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Miles O'Brien, sarge@startrek.website

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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.

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It didn’t seem condescending to me.

Personally I like having my cds put of nostalgia. I don’t spend all that time making multiple cds for large games like horizon zero dawn because I think it’ll stand the test of time lol. Most of the cds I had when they were the standard aren’t functional anymore, but damn if I don’t enjoy it when my little usb disc tray pops out.

It’s generally correct to assume the average pc user doesn’t make backups of anything. I once had a friend call me to their house in a panic because their work laptop ate shit and they had absolutely nothing saved externally. With a recovery company, he managed to scrape about 10% of his client data, and their bank lost a looooooot of reputation over it. Now their laptops do company-wide backups to a single cloud service twice a day. (I asked what they’re gonna do if the cloud service goes down and the answer he gave was “look for a new job” lmao)

I have other backups, I just get nostalgic for the days of Command and Conquer.


I mean, I have an external hdd I keep a backup of important files on, and an ssd I use to transfer things onto a second computer, and it’s just a full backup of my primary pc.


I combine the two.

Burn offline drm free installers onto blank cds.

Well… Dvds, I can fit some older games into cds but they don’t have the same capacity.


I’ve been burning cds with my offline installers on every game I can. Finding blank cds in physical stores is hard, I lucked out finding this stack brand new at a thrift store.

I would very much like to have a desktop with cd racks filling the frame around it again.


Yeah, nothing stopped them from trashing the postal service for the last election in an extremely transparent way, I don’t actually see this court order being effective.

Or at least as effective as every other court order seems to have been for the regime.


“The whites” literally went to war over slavery. What they mean is “the conservative whites”



I have freaked out several people because I stop mid-drive to carry turtles across the road.

Remember: take it to the side it’s moving toward or it will just cross again.

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The only approach I see is hands out in a “the fuck are you doing, dude” kind of way. Even if the owner ran out yelling, driver’s response is over the top. Just keep walking away.


Me, before clicking: “please be E&I…. Please be E&I…. click as yeah.”

I don’t do chemistry stuff, but damn do I love his videos.

I’m glad the bird that keeps nesting in the shed is okay. (I like to think it’s always the same one)


There was a bigger turnout for our hastily organized last minute pride in a rural red state town.


Steam box =/= normal gaming pc

My 5 year old pre built acer laptop is around the same price and specs, and only the cpu is better on the steam square.

Comparing the release of ps5 with current day stuff seems weird. Why not compare with the launch of valve? Or personal computers in general?


Coming soon to interview questions ner you: “are you now, or have you ever been a re ipient of medicaid?”

Followed by mysterious ghosting of anyone who said “yes”

Completely unrelated, of course.


….. People actually do app subscriptions? Not a meme, I’m actually asking because that sounds crazy to me.


It’s a sawyer, and both marketing materials and real world testing say otherwise. Personal experience also tells me my filter is keeping me healthy while my neighbors don’t even bother listening to boil advisories.


For drinking pure water, we use a brita tap filter, and a sawyer filter straw, and just have it gravity feed into a pitcher. The pitcher usually doesn’t last a full day.

For cooking, we just use the tap filter and a cheap gravity filter with a reservoir. No need to go all out when you’re boiling the water lol

The Sawyer filter can be cleaned by forcing distilled water through in reverse, it unclogs the straw/membrane filter, but it only works for so long. Luckily the sawyer still works like a charm after thousands of gallons.

Disclaimer: I have not been testing for bacteria or other contaminants, I just go by taste and swap filters when something tastes off. I have no proof this filters everything, but neighbors have gotten sick around times when boil advisories go out, when we’ve been healthy the whole time. Could just be coincidence.


I’ve been using a water filter to filter my tap water for years, because tap water tastes nasty.

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES! I mean, not me because things still suck, but at least I’m reasonably sure I won’t get a disease after my city reduced funding for water treatment.



Yeah but that’s different.

Because….. Something something USA sucks HAHAHA A PWND now let me spam emojis and gifs while pointing out spelling and grammar errors because I have no real argument and just want to feel smugly superior.

/s, obviously.

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Nobody needs/wants the white liberal to speak for them, but another voice in the crowd demanding something surely can’t be a bad thing?

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Maybe for you, I routinely leave mine at home.


You poll them on policies, and suddenly everyone is a “far left extremist” for wanting safety nets and basic standards for human existence.

Former coworker kept saying he was republican, but he disagreed with them on a fundamental level about nearly every social issue, including guns.

He was all for anything and everything about collective bargaining, the workers uniting against management, but god forbid you use the “U” word.

Agreed every day about this social safety net needs expanded, that program needs better funding, more programs like this or that should exist for people in need, but once the dreaded “S” word comes out, suddenly everyone is a commie. Cause you know how socialism is actually communism and all that.


It’s okay to admit when you’re wrong, you know?


That was at a specific rate though, and assumed you were needing to be present on the digging device.


I’ve been wondering how much deeper we could make it with the advances in materials tech.

The biggest issues are heat around the head, since it’s getting super hot down that far, as well as twisting the bit without warping the shaft. By the time the energy is transferred across that much piping, things tend to get very twisty.

I bet by now we could easily drill into the hollow earth!


Completely unrealistic.

The cops would have been there already dragging people out the doors to beat them away from the cameras inside.


“oh a new form of power generation? Sweet! looks inside it’s making steam to spin a turbine….”


As former enlisted, I wonder if at any point while floating to the ground they thought to themselves “holy shit, I’m gonna die in a desert for pedophiles, why did I go along with this?”

At least one gets to think twice for now, but I doubt they will.


That’s why they scream until they die. They held it in all that time.


Those aren’t the eggs I’m looking for.

However, could you assist me in locating a ham?


Well, when you come back and read this I hope you had a good trip, since by now (2 hours later) you should be feeling it.

personal story

I don’t do shroom since my only 3 trips were bad despite trying to get proper set/setting. I made the mistake of being on my phone and reading normal posts instead of focusing on like cute animals or literally anything intentionally positive… So after first trip, I decided my phone would be locked in my bag and turned off for future trips.

My last trip was a downward spiral of feeling bad that our wedding wasn’t great since we couldn’t afford much and it was mid-covid so roughly 80% of people didn’t show up, and of those that did, most didn’t stay beyond the ceremony.

I decided after 3 bad trips, I’m just okay with not trying again.

Hope you have a great ride! If you see the Sky Snake, tell her I said hi.



I’ve got a couple busted laptops and some loose memory floating around, I just need to find one of my working hdds.

Technically I have an extra one but it’s acting as my media drive right now and I don’t even have a backup of it….

I definitely want to make the switch BEFORE my current setup dies, since it’ll be easier to transfer/convert everything I can.



Lmao Tone is hard to read, I wasn’t upset so if I came across that way my apologies, I was just adding more info in response to points you had raised.

I would assume if they meant it as some kind of a dig, they wouldn’t accept the invitations to hammock with us. Their tone was friendly, it’s just not a term I’ve heard and given the different comments so far, it seems to be a mixed bag as to whether other people would consider it an insult or a compliment.

Really though given the context, I’m going to take it as a compliment even if it was meant as an insult.


I haven’t read it in full in well over 15 years, but that comment made me go find it.


I am not okay today if this is making me cry and I just woke up an hour ago…

I love it


And we are very CLOSE to winning! Just some more brave soldiers will die, but that’s what happens in war. We have secured victory and are winning and will win!

Ą̴̙̭̲̬̖̙͌͊̓̊̈́͜r̷͈̯̮͍͓̖̕͘͝ͅe̸͙̱̫̙͋̀̓̅̂͛̈́ ̴̩̜̝̬̟̙̀̈́ẁ̷͇̱̻̱̪̉͆͒͋͑̕̚e̷̛̱̩̲͓̩̫̽̆̂̅̿̆͒͠͝ ̸̣̹̙͌̅̉̏̀͘͜ḡ̴̨͙̗̬͎̝̟̋͠r̵̯̝͔͛͌̽̈́̀́̈e̸̞̩̜͉̫̺̣̗͒͐̀̊̐͠͝͝a̷͕͊͒͆͒̔t̶̡̛͖̳̬̟̥̳͛͂̓̉͗͗ͅ ̵̹͙͙͍͌y̸̺̰̥͌̇̇͜͠ę̸̢̪̤̖͈̣̙̀̔̚͝t̷̙͔̃̿̏͘͜?̴̧̨̩̼͉̳̺̺̪͊̐͑̉̀̏̾͆̍͜ ̵̛̙̀̓͠

No joke, when I saw the thumbnail I was just about to go looking through my photos because my dog looks very similar (terrier Chihuahua mix so his snout is a little longer) and he loves wrapping up in my tortilla pattern blanket.

10/10 doggo