Of the TOS movies, the even ones are great, the odd ones are much weaker.

New Zealand’s gone missing again, I’m assuming it’s lumped in with Australia.

Won’t stop the red hats from buying it out of loyalty to the Emperor.

A Quinnipiac University poll this week has him underwater on immigration (43% approve, 54% disapprove) and deportations (40% approve, 56% disapprove). Not sure why these two polls are so far apart, nor why there’s still 40% of people in favor of what’s happening.

Germany didn’t choose hydrogen because of its greater lifting capacity, they had to use it because the US was the only country at the time with industrial quantities of helium, and they weren’t exporting it. The Hindenburg was originally planed to use helium, but once the Zeppelin Company resigned themselves to having to use hydrogen, they added addition passenger staterooms to take advantage of the excess lift capacity.

She has a reputation for sharing the wealth, tipping wait staff with $100 bills, and giving the truck drivers for her tour $100,000 bonuses.

Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.

Activation fees certainly did.

You can probably add “website” to the list.

He was teased in the post-credits scene in the first movie.

Don’t speak their name, or it’ll be wall-to-wall TNG “Cause and Effect” memes for three days.

The procedure when doing a carrier landing is to go to full throttle as you touch down. It may seem counterintuitive, but the idea is if you miss all the wires, you have enough thrust to get back into the air to go around and try again. If you catch a wire, they’re designed to stop the plane at full power. I’m curious what went wrong here to leave the plane short of the necessary power to get airborne again.

Data’s from 2014. It’s after the moneyball era, but should be before the final clash between ownership and the city over a replacement stadium that ultimately made a lot of fans sour on the team. (Or, at least, sour on the team under current ownership.)

The Mets don’t even dominate the zip code their home stadium is in; they don’t show on the map at all.

ARM was invented in Europe, I surprised there isn’t a single fabrication plant in the continent. (Yes, as much a they try to deny it, England is part of Europe.)

Most modern pumps in the US have one hose and buttons to select the grade. You’ll get a bit of the previous customer’s selection from what was left over in the line, but it’s not a huge difference if you’re getting 10 gallons. It can be a bigger deal for something with a small tank, like a motorcycle.

Diesel still gets its own hose, as putting diesel into a gas car or vice versa can be very bad.

I also remember when gas pumps had a separate hose and nozzle for each grade of gas.

There’s also a QR code you can scan to control it via your phone. I’m sure no one has exploited that.

Trump’s not used to people fighting back.

Look how rough most of the island’s terrain is compared to the large flat area where the city of Vancouver is. The physical separation from the mainland doesn’t help, either.