Miles O'Brien

Well he is part Chihuahua…

Reality is hostile to conservative opinions.

I love when conservatives pull the “you’re not being very tolerant” to me. BITCH I NEVER SAID I TOLERATED STUPID also tolerance of nazis is how you get more nazis.

I wish I had every media outlet constantly calling my crimes literally anything but CRIMES

My smallest dog is probably the smartest, and he not only understands “covering means warmth” but he also has a favorite throw blanket. Even when they’ve been freshly washed he prefers the flour tortilla patterned blanket, as it’s the warmest.

And when it gets warmer overnight, he will switch to a cooler blanket.

Haven’t managed to train him to put his unused blankets away, he just leaves them wherever he dragged it to last.

As I like to say, “The moral high road is filled with corpses”

At least you all can get your family to use it.

I can’t even get my spouse to use it unless she thinks what we are talking about might be illegal where we are (it usually isn’t)

I’ve tried convincing family to use it, but all that happens is I just never hear from them until I see them in person or they call me.

They don’t even feel the need to back up their Amazon Kindle collection before they get cutoff from it… Thousands of dollars wasted if they ever lose access to the account.

Or call robo-rooter. They can help!

I have a picture of my wife posing in the children’s cutout in the back, I jokingly asked if she wanted a picture with it and she got excited and ran over to pose.

I mean, we were dating at the time, but one of the first dates I took her on was the Wright pat airforce base museum.

This would absolutely have worked on me when I was younger. You know, if I had enough confidence to talk to women when I went to museums alone…

I do tend to wear blue jackets…

Girl, same.

Give me autonomous swarms of T-Drones, or GTFO

Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I’m wrong.

And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.

Super Weird.

All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I’ve seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.

Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won’t get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.

In no particular order, I have French, German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and a teensy tiny bit of “my great great great great grandmother was native American and we actually have the proof but nobody could ever tell without a DNA test so it only gets brought up when talking about obscure family genetic lineage”

Maybe it’s because my family is super midwest-usa-bible-belt, and I never even found out about most of it until a genetics test when I got married to my now wife (we wanted to know if kids would even be a medical possibility with our various issues), but I don’t identify with any of the places my ancestors lived in, so there isn’t a particular culture I’d like to be part of. And to be perfectly frank I’m not sure I want to be part of any culture, I just want to tend to my forest with fair Goldberry my wife.

You do make a good point though, if you’re looking to be part of something or feel particularly drawn to a culture after being immersed in what you think it’s really like, I could absolutely see this happening with 100% sincerity.

“or should I say us 🇮🇹”

“Sopranos was my favorite show”

Oof. Imagine saying “roots was my favorite show so it makes sense my great great great grandparent was black”

I love the repeated panels, almost like the path is checking to see if anyone looking before it shifts.

Okay so I stopped reading at “unmanned ground vehicles” because I’m an RC nerd and wanted to see the cool robot.

Took me a second to realize those aren’t normal wheels.

My mother always said RC cars can be dangerous…

rotated map of under-ice Antarctica

Okay, who’s gonna tell them…

I will happily shake hands with a pineapple-on-pizza-er, if it means we can make sure this evil never hurts anyone ever again.

I’ll wash my hands afterward, but it’s the gesture that counts, right?

(pls wash your hands anyway, sanitation rulez)

I am aware of the massive setup costs, and exactly 0 of what you said invalidates anything I said.

This is something that’s always boggles my mind as an American.

Why would any other country rely on us for military equipment instead of working on their own? Yeah it costs money to setup, but even in highschool I knew enough to know the US has, to put it lightly, done shady shit to its allies. Hell, it’s own people.

Why would anyone trust that they’ll always be an ally? Especially when Republicans are in charge and make international cooperation even more of a joke than usual.

I want the EU to be self sufficient not because I think they suck and should be paying out the ass, like the magats do, but because when the US government decides they don’t want to play with the other kids anymore, they can’t take the proverbial ball home with them.