Miles O'Brien

Something tells me that unlike every other role where he makes people jump through hoops every game regardless of how many decades they’ve voiced the same character, he did not make Hideo Kojima audition for the voice.

I’m not bitter or anything, why do you ask?

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.

People talk about being there “for” someone. Here being there “with” him is more important.

When I’m depressed, having someone sitting on the couch in my living room scrolling on their phone is infinitely more meaningful to me than someone who is miles away and texting me a lot or offering to help with things. It’s probably part of my neurodivergence but having the person close in proximity while at least sort of paying attention to the room makes me feel less alone than having 10 people trying to check in on me all day.

And even if you DO post in small communities, half the time it’s a toss-up as to whether anyone will see it.

I’m not sure about lemmy, but reddit was roughly 50% US users, so it was a good bet that if you timed posts for “early morning” US browsing or “after work” EU browsing, your post would do well.

Idk lemmy’s demographic breakdown, but it seems more generalized (imagine that, a diverse fediverse!) around the world, so it’s hard for me to tell when the most users will be active.

US can’t be relied on for the next four years, at minimum.

Probably Optimistic :(

I don’t think the US has been reliable since 2016 at the latest. And honestly after this… I don’t think it ever will be again.

“Stop saying you have it good. Hundreds of people all over the world go to sleep every night deciding which country they should exploit for billions next, they have it SO MUCH BETTER than you, and to say you’re happy while others have THAT to deal with is just wrong.”

Sounds kinds stupid when you flip it around. Wonder why…

Thanks to how history is being recorded, there’s no chance that he will be forgotten until civilization collapses.

I wouldn’t want history to actually forget any shitty person (or good person) because that makes it way easier for someone with similar ideals to take power again.

It’s more the sentiment.

I have a metaphorical bucket of piss just for Margaret Thatcher. ²⁶⁺⁶⁼¹

Life is one endless torment after another, soooooooo…

I can’t wait until Mccarthy has his final death and nobody remembers him anymore…

Also known as “3 of the 4 stages of employment”

Most

Ah, an optimist!

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.

Pfff. That’s a completely normal thought that literally every cis guy has…

Totally…

It’s a simple case of “if we hold this, the opposition will have no issue ordering their soldiers to blow it to shit and causing a major disaster that will affect countless people for generations to come” vs "Eh. You go ahead and ‘hold’ it for us. We will be back when you run away trying to catch up to your retreating front line

“It’s called hentai and it’s art, mom!”

I’m not a monkey that dances for coins, if you want to see art go to a museum.

I may have some lasting issues stemming from uncomfortable situations like this that have made me no longer care if people are put off by my reaction when I’m put on the spot. You want to see it? Ask me privately, and I’ll show you one on one if you actually care.

No, I’m not bitter about things from my childhood, why do you ask…

It’s children whining about how life is unfair but instead of actually trying to do something about it now, they’d rather feel smugly superior as they do fuckall and “wait for the revolution” or whatever.

Do I believe positive change is quick or easy? Fuck no. It’s hard work and it takes a ton of us working together. I harbor no illusions that my own singular voice will ever matter on a large scale, and I will happily take up my arms to defend the rights of those whose only crime is existing while lgbtq+/poc/whatever, but I’m gonna vote and campaign and everything I can do in the meantime.

Whether we’re headed for a cliff as a species or not is irrelevant, I don’t feel the need to hit the gas or sit back while mocking the people who are trying to stop the bus.

A dozen wasps.

Level of aliveness is irrelevant.

My sister in law with 8 children is “against it as a contraceptive” which I’m not convinced has been a thing for more than a handful of people that wasn’t due to lack of proper contraceptive access and education, or mental disorder.

However she AND her religious husband have been “reconsidering” purely from the goodness of their hearts and surely not because the majority of their children are girls, the oldest of which is soon to be a teenager, I’m sure. Definitely not because now it affects their family directly…

And because I’m sure someone will get a giggle out of this anecdote, they forbid any sleepovers with BOYS because they don’t want anyone “making purple”, but) and completely dismiss the fact that their girls could decide they would rather make pinker pink.

Everett true began in the early 1900s as in 1900-1909.

Nobody had decided to co-opt it for their shitty ideals yet.