The Botany Bay was built sometime in the early 1990s. Khan Noonien Singh was on that ship. We don’t know his age, but if we use his actor Ricardo Montalbán’s age at the time of the episode, that makes Khan 47 years old. The oldest baby boomers were born in 1945, putting them at 50 in 1995 — meaning that they would have been 47 in 1992.
Khan was ruling over a large section of the Earth from 1992 to 1996, meaning that he would not have been on that ship until at least 1996. If Khan was 47 in 1996, he would have been born in 1949.
Khan Noonien Singh, if he was born in or around 1949, is a baby boomer.
every star trek series since the 1960s: Earth in the first half of the 21st century was chaotic, plagued by social and economic inequality, the disastrous effects of pollution, and a devastating nuclear war
me rewatching star trek in the year 2019:
Someone there was a prophet and we didn’t know.
Star Trek: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
When I’m reincarnated, I want to come back as a bookstore cat.
Livin the life.
Here be my addition
That’s actually a thing? I thought my local bookstore was the only one living their best life tbh
This one guides me to any sections he’s feeling that day
Mice like things they can tear up to turn into comfy nests. Like paper. Shop cats used to be everywhere, but the food industry doesn’t get to keep them any more. The book industry still finds them useful and has no such legal restrictions.
Also bookshop owners and patrons alike are crazy cat ladies/gents, so it makes them feel at home.
You man not purchase records today without first paying the “petting” tax.
We all know the “riches beyond your wildest dreams” is just getting to pet the cat some more. And yes, please.
In Finland, speeding tickets are calculated based on your income - causing some Finnish millionaires to pay fines of over $100,000. Source
This is what “equality” looks like in that liberal fairy tale land of Finland. They punish you proportionately to how successful you are. Sounds really “fair.”
Except… it is fair? Because it’s proportionate. I don’t get what’s difficult about that. An impoverished person paying $400 dollar fine isn’t the same as a millionaire paying the same amount. For the poor person, $400 dollars could mean starving. Would you really claim it would have the same consequence for a rich man? Would it even be noticeable to him, while the absence of food in their stomach would be glaring to a poorer man? Would it be fair for a man to starve for the same crime as a man that would be having a three course meal?
By taking income into account, it allows the impoverished able to still survive while paying any fines they may incur. And, ultimately, while $100,000 dollars would be noticeable to a millionaire, they would still get by. And, assuming the law is properly implemented, they would be paying the same equivalent of their yearly income that a poorer person would. That’s what makes it fair. They would be impacted the same way - but you are looking at the amount rather than the equation.
Also, it’s important to make sure that even the rich would pause at the cost of a fine. They need to fear the law just as a poor man does.
Oh no… rich people facing fines that might actually make them consider not doing illegal things because the punishments might actually hurt them… how unfair… -V
Finnish person here. Our speeding ticket system owns and only people who bitch about them are people who wanna break the laws - the loudest whiners are the rich people who think they can just pay their way out of trouble and that’s why we have laws like that.
400 dollar ticket.
Person making 10 dollars an hour: “Fuck, I better slow down”
Millionaire driving a Jaguar: “LOL 400 DOLLARS, FUCK THAT, NYOOM”
Compared to a proportional ticket.
Person making 10 dollars an hour and must pay 400 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”
Millionaire who must pay 100,000 dollar ticket: “Fuck, I better slow down.”
Like wtf. Some people have been so brainwashed by capitalism and worship of the rich that they literally can’t tell the difference between fairness and unfairness anymore.
It IS fair. The fact that it flies in the status quo so much should make you think about that status quo.
you know that feeling when you’re out in nature at 5 or 6am and everything’s still quiet and the air still smells like night time and it’s fresh so you shiver a bit but then slowly the first rays of sun peak over the edge of the earth and everything is bathed in foggy, golden light and you just stand there watching the earth awaken.. if that’s not soothing idk what is
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