re: #34 windupbird is in the gravity well

the new standard oil

I hear you, but Standard Oil wasn’t all bad. One of its spawn, Standard Oil of Indiana, built the second Standard Oil Building in Chicago (a towering skyscraper now called the Aeon Center) subsequently renamed itself Amoco after buying a few other Standard Oil spawn, and became my father’s employer for over 30 years. And Amoco was where my parents met. So without Standard Oil, there would be no Dark_Falcon.