Probably my favorite Scotty moment.

And yes, he absolutely was bluffing. Montgomery Scott would not kill innocent civilians, even under direct orders. Recall that in this same episode Scotty refused a direct order to lower the shields and was fully willing to accept the consequences. (See also Star Trek 2009 where Scotty resigns rather than violate his professional ethics.)

I also like how Uhura reacts. She heard Kirk give General Order 24 but didn’t connect that with destroying the civilization below until Scotty utters his threat. This reinforces my headcanon that General Order 24 is actually a public health ordinance that was never intended to be used as a threat.

So the pharmacist says, “I’ve got just the thing to stop that coffin!”

You’re hired.

What are the CO2 canisters for?

Which one?

Your neighbor’s open wifi.

Generally, a preliminary injunction will be called for if the action is harmful and irreversible, if delaying it while the question is resolved wouldn’t cause significant problems for the party being sued, and if the requesting party is likely to win the lawsuit anyway.

You can take a religious oath (Bible optional) or you can make a non-religious affirmation.

No such luck. It’s solar-powered.

“Did you get all that?”

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When I googled that was the list I got, but I know that California, at least, still has in-person voting too.

California has “universal mail-in voting”, not “mail-only”. Meaning every voter is eligible to vote by mail, not that in-person voting is unavailable.

What states are “by mail only”?

The lunch arrangements will vary greatly by age/grade level. A high school is more likely to have the canteen style while an elementary school is more likely to have the cafeteria style. In either case, bringing a lunch from home is also reasonably common.

And TNG did break its own rules with Moriarty.

My headcanon is that Dr. Zimmerman and Lt. Barclay used the Moriarty program to discover how to make sentient holograms, and that’s why sentient holograms started showing up everywhere.

No matter how well you understand the passage of time in the abstract it’s a shock the first time you meet a full grown adult, with their own keys and everything, but you can remember what you were doing in the year they were born.

The author of the article is trying way too hard to imply that the study predicts more and worse earthquakes.

For example, they open with:

Just a week after a 3.9 magnitude earthquake rocked the Hayward Fault in Oakland

Which just makes me laugh. They clearly just checked the USGS site for the largest recent quake in the area, and might not even realize just how puny and mundane a 3.9 is.

Wow, they had a 2-bedroom unit with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and were only paying $3,695?

Ha. An Android phone.