Yeah … let’s get dying old fossils with a few years left to regulate what the rest of the humanity will deal with in the next hundred years

Engagement and data collection … sometimes it’s just a way to collect data. Anyone that responds gets added to their list of accounts that have a live person.

They do the same for telemarketing, email, mail, phone, sms, and any other contact request … once there’s a response, it’s confirmation that the account has a human owner

A Cunning Linguist if you will

Little did they know of Porthos’ plan of decompressing the entire ship while he sat safe inside the shuttle.

They should just go back to Nokias … then use the Nokia as a blunt force melee weapon

Going blind has never felt so good

Thanks … now I have to book an appointment with my optometrist

The article I read at the time mentioned that this was the average bare minimum … like a single unemployed parent doing their best to raise and keep a child alive and fed until they were 18.

The cost is higher if there are two parents paying for expenses … and even higher if the parents have any bit of wealth

There should be a LINE 5 … random low paid office person with no engineering experience or knowledge using AI because the company doesn’t want to pay an actual engineer, they just want to get the contract and get anyone to engineer the work using a high paid version of whatever corporate AI service

now I’m imagining Worf with a Klingon pooper scooper

The wolves inside Worf

20 years ago I read an article that stuck with me ever since … it detailed at the time that on average, whether you can afford it or not, it costs about $200,000 to raise a child to the age of 18.

So selling the kid would cut the parents losses over the 18 year period

Where’s the DS9 mug?

… and on another note, if Odo were to shapeshift into your mug … would you be drinking from his mouth? or the other end?

So you’re saying there will be no 60th Anniversary today … and that a a deranged El-Aurian scientist, will launch a trilithium weapon as an explosive agent into our sun, stopping all nuclear fusion within the star, leading to an instant supernova that will cause massive gravitational disturbances that will alter the trajectory of a nearby energy ribbon to pass over our planet, and in the powerful gravimetric field emanating from the trailing edge of the energy ribbon, send this psychotic scholarly experimentalist into an extra-dimensional Heaven-like realm in which one’s thoughts and desires shape reality while leaving behind our homeworld to be destroyed by the rapid expansion of our local star.

I’m all for Bernie Saunders … I like the guy and appreciate him and his message … but if American progressives are relying on an 85 year old figurehead to lead their movement … holy hell, America is deeper in the hole than I imagined.

… and no one will complain.

The owner class figured out a few generations ago that in order to keep the masses from openly revolting … you keep them fed. And you also don’t need to keep them fed that much either, you just need to keep them holding on or have access to enough food in order not to starve. Revolts and revolutions won’t happen until people start starving, near starving or are threatened with starvation.

So they’ll keep us all fed … they won’t give us big giant buffets of food … but just enough to keep us all from standing up together to try to fight anything or anyone.