I smell a rat. An enormous percentage of Big Pharma’s R&D budget is a tax write-off, with little or no audit to confirm that money was actually spent on R&D. Has Pfizer hit some IRS ceiling? Are they blackmailing the government for even more profit?

Agreed. Security cameras would seem a bit at odds with an enlightened future society that trusts and values its people.

Thanks for the correction!

In TOS, shuttle craft use required authorization codes. Transporters logged comings and goings too. Individuals’ presence in private quarters and secure areas of the ship (like Sickbay) were monitored by the computer. And as I recall, even getting disintegrated by phaser fire left traces. And in TNG, a sensor sweep of…

And both Michelle Oh and Linda Park are Korean, if I’m not mistaken.

I spread it out on parchment paper to let it dry out for a bit, then crumble it over lightly buttered popcorn.

Not sure this is about gender. My understanding is that a voice with a higher pitch is easier to understand in noisy environments.

Sriracha, Vegemite, Marmite, crushed pecans with brown sugar, crushed peppermint candy canes and (wait for it) ...crumbled bacon.

Are they “Native” Americans if they migrated to North America?

Hodor!

Yorkshires and roasties- ooh aye!

Asking Fidelity and Morgan Stanley how much money you should have in savings is like asking the foxes and wolves how many hens you should have in the chicken coop.

Been there, done that, can confirm that there is absolutely no benefit accruing to the office worker. The sole benefit of theses schemes is a lower cost to the bosses (who all retained their private offices, by the way).

And “You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armanda” is from The Last Starfighter.

All my passwords are “correct horse battery staple”.

“...cuticle or bloom that envelopes a freshly laid egg...” s/b “envelops”. ‘Cause I’m that guy.

Seriously, I’m having trouble imagining the igneous, sedimentary and/or percussive processes that would shape an object like that.

Maybe alien engineers decided to carve their spacecraft out of rock, mined from a convenient moon, instead of deadlifting tons of metal up out of their planetary gravity well. Hmn?

Really? Over 20 credit card accounts?

Nothing from Canada. See how nice we are?