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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.

  • Doggo hero

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  • "my cat was chased home by other cats and they were waiting to attack if it went back outside, how cute!"

    My wife is bad about projecting her own emotions onto our dogs. I'm sure I do it too.

  • Helpful fact

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  • My guess?

    Lit room: lots of things scattered around, colors, visual noise, over stimulating

    Dark room: dark, not very visible, less/no noise, not (necessarily as) overstimulating

    The most relaxed I have ever been was in the middle of a huge snowstorm the wind died down and the flakes were huge, I couldn't hear anything, it was after sunset so once the flashlight was off it was pitch black, and with my coveralls, hoodie, thick coat, gloves and scarf I was warm and couldn't really feel much of the outside. I just laid down for about 40ish minutes, occasionally seeing the dim spot of headlights from a passing car. Similar concept, dark and quiet, muted external stimuli.

  • Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns

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  • I mean, after a certain point, yes.

    Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says "were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils"

    The second frog turns to the first and says "you're being alarmist, things aren't that bad."

    This sounds like the second frog.‡

    It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it's certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life...

    You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.

    I'm not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, "any day now they'll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)" and no end of bullshit about how "mentally ill" and "unstable" they supposedly are.

    Besides, if my choices are "concentration camp v0.95" and "best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo" then I know which choice I'm making.

    You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I'm a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.

    ‡(frogs don't actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)

  • Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Planned Food Stamp Cuts

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  • My state surprised me during covid.

    It's not surprising me now...

  • Seriously... We really don't need anything else right now.

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  • And what about very old fiends?

  • Realistic self image

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  • Well I know who I think I am.

  • Ok, boomer

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  • You're still more patient Than I.

    It's great that they're rational enough to change their views in the face of evidence, even if it takes more evidence than it usual.

  • Ok, boomer

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  • bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship

    I'm so glad my wife is basically no contact with her parents, because I never have to play nice with them.

  • EXCLUSIVE: EU mulls copying US with end to aid for global health funds | Euractiv

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  • "EU considers following modern Nazi policy"

  • Germany is buying Israeli-made Spike anti-tank missiles in 2 billion euro deal

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  • If I give France $1,000,000,000 to use a specific shade of color, but make the color on Brazilian machinery owned by Brazilians... I've still given France $1B. Have I not?

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  • Oh, it's definitely a thing. Especially with Lower Decks being animated, and therefore easily replicated in style.

    .... Not that I'd know anything about such things.

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  • Infinite realities means infinite possibilities, so somewhere in the multiverse there's a starfleet absolutely filled with cock monsters.

    The question is, do they seek out new life for exploration?

    Or is it for cocks...

  • Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?

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  • I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?

    Yes, 100%, absokutely correct.

    Google is a company.

    Companies do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.

  • Big if true. Any volunteers for target practice?

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  • Bombs aren't lethal.

    Out of most bombs that have been dropped in history, how many have directly hit a person?

    Good thing both cannons and bombs are famous for only being effective if they directly hit a person.

  • Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Replace Jobs and Lead to a Two-Day Workweek

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  • 10 white guys

    NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

  • Russia’s “turtle tanks” are back — and they’re built to bleed drones dry

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  • Diogenes bursts into Plato's military lecture: BEHOLD! An unstoppable armored column!

  • Ah, the Irish Potato Famine

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  • Take the language, take the land, erase the culture, erase the people.

    Colonialism turns all things to dust, and those who oppose it are called terrorists.

  • Like a beautiful painted canvas

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  • I used to think my own sight was bad enough. I get little tiny Starbursts around lights. And I mean tiny. This dot - • - would look like the same dot with a / plastered on top.

    Finding out the OP picture is how my wife sees the world at night was a little mind blowing. I knew it could get bad, but damn.

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  • Well you're definitely not going to get there if you spend all day explaining infinity to people.

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  • The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.

    .... Well, better get to walking.