Schhnapps?

And I thought capn kirk was on a five year mission.

Everyone except maybe the 600 he owned.

Winter in Toronto is here. Now we have slush.

Modern equivalent of shoe shine boys in 1929. 😁

I fear the idea that the nobley motivated US (and Britain before it) has always been a propaganda smokescreen for rapacious capitalist expansion that at their peaks created wealth enormous enough to appear magnanimous even while any such magnanimity was a tool to increase global wealth and power.

Nice piece. But the opening scenario is less convincing when you realize that electronic payments don't require crypto. Most of us make lots of automated payments using good old electronic ledgers in credit cards and banks. We all know we can't let our account ledgers run out of cash (or credit.)

This is a scene in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Player Piano, written in 1952.

Streetsville, Ontario

Daytime milk drinking.

Like Alberta medical treatment. Rich folks will love it.