Fun fact, the Soviets were the real space pioneers. They pretty much were first at everything except the moon landing.

I can back this up with a list from one of Carl Sagan's books if there are sceptics out there.

Uhura walked so Burnham could cry and wail and sob.

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Or maybe it's state capitalism. Like Norway does. But the GOP can't tell the difference between socialism and a stick up their ass, even while they love to hate the former and hate to love the latter.

It'll be especially dangerous since they're gonna have slashed tires so often.

Hi, Norwegian here, we have 5 weeks vacation per year, mandated by law. Oh, and the government takes 10% of your paycheck every month and pays it all out in July, so you have the money to go on vacation. Strong labor unions is the recipe.

Norwegian here. I can still hear the gasping from the laughter of the nobel committee in Oslo. And I'm on vacation abroad.

Compensating for relative lower income with low cost of consumer products is a bit like pissing your pants to get warm. The underlying issue is declining wages, caused by the loss of labor power. If people had decent wages a rise in prices would not be a problem. But while scraping by a rise in prices is a huge problem.

Yeah, his name was Simeon bar Jonah, Simon, son of Jonah, or by modern style, Simon Johnson. Then Jesus pops up and starts calling him the Rock... Simon the Rock Johnson. (also fun gravy, Dwayne means fishhook)

I would just fucking love it if there was discovered a correlation between autism and microplastics, or between autism and stress during pregnancy, or between autism and some food coloring or whatever. Just to see RFK shut the fuck up cause he would never challenge the owners of the country.

Ancient Rome had privatized fire department. Caesar's friend Crassus got the job and used it to extort people to sell their homes in a neighborhood when a fire broke out. As a result he became one of the richest people in history. He was also killed by the Persians who poured liquid gold (or silver, depending on source) on his decapitated head and sent it back to Rome.

"They wouldn't hurt us, we're their workforce."