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A virus that kills its host looses a vector to spread. It’s an evolutionary advantage to not kill your host, just leach off them to spread. Look at how well the common cold does.

Sadly, I’m not even joking.

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Jack Black stared in a movie this year with exactly this plot.

Lt. Kim says, “Everybody gets promoted before OPS.” In addition to Harry never getting promoted on Voyager, Enterprise D / E operations officer Data was a Lieutenant Commander from his first appearance in “Encounter at Farpoint” all the way through his final appearance in “Star Trek Nemesis,” a period of 15 years both in-universe and real world.

It’s going to be interesting for anyone in New Jersey who gets a new drone for Christmas.

Yeah, but in normal layoffs you try to retain your top talent. When you try to make people want to quit, you tend to loose your best people first, as they’ll have the easiest time getting a better job elsewhere.

They’re able to recycle 93% of the water on the station. The leftover high concentration waste water, along with the poop bags, are loaded into a Progress or Cygnus cargo ship that burns up on reentry.

The fact our voting system kind of forces people to coalesce into two parties is causing friction in both at this point. You’ve got Pelosi’s old guard Dems infighting with the younger Progressives, and on the other side of the aisle there’s the MAGAs trying to force anyone unwilling to toe Herr Trump’s line out of the GOP.

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“A dark day for humanity, folks. We have been beaten ... in basketball.”

It used to be cost competitive with cable, but I don’t think it has much advantage there anymore.

They did a remake on the 3DS, but I’d love one for the Switch or Switch 2. Rationalize the controls for modern gamepads (two joysticks, but only 4 face buttons), update the graphics, but keep the gameplay. Nintendo being Nintendo, they’ll feel obligated to add Amiibo integration, but at least that’s always optional.

It’s easy, just stay off the back spaces and this guy can’t hurt you. His compatriot, on the other hand…

If they do find him, the prosecutors are going to have a hell of a time trying to weed out anyone interested in jury nullification.

Hey, Donnie, how about granting DC, who actually want it, statehood first? (We all know why not, they vote the wrong way.)

Well, how's his wife holding up?

Speaker of the House, currently Johnson, but they’re required to go through the election process when the new House sits in January, and we’ve seen how drawn out they can get.

I think the did it because that’s the platform the game Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was released on.

I believe the collar pips are based off the rank stripes on the dress uniforms of US navy officers. They appear on the shoulder boards of the white summer uniforms or the jacket of the dark blue winter uniforms. A hollow pip is the equivalent of a thin stripe, a full pip is the equivalent of a thick stripe. The thin stripes are only used for Lieutenant Junior Grade and Lieutenant Commander.

I don’t think the single hollow pip O’Brien wears in the early seasons of DS9 has any real world equivalent, though, especially considering he wore two full pips on TNG before he got retconed into a Chief Petty Officer, the only NCO we ever see in Star Trek.