Miles O'Brien

“but whatabout…”

It’s a goal if you’re so fucking disgustingly rich you can buy a private island and haven’t seen the poors since your office was close enough to them you could faintly make out a small dot.

Because you’ll have enough wealth to survive the shit storm, and then there’s nothing those dirty plebians can do to stop you from basically deciding how things run from now on in your little corner.

I’m making an assumption here that you aren’t disgustingly rich and therefore the thought of “fuck 8 billion other people if I get mine” didn’t come naturally to you.

I’m sure that England has been glad to be rid of us for quite some time. We haven’t been very good allies in my lifetime, let alone before that.

I’m also equally sure plenty of Americans today would rather be somewhere in the UK.

Sorry for being unable to answer the woman side of the question. 30s, “male” but honestly could also qualify as “closeted genderfluid” or “agender” maybe, I don’t know.

Never really felt “masculine” in the stereotypically toxic way older generations and conservatives are obsessed with, and if I’m being honest I’ve always wanted breasts and to look more feminine but have no desire to have any sort of “bottom surgery”

My wife has encouraged me to grow my hair out, but honestly I’m not sure what to do with it. I just put it in a ponytail, sometimes for multiple days in a row. But I want to do more stuff with it. Executive dysfunction goes great with a lot of things…

Although I would like to appear more feminine, I hate makeup. I have done musical theater since middle school and absolutely hate the feeling of stage makeup. I understand there are different types of makeup and I’m sure proper application would feel less like a layer of clay and more like a light dusting.

Some days I want to go out wearing women’s clothes, but never have. Some days I feel like wearing work jeans and a ratty t-shirt full of holes but it’s comfy. Some days I feel like a gelatinous blob only constrained by sweat pants.

Fuck labels, do you.

Lmao my mom used to say real men don’t cry.

One day as a teen I was angry and tearing up and she said that, so I just screamed at her “I’VE SEEN DAD AND GRANDPA BOTH CRY SO SHUT THE FUCK UP” And honestly I think she realized she was wrong at least about that, because she has never said it since even to my sister’s kids, and I didn’t even get in trouble for swearing at her.

Cry away, fellow human. Disregard those who cannot allow themselves to feel emotions for fear of seeming “less than”.

I’d say it’s not weird to wonder, but it is a little unhealthy if that’s what you assume is the truth every time.

That said, how often does internet go out for you?

I live on the same grid as a hospital so my power almost never goes out, and live close enough to several cell towers my phone can use that cell service isn’t a problem.

So if my internet goes out, I assume my provider is having technical problems.

Nationalists will attack anyone who doesn’t hold their exact narrow worldview from their narrowly defined area, regardless of which nationality they hold.

American nationalists are just called “republicans” (although plenty of democrats could be considered nationalists, it’s a bit of a “not all squares/rectangles” situation)

My parents are definitely in the “resist status-quo change” group, but I would argue they do understand “the cause” at least when it comes to American politics. They’re vocally against fascism in private, but any sort of resistance is illegal and therefore wrong. And it’s too bad these politicians are doing fascism, because they’re supposed to be good God-fearing types who just want abortion to stop.

Without an ounce of thought behind it, my mother will say medically necessary abortions should be allowed, and vote for someone who loudly tells everyone they won’t allow any at all. Will say ICE shouldn’t be executing people, but will happily support funding for them. Doesn’t like that the US keeps putting its military boot into other countries’ doors, but still says “support our troops”

I don’t get the fascination with sports either, but I get emotional about the stories in video games. I imagine someone who loves sports but doesn’t care for video games might view my tears over pixels as pathetic. My outrage at imginary injustice from a judgemental npc as ridiculous.

I have all these feelings for random collections of pixels on a screen. They can have their feelings for random groups of people.

I have to stop myself from mocking my brother in law for yelling at his TV on apparently bad plays, because I definitely have yelled at my screen before over a death, or plot twist.

Next they’ll ask why red barrels explode when you shoot them…

Loudly spouting defeatist BS while voting for something is detrimental to getting the thing you voted for. If you want X but spend all day telling everyone it’s all pointless, it doesn’t matter if you voted for X when 15 other people decided there’s no point in trying for Y since X can’t happen.

Whether I agree with either of these people’s views is irrelevant.

No need to be ableist.

I wonder how difficult it would be to make a heating system directly powered by solar panels. It doesn’t have to be enough heat to make a person comfortable in a t-shirt, but just enough to allow normal battery operation.

I’m sure that depends on a lot of factors like shed insulation/wall facing direction, etc, and burying the battery bank would probably be more effective.

to find an expanded & bloated lithium ion battery pack

Intrusive thoughts: “go on, poke it with a knife. See what happens firsthand”

As usual, the opponent of recycling things is simply “it’s too expensive”

The ultimate failing of the future, as always, is current reliance on capitalism.

Why recycle when you make more money by blowing up the planet and ripping out the good stuff?

It’s actually very hard to launch dome thing near the sun, let alone into the sun.

Far better for the planet to just bury them in soft peat for 3 months and recycle them as firelighters.

Well here in the US we’ve been speedrunning Germany in the 1930s, so it tracks that the places we fuck up and try to control would also be speedrunning their own thing.

From Ohio, and to me sleet is several things

Wet snow/rain mix

Tiny frozen spheres that aren’t big enough to be called hail

Snow/tiny hail mix

Any combination of the three, really.

Mostly it boils down to “not snow or rain or hail”, and “wintry mix” is something I never heard until adulthood.

His handlers planned for that, the second he tries to pull the trigger, explosives detonate the whole room. Doesn’t even need to take the safety off, since he’d likely fuck that up. He just has to hold it right and… Oh… Oh no…

Honestly given how long it’s been standing (lmao thanks Canada, come over for another BBQ some time pls) and given some of the administrations, I’m certain there are secret things that nobody alive remembers.

This will certainly be the dumbest one where the most child rapists seek shelter.

kick off a civil war

looks around at “detention” camps

looks around at military being moved around in preparation for things

looks around at states invading other states with their own guard members

looks around at civilians being executed on camera in the streets by government-backed SS-style secret police

My brother/sister/non-binary in the flying spaghetti monster, we are there. Whether it’s one-sided or not is going to be the real question.

Every republican that talks shit about gun control, I roll with it and see how far they’ll agree with me.

“hell yeah, the government shouldn’t be allowed to control our guns!”

“fucking politicians always getting scared of people just for owning and carrying guns. They don’t kill you by accident!”

“anti-gun nut Ronald Reagan got scared of people walking around open carrying, and he fucked California up with gun control while Governor! Brought it to Washington with him, too! cites laws signed by Reagan”

I lose a lot of the with this one. Somehow Ronald Reagan is their idol?

“yeah man, if they can take a trans persons guns, they can take yours too!”

That last one is where I lose almost all of them.

If there is a hell, Ronald Reagan is getting pineapple’d with Hitler, Margaret Thatcher, and Charlie Kirk.