Miles O'Brien

I haven’t heard of her, but I’m tossing the popcorn in the microwave as we speak!

Boring anecdote ahead!

I remember watching a Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) video about Capo Fero while singing some Skallagrim videos, and immediately I went “hey wait a minute that sounds familiar” and racked my brain trying to figure out who’s voice I was hearing in my head saying “capo Fero”

Of course once I realized it, I had to watch the entire movie, because one does not simply watch clips of The Princess Bride…

Anyway, that led me down a huge long road of videos all about sword fighting in movies and how realistic (or laughably unrealistic) they can be.

I was actually surprised to see halfswording in Season of the Witch when someone fights Ron perlman. That movie isn’t amazing cinema, but it’s fun and doesn’t deserve it’s 10% RT score. It should be at least 15%.

But that isn’t the criteria they’re working with in any news report or court case, is it?

If I draw up some plans on a napkin with crayon, make my thing based on that, and “QC” says all the parts are to spec, and it fails and looks like shit in the process… I would say that is FAR more improvised than the guy making a pipe bomb out of hardware store supplies that’s set off by a complex electronic custom timer/signal receiver.

I do get your point, I’m just being slightly ridiculous for humor’s sake.

It’s all entirely “did someone make this in a factory with government approval or not”

Y’know… In this hypothetical news story/court case…

Yeah, but to be fair, those were smallish nukes, and we only saw those go up against large bugs.

Not a net or trident in sight.

Not a fair comparison.

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.

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“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.

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

Every extreme sport is insane if you dissect it with rational thought about human frailty.

It’s great!

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go strip to thin breathable cloth so I can tear along the countryside at speeds humans weren’t designed to travel at, while dodging trees, bushes, occasional wildlife, roots and rocks, hoping my air filled donut bladders don’t rupture and none of the welds on my metal stick give out. Once I’m done I’ll cool off with a nice downhill roll, rivaling the cheetah on speed.

That said… Caves are one of those places I’d love to go to one someday but it won’t be relaxing for me. They can be scary as FUCK. Don’t even get me started on cave diving. Those people are insane and in need of therapy.

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.

He really tells it like it is. Says what he means.

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…

And for the same production value and some brightly colored spandex, so can you!

Never underestimate how many ways you can dress up a rock quarry. Just ask the members of SG-1

Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot speech hits different depending on what you’ve been consuming lately.

It can be quite inspiring, or quite depressing

Every single thing experienced by all 100ish billion humans who ever lived, all their highs and lows, all the people they knew, all their hopes and dreams… Could all be destroyed at the speed of light, and we would never have any way to see it coming, or stop it even if we did.

An asteroid could make the planet inhospitable to all but tiny organisms. A Gamma ray burst could pop off dozens of lightyears away. Coronal mass ejection burns the atmosphere. Rogue planet/black hole. False Vacuum decay could destroy baryonic matter.

Your entire life will be experienced, you live and die, and the universe at large will never even notice.

Some people find that depressing. I find it a little comforting. If nothing we do matters, we have to figure out how to make things matter to us. I uh… I’m still working on that last bit… But it’s a nice thought to me.

New headcannon, that’s why Gandalf was so bothered every time Pip did something dumb, because he felt like it was a failing on his part as an ancestor.

100% confirmed.

“No, I prefer to donate money directly, and if your company really cared about the cause then they would just donate without asking the customers to foot the bill”

Of course, the 9/10 times the cashier agrees and is only asking because their supervisor could be within earshot and decide to reprimand them for not asking.

I thought showing off my own kobo and library of books that I can let anyone I want read would convince them.

Nope.

Oh well

I support this wholeheartedly.

Indeed.

I even sent them the related news articles about content I’ve had removed from my own devices, and still they don’t seem to care in the least.