Miles O'Brien

It was a stereo from 1987.

Ye Olde Analog airwaves, no fancy digital nonsense.

Now now, Keiko and Molly are perfectly respectable, perfectly happy patterns people.

It’s the extended family that’s the problem… Also my parents. And in-laws.

Basically my wife and I are the only sane ones.

I tested this with my Facebook app in 2013. Found a Spanish radio station, set my phone down next to it overnight, and for several weeks I was seeing ads exclusively in Spanish. Deleted the app the first day I saw them in Spanish, and deleted my account not long after that.

My wife still uses them after 5 years together and me pointing out all the times it’s obviously eavesdropping on us, and she’s even been creeped out by it before. Still uses it…

Unless my microphone and camera have physical switches, I will assume they are being used. Those little “your camera and microphone are off” icons in the corner of the screen don’t reassure me.

Bare minimum, Orange Shitler has announced to the world he believes he can be manipulated.

Can’t wait to hear how this is actually what strong men do from my relatives.

You DO need both at first, but he’s absolutely right that ONLY providing food and nothing else isn’t helpful in the long term.

If you can’t grow your own food, then just getting enough to survive handed to you just gives you enough to survive until tomorrow.

Independence requires self-sufficiency, anything less helpful than that is public relations.

Armed minorities are harder to oppress.

Organized armed minorities make governments afraid.

Get organized, train.

It’s that or lie down and take it.

They’d rather look even more incompetent with classified info than just admit whatever the real reason is or make up something fake to cover.

Every time something major breaks and it seems like everyone involved is extremely incompetent, this is what I assume.

They knew exactly what they were doing. It was intentional from start to finish. They just don’t want to admit that, because then they would have to admit the real reason, and that thought terrifies them.

Not trans (I think, arguments for closeted gender fluid could be made I suppose but that’s a different conversation I don’t think I’m ready to have) but if I were trans that’s exactly how I would feel. That a person who has been able to transition is, albeit indirectly, calling me a piece of shit loser who needs to die in order to be happy.

I’m glad OOP is happy and at least on the surface is confident, but the post just made me feel weird.

The sentiment of “oh no I’m watching someone die/mourning the death of my friend/son/daughter/cousin/whatever” can get fucked though. I guess you could see it as losing someone, but guess what, you didn’t lose anyone. The person is still the person, they might act outwardly more in line with how they feel, but they are still around. Instead of lamenting the loss of a son, celebrate the arrival of your daughter. Your cousin might look and sound different, but they still enjoy talking shit about video game companies and politicians. The woman standing at the mechanic desk is still perfectly knowledgeable about everything they were before.

Just because you weren’t aware of your daughter before she came out, doesn’t make her any less valid being here now. If you can’t handle that, well pour out your crocodile tears and have your narcissistic fit of “woe is me I have experienced such loss” I guess

Jaywalking is a fake crime made up by car company lobbies to criminalize anything being on the road that isn’t a car.

Bitch ass car peddlers trying to criminalize my natural way of moving…

inb4 a bunch of junkies redditors justify their addiction continuing usage because [reason]

Armed minorities are harder to oppress.

Organized armed minorities make governments afraid.

Make no mistake, this is yet another message, “we do not care about you or your struggles”. Listen when they tell you they won’t protect you.

A plan or program to accomplish a goal is a scheme, whether it’s beneficial or not.

Handing out flyers that properly define what socialism and communism are with the intent of educating people that they aren’t the boogeyman is still passing out propaganda, even if it’s beneficial and correct.

So yes, scheme is appropriate.

Alcoholic male defense secretary with 0 OPSEC abilities orders makeup set for public appearances.

Also decides other males aren’t allowed to wear makeup in public.

I had a target I would eat lunch at whenever a contract took me to the area, I could just walk over and get a personal pizza and drink.

Not anymore.

It’s getting harder to shop at places that don’t bend the knee.

Thats not a challenge to get more places to bend so we don’t have a choice, I would happily never spend money in the United States again if I could help it.

Every argument I have ever heard boils down to “in my specific use-case because of X Y Z and Purple, all the benefits of wired are irrelevant” and the people espousing such opinions don’t at all take into consideration that other people exists and their specific use-case is not at all widely experienced.

“My tinnitus means I can’t distinguish high tones well” okay buddy, but how many other people enjoy distinct highs?

“I move around too much so Bluetooth is the only practical solution” okay my friend, but many people either don’t have that problem, or they’ve found a solution.

Well then there’s the answer to “why is this community putting babylon bee headlines on my front page”

Meijer doesn’t sell anymore, and Walmart went to shotguns only around me.

matches are genuinely inclusive, and homo-/transphobes are not welcome.

This is important to me. I am CIS white guy, but too often when someone is wearing shit like “fuck your feelings/let’s go Brandon” and “your body my choice” and nobody says anything, but the moment you speak up you get shit for “starting something” and “making a scene” and of course good luck reminding that crowd what happens when someone like THEM makes a scene, people end up dead.

Yeah, those $500+ classes don’t bother me with their time investment but holy shit I guess it’s just too expensive to help people… My account has under 400 until I can find a new job that doesn’t have so much down time between contracts…

I would happily attend the WFR classes, especially since I go mountain biking, hiking, fishing, etc in the woods and know from experience a fun day riding a bike 20 miles from the road can quickly turn south when a carbon fiber part snaps and slices an artery. Luckily someone had a tourniquet in their bag and the bleeding was stemmed until EMT got there… Eventually.

I’m sure they’re better for a variety of first aid than the TCCC-CLS is, but both sound like they would be worth doing nowadays.

Around my parts of Ohio, there are several different sporting goods stores, both chain and locally owned, with various outdoor activities to shop for. From fishing, to bicycles, to football stuff and hunting gear.

I would say I’ve tried everything I can to get them to come with my wife and I when we bust out the targets, but one of them is concerned about messing up their gun (which I countered by saying better to break a bad gun in practice than when you need to shoot someone about to murder you, to recieve a hand-waved dismissal) and another just “doesn’t have the time”… but this is the first I’m hearing of inrangeTV so I am definitely checking them out myself as well.

I really need to get first aid certified, but so far all I have done to that end is getting a couple first aid guides, a few kits of varying types, and watching a lot of videos… Basically FA… And I’d like to be able to patch someone up from a wound especially if I’m willing to put it there.

Good luck collecting blood from all these stones.

I’ll deal with it, but could you be a dear and come show me how, in person? And no need to bring any form of security, half the people on this street are former marines, specwar navy, an army Ranger, and about a dozen former national guard. They’ll all be here to ensure security of the country.