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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C&Ds make great firestarters.

Two hundred thousand times already, with a million more well on the way.

I had exactly 0 intention of ever buying anything from Adobe.

Inkscape gave me an alternative to the high seas. And it happens to do everything I need it to, although it's way more powerful than the simple vector graphics conversions I use it for.

10/10, Adobe never lost money from me getting Inkscape. They lost the game before they knew I was a player.

I wish we still lived in a country where legal arguments are still relevant.

When half the social networks, such as they were, have been decimated via illegal orders and people who don't have legal authority are allowed to do as they please, fire who they please, and confiscate funding as they please, laws mean nothing unless you're poor or in the "out" group.

She said I have to make a copy of my genitals with one of those silicone mold kits before I can get bottom surgery "then we can both enjoy it"

I was just trying to say it a bit more politely, my bad.

It's a taco with beans!

These people have no issues holding multiple conflicting opinions.

Can alumni class-action their university for devaluing their degree?

Begun, the Eugenics Wars have...

It's great when people on your side of the border hate you because you support human rights, and people on the other side of the border hate you because of where you were born and lived untill recently.

Also simultaneously being told "you should just leave your shit hole country" from one group of people and also "you should stay and fix your own stupid country before you try and ruin others"

Basically "fuck you for existing, now go die quietly so we can get on with our lives"

And don't even get me started on any sort of minority group and how shitty they have it here. Can't even walk to the corner store without looking over their shoulder for ICE or some other thug law enforcement.

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!

She is definitely bi, and has said if I wanted to transition I have to make um.... a copy. First.

Damn, I guess I either have some lifestyle changes to make, or I've got to tell my wife I'm actually homosexual.

Because I'm not cutting my hair.

Although, I do like to feel pretty sometimes, so maybe it just knows something I don't yet?

And nobody suggested it did.

But the argument of "it's more unsafe" doesn't apply, that was my whole point.

If one thing is less unsafe than another, why the fuck WOULDN'T you want to switch the the DEMONSTRABLY LESS UNSAFE THING

The safety aspects alone SHOULD be enough to convince people, yet here we are.

The difference between nuclear-power- related disasters and fossil fuel related disasters is astronomical.

And honestly the amount of radioactive isotopes that get spewed out from burning coal day in day out for decades on end absolutely dwarfs the amount of radioactivity released from nuclear disasters.

video posted Jan. 1st 2025

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A lot of comments here are displaying their ignorance of nuclear technology.

Keep eating up the oil company talking points, I guess. "hey guys remember those nuclear meltdowns from outdated reactors that had all kinds of things going wrong because of poor design and decision making, most of which is no longer an issue? Yeah things blow up so better keep chugging away at those fossil fuels while we sabotage any investments into renewables"

I mean goddamn, the "worst" disaster in the USA was a big nothing burger that was sensationalized by newspapers that knew how to sell a headline, and oil companies that knew how to leverage any sort of negative press to their advantage.

When the fallout from nuclear disasters doesn't come close to the amount of radiation out off by burning and refining fossil fuels, there is no argument.

Oh look, another armchair expert going in about how nuclear is a waste of time and effort, literally using the same argument that oil companies have been using to keep nuclear away.

"oh it's so sooper dooper dangerous, you should invest in renewables" lobbies the shit out of nations to keep wind and solar projects from taking off

"I was just doing my job" is an excuse that I thought we figured out, as a planet, was bullshit in the 1940s.

Set a trap for whoever comes to haul things away.

I take issue with the title.

The term "new MAGA bosses" says "these ARE their new bosses and the staff aren't letting THEIR NEW BOSSES in"

Ajent Ornj doesn't have the authority to place these goons into the library of congress, therefore THEY ARE NOT BOSSES, new or otherwise. They are THUGS trying to break into a library after being told to leave, because they are there to ruin any positive thing there and burn half the contents. Figuratively or a literal bonfire, doesn't matter.

Suggested new title: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS STAFF TURN AWAY MAGA THUGS WHO CLAIM AUTHORITY WHERE NONE EXISTS