Miles O'Brien

I have forgotten about a concert after paying for the tickets, I have forgotten about super important plans and didn’t even send a text to the person I had them with until about 6 hours later (in fairness I never even got a text or call from them in that time, just a “where were you, I waited” when I called to apologize) and I have forgotten my entire wallet at a restaurant. Sat it down while waiting for my card back and put the card in my pocket and left the wallet on the table.

I have also unironically said this.

And what country are you from where racism is not an issue?

No really, where, because a non-racist place to live sounds fantastic, especially nowadays.

I mean, you’re the weirdo accepting random liquids from someone.

This is my only issue with having three dogs.

I only have two hands.

So if I come home and they all want attention, I have to split pets between all of them in short intervals or they start pushing each other (and me) around trying to get attention. Or rather, the biggest one pushes in and the smaller two have to climb over themselves to get to my other hand.

Honestly I just want to see the first two in imax since I missed the opportunity when they had their original runs.

A theater about an hour away had a special showing of part 1 running with the first week of part 2’s debut. So you could go see part 1 and go to the next hall to see part 2 immediately after. I’m hoping they do something similar so I can watch all 3 in a couple weekends, but I’m not holding my breath.

That is crazy to me.

I hate driving in general, but will typically be okay with nearly doubling my travel time (up to like an hour) if it means I am in constant motion. So I’ll happily take small side streets and drive two small towns over and avoid a highway on the off chance that there’s a traffic jam. Some highways are almost guaranteed to be at a standstill at certain times anyway, but surprise stoppages always seems like a given when my wife and I travel more than a few hours from home.

It doesn’t seem like that’s an option to drive on non-highways, from the translation post, sadly. Fingers crossed they get the public transit sorted next year, and improve it for 2029. That sounds like a bad time for everyone.

This hand-crafted, gold necklace with diamond, ruby sapphire, and emeralds adorning the intricately carved centerpiece?

5 gold pieces.

That moldy slice of bread you picked up accidentally from a barrel in the bottom of a 1500 year old shipwreck?

… I’ll give you 3 gold.

Well, it’ll be taught, just not as official curriculum.

I learned about a man from Nantucket at school.

And the United States government, whose nuclear launch systems for decades had a default “0000000” password on systems so old they figured nobody would know how to hack them in person anymore, and they’re incompatible with the internet.

It’s disturbing to me that my high school hobby of fixing and operating old computers meant I could have launched nukes.

Why do that and risk actually losing, when you can go after the small guy and send a message to the plebs?

My hometown has a kenworth plant

Kenworth has a bad habit of putting huge parking lots for their truck everywhere they can, and then leaving them unattended for months on end.

Kenworth learned the hard way that they need to keep better control over where they leave their shit, otherwise people who have a reason to hate them (which is a lot of people around there) might fuck with their trucks and cause millions in damages.

And cheap to boot. Super duper simple. Honestly you could make your own with a set of mini pliers and a stiff paper clip.

It’s just two points to hold either side of the stem while you rotate it out.

I have a few at any given time since I work on bicycles in my spare time, and have passed out a few at protests.

“well we can’t have this hardcore murderer doing too much violence and murder, or we might lose the young families, so let’s tone down the murderviolence in this murderviolence-fraught franchise.” -Some executive who doesn’t realize they never had those families in the first place but now they’ve lost a lot of the fans

I’m not a fan of nukes.

I say we get about 1,000 people, some bulldozers, and then squish everything into one big pile in the middle. That should be enough, but we can always run over it a few times with a steamroller for good measure.

Call it “Mt. Capitalism” or maybe “Mt. Inheritance” and leave it as a warning.

No, it’s not possible they’re allergic to the base, as they would be allergic to their own body. Your body produces it, and you ingest it in plenty of other foods.

But hey, I’m glad you’re not a scientist, and I don’t have to hope since you’re confidently making assertions with no knowledge base to pull from, like a shitty person might do.

Personal anecdote from cooking for years for a variety of people of varying intelligence, background, and countries:

Most people claim it gives them headaches and nausea.

They “know” this because they feel it every time they eat (american) “Chinese food”

Not a single one has ever had either symptom after eating my cooking that has a little sprinkled in.

Now, I have tried to prove a point to some by informing them (many hours after the food, and asking about how they feel) that they in fact ingested MSG without issue and had no symptoms, usually to rounds of spontaneous nausea and headaches that had apparently gone unnoticed for hours until just then.

It could be that ingesting a shit-load of greasy, oily, carbs and over-eating that caused their nausea and headaches when they gorged themselves on “Chinese” food, but no, they know it’s the MSG.

I’ve slowly gotten a couple people around on “collective bargaining”, I’m avoiding using the big scary U word to them

My employer “encourages” everyone to clock in for the day and from lunch up to 7 minutes early.

My employer also likes to take any and every opportunity to punish people for “abusing breaks” which here means “you walked to the break area and took your 15 minute break and walked back to your station” instead of "15minutes starts at your station and ends at your station so you really only get an 8-12 minute break depending on how far you have to walk.

And forget about bathroom breaks outside your 15s and lunch.

My employer also pays the same every single week, regardless of whether you clocked in 7 minutes early every day or exactly on time.

My employer calls our “abuse” of breaks and lack of clocking in early “wage theft”

The first time I got written up for going to the bathroom and he said “wage theft” I went and printed out 100 copies of a wage theft guide with sources and graphs to demonstrate how employers are the #1 driver of wage theft and it’s not even close. Plastered them all over where there are no cameras.

People who believe in “auras” and actually think that thinking good thoughts in relation to a specific thing will affect it on any way are deserving of mockery.

It’s religion for people who don’t like organized religion.

That solar panel looks useful.

Since I have never gone out in nondescript black clothing at night to destroy these things, I can’t say from firsthand knowledge…

But yes, yes they are. They make great trickle chargers for large batteries that only get used intermittently. Or string several together and enjoy an ebike battery charger. I have a similarly sized and shaped panel I found somewhere that I use to charge my 18650 bank.