That was only step 1. Step 2 was to pass laws targeting the minority you wanted to keep as an underclass, so that if they refused to sign a labor contract to work for their former owner for slave wages, they could be arrested for “vagrancy” and leased right back to them anyway as convict labor.
In other words, they didn’t just enslave criminals; they manufactured criminals to enslave.
The comments two and three levels up were about third-world tropical houses and old houses respectively, both designed to be habitable in hot climates without air conditioning. As such, they are/were designed exactly the opposite way: to maximize cross-ventilation instead.
What you really want these days would be a house that’s tightly insulated but also has lots of operable windows, a whole-house fan, and/or a design that facilitates stack effect ventilation so that it can use either cooling strategy when conditions are appropriate.
I have to wonder if the United States builds houses inefficiently on purpose.
Starting roughly during the housing boom just after WWII, the United States started building houses cheaply on purpose. One of the most noticeable changes is common house designs went from being Craftsman bungalows with high (e.g. 10’) ceilings, lots of windows for good ventilation, and large roof overhangs for shade and protection from wind-driven rain, to “American Small Houses” with 8’ ceilings, minimal windows and no roof overhangs.
As the owner of one of the latter (in the South, BTW), I can tell you that trying to keep it cool via cross-ventilation is largely ineffective.
If I had listened to my parents in 2009, when they told me I was too young and couldn’t afford a house, I’d be absolutely screwed today.
subsidy queens
I read that as… "suberb queens.”
To be fair, the suburbs are a Ponzi scheme and suburban homeowners are, indeed, welfare queens. In fact, they are being subsidized by the very urban apartment dwellers they try to attach that label to!
The version I’ve heard is “coup cucks klan”
Nobody said economic leftists can’t be racist.
What a neat coincidence that both this and the rule book for the other Star Trek TTRPG have both been posted within the last few days. Are there any others we should know about, LOL?
Why is T’Ana standing in line for a replicator in the first place? She’s senior staff; she not only should be eligible to eat in the officers’ mess, she probably has her own private replicator in her quarters.
(Or is the Cali-class even shittier than I imagined it to be?)
Also, why can’t they just replicate some more replicators and install them everywhere?
Never mind insurance; I’m hoping a prosecutor will take on the odds at the murder trial!
Sigh… if they’re gonna photoshop a tardigrade playing a violin, can’t they at least do it right? Not only is he holding it like a cello, he’s trying to bow the strings on the wrong side of the bridge.
Incompetent tardigrade violinists, SMH
We tried, but then VW had to go and blow it.
Humanity literally physically came together because it was necessary to rebuild.
I’m pretty sure that didn’t really happen until after the Vulcans showed up, TBH.
From Memory Alpha:
During the 2060s, Cochrane and his team of engineers began developing the warp drive. (Star Trek: First Contact) The challenge of inventing warp theory took Cochrane an extremely long time. (ENT: “Anomaly (ENT)”) In 2061, he was responsible for Earth’s first successful demonstration of light speed propulsion, though his work was far from complete. (VOY: “Friendship One”; ENT: “In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II” library computer file) His primary motivation for commencing warp technology was financial gain in the devastated, poverty-stricken America that existed in the wake of the Third World War.
He finally built Earth’s first warp ship, the Phoenix, in the hope its success would prove profitable and allow him to retire to a tropical island filled with naked women. A historical irony was that, contrary to the fact he went on to use the Phoenix to inaugurate an era of peace, Cochrane incorporated a weapon of mass destruction into its design; he constructed the Phoenix in a silo on a missile complex and used a Titan II missile as his launch vehicle.
(WWIII ended in 2053; First Contact was on 5 April 2063)
The Bell Riots (and Irish reunification) are due in a few months.
I remember that space is completely unforgiving and we just aren’t up to the task for anything more than a token selfie
“Wow, rude!” – Carl Sagan, probably
Goddamnit, stop making me click the downvote button twice!
and keep your style of speech different than your “real” one
Good luck with that!
I kinda feel like you’d need to run your comments through a style transfer LLM in order to do that successfully and consistently.
Definitely not. Which country the activist is in is one difference, but what they’re an activist about is another. Here in the US, some activists get shot by police while other activists get police marching with them, for example.
Fuck that! If he’s absent, the Court should simply be required to decide the case without him.