I appreciated that it was acknowledged in Star Trek Beyond that Ambassador Spock had died.

That would require some self awareness.

TL;DR: you paying in now is funding paying out now.

Your contributions fund today’s recipients. When you eventually become a recipient then the contributors of that day fund you.

This is the way of all superannuation funds around the world, they rely on the current generation of workers to fund the previous generations’ retirement (or the current generations’ disabled, etc.)

It’s basically a pyramid scheme.

If one gets to claim that an entire generation beat the Nazis the one gets to claim the subsequent generation sucks.

They are terrified that the Trump admin will nuke the whole thing at any moment, and are trying to buy people time.

You’re probably lucky enough to be in the jurisdiction of someone or some team that is actually empathetic.

Unfortunately, they’ll be the first against the wall when the doge comes.

Good luck mon ami (from someone outside the US, looking in in horror).

Going from three classes (low, middle, upper) down to two (low, upper) sounds like progress.

A class of children playing classroom-united-nations would be slammed by their teacher for doing this as “unrealistic”.

Never had there been a more apt implementation of “cutting one’s nose of to spite one’s face”.

This never gets old.

Unfortunately this never gets old.

All our colloquialisms and such like are still rooted in the old units.

I suppose we might say “fuel economy” but only if we’re trying to sound fancy.

Yes.

Brian Fucking Tamaki and friends is what’s wrong.

That’s pretty much it. I really like it. It’s got some very cool gun, sword, and gun/sword fights.

Watch it, if you enjoy it watch it again, if not complain on the internet.

Oh yeah.

The night dive remake of System Shock was awesome.

I played the original as a kid and it was just too hard. I also played SS2 and completed that: my gods that was a terrifying game.

I can’t wait.

This lowers the opportunity cost of having elections and gives a government more capability for implementing stuff and seeing a result within the same term.

It’s a good thing IMHO. But no longer than four years.

That’s the thing, it’s a useful assistant for an expert who will be able to verify any answers.

It’s a disaster for anyone who’s ignorant of the domain.

Also, Equilibrium and V for Vendetta sadly.