Miles O'Brien

I used to hate when this happened to me. Someone reviving a post from ages ago to answer a question that I already found months/years ago.

But hey, it could help someone else in the future if I didn’t go back and post the answer to my own question (spoiler alert: I didn’t) so now I just do what OP does and thank them for their time, move on with my day. Chuckle at the stupidity of my youth.

Some people get angry about things like that. Just be chill, they probably didn’t notice how long ago it was posted.

I’ve seen escalator mechanisms fail before, I could believe that’s a dual purpose for it (as well as presumably carts or scooters)

Yeah, fuck me for using a cane, I’m such a big fat fatty and want to be fat.

I vaguely remember seeing this exact joke in my geometry book in gradeschool. Probably different illustrator, but still.

Damn, I feel old now.

TERRIFYING PRECISION and ARCHITECTURAL GENIUS of checks notes

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double-checks notes

“Knowing how shadows and windows work”

Man, the bar is unrealistically high for some people…

In theory, I agree. Nuclear weaponry should never exist. The power to erase millions of people with a single push of a button is absolute insanity.

In practice, the world isn’t going to suddenly decide to de-arm itself and dismantle every nuke. So if they aren’t giving up theirs, refusing to make my own over that just leaves me another corpse on the moral high road.

Sometimes I wonder if the world would be a better place had the Manhattan project been sabotaged by the scientists and nuclear weapons were deemed unfeasible. I’d like to think so.

Assuming you spend $10 on avocado toast every day, as well as $75 on eating out for every meal, $20 for Starbucks, and ALSO assuming you have $150 worth of monthly subscriptions:

It will take you 25 years to save one million dollars. That’s assuming you never get sick, never lose a job, never need to buy a car or have major repairs, or basically any kind of surprise expense or setback that could wipe out savings.

To be the richest person on earth, you would need to save that money every year for over 6 MILLION YEARS

provided you trust your server.

You shouldn’t.

especially if you run it yourself. If you don’t have a loaded sawed off sitting near your server rack in case the machine spirit within grows too strong, you aren’t servering correctly.

Damn, gotta sign the ticket with red ink in all caps, now he’s on the hook!

dine on the flesh of Christians

Hard pass.

Too much fat, I’m on a diet.

Yeah, not trying to poke holes, but I was hearing “less than 50 years left” when I was in school in the 2000s. I do remember seeing a post here and there about new oil reservoirs being discovered but never any follow up. So I suppose that could be stretching things out. But oil use certainly hasn’t decreased in the last 25 years.

You heard it right here, folks.

No discussion of any specific country or region, because this is apparently not a place to ask questions.

I think of a chef as a “preparer of food” not necessarily “food cooker”

So sushi chef is still accurate to their opinion, disclaimer I agree with them so I could always be rationalizing it.

Total ecological collapse is a small price to pay to boost shareholders’ wealth by 0.1%!

line must go up

I saw no pedantry, only interesting information.

Also how many are repeat callers.

“Hey Bert, Old Man Jenkins called in another Santa Clause, do you have eyes on a plane around the airport?”

“Sure do, Tina. Small single engine is making it’s approach now.”

“okay thanks. I’ll give you another ring when he calls in for the 243rd time this year…”

Back when I was a teenager in church, some of the local cops would be talking shit about the “crazies” they would arrest, and apparently one guy would call in about UFOs every time the nearest air force base used the training airspace that was overhead. Multiple times a week, and I guess never listened that it wasn’t aliens.

in matters of taste

Oh my god I just felt my chest release slightly with a tension I didn’t even know was there.

I never hear the full sentence, people always just cut it off 5 words in for some reason…

They’re getting there, but so far it’s only a few users that I’ve noticed.

One guy seems to be following me around to attempt mockery.

They’re very much getting to “everyone who isn’t farther left than me is a right-wing nazi” mentality.

You could also just replace all that with "It’s a load of bullshit that data hoarding companies managed to convince EU lawmakers was a thing in order to legally hoard data they can’t otherwise legally hoard.

My Xbox friend list has a slowly growing number of gamer tags that will never be online again

Climate change will be reversed and billionaires will be abolished before I delete my grandparents contacts from my phone. Every time I pass my grandpa’s, I hear Hello young man, it’s your grandfather. like he said every time we talked on the phone regardless of who called who.

I can understand those who don’t feel the same way.

Keep it if you want, don’t keep it if you don’t.

But never forget the people.