Miles O'Brien

Almost entirely fiction, a couple dozen a year. I’m currently rereading a book series with around 20 books, I think.

Not considering audio books in the statistic is a little weird and comes off as attempted gatekeeping… If someone has taken the time to consume book media, it shouldn’t matter if it was listened to or not. My wife is dyslexic and listenes to quite a few audio books a year, but can only finish a couple print books.

NTA hit the sister delete the kids and wedding up

Spot on, my wife likes listening to those stories read by that annoying Ai voice.

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it sure seems like they’re colluding to restrict the amount of oil in the market

Um…

Yes? 100% always has been, they literally have meetings and what is essentially a corporate union specifically to do it. And they’re not subtle about it.

Is this really news to some people?

Make the rich feel fear again.

But… But… I’ve been assured by many old people that heat pumps are super inefficient, waste tons of electricity, and only work about 10 degrees from outside temps!

Surely these people wouldn’t have lied or misrepresented the facts in order to support their own warped worldviews where renewable energy and efficiency measures are evil and Jesus wants them to shoot up power substations near solar projects…

… I really need to move out of the Bible belt…

I haven’t logged into Facebook in over a decade, can’t even remember the login email. Can’t be arsed to jump through hoops to ask for it to be deleted.

Can’t imagine why anyone would willingly make a fb page today.

"They came first for the distros. But I didn’t speak up, because it was only Facebook and only Linux. "

You know, it would be real cool if everyone just decided to ignore him and keep cooperating with the world.

How long before Israel declares it a hamas outpost and bombs the shit out of it?

Find Quinn. He has the timer.

Hey I’ll have you know I live within walking distance of TWO tracks.

Just don’t ask me how close the nearest passenger rail is…

You mean the convicted felon Rapist manchild known for acting like a child is… Acting like a child?

I’m so glad 25% of the population got to destroy the country because they can’t handle LGBT people and immigrants existing.

No hard feelings if you want to build a wall around the US, Republicans here seem to think those are foolproof.

The secret is “not having politicians that bend over backwards for car companies for over a century while your country is still in development” and “having people in influential potitions or states that understand taxes aren’t inherently bad” with just a Powerpuff girls size dash of “the wealthy like to keep poor people in their place and poor public transit and education keep things that way”

That’s why no amount of “it’s actually cheaper to do it the other way than you already pay and here’s 10,000 studies and real world examples all over the world that prove it” will convince the people who can change anything.

They know.

They simply like things they way they are.

Hell, they kick the poor down a couple pegs where possible.

Funny, because I know plenty of people in Ohio who have gone to Canada specifically for better and more affordable medical treatment.

It’s almost like anyone who claims renewables are a bad idea because “sun goes down” and “wind stops sometimes” are either intentionally misrepresenting the arguments, arguing in bad faith, or are just plain idiots.

It’s usually the latter.

I have lived near two solar projects in Ohio in the last decade.

In both instances the fields had been completely unused for years. With one being completely unmaintained and growing wild, to the delight of all manner of critters I’m sure.

Both had been sold by the property owners, and not to industrial owners. One was even helping power my house and a local hospital when they got it turned on.

Both had people in pickup trucks plow through during construction that damaged a ton of stuff.

Both had sudden extremely vocal opposition out of nowhere, with signs popping up all over yards and intersections about how we should be using farmland “for food, not wokeness”

Both have had drive-by shootings in the middle of the night after completion that ultimately only damaged a couple things (probably because rednecks aren’t exactly accurate when shooting from a moving vehicle, nor do they usually know the important tech bits to target for maximum damage)

I just think it’s interesting that people who have never set foot on a farm suddenly got concerned about a plot of land already not being used for farming that would continue going unfarmed. Especially since some of them I knew personally and up to a point had been praising the solar projects for “freeing people from profit hungry power companies”

Almost like they didn’t know much about it until someone told them what to think…

I mean, they can literally say “it only counts for #45 and #47” and exactly who is going to tell them they are wrong?

Historically they aren’t even okay with you talking to your imaginary friend who’s gonna do you a solid after you die if it’s not the exact same flavor of imaginary friend.

And I mean exact

“… Did I leave the stove on?”