when you're going so absolutely unhinged trying to fit the stories for 12 PCs and their most relevant NPCs for a Star Trek LARP game that you may have invented a new type of timeline diagram (swear I've seen this before tho!!! is this what mandela effect feels like??)
Happy #StarTrekDay !!!!
![Excerpt from the transcript for the linked video: "[...]the poor, and specifically the “problem” of the leisure activities of the poor. The capitalists were very open about this, they said that the only legitimate leisure activities for the poor were mental cultivation or religious study. Basically, studying Latin or studying the Bible, that’s what poor people should be allowed to do for fun. Anything other than that, they argued, was corrosive to the culture. For those keeping track at home, bribing the church and turning into a private tool of the capitalist class, not corrosive to the culture. Relaxing on a [...]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohutzfkzcry7o72eu2affjnu/bafkreibdtsdkczamcrtwhhww4zgvrx57ma4h4gq6fbqbdjno43lkygdttu)
![Another excerpt: "[...]months and worked half as hard as they normally did. As a capitalist, this drove Palmer crazy. He felt that it was deeply important for workers to be up 4 hours before sunrise every day, even if they didn’t really have any work to do. If they didn’t want to wake up on their own, he would do it for them. So he had the church bell ring at 4 o’clock every morning, 4 hours before sunrise. He also felt that it was his job to tell people when to go to bed, so he had the church bell ring at 8 o’clock every evening."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ohutzfkzcry7o72eu2affjnu/bafkreif3dn55yrvdg66trv33fjd5p3zei5nihzkpaqkbomccebii2gvfmy)
