Good of you to share this.

That scene of the Fall of Mandalore with the KX-series security droids, Imperial probe droids and Mandalorian helmets scattered like skulls, felt like a nod to Terminator.

He and Rosalynn are very kind and humble in person as well. My parents have eaten breakfast with them at one of the Habitat for Humanity big builds. (where they put up 50+ homes in a couple weeks). Habitat has a big pavilion tent where everyone eats breakfast together to start the day. This was obviously pre-Covid...

BD-01 originated in the Jedi : Fallen Order game. But maybe it was a reference from the game designers?

I know right? It would drive me nuts. Like an itch you can’t scratch. But seriously this is a nasty parasite that USED to cripple millions every year. 3.5 million infections a year down to a handful. Amazing. Thank you President Carter. The man has defined diplomat and humanitarian. A genuine class act.

The government says it doesn’t work, so obviously it must work!

The Guinea worm is relying on that.

Jimmy Carter has a greater legacy as an ex-president than as an existing one.

Eh. My natural immunity will prevent things like this from happening to me!

So Jimmy Carter is a prime mover in the eradication of this disease.

The episode of Star Trek Prodigy from 2 weeks ago has “Thunder Struck” from AC/DC in it.

Useless nerd fact , the later trek novels retconned the Eugenics wars into a cold wars style secret battle that the public werent aware of .

The Earth of 2024 was in incredibly dire straits in the Star Trek timeline. Many countries faced violent conflict and civil unrest, but America in particular took a turn towards a totalitarian decline in the period, wracked with severe economic crises, homelessness, and rapidly rising unemployment levels. 

I always figured that WWIII was why people in the 23rd-24th Centuries only listened to Gilbert & Sullivan and read Conan Doyle. Most of the popular culture from the 20th and 21st Centuries had been wiped out, probably due to nobody being able to recover the DRM keys. Only material in the public domain was saved.

I’d avoid those Caribbean ones like the plague, as they seem just abjectly terrible. But we had a great one for our honeymoon, it was a grand Mediterranean cruise. Outside of two days at sea, you basically just used the ship for dinner and sleeping. You’d get up in the morning, hop on a bus or just walk away from the…

The endless outbreak of contagious diarrhea was the first red flag. https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm

It’s less of a list and more of a bottomless scroll.

Driver: “I have a dashcam...!!!”

“She also appeared to be reporting from the side of the road without any reflective clothing.”

This was my thought exactly. I went to Google Maps to make sure this town wasn’t anywhere I would ever drive through on my road trips. It’s a suburb of Birmingham, but luckily for me, I stick to the interstate around there and miss that suburb.