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Miles O'Brien

@ SARGE @startrek.website

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Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I've spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don't ask who what's in the pattern buffer.

  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • Lpt: if your residence has central heating/ac and was made within the last 50 years then your house is probably getting sufficient airflow.

  • [North Carolina] Mom of 3 who vanished 24 years ago while Christmas shopping found ‘alive and well,’ authorities say

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  • I once went to a K-mart at around 2am because I wanted to buy a friend a copy of a video game we were staying up most of the night to play. We had been passing the controller back and forth every time we died or finished a mission, and he decided he wanted to buy the game but it would need to wait until payday. Nah, we gonna get you that copy NOW. Hooked his Xbox up to the spare TV and started the game with fresh characters.

    No ragrets

    That said, I only chose Kmart because they were the only place that sold video games that was open and under 30 minutes away...

  • Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch

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  • That solar panel looks useful.

    Since I have never gone out in nondescript black clothing at night to destroy these things, I can't say from firsthand knowledge....

    But yes, yes they are. They make great trickle chargers for large batteries that only get used intermittently. Or string several together and enjoy an ebike battery charger. I have a similarly sized and shaped panel I found somewhere that I use to charge my 18650 bank.

  • You ever wake up and question, "am i the bad guy"?

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  • I feel very bad for whoever considers me a villain in their story.

    Like not to belittle them or their struggles, but uh.... gestures to self just look at me...

  • Shadowfax! So cool!

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  • When they're finally convinced it's hurting The Brand™

  • A pilot with her plane, USA, 1940s?

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  • Per this comment: https://lemmy.today/comment/22440575

    The aircraft tail in the background indicates that specific plane was manufactured in '47, and crashed in 1950, so the picture had to be taken in the summer of 48, 49, or 50.

    In fairness to you, small aircraft general designs haven't changed much over the decades, and I was also surprised to see that style of top before the 1960s.

  • Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers

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  • A couple flock cameras near my town keep getting taken out and put back up.

    The latest blurry security camera footage to catch the culprit has led to sweet FA since they ride a nondescript dark color mountain bike, wear all black clothing without logos or text, and seem to avoid riding their bike unmasked near businesses with cameras and houses that might have door cameras.

    I don't even think they know gender/skin/hair color. Anything other than "average human height" really.

    Anyway, shout out to everyone who destroys one of these things. It's illegal, but it's the morally correct thing to do.

  • Saved you a click: a 1911

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  • FN P90 because they are objectively the coolest guns

  • And then just going about your day

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  • It's a legal border map, not a landmass map, which is weird to me.

  • Road/driving tracking devices

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  • The white brick at the bottom is for detecting large objects (cars) and is either controlling a traffic signal, or is being used to count traffic going through that spot.

    An intersection near me uses them to switch the lights at an intersection where traffic almost never comes from, so a timed light is unnecessary, but important traffic still comes from that direction.

  • Aluminum in our diets far exceeds that from vaccines, researchers note

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  • I work in a place that deals primarily with aluminum extrusion and sheeting.

    About a month ago one of the guys at lunch was saying something about how he doesn't want his ex-wife to get his kids vaccinated because "all the aluminum and mercury is gonna make them r*****d"

    I told him to take a closer look at his tuna sandwich because he definitely has shed aluminum dust onto his food unless he takes his jacket off and shakes his hair out, and he should probably wear a mask because that faint glitter in the air isn't fairy dust. Also look up mercury content in tuna.

    The HR guy came out because apparently I "called a coworker a slur for autistic people" when he connected the dots that "if I believe those things make one autistic then they must be calling me autistic since I inhale and ingest aluminum all day at work and mercury is in my food" and felt that I was insulting him by informing him of the things he should already know.

    (apologies if this was a little incoherent, I just woke up)

  • ‘Flattered. Thanks, JD!’: Eileen Gu claps back at Vance after criticism for representing China

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  • As long as you behave yourselves like good citizens and don't say true things about the party that make them look bad, of course you can return!

  • me_irl

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  • Or as my 2008-era dvd subtitles say, "speaks Chinese"

    It made me do a double-take the first time, because it was quite clear what he said.

  • me_irl

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  • I once had a long-time friend (through her shirt/sleeve holes) take her bra off and throw it at me and then sit on my lap at a party once.

    It was another 3 years before I found out she had a huge crush on me and was hoping I would do literally anything other than sit there awkwardly

  • Marina Sirtis' memories of Troi's non-standard uniform

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  • In many English speaking places, "slept with" is an old euphemism for sex.

    I always assumed it was because the couple stereotypically spent the night together and This way you can supposedly "preserve the innocence" of people who don't know.

  • Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-Haaaaw!

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  • More like "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-s sir, please stomp on me harder with your big heavy boots"

  • Ready for anything

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  • Bonus picture

  • Ready for anything

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  • I was going through some of my dad's old things recently and found a pack of blueprints from the 70s.

    Sadly it's missing page 1 of 12.

  • Removed

    I heard we're doing leftist infighting just in time for the election again, oh joy!

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  • Only if you participate in an instance that tracks such things.

    I know startrek.website tracks individual comments and posts, but not overall. So I would have to go back and check each individual comment and add up the total if I cared to find out how many points I have accumulated.

    I know some don't track any at all.

    I know lemmy.world tracks at least comment votes.

    I understand that a basic point system allows people to sort comments a little easier, but it really can reinforce echo chambers.

    I am guilty of often sorting posts with dozens of comments by top vote ranking, but I try to just do oldest to newest comments.

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    Miles O'Brien @startrek.website

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