Miles O'Brien

you can only do that so many times before you run out of money, materials, water, or places to build

That’s someone else’s problem. Hopefully someone after they’re dead, but as long as they have their golden parachute, who cares?

That’s right up there with calling Epsteins victims “underage women” instead of CHILDREN

People won’t stand up for their neighbors and community when Nazies are rounding the others up

Because it doesn’t directly affect them yet.

“Then they came for my coffee”, and all that.

regular hours.

Apologies, but as someone who has never worked in an office, “regular hours” is a meaningless phrase.

Hey now, that’s a misrepresentation of both the US and China.

China had way nicer locomotives in 96. It wasn’t 1896.

And in the US, that guy would have either been replaced by a machine, or replaced by someone younger who won’t be expecting the seniority and pay raises that being there for over 20 years usually gets you.

I’ll vote for you in the “most likely to get the joke one panel before the end” category at the award ceremony.

I would bet the entirety of my yearly pay that it was absolutely, 100% a joke and they have a perfectly healthy relationship.

We truly live in a society

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In a row?!

Evolution.

It knows what it is, and nobody in it is under some illusion that they’re making some masterpiece of cinema. That is not at all a criticism or even backhanded compliment. I like when the actors have fun with the things they’re working on. I mean, who doesn’t love seen behind the scenes of Ian Mckellen slapping a dummy of Sean Aston around.

It’s fun, it’s ridiculous, and it leans into it a bit.

Plus they came up with the Thanos Weakness a long time before the avengers fans.

I had recently read a book that had

Shit, imma need that title…

I can’t for the life of me remember which book that was…

Well, shit.

If you remember, let us know! I’m a huge book nerd that (clearly) loves sci-fi, and that sounds pretty neat.

Matter=energy=matter.

If you can replicate matter with energy, you can turn matter into energy.

First you use a little wall power or even solar power, replicate some chargeable power cells, and then hey look you’ve got some portable replicating that will work without an obvious power source.

And as long as you have enough matter on hand to convert to energy, you have enough power to replicate things until we replicate space tech like deflector dishes and bussard collectors to soak in all that tasty hydrogen that’s just laying around all over the universe.

Jaysus, Keiko, it’s like you don’t even listen to me when we’re having dinner…

back to the pattern buffer for you I guess…

First thing anyone with matter replicators needs to do is IMMEDIATELY replicate 100 replicators and send them to enough countries that there’s no WAY for any corporation or rich fuck to quash it and maintain dominance.

Replicators would immediately destroy any economic system because no economic system would be needed when everything you can think of is a button press away.

Honestly any version of replicators…

Klingon has an empty crate bounce off him and he’s ready to end it all.

I get tortured in a mind prison for decades, and I’m expected to show up for work the next day…

No worries, tone isn’t easily conveyed in text and with everything else it’s totally understandable.

And if I’m being completely honest, it may have a slight bias toward that way just from me being from the US. I just didn’t consciously/purposely do so.

I did mean to simply say that I wish we could achieve such things here without resorting to what arguably most modern governments have done, if not recently then in the past.

It’s doable, we just need the people in charge to have the best intentions for all people.

Fat fucking chance of that in the US these days (or for the last 40 years)

You just gave proof that the people who are in the way don’t matter in the US either, as long as it’s about building inner city highways.

I don’t know where I managed to say anything to the contrary… As you point out, I literally give proof that people in the way don’t matter.

It’s impressive what you can accomplish when the people who oppose it/are in the way don’t matter in the slightest to the people in charge.

I’d love to see this level of expansion anywhere in the US, done properly and without targeting minorities and the poor like we do too often…

If I could ride a metro line to work and to the store, I’d be soooooo happy. No more daily driver for me! Except my bikes, of course. I’d be saving all that money for more bicycles.

Thanks for reminding me, I just moved halfway across the state and need to replace things.

When I was 19 I wore a vest as part of a musical, and due to cast parties and such, I was walking out at night wearing the vest loosely over my shirt.

Some random woman walking by said “that vest looks really good on you!”

I kept it and wore it at least once a week until it fell apart.

I would like a new one, though. Purple and black paisley and/or lace is my jam.

Matthew 6:5

And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

But of course, none of them have ever read these words, that would require reading the Bible in some form or another.