Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.
Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.
Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.
7 years with my wife and we are still both learning this.
The part we both find super dumb is that both of us KNOW the other is the same way, but in the moment neither of us are thinking about that fact and we both feel bad about acting upset/angry in response.
It’s the world’s shittiest feedback loop.
But we are always getting better at it, I feel.
Actually I don’t have anymore at all. I’ve unfollowed and ignored pretty much everyone in my life over the last few years. It does suck to not have any IRL friends
Ugh, same. The few that didn’t just drift apart over time showed their true colors over the years, all the way back to marriage equlity. Then there was the first trump term, the George Floyd protests, Ukraine, Palestine, second term, and now all of this…
I knew I grew up in a red state surrounded by cornfields and expected some to have differing opinions on hard-cutoff issues, but I didn’t expect the people who were seeing the same things I was to straight up deny reality.
And since I’ve become more withdrawn in recent years, I’m basically only friends with whoever my wife is friends with and that’s about it. I don’t have what I would call “real” friends anymore.
As everyone should.
Nobody should ever be looking at the 2nd Ammendment and think to themselves “oh god I just can’t wait, please lemme do it now”
It should always be “please don’t make me do this”, while preparing to do this.
The obvious republican mindset of “I can’t wait to be allowed to legally murder people” has always been crazy to me. As a kid I heard adults round me talking about how they’re “just looking for an excuse” and it very much seemed like someone who simply wanted to kill people.
That said, I have always accepted the possibility that one day I might be forced to kill in self defense or defense of others if I plan to exercise my 2nd Ammendment right. The last 15 years have been a truly eye-opening experience since I left the sheltered religious life I was raised in.
To anyone reading who is in the US, start with organizing with friends and neighbors who are like-minded and believe nobody should be kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp. I have a decent number of LGBT+ and immigrant friends , and have begun instructing some on the use of firearms. They have always been very anti-gun and for good reason, (I will not pretend the US doesn’t have major issues with firearms) but now have decided since their lives very well might be on the line tomorrow they need some way of protecting themselves.
I am doing what I can in that regard, but the most effective thing is the act of organizing itself. Many of them didn’t know each other. Now there’s a network of people who can assist each other when something happens.
Just this week a few of us had to venture out to un-bury the front door of one of the group that is disabled and got snowed in. They lost power and only had their battery pack and a phone on low battery to call for help, and had we not been organized the way we are they very well could have been frozen by the time emergency services got around to their call. We set them up with a kerosene heater, a CO detector, and extra battery packs to keep the phone charged until power was restored.
A bit rude to call humans monkeys, that’s extremely insulting.
Monkeys aren’t dumb enough to blow themselves up.
If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, even though it has a monkey kind of shape.
So tired of seeing the NO KINGS! crowd praising the monarchy.
LMAO what
I don’t know a single person who “praises the monarchy” that isn’t involved in billionaire-owned media
I play women where possible because if I’m going to be staring at an ass for 150 hours, it might as well be a pretty one. never even enters 3rd person except to check out the cool armors that hide almost every bit of skin anyway
Yes my skyrim mods folder is filled with style and immersion mods geared for female characters, why do you ask?
And also all the time I spend carefully crafting the face to sort of look vaguely like me but as a girl and all the attention to hair and makeup and making sure my nails look nice with the weapon I’m holding and constantly imagining myself in her place are all completely normal cis things to do.
The sad truth is a lot of religious people believe that the end times won’t come unless the earth isn’t livable anymore.
A even LARGER group of religious simply think their sky person will give them a new earth that’s perfect so why bother protecting this one.
They and their supporters are complicit in the murder of the planet at best, and are trashing everything on purpose, trying to claw back any and every support of things that can make it a better place.
Regular Transporters don’t work like that. The flux matrix compensates for any discrepancies in the patterns pre- vs post-buffer.
I suppose if you built a new transporter type from the ground up instead of using these old starfleet or klingon modules, you could bypass the Bopple Corbulator entirely and the pattern buffer would accept the new parameters.
But who has time for that…
No, let’s remove them all.
The good cop is the one that quits after all their hopeful naivety that somehow survived “training” is sucked out on their first day.
The universe if the entire planet burns itself alive tomorrow, including everyone and everything that doesn’t deserve it : 
The universe if everything works out in everyone’s best interests:
“Freeing slaves just isn’t realistic. How about letting them out for fresh air first? How about a 3/5 compromise? Ridiculous”
Yes, that is why you don’t tell the government about it.
I read this as “maximum breast gains” and while I can sympathize with wanting more in the breast department, it seems like a long way to go to gain a few cup sizes.
This is the internet.
No matter how many examples you can pull to show us why we should know it’s a joke/satire, there are 10,000 examples of someone being completely serious.
I prefer 31JAN2026 myself. No ambiguity, readable internationally.
Or just make your own normal drone and don’t tell the government about it.
Legit every time someone from the US says “indian” and it’s not immediately obvious in context, I ask “do you mean people from India, or Native Americans?”
I once ran a torrent for 3 years before a new version of the program came out, and I hadn’t even hit 0.2 yet.