. I don't recommend any current Nature Bright lamps, but look that one up to get an idea - it's a small bedside table style lamp with a clock, sunrise/alarm feature, and one of those articulated swiveling heads like a reading lamp. Each of those details (clock, alarm, swivel) is great, look for something like that. It also needs to be 10,000 lux, but now that LEDs are cheap and everywhere, that should be easy.
And yes, the operative thing is that they're obnoxiously bright. They're supposed to be as bright as the sun (if they're 2 feet away and the sun is its usual distance away). Ideally it's pointing into your eyes at an angle for 30 minutes while you're doing something. Some people say first thing in the morning, others say as close to noon as possible. Regardless, because you want to aim it at yourself from a specific distance at an angle, some sort of pivot head is a very good idea.
I still have time to post, sometimes even two or three times in one day.