Eh, it’s not like the current ones were all that good anyway

that seems like overkill

that seems like a lot of battery for just a keyboard

Clergy is the one I would say most breaks the dichotomy.

All the others listed still lack the title and privileges that come with nobility. There is some nuance I skipped over: different laws for urban citizens vs rural peasants. But a peasant could become an urban citizen by fleeing their land and living in a city for a year and a day, after which their former lord could no longer claim them.

If we’re going by the historical use of the term, yes.

At the beginning of the early modern period, you had two classes: peasants and aristocrats. You were born into your class and that was that. But early industrialization lead to a funny thing; people who were born peasants, yet through owning things like mines or factories, had amassed enough wealth to rival (and sometimes surpass) the aristocracy. Aristocrats derisively refereed to these wealthy peasants as “The Middle Class”.

If you were to show an aristocrat our present world, they’d tell you we’re ruled by their middle class.

go buy bread and sanitizing wipes with satisfaction

Congrats, you have a better grasp of negotiation than a 6-figure-salary consultant contracted to the DNC.

“rolling on the floor laughing” but i’m not. Things are funny, sure, but so funny I’m on the floor? Years pas between such moments.

“laughing my ass off” has a swear in it

need I say more?

I thought I heard a rumor Newsom is gay? Not that that precludes him being homophobic, of course

With how the lake is drying up, yes.

So we’re not all that removed from a database of citizens and their faces. The work of actually collecting that information is already done, it’s just a matter of organizing it. And there are already private contractors who specialize in just that kind of data organization.

Doesn’t the NSA have exabytes (at a minimum) of data scrapped from the internet?

More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don’t debate God, you don’t test God, and you definitely don’t force God’s hand.

Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.

lol

the Sun does the same thing but also with a profit motive

thank you

the effects were nice, the sets memorable, the costuming was good

too bad it was a boring slog that kinda soured any desire I had to go back and see the first one again

So what is this “objective” perspective? Could you break it down like you broke down the subjective one?

We also put people who happened to have a few grams of weed in there.