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.
When you’re a mouthpiece of hate, and people who agree with you act on it by being shitty to someone they don’t like, you’ve made many people’s lives worse.
When you’re as prolific as he was, supporting a government that’s actively mistreating the majority of its 300m+ population, you’ve made millions of people’s lives worse.
Who would have thought that making millions of people’s lives actively worse in an already not great time in the most widely-armed country in the world could have POSSIBLY led to current events???
A coworker of mine was dangerously close to connecting some of the dots yesterday.
He started complaining about how things are getting more expensive, and how the company we work for has started buying things from overseas because even with tariffs it’s cheaper than buying American made, and then came the stunning part.
He said “They say they have to raise prices because of terrorists or some shit, but how do WE know if that’s true? How do we know there ARE any terrorists and it’s not just all bullshit made up by politicians and the news to justify raising prices so they can get rich.”
And then he took a hard right turn and added that “all those goddamn r****d democrats in congress” are to blame.
So close.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu could kick David and Goliath’s asses.
I remember a friend of mine whining about how my text bubble was a different color and it “made it weird” to text because of that.
By then I was already super over the whole tribalistic iphone/android bs from people I know when it wasn’t being meme’d on, so I just told her “you can either get over it, or we can stop talking and being friends”
Wouldn’t you know it, the color of a text bubble isn’t enough to end a friendship over.
Ah, no true scottsman adult, then.
You can either join me in sitting around a small fire and discussing rc stuff, star trek, guns, and how functionally unregulated capitalism is destroying the planet, or you can keep moving.
I hope you’ll join me, I’m making breakfast. Eggs, potatoes, bacon, biscuits, and pancakes if you’re okay with some mildly overcooked spots.
Rich people who want a technofeudalistic world in which they are the nobility: 
Professionals have standards
Me, staring at my alarm about to go off in 5 minutes after tossing and turning for an hour: “this is the single most comfortable spot in the universe and I am so sleepy now”
You know those metal benches with metal arches for “arm rests” a lot of cities installed about a decade ago?
A lot of them use standard size bolts and Allen keys. No security, or maybe torx if anything.
Also an adjustable crescent wrench and multi-size Allen wrench tool fit nicely inside a pocket.
A cordless impact driver and associated bits fit in a small backpack as well.
What do those tidbits of info have in common?
Well that’s up to the reader.
TO BE CLEAR, in case anyone doesn’t understand, I am advocating for people to go out and disassemble anti-homeless architecture as a fuck you to the people who put it there. Being homeless is never a choice (not counting extreme outliers). Life is already shitting on them, denying them even a bench to sleep on for the night is just evil.
Having worked in quite a few fields in the last 15 years or so, it’s the same active shooter training they give everyone. Even in stores that sell guns.
I’ll let the reader decide how fucked up it is that there’s basically a countrywide accepted “standard response”
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?
It’s the difference between actively telling people “you do not have this right!” and quietly twiddling your thumbs and shrugging as people look for the information.
That’s right up there with calling Epsteins victims “underage women” instead of CHILDREN
And here I thought you’d need an archeologist or a bunch of space dwarves to find the bar for that one…
N=N+1, apparently.
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.
Don’t be, most of them are barely more capable than apes. And that’s mildly insulting to a few ape species. With a little training, the apes would be far more capable and understanding.
This one in particular isn’t the worst, but when he’s on drugs he can be.
Most of them are racist, homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic, Islamophobic, xenophobic in general… At least nobody has been wearing the Civil War Losers Flag. Well, several of them do wear plain white cut-offs…