"Meteoric rise" does it for me. If there's one thing meteors are famous for not doing...

Albeit coupled with some of the most baffling musical choices in televisual history

Someone needs to make a James Hoffmann emoji pack

The rare, technically correct use of "fulsome"

See the table on page 8 here - if you live in a city in the US you are more likely to be a victim of violent crime than if you live in a rural area. You could argue that crime statistics are biased by reporting rates, but it's a stretch to say this is "entirely fictional"

Hoovermensch?

There is a (fiddly) way around this: put a three-way tap between the pump syringe and the infusion line with a 20ml syringe on the third port. Turn the three-way so the initial bolus is administered into the 20ml and then pause the pump, flip the three-way and give the bolus manually.

CAP = Cathedral acquired pneumonia?

Mind-boggling that he voluntarily added "for the better". If he'd stuck with a neutral "transformative" it would be defensible as a simple prediction but instead he unnecessarily aligns himself with a group that is widely hated by his party's natural voters.

This sentence feels like it was generated by a Markov chain

Get that soy bean oil out of here, I'm diluting my hypnotic agent in pure beef fat

Film corner on Megalopolis? Could Plemmons have brought a different angle to the character of Wow Platinum?

I loved it as well - it's rare to find a fantasy novel that's so self-contained, not interested in setting up some multi-volume world building

Interestingly, at antidepressant doses (which are lower than anaesthetic or recreational doses) ketamine has an excitatory effect. It's still dumb to attribute a stranger's behaviour to speculative drug use like this though.