In high school, a teacher gave me some advice about getting along in a workplace: Be kind and polite to everyone, but especially the cleaning staff, because they have the ability to be a bit more helpful to you if they want, and they can also make things much more difficult for you.

I agree that Savaii had every reasonable justification to exclude Cochran from their alliances, from their voting decision-making, and not go out of their way to give him any special rewards.  They would have been perfectly justified in voting him off at any tribal council as well.  His social game was very poor, his…

Based on the first result of a quick search that I just did, it seems that Cochran is a Scottish celtic name.  It's not definitive proof, but that means he's less likely to be Jewish.

I remember being very impressed with Thine Own Self when I first saw it as a kid, mostly because it showed the scientific method and empiricism in a very explicit and positive way.  Hooray for science!

Was Lower Decks the episode where the underling tries to ingratiate himself to Riker in Ten Forward by pointing out that his grandfather is Canadian, just like Riker, only for Riker to clarify that he is Alaskan, not Canadian.

"You are soooo good-looking."

… and whicj will track the first few hours after the Rapture …

I think they were pirate ghosts, not ghost pirates.  They are the spirits of dead pirates, not the ghosts of non-pirates who took up pirating in the afterlife.

Shelley said that she got "one victory point for having the most roads between settlements"  but everyone should know that you actually get two victory points and it is for having the longest road, which is not the same thing as the most roads.

If you've got a few overtly religious people on your tribe, or one who is also very dominant, you would be stupid not to play along to the point of at least shutting your mouth, holding hands during the many prayers, and saying "amen".  Just like the best advice for an atheist about what to say about their religious…

@avclub-32a2e71c97df5281f1324db72c73a59a:disqus , was it kinda funny-looking, in a general kinda way?

Jimmy mumbles, “You just taught me plenty,” and then drafts Richard to help him murder the old man that night in a way he’s deemed appropriately poetic.

You're not wrong, but I want to add that it's not just politicians and it's not just Europeans, and it no longer only signifies WW1.

Maybe Americans used to wear poppies on both Memorial Day and Armistice/Veterans Day for a while after the First World War?

A mistake in the opening sequence (Nucky standing at the beach with the bottles rolling in)?

Dr. Strangelove
We'll meet again
Don't know where, don't know when

Possible thematic similarities between the cat-training plot and the warp drive plot:
This only occurred to me while reading this review and your note about the end beat for the plot being the realization that Data can't train the cat but the cat trained him.

When I saw "Texans vs Mexicans" I thought it was the modern kids' version of "Cowboys vs Indians", not "shirts vs skins".

What are those things in Gremlins called?

The coldness takes away the badness?