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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.

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  • A road construction project within view of my old place could have been finished in 6 months, given the speed they set up 90% of it.

    All that was left was a small ramp and a slightly curved road.

    Then some locals found out that the plan for the surrounding fields (that had been untended and growing wild for almost a decade before hand) were going to be used for solar power.

    Suddenly they became very concerned about proper land surveys and impacts, supposedly solar installations bring in crime, and all kinds of other stall tactics.

    Well since they put the project on hold for over 5 years, the price of solar dropped a TON and when the bullshit finally got sorted, the solar field ended up being almost 3x the original intended power output.

    And the only crime that has happened as a result is occasionally they have to replace some panels because some good old boys keep taking pot shots at the panels. Normal people might call that “domestic terrorism” and do something about it, but the local sheriff didn’t seem go care until their offices needed renovating and they had to shack up down the street.

    Just a rambling way to say all the problems with the road projects around my area are caused by locals.





  • Imagine if you had one of the greatest piano players in history offering to play you something, and you ask him to play the opening bars of “Heart and Soul”, three times in a row.

    Yes, they could do it, and do it perfectly… But why would they want to do that when Claire De Lune or Für Elise exist. And yes, those are still fairly basic in the grand scheme of things but heart and soul is boring AF.


  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneFuck ICE is the rule
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    If you honestly can’t see how a non-white, non-hetero, or trans person merely existing isn’t causing good God-fearing republican direct, concentrated harm, then I don’t even know what to say. How dare they try and enjoy life while within the sphere of influence of their betters?!?!?!?! //!? /&?

    Next you’re going to suggest the poors are actual people.

    /s, in case anyone needs it.


  • I honestly wonder when, if ever, we will get to the point that ICE is met with solid resistance that keeps pouring in and refuses to let them leave without shots being fired.

    I wonder if we will get to the point where ICE gets met with armed resistance.

    I wonder if we will get to the point where regular citizens see an ICE raid, call up their local militia, and take up arms to protect our fellow citizens from kidnapping, torture, and death.

    I wonder how long, if ever, before Canada opens itself to refugees fleeing persecution in the US, and a new underground railroad is established to get POC and LGBTQ+ to the saner land up north…

    This is where we are headed. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to go back and relearn their ww2 history.





  • Okay I fully admit I am a reddit-fugee from the API announcement. I didn’t wait for the changes, I just Lore Ipsum/copy pasted dictionary definitions until my account was scrubbed, and deleted the account.

    Even so, when I first showed up here, there were maybe 50 up votes on a post, max. That was the front page for the first weeks as people came from reddit, and eventually most left because it’s not as active here and 95% of people are lurkers who don’t even comment. Those 50 up votes were all it would get.

    Now this post alone has 260 in its first 3 hours. And I’m sure it will continue to get views and votes all day.

    I’m not sure how the tone has changed around here since 2020, but I like the vibes for the most part and if I don’t like a server, I can hop to another one, which I have done several times already.

    Quality beats quantity any day of the week

    Fediverse numba one!






  • Is it bad that the only reason I thought the story was fake was “there’s no way that sized person cut off someone’s head completely, maybe after a dozen chops and some pulling but that article is definitely exaggerating”

    You know, rather than “Holy shit that’s insane nobody would do that”



  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    Every argument I have ever heard boils down to “in my specific use-case because of X Y Z and Purple, all the benefits of wired are irrelevant” and the people espousing such opinions don’t at all take into consideration that other people exists and their specific use-case is not at all widely experienced.

    “My tinnitus means I can’t distinguish high tones well” okay buddy, but how many other people enjoy distinct highs?

    “I move around too much so Bluetooth is the only practical solution” okay my friend, but many people either don’t have that problem, or they’ve found a solution.