Assuming:
Current ocean salinity = 35 kg / m3.
Current ocean volume = 1.4 * 1018 m3.
Current human fresh water usage = 4 * 109 m**3.
(35 * 1.4 * 1018) / (1.4 * 1018 - 4 * 10**9).
= 35.0000001 kg / m**3. = New ocean salinity.
I think they'll be okay.
$12,000 / year * 600,000 homeless people in the USA =
$7,200,000,000 / year
Maybe let's start small and help some homeless people get off the streets for the low low price of ~0.1% of the country's annual spending.
I assume that once you have a stable situation, the supreme gets cut off. As more homeless get off the streets, this number should decrease (but probably not disappear [my cynicism says that we'll probably never completely solve homelessness]). As more homeless become taxably employed, federal government revenue will increase; spending should decrease as various programs can be throttled back. I'm sure some sociologist-economist can give you a calculated estimated ROI figure on this investment, but I feel that the numbers would probably balance pretty evenly with the added benefit of helping a bunch of people and communities.
UBI would be great but I don't expect that to occur without a tonne of baby steps
Full disclosure, I am not an astronaut, nor do I have full context behind the quote. I think that curiosity and exploration would help. Also, warp drive made all those planets a whole lot less lonely
Basing this solely on the trailer, the King is not wrong. Not everyone's wishes should be granted. As the ruler / government of the country, choosing the wishes that have the best impact on the well-being of the kingdom is kind of his job. Catching the person who is granting wishes randomly, or just all wishes is a reasonable course of action for the King. Of course, he's probably a baby-eater or something equally villainous to make the audience hate him.
I would think the romulans would have some questions.
Hey Starfleet, you developed that cloak awfully fast even though you weren't supposed to be researching it until five days ago.
Star Trek adjacent, but the Orville had an episode like that I think.
It's the dominant open source competitor. I think Google's office suite would be their largest overall.
Apologies double didn't realize the double asterisks would screw up the formatting. 1.4 trillion trillion cubic meters ocean volume. 4 trillion cubic meters fresh water consumption