Miles O'Brien

I came here to laugh, not get personally attacked.

Last week I was totally ready to do [thing] and last week me was definitely not thinking about how the future works.

As an American who remembers 2016-2020…

NO FUCKING SHIT, SHERLOCK

Looks like jeanposting is back on the menu, boys!

And if anyone shows up to take her back, lock them up too.

If you need help defending against any terrorist activities by an opposing nation, let me know, I will happily defend the free world from fascism.

It literally has nothing to do with us.

I don’t think there’s a single person here who would disagree with you.

I hope that the riots in the streets start up sooner rather than later.

Same. But uncoordinated opposition just leaves a lot of dead “lone wolf crazy gunmen”

Good reminder to keep organizing.

You sure you’re not confusing China with the United States?

Boom, there it is!

I Guess we’re just ignoring all the shit they’re pulling by dumping sand and dirt into the ocean and calling it a Chinese island, and all the shit they’re doing near Taiwan.

Can’t wait for someone to pull out a 400 year old map to justify modern day imperialism again!

The last time I used skype, it was to monitor my 3d print because I needed to finish a project and my last attempt went all spaghetti.

So as I was at work I’d log into my computer from my phone, call myself with skype, and check to make sure everything was still okay.

Then I discovered octoprint.

At least you all can get your family to use it.

I can’t even get my spouse to use it unless she thinks what we are talking about might be illegal where we are (it usually isn’t)

I’ve tried convincing family to use it, but all that happens is I just never hear from them until I see them in person or they call me.

They don’t even feel the need to back up their Amazon Kindle collection before they get cutoff from it… Thousands of dollars wasted if they ever lose access to the account.

Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I’m wrong.

And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.

Super Weird.

All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I’ve seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.

Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won’t get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.

Treated lumber is a thing, and in my experience it’s harder to light than carbon fiber and resin.

My garage almost burned down once because I didn’t notice sparks from my angle grinder were pooling on a CF/R panel, and it set off a couple other things (paper towel bar, shop towel, solvent residue close to the towel) while I ran to the extinguisher.

This “article” is just an ad, and shouldn’t exist without actual journalism going on, but let’s not pretend wood can’t be fire resistant.

A lot of people have trouble feeling like this, and is a big part of the sunk cost fallacy I think. “I know I’ll like it more later” then eventually becomes “well I’ve made it this far”.

You like what you like, you don’t like what you don’t like. You can’t really change that. It’s okay to put something down if you aren’t engaging with it.

Anecdote ahead:

I keep telling my wife if she doesn’t like one of my books, I won’t be offended if she stops reading.

But she feels like it’s just her “being dumb” and that she’ll like it more next chapter.

I took her to half price books the other day so we could get a bunch of books she likes, and the only reason she decided to buy as many as she did was because “we can sell them back to the store” even though I fully intend in giving away any books she won’t read.

The $2 I’ll get back for it isn’t worth the 45 minute trip there. And someone will probably get more than $2 worth of entertainment from it.

I created a nerd, send bookshelves…

This is why I occasionally watch Bing bong theorem.

It’s garbage, it’s offensive to several groups of people (some more than others), and it has a laugh track.

By all my standards, it’s garbage, with garbage characters played by( a couple) garbage people actors, and half the time it’s not funny at all, not just “not as funny as it thinks it is”

But… I still like to watch an episode here or there.

Don’t get me started on all the people who tell me I should love it because I’m a nerd and I “like space”. Usually these people don’t understand why the “smart” jokes aren’t actually smart and usually they’re giving just enough of a “you need basic education to understand this” so that when the average viewer understands it, they can feel good about themselves for being oh so smart and understanding all that nerd stuff.

And of course you can’t bring any of that up without sounding like a pretentious douche who wants people to think they’re smarter than they are.

So uh… Hi, I guess I’m a pretentious douche. IM SMRT

Like what you like, fuck the h8rz.

They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.

Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”

A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.

So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”

Okay so I stopped reading at “unmanned ground vehicles” because I’m an RC nerd and wanted to see the cool robot.

Took me a second to realize those aren’t normal wheels.

My mother always said RC cars can be dangerous…

They had an app store?

Removed by mod

“could be ousted”

Uhhhhhh no.

Nobody in their right mind would listen to this.

The Russian Puppet never intended to allow support to continue and is making shit up to try and justify halting aid without serious backlash.

Musketrump and the MAGAts can get fucked. Unless they’re willing to go to war to enforce it, there’s 0 chance of it happening. And if they go to war for that, they’re going to have a hell of a lot of internal conflict that will absolutely result in blood. Militarily and civilian.

I don’t know if I would call “life” a toy, but I guess everyone is different.

The fact that anyone can see this and think “yes, this is a clear sign we must invest MORE in oil consumption” is wild to me.

If ONE country is shelling out as much for renewable as the rest of the world spends on fossil fuels, then MAYBE, just MAYBE there might be something to renewables, especially given all the things we see daily about how much more efficient renewables are, how much money is in the entire industry, how quickly people are switching to renewables…

It’s mind boggling that anyone thinks fossil fuels are the future, or at least can convince other people that it’s the future all while caring about just the money.

I’d love to have a power wall and a wind/solar setup for all my energy needs.

Hey look, an administration that doesn’t understand science continues to prove they don’t understand science by threatening unscientific tests that are inadmissible as evidence in a trial.

Surprise, thy name is [ERROR, SURPRISE NOT FOUND]