Miles O'Brien

Indeed.

Despite my own work in making knives and other blacksmithing things, where I LITERALLY have a magnet on my anvil so I can test for when the steel hits it’s austenitic temp, I somehow managed to forget the iron will go non magnetic…

So yeah. Thanks for the reminder!

In my defense I haven’t made any knives since moving a year ago…

However, this is aluminum I think? I’m not entirely sure how magnetism works with lenzs law and if there’s a temperature it stops working…

Aww, I wanted to see it splat into the floor when they turn off the induction coil…

I have changed my opinion from “Janeway did nothing wrong” to “Janeway did the right thing”

It’s a subtle, but important, distinction.

It was.

In Ohio? I’m almost positive it isn’t legal. It’s definitely illegal in states like California. But they’re banking on nobody recording their interview audio (which I will now be doing as Ohio is single-party state) and nobody complaining if asked.

I doubt it’s a company policy, but I did send an email to their company offices to complain about it, for all the good it will do.

Not programming, but in the same vein, A Trek Bicycle store manager asked me in an interview if I would be willing to work a trial shift the next day building bicycles. Unpaid, of course. Just to see if I was a good fit.

Of course, since I was used to building 50 a day, I would have gotten all of them done in a single shift whereas they were needing to call in stores from surrounding areas to come help in a few days.

I laughed and said if they needed help tomorrow I would be happy to work for my usual fee of $20/bike.

Oddly, I did not get the job

I’m starting to think “Fascinating” is the universal translator’s attempt at censoring Vulcans.

Its basically what all of them say when what they should probably be saying is “What the actual fuck is wrong with you?”

Sidenote: I absolutely cracked up in the episode of strange new worlds where Spock

Human: “We took the second warp core you helped us build and plugged it into the first one, just to see what would happen… It blew up. But we got to do some pretty cool science in the process!”

Vulcan looking on in pure astonishment

Vulcan: “Fascinating. You were meant to place that in another ship, or study it for improving your own designs.”

Human: “yeah, crazy huh… Can we have another?”

Vulcan: arches eyebrow “Very well.”

I know for a fact I’m opinionated, and don’t have problems sharing them.

Please, by all means, block me if you think seeing my comments is adversely affecting you. I’d rather be ignored by someone than make their day worse (unless they’re actively trying to make others miserable, but that’s a separate discussion)

The fediverse has definitely gotten a little less hostile after blocking a few things.

And remember you can jump ship to another instance at any time! I’ve hopped a few times but for now my instance is filling my needs without much drama that I am aware of.

He’s something of a messiah, himself.

It definitely made me double-take at first because my brain tried to read “burners” at first until I realized that isn’t what it said…

And I thought the torches were flags for a second, too.

Banners of books

People who exist to ban books from being read

That or there’s a giant banner stretched out and made entirely of books just to the left.

Fight fire with napalm.

Works every time.

Every so often while working retail we would get an out-of-towner in the store while that happens.

They lose their shit and panic.

One time at a sports store, a guy heard the sirens at the checkout counter and just left the cart and booked it for his car. I guess he figured he would outrun anything coming at him…

The last two places I’ve lived choose a specific Wednesday of the month to test, and always at noon.

They still test in rain, so every so often you still feel that mild panic again until you look at the clock.

It’s still weak, just like humans are still slow.

At least compared to other animals.

But like gravity, we just keep going. And going. And going.

And when the animals we hunted collapsed from exhaustion, we just kept coming. And then took it all the way back we came.

Just like gravity.

We can try to keep going until we just can’t anymore, but gravity will just grab us and haul us back.

Compared to the other forces, gravity is a weak ass bitch.

I have been personally invited by two brits and an Irishman to piss on Margaret Thatcher’s grave, and in turn I invited them to so the same to Reagan and any confederate they can find.

I absolutely like pests!

I like them to stay out of my house, mostly.

But you know, all the other stuff that helps keep us alive is a big bonus, too.

If a body camera “experiences unexpected failure”, and especially if they admit they intentionally turned them off, any claims made by the should be assumed false and any claims made by people who have no way of knowing if the cameras are on should be believed.

As they like to say, “if you’ve got nothing to hide then why aren’t you okay with the camera on all the time”

… Bo?

I’ve had more conversations than I can count with people I would never be able to talk to in person, all using our own native languages.

The original posts are in English, people comment in their native language, and I use a translator, then respond in my own language. Is the translator perfect? No! Neither is theirs.

With the way most translators I’ve used work, it’s easier for the non-native speaker to try translating, since the translator might try and use different words that entirely change the meaning, but likely list possible alternatives. A native e speaker will understand the alternatives while a non-native speaker probably won’t.

That’s my thought process anyway.

Never had anyone who wasn’t pearl-clutching or virtue-signaling complain about it. And I’ve had tons of conversations with people I’d never have talked to otherwise.