Especially_the_lies @ Especially_the_lies @startrek.website

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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was the first dystopia that I ever read. I'd gotten so enamored with all of the various utopias in sci-fi, especially Star Trek, that the idea that the opposite might exist hadn't previously occurred to me. While it didn't change me in a day-to-day kind of way, it helped me make sense of the world around me. I have always loved Star Trek, but it never seemed like humanity was truly headed in that direction.

BNW, 1984, and others helped me understand the world around me, which I think made me a better person in the end. Am I going to be a party to the creation of these kinds of worlds, or am I going to try to help move humanity in the other direction?

I've heard of fundraisers where members of the community are "arrested" and taken to actual jail by actual police until a certain amount of dollars are raised in that person's name. This sounds a lot like that, just scaled up.

My dad's stepbrother participated in one once. We knew ahead of time what was going on, so when he called to say he was "in jail" and needed help, my dad told him that he hoped my step-uncle would rot in jail and hung up. (He then called the official donation line and donated in his stepbrother's name.)

But if you zoom in, they aren't. It's shadowss.

Pretty sure that's wood.

Sounds interesting, but I need to know if this is a kissing book.

Chill. He's wearing a medieval tunic.

This is fine.

No, the Belgians.

It's likely because the fixes all would impinge on the rights of his constituents--and by that I mean, the rights of his major corporate donors to make money.

Exactly. Why go and share a stage with a bunch of people who are trailing him so much in the polls when he can go sit down with Tucker Carlson and get all the attention.

I can't say that I've followed this case closely, but I have never heard a reason why. Obviously, she's sick, but how do you do something like this "just because"?

I'll be right over!

Mmmmm.... raw chicken..... 🤤

Did you say Vader is on the other side of that door? I'm gonna hurl.

Imagine spending 40 years telling the world what is going to happen if people don't do something drastic, only to be mocked, paid lip service, and completely ignored. That pretty much says it all.

But... Han shot first?

That's great if you qualify, but you have to be below a certain income threshold. Not everyone does.

Anyone else just feel like we should eat the rich?

Guess who's coming to dinner...

They say as much:

"These transfers and withdrawals will be applied to customers’ accounts today."