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It’s sad that we live in a world where NASA relies on Boeing to fuck up and then needs SpaceX to bail them out. I guess SpaceX is about the only decent thing Musk is still involved in at this point. And I know they try to babysit him. I worry someday he’ll do the same at SpaceX as he did at Twitter.
When was this?
A few hours ago
Thanks! I was under the impression that The Doctor is not with us anymore, but I’m glad I was wrong.
Alive and well at 70 years young!
He was just voicing for prodigy season 2 (last year), did a guest appearance on quantum leap (delightfully named Woolsey, just like his SG1/SG:A/SGU character, different first name though), with some upcoming stuff like a werewolf game movie, a vampire flick where he plays the vampire’s son, and a parody of Doctor Who.
Robert Picardo is great
I’ve wondered why he said yes to a bit role in Atlas Shrugged, but I guess everyone needs work.
Love that voice
So I hate to tell you this, but I’m pretty sure Robert Picardo is a hologram…
What are you trying to say? That a hologram is not a person but a mere tool?
Sure, but he’s made of “hard light”, if you get my drift 😏
Master of the wit and the repartee.
His command of space directives is uncanny.
How come he’s such a genius?
Don’t ask me!
Ask Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer.
He’s also a fantastic swimmer.
And if you play your cards right
Then he just might come round for dinner.
I hadn’t seen Innerspace in forever, and I was delighted when I watched it recently and he popped up in a cowboy costume and a Russian accent.
Robert Picardo is an absolute treasure.
What a fucking beauty. Isn’t Robert Picardo just a fucking beauty?
“If Picard can baldly go where no one has gone before, then why not Picardo?”
I’ve had a man crush on him for decades now.
finally the IOA is shutting down SpaceX
Did Latins just never make it into the future?
That is the type of burn that requires a broom and dust pan instead of a cream.
I definitely read this with the Doctor’s cadence and finished off with the shit-eating grin he makes when he’s said something snarky.
And then he followed it with JohnnyCab’s psychpathic squeal.
The only thing this shit stain knows about Star Trek is that the doors slide to the side.
I just realized Picardo’s acronym here would be
D I E
I’m all in. Let’s make everyone’s one earth needs met, so that we can focus on space exploration. But first things first.
Don’t the Bell riots have to happen first? :c
Thankfully, we are wanting to create Starfleet not the whole Star trek timeline.
Second step: abolish capitalism, and by extension billionaires, and give everyone free healthcare and education.
(Who downvotes this?)
Delusional temporarily embarrassed millionaires and billionaires.
Don’t mind their working class appearances at the moment, they’ll get a lucky break and be set back to their high status.
Don’t forget, food and shelter. Pretty sure that was free too
Yeah nothing says “I support a post-scarcity economy” like a bunch of billionaires
IMO if you’re a billionaire and stay a billionaire, you’re incapable and unworthy of being called altruistic. Nobody needs a billion dollars. Nobody even needs a tenth of that. There should be a $1 million annual asset cap on all income sources, full stop. Everything else should go to social services, infrastructure, etc. and NOT person or military anything.
I mean, I like to shit on Billionaires as much as anyone, but they don’t really own a Billion dollars like sitting around in their bank accounts. They own it in assets like stocks of companies, real estate, etc. The money they spend are usually loans against these assets which they then pay back by selling some because their values usually increases more than the interest rates.
So I don’t understand how you are envisioning this asset cap and going to social services. Imagine you have stock In a company that’s growing more than a million dollars. Would they be forced to sell the stock to ‘social services’? Who controls these assets then? Or are they forced to sell them? Then the assets just get passed around.
I don’t think a solution is that simple. Maybe it would be better if we regulate the companies more. But for that we need to agree on rules on an international level because otherwise, as it is now already happening, they just switch their HQ to less regulated countries. The EU approaches this with regulations you need to follow if you want to operate in the EU at all. Which makes the corps found subcorps to operate in EU. They evade all regulations as long as we can’t agree on an international standard.
Long story short. It’s not the billionaires money that’s the problem, it’s the power they hold in their assets in multinational corporations that enables them to operate above any laws of one nation.
Well, okay but selling a single family home these days goes for over a million commonly in the cities, even if it’s your only family home and for example you are moving into smaller home or selling for money for health care or to move into retirement home etc
A home you could have bought between 30-50 k 30 or 40 years ago could easily be worth over 1 million now
But doesn’t that have a lot to do with the fact that millionaires and billionaires are buying property and jacking up prices? If the cap is 1 million and someone sells their house for 1 million, if they make any more money that year, it goes to taxes. That would give incentive to people to actually live life instead of being completely focused on the rat race. I don’t think 1 million is a good cap, certainly not with the value of the dollar being what it is. However, I do think setting a cap and having it automatically lower a little bit every few years is a good idea. That would need to also be accompanied with a limit on liquid assets to be gradually taken down as well, if anyone is hoarding money, they would be forced to either give it away or donate to charity if they didn’t want all of it going into public programs. There shouldn’t be limit on what someone can buy/own.
I disagree with giving go charity to get out of paying for public services. Tons of shit charities out there.
But they’re shit because the people who work for them take all the money. With the cap greed is a much smaller factor and would likely lead to those charities to either get their shit together or shut down
Edit: and you’re right in an ideal government charities wouldn’t even be necessary because taxes are handling everything a charity would but it will never be perfect and I think giving people the option of where their earned money goes would be a lot less aggravating than being forced to give it to the US government
A million a year barely lifts you beyond the middle class these days. You would still need a mortgage ( at least for a couple of years ) where I live.
I think maybe $10 million would be better. But I prefer a progressive system over a cap. Earning more money should always make you more money. People respond to incentives. We just need to increase the tax rate as high as 90% by the time you are making $10 million or more.
If a few billionaires had $100 million, it would not wreck society.
Starfleet was diverse? It was like 75% white people
Most of Starfleet isn’t even human
Ok, of the humans, 75% are white.
And I don’t know which show you watched, but most of Starfleet were humans
My head canon is that TNG, DS9 and Voyager are set in the Kelvin universe, where
Star Trek 2009 spoiler
Most of the Vulcans are dead.
I have no (in universe) explanation for the lack of proportional human diversity, in TNG, in particular, though. I notice sometimes during a rewatch and it does break the immersion.
Yeah, in 1990, America was still 80% white. It’s only in the past 30 years we dropped to 61%.
Now I wonder what an Ultra Capitalist mirror universe would look like.
The Terran Empire. That is a canon, in cosmos alternate universe where humanity doubled down but still got good with technology. Fascist but on the level of the Federation.
In the Expanse, the rich big bad is Jules-Pierre Mao, owner of Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile. I don’t even know how rich he is but I think it more than Trillionaire.
There’s lots of those. Alien is one of them. The alien itself is the manifestation of humanity’s self centered nature.
His reply probably: “bot”
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