I really dislike when ships or planets in Trek get named after real world people like, say, Terry Matalas (cough cough) or some producer's niece. This one seems to be one of those, since there is apparently no historical precedent for it in-universe or out.
I'm guessing that it's some producer's niece who drew a spaceship with crayons, and the design is based on that. Not a fan.
I don't follow Swift or her die-hard fans, but this white supremacist" bit is news to me. Is this a real documented fact, or the usual overblown internet reaction to an assumption based on an extrapolation from a decade-old retweet?
Plus we're talking about things which are by their nature very difficult to prove. It's literally one person's word against another. Or in this case, nine people's word against one. All that this ruling tells us is that there was insufficient evidence to convict him beyond a reasonable doubt.
During the summer months, I try to get in a few sessions a week of reading in the hammock with a cold drink. It's a challenge to fit it in after work and before dinner, and some days are too hot, or rainy, or smoky, or the neighbors are loud, etc, but when I can make it work, even for a half hour or so, it's a little slice of paradise just for me that keeps me sane.
I have yet to find an equivalent for the winter, but I won't deny that I've measured for hooks to hang the hammock in the bedroom...
In light of the ending, where the Enterprise crew appears in toon form because they've all been drinking hardcore Orion liquor (?), might we assume that the heightened 2d nature of Lower Decks is due to Mariner lacing the onboard replicators?
As an American I'm just assuming that road was moved to be widened and a bunch of low income housing and many blocks worth of historic buildings were demolished in the process.
This is also a great zero-stakes way for the government to pretend they are listening and actually care about something, because they are all pretty well assured that nothing said here will negativity affect anyone's reelection campaign.
They don't know anything, and they know nobody else knows anything. There is nothing to be lost politically by spending time on this. If anything it's probably a nice break for most of them to focus on something with almost no chance of repercussions.
It's a security blanket, and if someone is clinging to it that gives you a good idea of their emotional age.