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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  • I sent the first news story about the signal chats to my parents ands in-laws in a big group that said “I had better never fucking hear another one of you dumbasses say a word about ‘HeR eEeEeEmAiLs’ ever again”

    Not a single one replied, both parents have (according to my wife) started taking Facebook posts they’ve made in the past down, and my in-laws have not said a political word in over a week. It’s been refreshing.

    They clearly aren’t ready to accept they may have been totally wrong all along, but it’s nice to see they might be self-aware enough to recognize when they might be potentially maybe SOMETIMES be less than correct about specific things.

    You need a microscope to see it, but i consider it a step up.




  • Honestly that just sounds like someone who just forgot to keep drinking while experiencing couch lock… When I’m smoking sativa strains like last night, I am perfectly okay the next day since I’m much more active, and therefore drink more liquids, than when smoking indica strains.

    While I’m sure it happens, it’s just not a thing for me or my wife and her friends I guess.

    I know someone who loves to smoke, but every time she does, her hands start shaking noticeably, but not enough to need help with things. Except maybe pouring a drink.




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    Is it considered normal to type out a normal question format when using search engines?

    If I were looking for an answer instead of making a funny meme, I’d search “heat movie cast Angelina Jolie” if I didn’t feel like putting any effort in.

    Then again, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen someone use their phone to search google “what is 87÷167?” instead of doing “87/167” or like… Opening the calculator…

    People do things in different, sometimes weird ways.




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    I mean, by process of elimination, I guess.

    I thought about including orks in there, but they do too many uncool things like trying to fight people who don’t want to fight.

    They’re perfectly happy fighting anyone and everyone, including themselves, and just want a good propper fight.

    Kind of hard justifying a fight with puppies though…





  • Indeed.

    Despite my own work in making knives and other blacksmithing things, where I LITERALLY have a magnet on my anvil so I can test for when the steel hits it’s austenitic temp, I somehow managed to forget the iron will go non magnetic…

    So yeah. Thanks for the reminder!

    In my defense I haven’t made any knives since moving a year ago…

    However, this is aluminum I think? I’m not entirely sure how magnetism works with lenzs law and if there’s a temperature it stops working…


  • Luckily for me I got the job in-store for bicycles, but then after a few months they couldn’t keep people behind the gun counter and had to ask me to start filling in. By the time I left, I was behind the gun counter more than the bike counter.

    I’m positive my looks nowadays would draw plenty of comments, but back then I looked like the stereotypical straight white guy that didn’t have any strong political opinions… I know I’d be getting comments about my appearance now. Lgbtq+ support and long hair are enough I’m sure I’d even have some locals waiting for me to get off work to harass me. It wouldn’t be the first time a republicunt took issue with an employee and tried to wait until closing to start shit. Which is a bad idea when half the employees have their CCW.

    No worries about the neighbors owning guns. They’re citizens, they just don’t pass the “paper bag test” for cops, and have their own firearms. They used to be staunchly against firearms until 2020. Then with all the political bullshit leading straight into covid made them reconsider.

    I miss being able to shoot a text to 6 friends asking if anyone wants to go shooting at friend 2s house, and within two hours we’re all laughing, chowing down on snacks, setting up a ton of clay targets for some friendly competitions… Now I’m down to 0(ish) friends that aren’t primarily my wife’s friends, and they don’t do target practice. They can strip and maintain all their guns with a blindfold on, but I don’t think they’ve even sighted them in properly. Many discussions have been had over this unfortunately.

    The bystander effect made 8 people watch from 15ft away as I literally crawled across a street, covered in blood, my leg twisted the wrong way, after a close call from a truck while riding a bicycle made me eat shit. After one person FINALLY ran over to me, suddenly all 8 were walking over, apologizing saying they thought someone else was coming over first.

    Because of that I have decided unless there is a CLEAR leader in getting things taken care of, I’m always going to try to be the first to act when someone is in need. If someone collapses on the ground, I’m running over to make sure they’re breathing/conscious, and I either actively calling an ambulance or pointing at a specific person and going “YOU, MALE WITH THE RED SHIRT, CALL 911 RIGHT NOW” since people react far quicker when called out specifically. Don’t assume someone else will show up to help. You ARE RIGHT THERE. So help.

    Anyways, daily reminder that armed minorities are harder to oppress. Armed minorities make governments afraid.


  • Make everyone see all the flags and just TRY to go on about how un-American or non-patriotic or how “against America” the protests are.

    When the riot police get sent in, make sure everyone sees the fascist lapdogs beating true Americans in an extremely obvious “these police hate real Americans, you could be next” message.

    It’s a small thing that I think most on the left don’t seem to appreciate enough. You may not have any particularly strong feelings about a piece of cloth/plastic that’s probably made in China. I know I don’t.

    But they do. The right LOVES using the flag at any and every opportunity, because it works on the people who vote for them.