By next gen they had weather control on earth, and were even in the process of upgrading the geologic stability network. So yeah: habitat maintenance on the next level.

Something something invert polarity something technobabble something.

I imagine World War III managed to decimate enough of the industrial economies that they inadvertently managed to exceed their carbon reduction targets from the Paris Accords, and then by the time Earth got back on its feet after the development of warp drive and first contact with the Vulcans, electricity was able to be generated cleanly and much more efficiently

I mean, they have futuristic weather control satellites and everything, I would imagine that global warming is a thing of the past in Trek.

How's that unrealistic? Not even the ocean wants it.

The most unrealistic thing (from a U.S. perspective) is that Florida isn't underwater!

I was reminded today of a funny thing about Star Trek:

Whatever they can sell it for?

Geez, WTF do those China sellers on eBay need my phone number for?

Does the PotP voyager Starscream's chest stick out so far in combiner torso mode? It's kinda weird how much Elita Infinite's back seems so empty up top but very... protruding lower down.

Trying to fit Elita One's combiner head back into her torso is a pain in the arse (and not just because her torso becomes her arse in combiner torso mode)

Power corrupts and corruption empowers.

Welcome to real life...at least until enough people get fed up and they break out the guillotines.

It's almost as if the people with the most money have funneled money into making the systems of government and law serve their purposes in retaining their wealth, no matter how harmful, counterintuitive, or just flat out evil they have to be. Huh.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/mother-jones-vandersloot-melaleuca-lawsuit/

Some states have laws against that, but they're in a tiny minority. There are plenty of cases where rich people have gone after journalists and their employers for accurate reporting, lost, but still left their targets saddled with hundreds of thousands ofdollars in legal fees and no hope of recovering anyof the money because a partisan judge has decreed that while they're innocent, they're not innocent enough.

The american system is as bad, there are plenty of cases of billionaires or corporations filing libel suits purely to kill reporting or activisim against their activities. SLAPP suits. Strategic Lawsuits against public participation.

e.g. British libel laws place the burden of proof on the accuser, which is how we wind up with Emirati billionaires suing Western journalists in British courts

Never visited the UK in my life, but reading about British laws in the news gives me the vibe that British culture inherently protects the wealthy and established.

Sounds a lot better than labour law in the UK. It's bare minimum standards here, you don't get any employment rights as such in the first two years of employment (and the employer can arbitrarily reset the clock). Unions are limited to a few public sector professions as well; in the private sector, there basically aren't any unions.

Bonus points if your company has a works council. The employer is required by law to hear the works council prior to giving you your termination. The works council cannot prevent your termination if the employer really insists on going through with it, but if the employer failed to hear the works council, didn't wait for the works council to respond, or failed to tell the works council *all* the relevant details, the termination is legally invalid due to a technicality.

The employer has to tell you the reason for your termination if you explicitly ask for it, and if you can prove the reason is factually incorrect, the employer may lose the case.

For all its flaws, I really like a lot about our German labor law. Here, if you're under a permanent contract and have been continually employed for over six months, employers can only fire you for reasons that fall into one of three categories defined by law, and the burden of proof is on the employer's side in a potential court case.

in brightest day or blackest night?

Finally we get a Greenlight toy.

See.. In America they would just fire you for having the wrong color shoes on or some BS reason.

And hey, in addition to the clocked extra hours, I earned an additional 50% overtime bonus.

This past Saturday, in full expectance of a strike this week, I worked a full extra shift. They assigned me and some of the other volunteers to a totally pointless task, while some ladies were seriously sweeping the floor. When asked how long I was planning to stay, I smiled and said "a full shift!"

"You were asking for volunteers, right? I'm staying." - "But we have no more work for you!" - "I don't see how that's *my* problem..."

It's possible to use that to troll the employer a little, though... Once they allow voluntary overtime, they cannot backtrack from that. So once you notice you're rapidly running out of work, you just decide to do overtime out of spite.

Now if there's *no* strike... people eventually run out of work.

Amazon is prepared for strikes... they just hire way too many people for the Christmas season. If there's a strike, they still have enough (albeit inexperienced) workers.

Not one bit

@Steevy Did you read TM2's post? "Amazon.de".

just wait until the European economy collapses up its Brexit-shaped asshole.

Probably not a ton of people, no. Although I'd say I order from one European Amazon site once every month or two, myself. Usually UK, but sometimes Germany as well. France and Italy a couple times, too. There are some good Blu-Ray releases that are exclusive to Europe

I'm not sure a European strike is going to impact North American customers.

Well, somebody must've been working 'cuz I had an order in with Amazon.de that got shipped out the other day

Amazon.

AOL?

Also, strike has been extended. So no working for 50 minutes. Would have been fun, though.

I said numerous times already that I work at that big American corporation that begins with "A".

Preferably the equivalent of Lara Croft or Indiana Jones a thousand years from now

The turkeys... The answer is always the Turkeys.

Who would be the heroes in this situation?

When I die, I want my body to be part of a puzzle solution. Like, have my skeleton pointing at the clue the heroes are supposed to find.

Can you say where you work at? Or is that private?

It's completely pointless... whch is exactly the point. Hundreds of workers showing up 50 minutes before their shift is over.

We're on strike until midnight tomorrow (Tuesday->Wednesday). Which means I will clock in at midnight and work until my shift is over... 50 minutes later.

Hahaha, awesome.