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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And the Internet didn’t exist back than in the sense that there was no real yt, twitter or Facebook yet.

Damn, what the fuck was I using to talk to random people about rc stuff and music and shit? CLEARLY it wasn't the internet, as that didn't exist before facebook and youtube blessed the world with their presence.

Gladaed, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

"Why do you need another warp 5 core? These things are hard to make, you know!"

"Well, we plugged the last two you gave us together.... In case you're wondering, we did NOT hit warp 10, however, we found all kinds of new radiations to study!"

horrified Vulcan stares

I guarentee that if you murdered someone with a flintlock pistol by shooting them, arguing that “technically its not a gun” would not help your defense in any reaonable way.

No, but if you get arrested for having one, you absolutely can argue it's not a gun.

Plenty of legal cases have been decided on technicalities.

That's the neat part, they don't!

I'd argue that a device that also happens to render the user invisible is not inherently a cloaking device.

A flintlock pistol is not legally a firearm in the US, and that distinction matters to quite a few people around here.

Now, ultimately the end result is the same (invisibility/shooty stick go boom) so in the end, the romulans would still consider it a cloak.

Wording is important. It isn't a cloaking device. It may also cause the user to become invisible, but it is not a cloaking device.

Much in the way that a handgonne isn't a pistol. And how a flintlock pistol isn't legally considered a firearm in the United States (as the founding fathers intended)

That said? The romulans would use any excuse they feel like to launch an attack. They won't care that it isn't a cloak. They'll say it doesn't matter and the intention of the treaty was clear. Ultimately they don't care about wording over intent, they'll interpret the treaty in whichever way is most favorable for themselves and hope they're still standing when the dust settles.

That said, I think any attack they launch would merely be a test of starfleet's response. "if we attack are they going to let us keep what we take in exchange for 'peace', will they fight for its return, or would they press a counter-attack?" kind of thing.

Maybe I'm over thinking it.

I mean, you're wrong about the intro, but ENT still gets a HELL YEAH from me.

(the intro is a jam, but it's so out of place for me I can't enjoy it while binging, I usually listen to it in the car a few times while watching the show)

I love how when I point out it's owned by a nazi, people rush in to defend their use of twitter and most usually it's some form of "it's the best for what it is/it has a huge user base" and me responding with a picture of musk doing the ol' Hitler Salute saying "okay but you're supporting this guy, and if you sit at a table with 10 nazis..." usually results in being blocked, people simply ignoring me, or saying something dismissive.

"Your honor, I object!"

"Why is that?"

"It's devastating to my case!"

Calm down there, Satan.

Now I am imagining Chewbacca just yelling "GROOOOOONK!" like Vader at the end of episode 3.

"Israel says..."

(press X to doubt)

Also, how many times has Israel just straight up refused to return hostages victims prisoners or their remains?

Ew, don't import our bullshit.

American cars are the worst on the planet, and unless you're inside one, your life is in far more danger if one is nearby.

Surely the article title means "again", as he has done so repeatedly.

Landlords province nothing to society, they are leeches who profit off others hard work simply because they "own the property" the worker lives on and takes care of.

Save a tree, axe a landlord.

LMAO, even.

This is definitely what sane, rational people do.

Also runners-up: staff weapon opening, rings activating.

Damn, I need this on one of my shirts. Unfortunately the only local place I knew of that did screen printing closed down and I'm not ordering from a website...