My other unpopular #starTrek opinion is that Enterprise did #Vulcans dirty. I read "Strangers from the Sky" decades ago, before Enterprise, and this is the version of the Vulcans that feels best to me. #greatestgen #greatesttrek

#greatestgen #greatesttrek

🔴 Multiple independent bodies have reaffirmed UNRWA’s neutrality & found no substantiated evidence supporting Israel’s claims that the agency operates as a Hamas affiliate, despite continued Israeli allegations:

1. Colonna Review: A review led by fmr French foreign minister Catherine Colonna...

#eastGermany #GermanReunification #bureacracy

Furthermore, “because of the kind of personal information they had to give, they felt more observed and spied on than they were by the Stasi [the GDR security police]” (Z Magazine, 7/92).
-Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

East Germans living in the West were staggered by the flood of complicated forms they had to fill out for taxes, health insurance, life insurance, unemployment compensation, job retraining, rent subsidies, and bank accounts.

"..lost or made to seem trivial. Everything is buy, earn, sell" (New York Times, 5/26/96).
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"We East Germans had no real picture of what life was like in the West. We had no idea how competitive it would be. . . . Unabashed greed and economic power are the levers that move this society. The spiritual values that are essential to human happiness are being ...

The way wealth is distributed in this society [capitalist Germany] is something I find very hard to take." Another Lutheran pastor said:

"Anticommunist dissidents who labored hard to overthrow the
GDR were soon voicing their disappointments about German reunification. One noted Lutheran clergyman commented: "We fell into the tyranny of money.

110% correct.

TBH, most rich people in the USA today are above the law.

i guess lying is exhausting

Treason, as defined in the U.S. Constitution, consists only of levying war against the United States or adhering to its enemies by giving them aid and comfort. A person cannot be convicted of treason unless there are at least two witnesses to the same overt act or a confession in open court.

Forcing people to adopt a technology they don't want has been happening for a long time. I never wanted or asked for a smartphone. I never wanted credit scores.

It's interesting, even operating at its peak Google couldn't get me what I was looking for, and I'm a college educated chemistry major who spent hours researching in libraries. And that was party because of the way it's structured and how Google used to work. ChatGPT tends to give better results.

Israel's number 1 export is oppression in the form of surveillance and domestic policing.