• 0 Posts
  • 82 Comments
Joined 4 months ago
cake
Cake day: June 4th, 2025

help-circle


  • I know youre being funny, but 1600s English tax law is actually quite an interesting subject.

    Charles I spent most of his time trying to raise money to do navy war things, but couldn’t because only Parlemont could pass taxes, so he did a one weird trick thing and made costal towns pay or build ships since costal towns benefit from having ships to defend them. This was called Ship Money.

    Problem was, England was at peace and didn’t need those ships. This not legally a tax “tax” was one of the several abuses of power that led to the English Civil War and the beheading of Charles I…

    In technical terms this is called an oopsie doopsie.













  • I’ve never watched TOS all the way. Best I can recall is the 2009 movie in which the Vulcan kids bullied Spock and the High command “complimenting” Spock for being accepted into the academy despite his biological disadvantage. In the main timeline, I think Disco mentions it.

    It’s a logical point that since vulcans don’t have the disadvantages of humanity that they are superior, from a certain point of view. When the faux vulcans said something speciest, Spock commented that it was “technically” logical. This implies even Vulcans understand Logic can be a spectrum of finesse. Infinite diversity in Infinite Combinations is a Vulcan idiom after all.