Miles O'Brien

Don’t care how they got it.

Unethically, probably illegally.

I was going to mention how “first world problems” this is, but then noticed it’s in mildly infuriating.

Same thing, basically.

Commenters are the worst.

Especially the ones that have custom profiles with names and shit.

Like Bro you aren’t fooling anyone, we all know you aren’t really a squid that flies.

My first thought was absolutely “they’re getting ready to keep people in.”

Only a matter of time before a dmz-style border fence goes up and guards are posted facing inward. I hope I’m being hyperbolic.

A blaze of glory would be utilizing his Supreme-Court-granted powers of presidential immunity and officially act to save, at bare minimum, the country.

Go ahead and ride your high horse on that moral high road, just don’t trip over all the corpses.

I once dropped a water bottle out of my backpack, and couldn’t find it when I retraced my hike, but I did start noticing tons of trash everywhere.

So I started keeping a trash bag in my backpack, and filling a small bag every time I hike.

I may not have found my bottle, but I’ll make sure I clean up more than I left every time I’m out.

I’ve had plenty of times where I get home and empty my pockets of the trash I accumulated with no can nearby.

And if I try to put something in a can and it falls out, I’m taking it with me because I didn’t succeed in throwing it away.

Shrugging ans saying “well I tried” as you walk away isn’t even trying.

My 5th grade English teacher threw my personal book against the wall of the classroom, and ripped the spine in half. The book was now in two pieces, front half and back half. Ish.

Because I was reading my own book during class instead of following along a book I had finished on the first day it was assigned.

She never got in trouble with the administration despite having a completely inappropriate anger outburst over something so simple and was destroying a students’ personal property…

I even proved I read it by giving specific details of various chapters. Jonny Tremaine is not a long or complex book.

My parents came to the school and all that happened was the school gave my parents the price of the book. I never got another copy until about two months ago (I’m in my 30s)when I saw it at half price books and decided I wanted the whole series.

Adults really don’t seem to understand children by the time they have them. Like… You were a child once, you should know how children think. More or less. You should very much know that making a child read something they don’t like, and literally punishing them for reading something they DO like is very likely to fuck with their desire to ever read for pleasure again. Not me, luckily… But very easily anyone who isn’t as stubborn and “I’m right even though you’re the adult” attitude I had would easily be put off.

Hopefully when she no longer has to follow along and can read whatever, whenever, she pick it up a bit more. If she hasn’t already read the series, you should try gifting her the first Artemis Fowl book, I’ve given it to a few people over the years and they loved it and decided to get the rest of the books on their own. My wife even likes the books and she hates reading because she’s dyslexic.

I have hated this word since 2007.

“Why?” you might ask? Imagine you are in an English class, and the teacher decided to do the worst thing imaginable and have every student read out loud.

This sucks for everyone involved, from the people who suck at reading, to the people who suck at speaking in public, to the people who just don’t want to participate in group activities. Nobody likes it.

I’m in the “if these 3rd-grade-reading-level-in-highschool-having-dumbasses weren’t slowing me down I would be done with this book by now” crowd. It also used to irritate me to no end when people mispronounced (in my opinion as a teenager) easy words.

One fine day a particularly dense student comes across this “word of the year 2024 winner” of a word, hesitates slightly at the unfamiliar letter combination, and says… “Dee-murrrrrr” like Dee the name, and the first half of “Murray”

The teacher is always quick to correct pronunciation, but for some reason… Doesn’t.

Then the word pops up again. Same thing. “dee-murr”. The next student reads the following handful of paragraphs. Comes to the word again, and says “dee-murr” with complete confidence.

Eventually it gets to me, and finally someone can correct the people who have been saying it wrong.

When I get to a sentence that has it, I pronounce it with a not-so-subtle emphasis to try and indicate in that undeservedly-areogant way that only a teenager can, I’m right, you’re wrong. This is how you say it. way.

And the teacher fucking corrects me and says “Dee-murr”

I did a double take and said “It’s pronounced demure.” to which the teacher replied “It’s dee-murr, just keep going”

Teenage me chose that hill to die on.

“I had a college reading level when I was in second grade, I corrected 3 elementary teachers grammar, and my family’s library has more books than you even looked at in college, I know how to pronounce words, as you should the second you look it up in the dictionary.” (paraphrased, I can’t remember exactly what I said except the college reading level since I was quite proud of that in school)

Wouldn’t you know it, the teacher apologized, asked me if I wanted to teach the class for the day, stood on his desk and said OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN and everyone clapped.

Or I got detention, hated that teacher for all time, and now every time I see or hear that godforsaken word the embers of rage stir deep within my soul…

Probably that second one.

Fun fact! To make a super duper effective cleaning solution, all you have to do is mix ammonia and bleach! Make sure you do it in a small enclosed, dark room in order to ensure the solution binds together properly.

Big Cleaning doesn’t want you to know this because it cuts into their profits when people realize everyday chemicals can be combined to make better soaps and sprays than they sell.

My 4 month old laptop has hdmi on the back, ethernet on the left, four usb 3.whatever slots with two on each side, two USB c slots on the right side, and a microsd slot.

I think it even has a 3.5mm headset jack but I’d have to get out of bed to check. I don’t have any peripherals that use 3.5mm anymore though so it’s just a nice little bonus.

They don’t fuck around with aviation investigations.

Whoever did it better leave absolutely no evidence and melt the gun before the alphabet squad comes pounding the door in.

That or it’s just a lone wolf good ol boy who deeply regrets his medication made him do that, and his pain and suffering from guilt is punishment enough.

Sweet!

I’ve never been able to get into them, but I’m definitely buying this as a gift for someone.

I’ve just been calling it twitter

I’ll never deadname a person, but I’ll deadname the shit out of a bigoted transphobic crybaby billionaire’s shitty website.

I would be going to prison or dead shortly after discovering that cops killed my dogs.

I care more about my dogs than I do about the vast majority of humans. And I care about humans way more than cops.

A dramatization, by someone slightly baked:

"This is my neighbor. I keep him from getting too uppity by basically making it impossible to live here, since because of Me everything is insanely expensive or they literally can’t buy it.

As anyone who works for me can tell you, it’s not MY fault I’m doing this. It’s because I don’t like the colors of their shirt. Blame the shirt. And everyone take a look at how dumb wearing this shirt makes you look! See what happens when you wear it? You end up like him EVERY TIME! For more proof just look at all these other people who’s shirts I didn’t like and also attempted to kill (allegedly wink wink) and see how poorly they’re doing. I’m such a good neighbor. Just ask my richer neighbor. And ignore anyone inside frantically shaking their head no. Number 1!"

It’s gonna be peak face-eating season during holidays when my parents go to retire during this presidency but find out that they can’t because social security doesn’t exist anymore, 75% of their paycheck goes to either the military budget or kings tribute tax, and everything has doubled in price.

“You are not allowed to use the law to block human trafficking” - A judge in the US

I’m not saying laws are inherently just and good, this just isn’t a good look.

On par, though.

You joke, buuuuuuut https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/

The USAF has denied this, multiple times.

I do not believe them.

Mainly because I know how people were during the cold war and have no doubt in my mind that the thought process was “nobody will ever access this without a reason, so let’s make it super quick and easy or we might be radioactive slag before we finish typing”

The mere fact that it’s believable is a problem.