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Geordi’s literal prompt that one-shotted Moriarty: “Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him.”

“Overcome by lust, Mr. Spock nearly kills Captain Kirk during a Vulcan mating ritual.”

Adding on to what you said, another reason older people in general can be wary of sitting down if it isn’t absolutely necessary is that it can be very difficult for them to stand back up without assistance. Especially if they are used to being somewhere with grab rails or other safety affordances.

So it might not be stubborn masculinity as much as bad knees and stubborn independence in some cases: if they stand, they can be in and out quickly on their own. If they sit, they may need to call for help.

I can’t believe they missed the opportunity to say it’s “Wheel Engineered”

The scariest part is this lack of safety culture spans multiple national labs.

“But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.”

“What happened?”

“He lived happily ever after.”

At the late great Robert Anton Wilson would say when making the motion of the cross: “Spectacles, testicles, brandy, cigars.”

One adjacent term is “frisson”: when it’s so sublimely awesome it gives you chills.

It says so much that on July 9, 2026, the aspect of Platner she decided to highlight as problematic was…his support for Ukraine?

I just saw one earlier this afternoon:

You seem like someone who would be prepared if gravity reversed itself.

Love this line from the wiki article: ‘A secretary he had interviewed for the piece said that a technical representative from Xerox had warned her “not to be afraid of the 914 because the machine would sense her fear and, like a mischievous child, misbehave.”’

Pretty sure you’re thinking of tzdb, the time zone database: https://onezero.medium.com/the-largely-untold-story-of-how-one-guy-in-california-keeps-the-worlds-computers-on-the-right-time-a97a5493bf73

An adjacent and thematically resonant story is the volunteer effort that powers curl, which so many people use: https://thenewstack.io/the-world-runs-20-billion-instances-of-curl-wheres-the-support/

When the first DVD cracking util was released, DeCSS, it violated the DMCA and people were getting sued and threatened with felonies for sharing it. Very quickly people figured out loopholes to make it an archivable creative work, like putting it on tshirts and encoding it as a prime number: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime

The first thing that comes to mind is Meshtastic: https://meshtastic.org/

Oh wow that’s weird. Stargate SG-1 also had an episode where a Lt. Tyler turned out to be an alien infiltrator in disguise: “The Fifth Man”.