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Miles O'Brien

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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.

  • Understandable fear of anger

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  • 7 years with my wife and we are still both learning this.

    The part we both find super dumb is that both of us KNOW the other is the same way, but in the moment neither of us are thinking about that fact and we both feel bad about acting upset/angry in response.

    It's the world's shittiest feedback loop.

    But we are always getting better at it, I feel.

  • Leaked DHS Memo Reveals ICE Claiming Expansive New Warrantless Arrest Powers

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  • As everyone should.

    Nobody should ever be looking at the 2nd Ammendment and think to themselves "oh god I just can't wait, please lemme do it now"

    It should always be "please don't make me do this", while preparing to do this.

    The obvious republican mindset of "I can't wait to be allowed to legally murder people" has always been crazy to me. As a kid I heard adults round me talking about how they're "just looking for an excuse" and it very much seemed like someone who simply wanted to kill people.

    That said, I have always accepted the possibility that one day I might be forced to kill in self defense or defense of others if I plan to exercise my 2nd Ammendment right. The last 15 years have been a truly eye-opening experience since I left the sheltered religious life I was raised in.

    To anyone reading who is in the US, start with organizing with friends and neighbors who are like-minded and believe nobody should be kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp. I have a decent number of LGBT+ and immigrant friends , and have begun instructing some on the use of firearms. They have always been very anti-gun and for good reason, (I will not pretend the US doesn't have major issues with firearms) but now have decided since their lives very well might be on the line tomorrow they need some way of protecting themselves.

    I am doing what I can in that regard, but the most effective thing is the act of organizing itself. Many of them didn't know each other. Now there's a network of people who can assist each other when something happens.

    Just this week a few of us had to venture out to un-bury the front door of one of the group that is disabled and got snowed in. They lost power and only had their battery pack and a phone on low battery to call for help, and had we not been organized the way we are they very well could have been frozen by the time emergency services got around to their call. We set them up with a kerosene heater, a CO detector, and extra battery packs to keep the phone charged until power was restored.

  • me_irl

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  • A bit rude to call humans monkeys, that's extremely insulting.

    Monkeys aren't dumb enough to blow themselves up.

  • me_irl

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  • If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey, even though it has a monkey kind of shape.

  • New Hampshire Republicans want to raise taxes on homes with solar

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  • The sad truth is a lot of religious people believe that the end times won't come unless the earth isn't livable anymore.

    A even LARGER group of religious simply think their sky person will give them a new earth that's perfect so why bother protecting this one.

    They and their supporters are complicit in the murder of the planet at best, and are trashing everything on purpose, trying to claw back any and every support of things that can make it a better place.

  • Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!

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  • Regular Transporters don't work like that. The flux matrix compensates for any discrepancies in the patterns pre- vs post-buffer.

    I suppose if you built a new transporter type from the ground up instead of using these old starfleet or klingon modules, you could bypass the Bopple Corbulator entirely and the pattern buffer would accept the new parameters.

    But who has time for that...

  • Trumpcare

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  • Literally, yes.

    My supervisor at work has 2 broken teeth and one is cracking, he can't have food on his right side of his mouth and about once a month has go eat soft foods because the cracked tooth on his left side hurts again.

    Another coworker has a knife wound because he managed to slice his arm open with his own folding knife (not suicidal just stupid), and he's just self-treating even though it looks infected.

    I have had bronchitis multiple times in my life when I didn't have any insurance and even when I was so weak it took all my strength to crawl to the bathroom, going without eating for several days because I can't make it downstairs to the kitchen, because just the urgent care visit would have sent me into years of debt.

    My sister ignored signs of cancer until her daughter asked her to go to the doctor. It could have been operated on if she had gone earlier. Now it's chemo and fingers crossed.

    This shithole country kicks people when they're down andat least 1/3 of the population is polishing the boot as the rich are kicking us.

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    ICE agents try to detain US citizen in St Peter, Minnesota. Her 'crime' was filming them.

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  • No, let's remove them all.

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    ICE agents try to detain US citizen in St Peter, Minnesota. Her 'crime' was filming them.

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  • The good cop is the one that quits after all their hopeful naivety that somehow survived "training" is sucked out on their first day.

  • It's not the end of the world

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  • The universe if the entire planet burns itself alive tomorrow, including everyone and everything that doesn't deserve it :

    The universe if everything works out in everyone's best interests:

  • No one is illegal

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  • "Freeing slaves just isn't realistic. How about letting them out for fresh air first? How about a 3/5 compromise? Ridiculous"

  • Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!

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  • I read this as "maximum breast gains" and while I can sympathize with wanting more in the breast department, it seems like a long way to go to gain a few cup sizes.

  • In only 7 years, part of the MM/DD/YY confusion will resolve itself for the rest of our lives.

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  • I prefer 31JAN2026 myself. No ambiguity, readable internationally.

  • Yeah!!!… oh wait….

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  • Legit every time someone from the US says "indian" and it's not immediately obvious in context, I ask "do you mean people from India, or Native Americans?"

  • ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed

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  • Too Dumb to Be a Cop

    That's unpossible.

  • Two Questions: (1) Does the first-born child in a family "mature" faster than the later-born children? (2) How common is the feeling of "feeling immature"/"feeling like a child" as a young adult?

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  • I my experience, the oldest child is forced to mature faster by being required to perform childcare duties, especially in families with many children.

    Younger siblings basically "get to be a kid" longer than older ones.

    This is unfair to both older and younger siblings for a myriad of reasons, but both are a failure of parenting, and society as a whole. The parents should not be forcing the dynamic, and society should not be putting parents in a position where they feel they have to.

    As for "feeling immature" as an adult... That is entirely dependent on what you measure maturity by. My wife and I sing nonsense tunes at each other, sometimes just look up and go "QUACK!" for no reason. We have gone to a playground to go swinging. We have gone outside to play in the snow.

    I didn't get my first job without my mother's help until 20. I didn't get my license until 26. I didn't get my first full time job until 33. I absolutely hate going to a store at all, let alone by myself. Although if I'm being honest I would rather go by myself since it's faster and less chance of my wife grabbing 10 extra things because we passed the aisle and she went something snack-y.

    Remember, "Autism Spectrum Disorder" is, as the name implies, a spectrum. As such everyone is on it. Most people are gathered in a general area area (the people who would be considered "normal" by someone who has a more traditional old way of thinking) I personally believe I'm a little further toward the "autism" side, based on a bunch of comparing my personal experience with others who are diagnosed. I don't believe it's that big a deal for me, as I am fully capable of functioning on my own as an adult.

    A bit of armchair psychology, I'd wager you're a bit like my wife and due to narcissistic and withholding parents you likely need more reassurance than the average person. This isn't a failure on your part at all, and it's not a "developmental disability" it's just a bit of childhood trauma.

    To answer more directly:

    In my opinion, yes eldest siblings often mature faster. Feeling immature is probably normal, and maturity is a pretty vague notion in general. ASD in general isn't as big a deal as many people think. If you'll forgive me for saying so, your family kind of sucks.

  • No work, no school, no shopping: Jan. 30 nationwide general strike to protest ICE gains celebrity endorsements

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  • Gotta shift those goalposts.

    I'm sure if we ever manage to organize a national, indefinite strike, there will still be people like this saying it's not real action so it's irrelevant.

    Some people won't be happy until they see bodies of dead Americans in a bloody civil war, but they just don't have the courage to come out and say it.

  • what... what is threshold day?

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  • That description was just.... chef's kiss

  • France is still trading uranium with Russia, nearly four years after Ukraine invasion

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  • "but whatabout..."

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