Miles O'Brien

I will happily wax everything below my ears, dress up in a skirt, and put on some makeup in order to have breakfast with Leonard Nimoy.

Knowing big bang theory, half the episode would be shitty “trans people exist isn’t that funny” “jokes” and with the laugh track, there’s 3/4 of your time slot.

And then it would be Zachary Quinto.

I have put more hours into red alert 2 and generals/ZH than the rest of my entire gaming collection combined…

This does bring a smile to my face.

Calling out reposts obsessively is weird to me.There’s more people who have not seen something than who have seen it, at least on the internet. I think most people have seen the moon…

But if I ever have a problem where the vast majority of the posts I see are reposts, I’ll simply block the channel for awhile. It costs me nothing, and takes less effort than typing out a comment complaining in every repost.

It’s the “STOP LIKING WHAT I DON’T LIKE” meme, come to life. And I’d rather let people have their fun. Doesn’t cost me, nor anyone else, a thing.

I love when people say they feel dumb because they didn’t know something, because then I get to share xkcd with them, too.

I’d bet it’s not immune to small pellets of lead or steel flying towards it at around 1000fps.

Or a rock.

I’m less accurate with the rock though…

This is one of those articles that would have made me go “WOAH, that’s so cool, the future will be awesome!” like 15 years ago…

Now it just makes me wonder “how long before someone uses it to hunt down their favorite target demographic for arrest/deportation/extermination” for a split second before I remember “if this is what we are seeing as the public, then someone is definitely already doing that”

Can’t wait to see the wapo articles praising the musk drone defense network for flushing out the undesirables from [area] and only having a 20% false positive rate of elimination.

maximally profitable game

See, it really is just an algorithm that can be nailed down perfectly, and I’ve got an entire floor of statisticians and market analysts that agree it’ll make me berjillions!!!1!!

Lpt: they’re also telling me more statisticians and market analysts will help boost my numbers too! Jackpot!

-an executive, somewhere, in nearly every corporate office

Yeah, I had been holding on to one last one after selling the rest (I made a whopping $13 yaaaaaaaaay)

Selling that shit the moment I can get to my laptop.

That would be great, but unfortunately for me I have too many programs that depend on windows, don’t have Linux options, and if I’m being honest with myself I really just don’t want to learn an entirely new ecosystem. I will if forced, but the moment this laptop shits itself or they discontinue support for the OS, I’m getting a crash course.

I’d love to turn an old tablet or somethinf into a Linux device in the meantime so I can at least start something. Too bad my parent’s old kindles won’t work, there’s enough of them laying around their house…

Oh fuck yeah gimme that customization and personalization options

I used to use a program on one of my computers called rainmeter I think, and it allowed me to customize my desktop to look like the Animus menus from Assassin’s creed 2. Then decided to go with hexagons everywhere, with the replacement start menu dead center screen and other buttons areayed out from there.

Haven’t used it in many years, but I’d love that level of customization* on a pc nowadays. It seems like no matter where I go, every UI looks the same. Good for familiarity, not so much for “oh this is neat, they made it their own” factor.

*without learning entire programming languages, I hyperfixate on things but programming has never been something I’ve been able to get into

Violent protest? Prison.

No violent protest? Straight to Prison.

Talking online about possibly organizing a non violent protest? Believe it or not… Also prison.

Gee, when it’s prison no matter what, I wonder what people will do? Hmm.

HMMMMMMMMMMM

I just bought a laptop last year (portability and space constraints, I’d love to build a pc when I have the space for it) and it was supposed to come with windows 10.

I got a windows 11 model shipped to me. I didn’t ask for this. And I have to say… I fucking hate it. Why does the start menu need to change locations…

My next computer will absolutely be Linux, and it’s Microsoft’s own stupid fault. Windows 10 WAS supposed to be my last windows OS…

Corporations that already more or less control the world want even more leeway to control the world even MORE despite clear evidence they are woefully unprepared?

Name a more iconic duo.

I support this wholeheartedly.

Why does Sony always feel like you could replace anything they say with “You should consider yourself lucky we allow you to play our games.”

“the best city builder of 2024”

I mean, I like what they have so far but uh… It’s a pretty low bar, it’ll be hard to trip over…

Fun for what they have, but after maybe 10 hours you’ve played every aspect of the game. Each new game feels exactly like the game you just left. There isn’t much “design tweaking” you can do, and there isn’t much you can unlock that changes any gameplay.

Still, I have it with game pass and I keep it just in case something updates. It is fun to play. And you can disable the weird competitive features. This is a city builder, not call of duty. I don’t care to play against an opponent.

I’ve started directly questioning the intelligence of people who can’t understand how ocean and air currents work to stabilize polar vortices and disruption of those currents causes disruption of super cold air.

And I have started getting a bit condescending while saying this as if any third grader should understand it so a fully grown adult not understanding it clearly shows some sort of mental deficiency that didn’t get caught earlier in life.

It probably means I’m a bad person but I feel a little satisfaction at their increased anger over just refuting with facts. Because you’re explaining in what sounds like it should be simple ways why they are dumb and the usually slightly narcissistic minds I deal with like this simply cannot handle that.

My mother in law’s rebuttal, after a few days and in text form, was “I DO KNOW all about the science I just don’t believe it’s happening”

And at that point, she has admitted she no longer believes reality.

You can say “I don’t believe it’s raining” all you want, but that water hitting your face won’t be any less wet.

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it sure seems like they’re colluding to restrict the amount of oil in the market

Um…

Yes? 100% always has been, they literally have meetings and what is essentially a corporate union specifically to do it. And they’re not subtle about it.

Is this really news to some people?

But… But… I’ve been assured by many old people that heat pumps are super inefficient, waste tons of electricity, and only work about 10 degrees from outside temps!

Surely these people wouldn’t have lied or misrepresented the facts in order to support their own warped worldviews where renewable energy and efficiency measures are evil and Jesus wants them to shoot up power substations near solar projects…

… I really need to move out of the Bible belt…