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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.

  • Trump: US to boycott G20 in South Africa over white farmer 'abuses'

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  • USA resident here, honestly even if we flip every R seat to a D (and hopefully some Is and some new party letter further left than D?) I still say keep your distance, clearly we can't be trusted not to go insane every 4 years.

  • BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary

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  • Can't even be relied on to feed it's people.

    The biggest fucking joke of an empire in human history.

  • Is it too late to post something spooky?

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  • Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.

    Look, he may be grimy, but kink shaming isn't cool. He can be fingered whenever he feels like it.

  • Air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites

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  • I fully expect the regime to announce they're arresting ATC personnel who quit.

  • US federal judge rules Trump unlawfully seized control of Oregon National Guard

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  • As a US citizen, now punish him for it

    As a former enlisted, also punish the national guard members who followed orders they had reason to believe were illegal

  • MAGA supporter feeling gaslit

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  • I remember when an enthusiastic "yeah!" would end a politicians career and mark them as "too unhinged" to represent anyone.

  • LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW

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  • $399.99

    Lol

    Lmao, even

    I ain't buying that shit. I will happily buy two 3d printers, upgrade them, and print a giant coffee table sized version before I spend that much on such a small set.

  • Russian soldier sentenced to life in jail in unprecedented Ukrainian trial

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  • "well you see, it's perfectly reasonable that he murdered a surrendered soldier, as he was just following orders!"

    The "just following orders" defense still going strong 80 years later.

    I'm sure it's going to be used a lot in the coming decades, assuming the governments actively involved in horrifying human rights abuses ever see any sort of reform...

  • Film festival in New York cancelled after China puts pressure on directors

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  • I hadn't heard about this before this morning.

    Now I want to watch everything that was going to be presented.

    You know you're winning at life and on the right side of history when you threaten people's families to prevent them from showing an indie movie.

  • "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect."

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  • Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

  • Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police - ABC News

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  • Oh look, a convincing argument for murder!

    It really reads like the homeowner was one of those "I hope someone breaks in so I can legally murder them" kinds of gun owners. maybe they no idea what they were even shooting at, but I'm willing to bet they looked out the window and thought "brown skin, must be gangs fox was right"

    I will happily ignore people knocking on my door until they go away. Trying the door knob will certainly get my attention but just to yell at you, not enough to grab a gun.

  • Cleaning worker who mistakenly went to wrong home fatally shot: Police - ABC News

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  • I'm a big fan of the "turn all lights on, make as much noise as possible and yell to whoever is in your house you 'have a gun and know how go use it so get the fuck out'" approach.

    Nobody who is breaking in to steal stuff wants to kill you (probably) and knowing they have a chance of getting shot themselves from an occupant they didn't expect is a huge motivator for them to get the fuck out.

    If their motivation isn't to steal, and is in fact to harm you, then you have lost nothing by doing this. They already expect you to be there and want to hurt you, so do what you have to.

    I'm being cautious enough to not shoot my roommate who got home from their trip two days early, my friend who drunkenly stumbled in after his phone died at the pub, my neighbor who needs help but can't articulate it, or a random stranger who mistakenly walked into the wrong house (this one has happened to me at least 10 times in my life, mostly when living in apartments).

    If that ends up getting me shot at by randos there to kidnap me, so be it. I'm prepared to defend myself and my loved ones. The property they can have, but if anyone comes up the stairs they're toast.

    My point is there should never be a time when you jump out at someone and kill them simply because they are there.

    Besides, one of the primary rules of firearm safety is "know your target and what's behind it" and if you don't know the person you're shooting at isn't there for benign purposes, you don't know your target.

    This is manslaughter at best but I'm willing to hear any argument for straight up murder.

  • Balance zero: SNAP recipients go without food after benefits don't arrive

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  • It's been very telling this week at work.

    I live in a very red area and work in a majority red industry. I hear people talking shit about "the libs" all day. I hear tons of coworkers talking shit about anyone on government assistance because the "welfare queens just want free stuff with no work"

    It seems that just under 3/4 of the people I work with were getting SNAP benefits.

    A box has been set up in the break room so people can bring in food, and others can take what they need.

    The shit talking has stopped, at least. No jokes about "welfare queens" anymore.

  • Anyone else almost believe depression isn't real for 2hrs after cleaning their apartment.

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  • If I had the money and ability to trust strangers I would hire people to clean my house for me.

    I love the loop of "feel bad for not cleaning - depressed - don't clean - stare at floor - feel bad for not cleaning...."

  • Guilty

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  • On one hand, I have adhd and depression, and my parents definitely have at least depression. So I'm used to messes everywhere up to and including not seeing the floor for a week or more at a time.

    On the other hand, I feel bad when someone gets in my car and I have to move one or two items off the seat.

  • science

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  • "The fuck is you talkin about, I looked a buncha stuff up on my phone that's research!"

    -majority of conservatives

  • never gonna run around and desert you

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  • Just a guess based on "covid" and "candles", a ton of people negatively reviewed candles for not smelling good/right/at all, not realizing they had lost their sense of smell from covid at the time.

    I know my spouse had the realization our cold was covid because we couldn't smell the candles we had bought (and smelled) the week before.

  • FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site

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  • go fuck a duck

    Poor duck....

  • The Guy Claiming That You Have TDS

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  • On one hand, I have a coworker who clearly angrily scraped his trump stickers off the tailgate, and on the other, I have a coworker who straight up held a nazi salute with an audible "heil" when he started talking about his favorite band, Rammstein.

    Now I don't know anything about Rammstein and their political views in general, but I've known a few Germans in my time and they all held very strong (negative) views on the nazi regime.

    Most coworkers have stopped talking about politics and such in general during breaks though.