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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‘Do something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’.

It's a nice sentiment, but sadly the moment you depend on it for survival, it becomes work.

In another comment just now, I mentioned my hobbies include making knives/swords, leather work, and some light carpentry.

I love all these things. I make a pretty neat and simple metal rose that I can do different things with for coloring, and those sell like hotcakes around valentines day. But every year, I only make a handful for a few people here and there, and almost always as gifts. I never make a bunch of them beforehand with intent to sell "to someone", that's work. That's unenjoyable for me.

I could make bank in my area if I invested my savings into metalworkingnstuff stuff and focused on custom knives for hunting and camping, but the thought of that makes me want to kick my anvil and forge into the lake.

I suppose the response to that should be "well I just haven't found the thing I truly love" yet, but I just don't believe there is anything of value that I could provide to anyone that I would enjoy so much that it never feels like work and pays all my bills.

I long for the utopian future of post-scarcity...

that’s still work: you’re creating something of value for others and/or for society

Honestly I put "NEED to get paid in order to live" but changed it to "I NEED to work" because of this. Even if I just decided to find a forest in the middle of nowhere to claim as my own, build a house, raise animals and farm the land I'm still working.

But since I do enjoy my hobbies of carpentry, metalworking and leatherworking, I don't really consider them work in the same sense. You're 100% correct.

I make stuff for people all the time, but it's on my own schedule when I feel like working on something, and I only accept orders when I feel like it. If I tried to do that full time, it's now not really up to me if I go work on something today. I have to or I get backed up, the customer gets pissed, and I'm losing money. Or the equivalent favors/barter.

I have never, and I mean TRULY NEVER wanted to work.

But I am not stupid, so I know I NEED to work in order to live.

Not wanting to give the majority of my day to a company that makes more in one second than 10,000 minimum wage employees make in a month is not "being lazy".

1/3 is already taken by sleeping, and you fucking want me to just give up another 1/3? For THIS shit pay? Entirely Fuck Off.

Plus it costs me money just to get to work.

That's right up there with calling Epsteins victims "underage women" instead of CHILDREN

Listen, it was a celerity-induced accelerated somatic mutation rate, they're totally fine now. Warp 10 is super safe.

No, they do a 360 into dinos and moonwalk away.

I read them, UN.

So there's at least one more!

There's no FOMO, there's no reward for continuing on when you the people in front of you slow down, or you've been told to turn around.

There's specific mentalities that contribute to crowd crush events and an organized peace march just doesn't have that.

Also not an expert, just hyper fixated on disasters for awhile and crowd crushes and similar "stampede" events were a solid week of videos, papers, and news articles.

People won’t stand up for their neighbors and community when Nazies are rounding the others up

Because it doesn't directly affect them yet.

"Then they came for my coffee", and all that.

regular hours.

Apologies, but as someone who has never worked in an office, "regular hours" is a meaningless phrase.

Plus, im sure more than a few of the agents involved were salty at being yanked off real jobs to comb through thousands of pages to hide evidence their president is a rapist.

Pinch or 12 of salt and all that, but a coworker's brother WAS in the FBI until June, and apparently a lot of people are actively quitting or bare minimum looking for new jobs specifically due to Trump and his administration

There's one just like that near where I grew up and now that I'm older I want to ask them about heating/cooling, because it's got to be so much cheaper than a regular house.

I doubt they would get away with "almost zero" though since it's basically buried with a small hill rather than dug down or cut into stonea cliff.

I imagine maintaining it can be a bitch though.

Wait till next year and you will see people burning down the White House.

Ooh, are we throwing an apology party for the Canadians?

This right here is exactly why I have no issue with the Luke and Lando destroying either death star.

Were there independent contractors present? Tons. Heaps, even.

I can tell you a contractors personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.

Anyone who knows the score and chooses to actively participate in evil and morally dubious business gets no sympathy if shit hits the fan.

Also as 3rd party labor, most recently I refused to do any jobs that took me into a Target. Lost out on about $3000 of work, but they will never get anything from me, even if they're paying me for it (directly or not)

And here I thought you'd need an archeologist or a bunch of space dwarves to find the bar for that one...

N=N+1, apparently.

I worked as a bike tech for a sporting goods store and replaced most of the store tools with my own. The ones they had were all the cheapest crap from ebay or Amazon or something. One of the wrenches snapped on the first group of bikes we built when the store opened.

A nice tool that feels good in the hand will pay for itself with the comfort it provides.

I had to threaten to sue them because when they fired a bunch of us and barred us from the store, they tried to say those tools belong to them even after sending them the receipts for everything. And informing them where the box of original tools went. And having to call someone still in the store to bring me out the most expensive tool there and they had the audacity to tell me that me taking it would make their jobs harder because there was no replacement for it and if I could just be reasonable they'll have a replacement in a month so I can come back then.

Just a guess, but when the person you're replying to says "nestle" they mean "the company of nestle, it's employees and all their bullshit" rather than "this specific person from the company" like most people...

I doubt many people are under the illusion that major players in any company are directly involved with astroturfing on websites they don't own.

It's always going to be a low level employee, possibly even an unpaid intern.

Why the fuck is it so hard for them to part with what they would consider pocket change?

It's not about the money

It's about "fuck you, I do what I want now do what I tell you or I will throw more money than most cities get in their yearly budget in order to ruin everything for everyone"

I'll vote for you in the "most likely to get the joke one panel before the end" category at the award ceremony.