When the story finds Michael in 2013, he's living in a McMansion in Los Santos with two bratty kids and a wife who all are spoiled brats who take an externally lavish lifestyle for granted, not to mention his own taste for cigars, whiskey, and boats; on top of that he's also paying Dave Norton $10k+ a month as hush money. However before he pulls down Mr. Madrazo's deck he doesn't seem particularly stressed for money, Jimmy buys a guady overpriced luxury SUV on his father's card, and Michael seems to only be mad about being scammed rather than that his unemployed son who almost never leaves his room is adding another $1k+ to the monthly bill. We know based on the jewel store payout that Madrazo needed 2.5 million for the repairs so Michael has less than 2.5m in savings. Why exactly isn't he stressing about money if his 2008 nestegg was barely enough to last his family 5 years? He can only realistically have enough savings to last himself a year or so before not being able to buy Davey's silence, and also not meeting the mortage payments on his house; and he doesn't really seem like the kind of guy to roll up his sleeves and start working at Cluckin Bell to support his family that all hate him.

I'm curious because thinking about it we really don't see anyone from the middle east. In our timeline it's prettymuch not a solvable problem. I just want to emphasize this is about Earth in the Trek universe, not ours, in the period between WWIII and the start of Enterprise.

What I recall from the canon is that they had WWIII, and then a version of the EU ended up slowly becoming the one world government. Once they discovered the Vulcans Earth spent a brief period rebuilding and then went straight to founding the Federation.

We don't hear about terrorism, regional instability and extremists and so on on Earth. We don't hear about warlords or religious conflicts. If anything, religion is mostly dead somehow. It's basically paradise, according to Sisko. So what happened? Did everyone get replicators and decide wars were lame?

For example, what was The Order doing, when the Marks or Viltramites were destroying the city? Or what are Batman villains doing when the Joker causing chaos? What is Lex Luther thinking whenever there is a major Metahuman/Alien attack. I could use a lot of examples here.

I ask this question. Because some Supervillians are World Leaders, CEOs, Mob Bosses, etc. So I assume more organized Supervillians wouldn't be fans of other villains causing chaos. Especially when Supervillians aren't being hold back by morals. Unlike the Superheroes. Therefore someone can take anyone out, if they think ate bad for business.

I mean, the Council was highly organized. They received regular reports from Giles about Buffy, so they knew she was still alive. And they knew Kendra was also a slayer, because they assigned a Watcher to her. So, they definitely knew there were two simultaneous slayers.

Why not inform Giles that there was a second slayer? Why not inform him that Kendra was coming to Sunnydale? Why not inform Kendra that the first slayer was still alive? Lack of information can lead to chaotic results, which one would think the Council would prefer to avoid.

Is it possible that the Council was unhappy with Buffy’s way of handling herself, and hoped that Kendra might kill her, leaving one more-easily-controlled slayer?

Mina was turned into a vampire because her parents paid a fortune for it, mainly because Mina could no longer marry into the family of a powerful corporation. Would all rich individuals just buy their way to immortality?

Why is there technology that wouldn’t have existed back then? I don’t think ODM gear would have been possible by then. People in Marley have airships, trains, indoor lighting, etc. That sure as hell didn’t exist in the early Middle Ages. The Military Police had muskets in the year 850. Does time work differently in the AOT universe? Do people in Paradis think it’s the 800s when in reality it’s not?
I’ve only completed the first 3 seasons of AOT. I’ve seen the first 8 episodes of season 4