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    A “Trivial” Complaint

    So I recently joined a trivia contest through work. It was just a lunchtime thing, through Zoom, hosted by the work’s “environment committee.” It wasn’t in “buzzer format”, which was good — you can’t do timed responses when the connection’s erratic. No, you just went down the line. Each person answered a question. If you didn’t get it, the next person could try to answer for half-credit. If they got it wrong, the next person got to try, and so on. I joined because I thought, fuck it, why not. I like trivia. Climate change is an unusual topic for a Q&A contest and it’s not exactly my strength… okay,…