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.
The sad truth is a lot of religious people believe that the end times won’t come unless the earth isn’t livable anymore.
A even LARGER group of religious simply think their sky person will give them a new earth that’s perfect so why bother protecting this one.
They and their supporters are complicit in the murder of the planet at best, and are trashing everything on purpose, trying to claw back any and every support of things that can make it a better place.
Too Dumb to Be a Cop
That’s unpossible.
Gotta shift those goalposts.
I’m sure if we ever manage to organize a national, indefinite strike, there will still be people like this saying it’s not real action so it’s irrelevant.
Some people won’t be happy until they see bodies of dead Americans in a bloody civil war, but they just don’t have the courage to come out and say it.
That description was just… chef’s kiss
Many of us are resisting, but there’s so much more in the way of organizing in the US that isn’t a problem in other countries.
I’d love for us to band together like I see France doing. Shut down entire cities just by simply being in the street protesting.
However, it’s a lot harder to get people together on something when half the people who want to help are one paycheck from being homeless and starving or dying from their untreated illness without Healthcare.
It’s harder to organize when the people who want to organize are spread out over 300 million square miles.
It’s harder to organize when historically any left-leaning group is constantly hounded by the Alphabet Squad (fbi/nsa/dhs/etc) and Republicans will abandon their guns before letting performative gasp a black man have one.
Many of us are resisting, but when 1/3 of the population is cheering this shit on, 1/3 can’t be bothered to make up their minds, and the entire system stacked against the remaining 1/3 that will at least vote for a chance at change.
Personally I’m helping network immigrants and their families near me so they have a plan of action if something happens and they need to leave quickly, physically protesting when I can, training firearms with some of the LGBT people I know, and trying to get some of the “on the fence” crowd I know to see reason.
It’s not much, but it’s what I can do without becoming just some dead nut job in the street.
I’d argue that with the government, we are there at face value, but the next level down “behind the lie”.
It’s very much to me felt like they’re saying these things knowing that nobody believes them, like when the stereotypical TV mob boss says something like “I’m broken up about the death of your brother” with a smirk. We all know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, and they’re daring us to do something about it.
And also I’d argue that for the MAGAts, they’re already a few pegs below the bottom. I’ve literally been called a terrorist this past week for pointing out Renee good was trying to turn away and leave, and Alex Pretti was unarmed and being beaten while not fighting back when he was executed.
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.
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.
Feathered dinos are cool as shit.
Me, living next to a corn field: “ah goddamn it, not again…” reaches for mouse trap bucket
I used to be one of those “I’ll catch and release them down and across the road” but now I’m getting close to setting this place on fire.
I’ve plugged every external hole and put steel mesh on the crawl space openings. The space between the walls and foundation have been re-insulated, and every time I find a mouse hole it gets filled with expanding foam. There’s no food being left out, and the only internal source of water is a possible drip inside my washing machine. I throw mouse poison around the crawl space and put cedar shavings from my garage around everywhere I think a mouse might be able to squeeze in.
I’ve got my fingers crossed that the local constabulary declares an emergency snow situation, since my work allows me to skip those days. They always get shitty about it but those fucks don’t pay me enough to risk my life on slippery-ass roads.
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.
It’s a scene from Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
Here we see the characters Anakin Skywalker (left) and Padme Amidala (right) sitting in a field while on the planet of Naboo, Amidala’s home planet. Anakin is poorly hitting on her like the awkward teenager he is.
However, instead of referencing sexual fluids, he is speaking in reference to the overall system of governance that the Republic has become.
I am not trying to be condescending so please don’t take my extended explanation as such, I just assume you have no idea what any of it is since you asked a question that would be answered if you had seen and remembered the movie at some point.
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.
You don’t love a pointlessly gendered meme debate while the world is burning due to class warfare?
Because the doctor is stuck in the mindset that women are baby factories and they should be that above whatever else they want to do in life.
“Boomer isn’t just an age group, it’s a state of mind.” -some rando on the internet
That’s… What finitebanjo said?
English IS my first language and it still tripped me up. It’s an easy thing to swap, especially without much context.
I once ran a torrent for 3 years before a new version of the program came out, and I hadn’t even hit 0.2 yet.