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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.

  • Thanks Reagan, you fuckwit

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  • we would probably still have the same ones. I’m pretty sure modern solar panels are much more efficient.

    Hardly the point. Even if you blanketed the white house grounds with panels, it's not putting a dent in overall power usage for the area.

    It is, however, a very visible signal, "we value renewables, science, and intelligence" that shows progress away from the old world, and that scares a lot of old white people.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • I swear I read this exact comment about the UK after brexit...

    Good call.

  • Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

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  • You can’t go out shooting while you’re drinking. You should be able to smoke whenever you want as long as you’re not inebriated when you’re shooting.

    Fully agree, and have alienated myself from former friends over this.

    You can drink all day and night. but don't you dare touch a firearm while drinking. I don't care if you're just a little buzzed, man

    As far as I'm concerned, smoke weed every day. But don't you dare touch a firearm while high. I don't care if you're just a little toasty, man

    Drugs and guns don't mix. Alcohol is a drug. Don't drink and shoot.

  • 'Lost absolutely all touch': Gobsmacked lawmakers react to Noem's luxury purchases

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  • I have a few LGBT friends who come over for range time, away from the type of people who normally frequent the public ranges around here. We have a loose plan of action if they need somewhere to hide, and low profile tents and 3-day packs are on standby for a couple close friends. Funds are tight, otherwise I'd be making sure there's a tent, sleeping bag, and 3 day survival pack for all of them, their partners, and their friends.

    I have been told my entire life that I am "overreacting" because "that will never happen/you'll never need that", and in nearly every instance, it's been simply a matter of time.

    I can very easily present myself as someone very far down the "first they came for" list, but I'll be cold and buried before I disguise myself and let the people further up fend for themselves.

    While I'm not expecting death squads to be roaming the street this year, I'm also not going to wait for it to happen before I begin preparing.

    If I can't directly shelter people in need, I'm damn sure going to get them heading in the right direction, with the knowledge they need, and with more than just the clothes on their back.

  • Windows 10 refugees flock to Linux in what devs call their "biggest launch ever"

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  • SNAKE?!

  • 'Lost absolutely all touch': Gobsmacked lawmakers react to Noem's luxury purchases

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  • Make friends with your neighbors and watch each others backs.

    My neighbors fully support government sponsored death squads that get to go around indescriminate lynchings of LGBT and POC.

    Lucky for me, the closest one is about 1/4mile away.

  • As 'No Kings' protests decry Trump, surveillance worries emerge

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  • Well, normally I would agree with you but I don't have neighbors close enough to see me with any sort of camera, and with biking in, flock cameras aren't going to help anyone with anything.

    Unless someone is hiding cameras on hiking and biking trails right around where I live, cameras aren't going to help identify a generic black blob riding a generic black bicycle as anyone specific.

    It's funny you mention flock cameras though because I was talking to some friends yesterday and none of them had ever heard of flock, and when I pointed out the cameras, they seemed to finally realize they're under constant surveillance, since over the last year they've been popping up all over the city.

    I may or may not have "jokingly" suggested we start cutting them down and go full Office Space on them.

    It's crazy just how many cameras aren't even actively hidden, they're just in places you don't normally look. Honestly shows like Person of Interest and movies like Enemy of the State back in the day made me realize just how much surveillance there is on the average citizen, and how little privacy we really have. And that's fiction. I'm sure the reality is far worse.

  • As 'No Kings' protests decry Trump, surveillance worries emerge

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  • Cell phones get left at home, masks and hats help protect identities, and we have radios strapped to our backpacks that have first aid supplies (as well as a few things for if things got spicy) in them.

    If you're going up against technologically up to date nazis, you don't go using easily traceable things.

    Hell, I even used a walking stick so the way I walk is different.

    Biked to the meeting spot and locked everything up out of sight.

    If anyone we didn't tell knew we were there, I'd be slightly surprised.

  • Hate America Rally

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  • Everything you said after "pretend they're Spartans" would be lost on them, because they only know what the movie 300 has taught them.

    "what's a Thermo-pile? What's the navy gotta do with Spartans? Stop trying to bring slavery into everything, Spartans wasn't woke"

  • Republicans mostly silent as millions of Americans protest Trump on No Kings day

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  • Two small towns in Ohio also had a surprising turnout considering they're both pretty damn red.

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  • Break the cycle of abuse.

    Be better than XT-22.

    Leave a better ship for XT-24.

    Also, 30 years and he didn't bother with a cover up?

  • 'No Kings' protests against Trump planned nationwide, in what the GOP calls 'hate America' rallies

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  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • I would love to have a small Wikipedia browser that can survive the apocalypse.

    E-ink display, mini keyboard and touchpad, multiple ways/ports to transfer info, All wrapped up in a heavy duty equipment case that's able to survive a building collapses and burns in an earthquake, that's shielded from EMP.

  • It's exhausting

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  • It's in the pattern buffer, just tap a button or two, and instant ketchup! Way better than using the replicators.

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  • clankers

  • Diligence

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  • You ask a bunch of questions about a task in order to convince the client that the task doesn't need to be done at all.

    I ask a bunch of questions because I've forgotten half the answers already and am trying to make enough stick that I can make something close enough they don't notice my attention is wandering while they blather.

    We are not the same.

  • Bigots will show different faces in different company.

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  • First they came for the mice, but I did not speak up, for I was not a mouse.

  • ‘Pete Hegseth Has United the Media!’ Only One Outlet Has Agreed to Pentagon’s New Press Rules as Fox News, CNN and More Refuse to Comply

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  • I mean, I'm not French, but If nearly every single media outlet in France refused to sign their government loyalty pledge, I'd find it interesting.

  • Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents: ‘Why are they targeting a clarinetist?’

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  • See, the problem here is you're lumping all of the US in one group, while conveniently ignoring that half of this group is against the use of firearms and is for gun control, and the people who have wet dreams about mowing down "the gays" are the biggest owners of said guns.