A lot of Mexican cartels also have the silver or lead choice.

You mean the 1 million in cash and 10 tons of coke?

What other contemporary music was as groovy?

Most discussions of 50’s rock and roll tend to approach as being significant and revolutionary for its era instead of as a piece of work by itself.

It is the Seinfeld is unfunny trope.

Why are you putting the decisions of others on me?

I’m not denying the slavery. I’m stating what the decisions are that are influencing choosing the UAE as a vacation destination.

The issue seems to come from visiting places that are likely to have police shoot and/or arrest you for not speaking the local language.

Or he got a bribe from the first bridge owner.

It would likely be that the clothes have to be sold as is. What will then happen is that the clothes get sold for essentially scrap to a country that will shred the clothes. Either that, or these clothes will be sold next to shirts celebrating the 2026 New England Patriots for winning the Super Bowl.

China may not be perceived as a military threat, but it is credibly an economic threat. China is returning to a state where Europe has difficulty conducting trade with China as China will only accept natural resources for trade. That can be dangerous for an economy with a large safety net, declining productivity, and little in terms of natural resources.

They’re already doing it to access the social security website.

DS9 also makes it clear why the populace accepts martial law so cleanly and that part of it comes from a people who live in paradise and aren’t used to threats in their security.

That this episode was made 5 years before 9/11 is astounding in what it gets right about the populace of a democratic system filled with comfortable people accept a loss of liberty due to a perceived external threat.

The Maquis Episode 1.

Technically it is paradise, but it feels equivalent enough.

It technically goes back to Roddenberry.

First, Roddenberry still wrote the Federation as having some faults. A major plot point in Star Trek VI is that Starfleet is attempting a coup of the Federation to keep the cold war going. In early TNG, the Federation is seen as entertaining ending Data’s rights and allows a Federation colony to deteriorate to the level of drug wars.

Roddenberry had also written a treatment for a post-Federation time where a Federation ship goes into the future and rebuilds the Federation from scratch. That show became Andromeda, but the concept ended up being used in Discovery and Starfleet Academy.

I hate working from home. I find that I can’t get into the headspace to work while at home. I find coordination is a pain in the ass and you get to better understand what is going on by physically being there.

It is also frustrating dealing with people who say they are “doing their work” but you find out that they didn’t coordinate like they said they would and the two things they designed don’t interact with each other.

This is a continuation of Xi solidifying control over the government, which is a break from the post-Mao CCP in having power more diffused across different people. It is likely that the corruption allegations are correct, but bribing officials to win government contracts are pretty par for the course for people in those positions.

By DS9, it was bluntly stated that Earth was a utopia.

I disagree.

If we are talking about starting companies, poor people start companies all the time. You don’t need to be rich to start a company.

As for having access to capital to create our expand a business, that doesn’t need to come from a rich person or a collection of rich people. For instance, a lot of investment comes from pension funds, which are made up of the savings of many people.

I feel like a lot of fascists try to bake in a lot of hierarchy as the natural order, that this is what nature intended.

Queer people end up being an example that the way nature is isn’t as clearly defined as the fascists say it should be

A lot of sci-fi read as fantasy, including a lot of the competent man genre.

They shut down third party apps. Here’s good enough I guess.