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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Funny, because I know plenty of people in Ohio who have gone to Canada specifically for better and more affordable medical treatment.

When people start going on about "what they put in vaccines" I grab any processed food item I can find, hand them the box, and ask them to read the ingredients out loud.

Usually they can't pronounce most of the big words, and most of the time they realize what I'm doing and stop trying to read and get super defensive/offended.

If you get offended by me asking you to read ingredients in your kids pop tarts, I can't imagine how you react to an actual problem.

FUCK no.

Not gonna get me three times in one month...

Oh, so I can even more safely ignore this than usual.

Insurrection was banger.

Enterprise wasn't nearly as bad as everyone made it out to be and I'm sorry I took so long to watch it. Just don't ask me to listen to the opening.

And honestly I only dislike nemesis because... Well, you know....

I mean, if you like Dr pepper flavor, I guess it might be tolerable?

I don't, so I want to vacate my stomach and intestines every time I see it boiling away on their counter.

I have lived near two solar projects in Ohio in the last decade.

In both instances the fields had been completely unused for years. With one being completely unmaintained and growing wild, to the delight of all manner of critters I'm sure.

Both had been sold by the property owners, and not to industrial owners. One was even helping power my house and a local hospital when they got it turned on.

Both had people in pickup trucks plow through during construction that damaged a ton of stuff.

Both had sudden extremely vocal opposition out of nowhere, with signs popping up all over yards and intersections about how we should be using farmland "for food, not wokeness"

Both have had drive-by shootings in the middle of the night after completion that ultimately only damaged a couple things (probably because rednecks aren't exactly accurate when shooting from a moving vehicle, nor do they usually know the important tech bits to target for maximum damage)

I just think it's interesting that people who have never set foot on a farm suddenly got concerned about a plot of land already not being used for farming that would continue going unfarmed. Especially since some of them I knew personally and up to a point had been praising the solar projects for "freeing people from profit hungry power companies"

Almost like they didn't know much about it until someone told them what to think...

I don't have anyone to share this with, but it involves hot Dr pepper, so..... Sort of relevant I guess.

All my in-laws cook their chicken by dumping a liter of diet Dr pepper into a crock pot, then cooking on high for several hours.

Then they do whatever with it, like seasoning it for chicken tacos or putting it in Alfredo or whatever dish it's part of.

It gets cooked in diet Dr pepper first.

When I cooked for my sil/bil and their eight children, they thought it was weird that I cooked my chicken on the stove top and put a bunch of "weird seasonings" on it.

Historically they aren't even okay with you talking to your imaginary friend who's gonna do you a solid after you die if it's not the exact same flavor of imaginary friend.

And I mean exact

"Felon who has had no need or interest in the price of oil, gas, vehicles or lumber makes statements about the necessity of oil, gas, vehicles, and lumber"

Fixed the headline

"..... Did I leave the stove on?"

A moderator with no sense of humor probably just stubbed his toe before reading it.

Every single part of this comment just screams "It just wouldn't be proper!"

And I'm sorry, but I can't seem to care about what's "proper" when half my friends now have reasonable fear for their lives, not just "comfort of living" just because they are lgbtq+ living in deep red country.

I tried explaining tariffs to my in-laws.

They genuinely think that other countries will be paying the extra cost for the privilege of trading with the USA.

Completely refuse to believe they have to pay the extra cost out of their own pocket or the company will sell elsewhere.

Edit to add, these in-law's also think China is still mostly like their media-based perception of feudal Japan. As in "they only have two modern cities, Beijing and Tokyo" type of "knowledge" of China.

I really need to get a sup for my ar9, but I just can't seem to bring myself to ask the government for permission to pay them a bunch of money for a thing I'm already paying a bunch of money for...

Okay here's the plan.

I gonna slam the door open, run straight in, and attack with the most basic of attacks I can think of.

It's foolproof.

I've always wondered what it's like.

Turns out, (according to the US government) I was experiencing it all along.

I used to hate when this happened to me. Someone reviving a post from ages ago to answer a question that I already found months/years ago.

But hey, it could help someone else in the future if I didn't go back and post the answer to my own question (spoiler alert: I didn't) so now I just do what OP does and thank them for their time, move on with my day. Chuckle at the stupidity of my youth.

Some people get angry about things like that. Just be chill, they probably didn't notice how long ago it was posted.

/uj You know, I've known someone who plays violin for decades, I've helped her practice, attended concerts, she even tried to teach me a few things on it here and there...

I have never seen that piece.

Neat!

/j Always acquire/make a suppressor, it's not just about your own hearing, it's about being a good quiet neighbor. Really you're just doing everyone else a public service.

My family usually get an "okay I'm gonna go now. I'll see you later" and that's about it.

But by then they can tell I've had enough of people today and want to leave so they're never surprised.

And if anyone wants to think I left because they arrived, so be it. I am not the shepherd of my family's emotions.

I can't just leave without saying anything though. Not unless they pissed me off.

I've got a pretty nice system.

1: PANIC

B- Go

You may notice there's no conversation before the final step. This is because my anxiety doesn't allow me much talking until I can decompress.

It's worked so far.