the hack contains “33 terabytes of juicy banking information containing Americans’ banking secrets.”

Smells like BS. The Federal Reserve doesn’t maintain bank records for individual Americans.

This is why I appreciate the scene in Undiscovered Country where Kronos One glides into view, seeming to align itself to the Enterprise’s orientation.

https://youtu.be/AkqZja1IBfk?t=129

This does happen in the US.

It will vary by state, but generally:

When only one of the two parties is unwilling to continue the employer-employee relationship, it is obvious who is the moving party. If employment was still available to the claimant and the claimant refused to continue working, then the claimant is the moving party. If the employer will not allow the claimant to continue work, even though the claimant wants to, then the employer is the moving party.

https://edd.ca.gov/en/uibdg/Voluntary_Quit_VQ_5/

A system being slow and inefficient makes defrauding that system similarly slow and inefficient. To affect an election run on paper ballots you have to somehow physically alter or insert thousands or millions of pieces of paper without being detected. This will mean spending large amounts of time and money and must necessarily involve numerous people.

Manual in person voting is not easily scammed on a scale that can swing an election. The slow, inefficient, in person, physical process is a security feature.

I would say that “electronic voting” means that the ballot itself is digital rather than physical. So, scantrons are not electronic voting and voter registries/ID/etc. are not ballots in the first place.

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

-Equivocations 3:27

Plan 9 from the Human Race

Of course not!

Mine was “banal”.

Sounds like “canal”.

A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen.

https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/code-conduct-united-states-judges

Not that SCOTUS is held to the same code of conduct that all other federal judges are held to, of course.

Flowering and fruiting plants generally need bees, birds, etc. for pollination and seed spreading.

Ants vs. a live crab

Moisturize me!

At least twice before, Thomas has similarly defended his failure to make required disclosures as an unintentional error or a misunderstanding of the rules.

Seems like the only possible explanations are that he’s lying or he’s incompetent.

Uncropped, original resolution: https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/7378ff2f-8413-43b8-b5a7-cf19d0561c3d.jpeg

Trade embargo.

CRETAK: A glass of Romulan ale, Doctor?

BASHIR: Thank you, Senator.

ROSS: The trading embargo has been officially lifted, if you were wondering.

BASHIR: It hadn’t crossed my mind, actually.

ROSS: To one of the many benefits of the Alliance.

I only use if for medicinal purposes!