Miles O'Brien @ SARGE @startrek.website

Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I've spent my ent

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But the economy has never been stronger!

Of course it's held together by billionaires in bunkers trading stocks in companies that no longer exist, and they only have their food storage remaining until they all die, but hey.... The economy!

And then if you don't have a/c, you get blessed with DoT reducing to only -1hp/min instead of -1hp/sec.

Why not just tattoo a number on their arm?

I'm sure there's no possibility that subdermal trackers would ever be used in shitty ways.

At least my parents church has the decency to give first time visitors a free 6oz cup of coffee.

I decided a long time ago that if I ever walk in and don't recognize anyone, and someone thinks I'm a visitor who didn't grow up there, I'm going to start quoting Bible verses about how selling shit inside the church is wrong and I would be channeling the righteous anger of Jesus himself if I flipped all their tables and whipped them.

Unfortunately despite the fact that I have been there twice in 10 years, people still recognize me.

Look, if you didn't want people watching you, then why run lines in a public place?

And will you not also be center of attention during the performance said lines are for?

I suppose a birthday is aa good a place as any to test your public speaking...

I have more in common with a homeless person in Somalia, India, or China than I do with the super rich.

No War Except Class War

It's right up there with "if you stopped acting so gay you wouldn't get bullied"

I will happily eat macaroni or soup with my hands for the rest of my life if that means everyone gets Healthcare.

It's been so great the last 10 years saying "this is what will be happening because the neo-nazis are taking over" and everyone telling me I'm overreacting, I'm being hyperbolic, I'm exaggerating or my favorite "you're just being dramatic"

Remember, THERE'S NO WAY they'd overturn Roe v Wade.

The majority of people I've brought this up with believe MKULTRA is just a Conspiracy theory and never happened, or have never even heard of it.

Like... This is stuff they are ADMITTING TO.

And then you bolt awake, with adrenaline now surging, only to be staring at your wall and it's 4am so you definitely won't be feeling rested when your alarm goes off.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish my legs looked that good in a dress.

Back in basic, almost every black person in my division got what was called a "shave chit" which was basically just a piece of paper saying "this recruit doesn't have to shave every morning for medical reasons"

And having seen them try in the first week or so to shave with everyone else, yeah. Fuck shaving every day anyway, but why would you purposely force someone to essentially slice their face off little by little wherever hair grows???

I remember my mother taking me into a store when I was a child where people were striking.

I asked why they were yelling since I couldn't read the signs. I was told "because they're lazy and think they should be paid more than people like your father"

It was many years before I understood what they were mad about, and that they do NOT believe they should be paid more, they believe everyone should be paid more but they only have control over their own employment.

Nowadays whenever I see employees striking, I give them a little fist out the window and a meep meep and shop somewhere else.

Don't cross picket lines, your nacho cheese or deodorant can be bought somewhere else. Bonus points if you call the employer to inform them that you are shopping elsewhere until their employees conditions have been met and they decide to end the strike.

As someone who likes to break into things (legally, with permission, blah blah blah) I can assure you that no amount of locks will keep a determined individual from something, especially if they know the schedule of the people they're concerned about and if they have an effectively unlimited time with the thing they're breaking into.

Locks will deter, not prevent, theft or unwanted handling. If there's a way to access it, it is accessible to anyone with time and intent.

I like picking locks and even if I don't have the skill for a certain lock, I've opened them by accident just by trying over and over. I just needed time.

A gun safe by itself is not enough.

A locked door is not enough.

I know someone who used to take the firing pins out of every firearm, which would then be in a locked box in a floor safe under his bed. Guns in a locked safe, with a locked closet and locked room door. That was when he had nieces and nephews that came over a few times a month. Once he had his kids, the guns went to storage at his dad's house. His reasoning? He used to steal alcohol from his parents cabinet as a teen and they tried many many times to make it harder but he always managed to get to it. "I always found a way, so could my daughter"

My own firearms have cable locks through the chambers, they're locked in a keyed safe, and the safe is in a locked closet. The only copy of the safe key that isn't either on me or my wife is in a hollowed out 2x4 that looks like it's part of the ceiling in my attic just in case I ever lose my key but need into it.

I don't have kids so I'm not concerned with someone who has a lot of time on their hands, but never underestimate how determined someone can be when they're told "you aren't allowed in there"

All of this is basically to say "the only way you're keeping someone permanently away from the guns in your house is to NOT HAVE GUNS IN YOUR HOUSE"

Unrelated,

which was in my person at all times.

Sorry the phrasing just gave me a giggle.

Local city is doing fireworks at 10pm.

I'm too old for this shit, just don't wake me up.

Better than writing pithy comments from the comfort of your armchair.

Please do inform us of all the successful actions you have taken in fighting fascism? Since clearly you're so well versed.

At the end of the day, how are you going to say “no” to a cop with an assault rifle?

With 50 of your friends, also with rifles, also having trained and drilled. Preferably with plenty of higher calibers than 556/223.

Other than that.... Good luck getting even the slightest hesitation when they go to bash the stock into your skull and stand on your neck.

Clearly you've never met someone like my wife.

"Reason: advocating violence"

I see no advocation for violence, just the truth about people who need to be removed from power.

And I absolutely LOVE the implied "you can complain about all violence toward you but don't you DARE even suggest doing the same thing that's being done to you"

Yes masters, we should all die quietly.