TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]

Land and houses aren’t private property unless you’re renting them out. If they aren’t a financial asset, they’re just personal property.

Businesses are an interesting question? The Federation, or at least its core worlds, doesn’t use money (by the 24th century). The only business we see onscreen, on a Federation core world, as far as I can remember, is Sisko’s Creole Kitchen. If there’s no money, why does Joseph Sisko run it? My guess is to maintain the tradition of Creole cuisine, to perfect his skills as a chef, to meet and interact with guests, and to preserve an historic New Orleans building by keeping it in use. Is it private property? Does he own it? He owns the business in some abstract sense, but the building? Probably not. I’d expect he holds it in trust in some kind of legal arrangement with the city, but there’s really no onscreen evidence.

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Buying a Dr. Bashir action figure and a Garak action figure so I can mash them together and make them kiss.

Good for Harry Kim that he finally got his promotion.

I always got death-cult vibes from beehaw. I expected their flame-out to be a lot more dramatig than this, though.

Just 40 more years of bad stuff to get through before we get to the good part.

Regarding Vulcans drinking, in SNW S02E01, “The Broken Circle”,

The older ones were larger (and more likely to explode). Not backpack sized, though.

Human Federation Standard

I see that it’s in Klingon, but I’m too lazy to transliterate and translate. What does it say?

This fact about the word rice is new to a lot of folks here, including me.

This is why we’re in this thread trying to educate you, my child.

I am constantly amazed at how many people online seem to have fallen off of the turnip truck yesterday.

So “massive local participation in the actual killing of Jews, usually by shooting at local pits rather than by deportation to faraway camps” is just an “oopsie woopsie fucky wucky” that can be brushed aside because… why, exactly?

Hey, now. Star Trek is a good show, which upholds Marxist-Posadist thought.

If the shoe fits.

Within the mythology of East European nationalists, particularly but not exclusively in the Baltics and western Ukraine — where there was massive local participation in the actual killing of Jews, usually by shooting at local pits rather than by deportation to faraway camps — the Bogus moral equivalence of the Holocaust has been from the time of the actual massacres the myth that the Jews were all Communists and got what they deserved because Communism was every bit as genocidal as Nazism.

Incidentally, this is one reason many of us, while not condoning Russia’s illegal invasion are not huge fans of Ukrainian nationalists.

Indeed, the US is still operating internment camps in this, the Year of Our Lord 2023.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57561760

Story from 2021, but I have not heard of much changing.