Miles O'Brien

Luckily, a legal “official act of the president” can work on more than one person.

I’m not saying it’s a great choice, but it is there.

Sometimes life gives you shitty choices.

Daily reminder that the moral high road is filled with corpses.

The keys to GAINING power are not the same keys needed to KEEP power.

They gained the power (or will in a few months)

Now they need to keep it.

If one of the keys needed to get it could potentially turn on you, it’s better for your regime to eliminate them as soon as possible after taking power.

For a better explanation, CGP GREY has a video about rules for rulers, which clears things up quite well: https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

Nobody sued them over gay leaders.

They got sued by parents over not doing anything about pedos, AND got sued by prospective leaders because they were being prevented from joining over their sexual orientation.

Bill wanted to be a scoutmaster since he grew up with scouts, but since he was gay, he was not allowed. He then sued the organization over it. (idk names, that’s just for clarity)

Someone willing to do that is capable of anything. I can’t even imagine that level of “not-give-a-fuck-itude”

“I just took pictures of random people doing normal life stuff so I can judge them based on appearance and mock them for things I just made up”

Weird flex by whoever made this meme many years ago

I fully believe if the government of Israel ordered its soldiers to start finding puppies and kittens to smother, SOMEONE would be defending their “right” to do so and saying anyone who wants to save the puppies and kittens hates Jewish people.

In theory, I agree. Nuclear weaponry should never exist. The power to erase millions of people with a single push of a button is absolute insanity.

In practice, the world isn’t going to suddenly decide to de-arm itself and dismantle every nuke. So if they aren’t giving up theirs, refusing to make my own over that just leaves me another corpse on the moral high road.

Sometimes I wonder if the world would be a better place had the Manhattan project been sabotaged by the scientists and nuclear weapons were deemed unfeasible. I’d like to think so.

People talk about being there “for” someone. Here being there “with” him is more important.

When I’m depressed, having someone sitting on the couch in my living room scrolling on their phone is infinitely more meaningful to me than someone who is miles away and texting me a lot or offering to help with things. It’s probably part of my neurodivergence but having the person close in proximity while at least sort of paying attention to the room makes me feel less alone than having 10 people trying to check in on me all day.

And even if you DO post in small communities, half the time it’s a toss-up as to whether anyone will see it.

I’m not sure about lemmy, but reddit was roughly 50% US users, so it was a good bet that if you timed posts for “early morning” US browsing or “after work” EU browsing, your post would do well.

Idk lemmy’s demographic breakdown, but it seems more generalized (imagine that, a diverse fediverse!) around the world, so it’s hard for me to tell when the most users will be active.

The moral high road is littered with corpses, and it looks like we’re bound and determined to add more to the pile.

As usual, the mere threat of potential domestic terrorism wins.

We don’t negotiate with terrorists, we hand them the country. And sit quietly when they start destroying things. Like good sheep.

I plan on reminding every family member, at every opportunity, when they complain about some benefit they’ve lost, “tough shit, you specifically voted for this”

Yep! Sure is!

Thanksgiving with the religious family is gonna be great.

When I get home from work, I plan on smoking every last plant in my house.

If I don’t die from smoke inhalation, at least I won’t care about anything for the rest of the week except snacks.

I’m still unconvinced of any God’s existence, let alone the Abrahamic God.

But if I did, I’d believe with 100% certainty that this man is the antichrist.

I can’t remember the website, but awhile back someone made a blog post that draws parallels between the Bible and real life to show that DT is the antichrist, and as someone who’s read it cover to cover, it’s creepy how much matches up directly, and how much more could fit a general aspect.

By general aspect I mean like how you could see someone 500-2,000 years ago describing an A-10 Warthog (with the stereotypical angry face painted on the side) as a screeching bird of prey with the head of a lion that spits fire and thunder from its mouth.

Enough fits. Even if you don’t believe in an antichrist, the fact that so much lines up with the LITERAL worst possible being on earth should be alarming.

I collect them to pull the battery out of.

I’ve got a bunch of rc pieces I’ll probably never need due to simply not needing all 20 cables or whatever in the pack. So all my leftover jst connectors go to “old” lithium batteries, and I use them as little power banks for my phone, and arduino stuff.

They typically don’t last too long, and range between 200-1000mah, but it’s something that isn’t “taking up space in a landfill or being crushed and setting something on fire”

In theory I agree.

In practice, I can’t exactly conduct controlled demolition on entire industries by myself and organizing in any meaningful way gets me alphabet squaded.

What we need us for everyone to get fed up with it at the exact same time and grab the pitchforks and guillotines.

Lmao I’m not changing it.

EATING. Not rating.

Thanks to how history is being recorded, there’s no chance that he will be forgotten until civilization collapses.

I wouldn’t want history to actually forget any shitty person (or good person) because that makes it way easier for someone with similar ideals to take power again.

It’s more the sentiment.

I have a metaphorical bucket of piss just for Margaret Thatcher. ²⁶⁺⁶⁼¹