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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.

  • US dollar sinks to its lowest level in four years

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  • It's a goal if you're so fucking disgustingly rich you can buy a private island and haven't seen the poors since your office was close enough to them you could faintly make out a small dot.

    Because you'll have enough wealth to survive the shit storm, and then there's nothing those dirty plebians can do to stop you from basically deciding how things run from now on in your little corner.

    I'm making an assumption here that you aren't disgustingly rich and therefore the thought of "fuck 8 billion other people if I get mine" didn't come naturally to you.

  • Where do they get off?

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  • I mean, yeah, being required to do something or else you'll be starving and homeless is pretty fucked up and worthy of a day being ruined.

  • What Star Trek media did you watch in the last week? - 01/28/26

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  • SNW Entire season 1

    Also episode 1 of lower Decks again while showing a friend the show

    I also played star trek armada if you count that as "consuming star trek media"

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    Will they wake up before it's too late?

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  • Many of us are resisting, but there's so much more in the way of organizing in the US that isn't a problem in other countries.

    I'd love for us to band together like I see France doing. Shut down entire cities just by simply being in the street protesting.

    However, it's a lot harder to get people together on something when half the people who want to help are one paycheck from being homeless and starving or dying from their untreated illness without Healthcare.

    It's harder to organize when the people who want to organize are spread out over 300 million square miles.

    It's harder to organize when historically any left-leaning group is constantly hounded by the Alphabet Squad (fbi/nsa/dhs/etc) and Republicans will abandon their guns before letting performative gasp a black man have one.

    Many of us are resisting, but when 1/3 of the population is cheering this shit on, 1/3 can't be bothered to make up their minds, and the entire system stacked against the remaining 1/3 that will at least vote for a chance at change.

    Personally I'm helping network immigrants and their families near me so they have a plan of action if something happens and they need to leave quickly, physically protesting when I can, training firearms with some of the LGBT people I know, and trying to get some of the "on the fence" crowd I know to see reason.

    It's not much, but it's what I can do without becoming just some dead nut job in the street.

  • 4th of july, who will be happy to be independent of whom

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  • I'm sure that England has been glad to be rid of us for quite some time. We haven't been very good allies in my lifetime, let alone before that.

    I'm also equally sure plenty of Americans today would rather be somewhere in the UK.

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  • I'd argue that with the government, we are there at face value, but the next level down "behind the lie".

    It's very much to me felt like they're saying these things knowing that nobody believes them, like when the stereotypical TV mob boss says something like "I'm broken up about the death of your brother" with a smirk. We all know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, and they're daring us to do something about it.

    And also I'd argue that for the MAGAts, they're already a few pegs below the bottom. I've literally been called a terrorist this past week for pointing out Renee good was trying to turn away and leave, and Alex Pretti was unarmed and being beaten while not fighting back when he was executed.

  • Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women?

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  • Sorry for being unable to answer the woman side of the question. 30s, "male" but honestly could also qualify as "closeted genderfluid" or "agender" maybe, I don't know.

    Never really felt "masculine" in the stereotypically toxic way older generations and conservatives are obsessed with, and if I'm being honest I've always wanted breasts and to look more feminine but have no desire to have any sort of "bottom surgery"

    My wife has encouraged me to grow my hair out, but honestly I'm not sure what to do with it. I just put it in a ponytail, sometimes for multiple days in a row. But I want to do more stuff with it. Executive dysfunction goes great with a lot of things....

    Although I would like to appear more feminine, I hate makeup. I have done musical theater since middle school and absolutely hate the feeling of stage makeup. I understand there are different types of makeup and I'm sure proper application would feel less like a layer of clay and more like a light dusting.

    Some days I want to go out wearing women's clothes, but never have. Some days I feel like wearing work jeans and a ratty t-shirt full of holes but it's comfy. Some days I feel like a gelatinous blob only constrained by sweat pants.

    Fuck labels, do you.

  • Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women?

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  • Lmao my mom used to say real men don't cry.

    One day as a teen I was angry and tearing up and she said that, so I just screamed at her "I'VE SEEN DAD AND GRANDPA BOTH CRY SO SHUT THE FUCK UP" And honestly I think she realized she was wrong at least about that, because she has never said it since even to my sister's kids, and I didn't even get in trouble for swearing at her.

    Cry away, fellow human. Disregard those who cannot allow themselves to feel emotions for fear of seeming "less than".

  • Is it weird that whenever there's an internet disruption, the first thing that I assume is happening is war, civil unrest, or government censorship, or some sort of conspiracy happening?

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  • I'd say it's not weird to wonder, but it is a little unhealthy if that's what you assume is the truth every time.

    That said, how often does internet go out for you?

    I live on the same grid as a hospital so my power almost never goes out, and live close enough to several cell towers my phone can use that cell service isn't a problem.

    So if my internet goes out, I assume my provider is having technical problems.

  • There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with.

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  • Nationalists will attack anyone who doesn't hold their exact narrow worldview from their narrowly defined area, regardless of which nationality they hold.

    American nationalists are just called "republicans" (although plenty of democrats could be considered nationalists, it's a bit of a "not all squares/rectangles" situation)

    My parents are definitely in the "resist status-quo change" group, but I would argue they do understand "the cause" at least when it comes to American politics. They're vocally against fascism in private, but any sort of resistance is illegal and therefore wrong. And it's too bad these politicians are doing fascism, because they're supposed to be good God-fearing types who just want abortion to stop.

    Without an ounce of thought behind it, my mother will say medically necessary abortions should be allowed, and vote for someone who loudly tells everyone they won't allow any at all. Will say ICE shouldn't be executing people, but will happily support funding for them. Doesn't like that the US keeps putting its military boot into other countries' doors, but still says "support our troops"

  • There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with.

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  • I don't get the fascination with sports either, but I get emotional about the stories in video games. I imagine someone who loves sports but doesn't care for video games might view my tears over pixels as pathetic. My outrage at imginary injustice from a judgemental npc as ridiculous.

    I have all these feelings for random collections of pixels on a screen. They can have their feelings for random groups of people.

    I have to stop myself from mocking my brother in law for yelling at his TV on apparently bad plays, because I definitely have yelled at my screen before over a death, or plot twist.

  • Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?

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  • Next they'll ask why red barrels explode when you shoot them...

  • Street in Karachi, Pakistan, late 19th century

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  • I love seeing comparison photos of "Then vs Now", anyone know where this is?

    There's a diner in a nearby city that has photos on the wall of places around town dating all the way back to the late 1800s, and the ones from the 1950s and earlier are pored with current photos from the same spot, or as close as can be replicated anyway. It's pretty neat.

  • new Latuff connects the dots

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  • Genuine question: does the IDF even bother with "internal investigations"? Obviously nobody does, but do they even pretend?

  • Make No Mistake: We Are in a Civil War

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  • Loudly spouting defeatist BS while voting for something is detrimental to getting the thing you voted for. If you want X but spend all day telling everyone it's all pointless, it doesn't matter if you voted for X when 15 other people decided there's no point in trying for Y since X can't happen.

    Whether I agree with either of these people's views is irrelevant.

    No need to be ableist.

  • "illegal"

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  • FTFY:

  • Customers who think you have no life and live at the store

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  • I always deadpan people who say that, make my index/middle fingers to form a V shape, then force the corners of my mouth up.

    You want a smile? Go find someone who's happy. You want service? Don't tell me what to do and I'm willing to try and help.

    It usually got a chuckle, but sometimes the person would get uncomfortable and leave like they think I'm about to stab them or something.

    Or I tell them my grandmother died.

    Hey now we can both be uncomfortable and wishing you hadn't said anything!

  • Controversial Border Patrol chief and some agents expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday, sources say

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  • It's actually very hard to launch dome thing near the sun, let alone into the sun.

    Far better for the planet to just bury them in soft peat for 3 months and recycle them as firelighters.

  • Venezuela’s acting president says she has had “enough” of US orders

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  • Well here in the US we've been speedrunning Germany in the 1930s, so it tracks that the places we fuck up and try to control would also be speedrunning their own thing.

  • Truth hurts!

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  • Relevant

    Feathered dinos are cool as shit.