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6 days agoSurfshark is something like $55 for 2 years; well worth it.
Surfshark is something like $55 for 2 years; well worth it.
Tennessee as well.
When do we get to the part of the episode where James T Kirk, prime directive be damned, finds the meglomaniacal computer controlling these men, and blows it up?
Titanic nerd here. There are definitely lessons that we’ve still not learned. Greed and hubris are easily spotted, but the more insidious enemy that doomed Titanic was complacency. In 1912 there was a real sentiment that man was the master of the universe, that war was a thing of the past, that modern science made ships practically unsinkable… none of that was true, of course.
Jack Thayer, a survivor, later wrote about how the Titanic sinking presaged a sea change in the world, and not for the better:
“There was peace and the world had an even tenor to its way. Nothing was revealed in the morning the trend of which was not known the night before. It seems to me that the disaster about to occur was the event that not only made the world rub its eyes and awake, but woke it with a start, keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace ever since with less and less peace, satisfaction and happiness. To my mind the world of today awoke April 15th, 1912”