Miles O'Brien

I love the repeated panels, almost like the path is checking to see if anyone looking before it shifts.

A lot of people have trouble feeling like this, and is a big part of the sunk cost fallacy I think. “I know I’ll like it more later” then eventually becomes “well I’ve made it this far”.

You like what you like, you don’t like what you don’t like. You can’t really change that. It’s okay to put something down if you aren’t engaging with it.

Anecdote ahead:

I keep telling my wife if she doesn’t like one of my books, I won’t be offended if she stops reading.

But she feels like it’s just her “being dumb” and that she’ll like it more next chapter.

I took her to half price books the other day so we could get a bunch of books she likes, and the only reason she decided to buy as many as she did was because “we can sell them back to the store” even though I fully intend in giving away any books she won’t read.

The $2 I’ll get back for it isn’t worth the 45 minute trip there. And someone will probably get more than $2 worth of entertainment from it.

I created a nerd, send bookshelves…

This is why I occasionally watch Bing bong theorem.

It’s garbage, it’s offensive to several groups of people (some more than others), and it has a laugh track.

By all my standards, it’s garbage, with garbage characters played by( a couple) garbage people actors, and half the time it’s not funny at all, not just “not as funny as it thinks it is”

But… I still like to watch an episode here or there.

Don’t get me started on all the people who tell me I should love it because I’m a nerd and I “like space”. Usually these people don’t understand why the “smart” jokes aren’t actually smart and usually they’re giving just enough of a “you need basic education to understand this” so that when the average viewer understands it, they can feel good about themselves for being oh so smart and understanding all that nerd stuff.

And of course you can’t bring any of that up without sounding like a pretentious douche who wants people to think they’re smarter than they are.

So uh… Hi, I guess I’m a pretentious douche. IM SMRT

Like what you like, fuck the h8rz.

They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.

Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”

A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.

So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”

I will happily shake hands with a pineapple-on-pizza-er, if it means we can make sure this evil never hurts anyone ever again.

I’ll wash my hands afterward, but it’s the gesture that counts, right?

(pls wash your hands anyway, sanitation rulez)

don’t lick the platters

No joke, as a teenager I temporarily considered using one as a pizza cutter but ultimately decided to use a pair of scissors just because I didn’t want the shiny platter to be greasy.

I really want a thin metal disc to spin now… Maybe see if I can get it to spin with my arduino…

Smort.

I would absolutely be consulting a lawyer before actually putting that out, just to, at the very least, have someone who’s a little familiar with the situation beforehand. That way if I DO get arrested, I already know a lawyer who’s looked into this and already had some things ready to go.

Oh man…

1: RIP to Trevor.

B, I remember every time this would make the rounds, so many people would get super pissed about it and go on huge multi-paragraph rants about how unfunny it was and that it should be deleted before the FBI arrests everyone who shares it.

The jokes write themselves.

I don’t know if I would call “life” a toy, but I guess everyone is different.

My dad was convinced the fridge magnet he “wiped the hard drive with” was sufficient to destroy the data inside.

I plugged it in to the new computer and whattaya kno’, booted up just fine.

At the time, I assume he just didn’t know fridge magnets weren’t powerful enough to do anything past the sheet metal exterior.

Now I’m convinced he physically wiped the fridge magnet all over the outside, thinking that literally you had to wipe the physical drive with any old magnet, and has absolutely no idea how hard drives stored data or why/how magnets work to disrupt it.

A subtle, but important difference.

I never part with my hard drives, once all the important data has been transferred and the entire hard rive has been backed up vie external storage, I disassemble it and cannibalize anything I need, and keep the actual disc assembly intact. I like spinning them by hand.

Hey look, an administration that doesn’t understand science continues to prove they don’t understand science by threatening unscientific tests that are inadmissible as evidence in a trial.

Surprise, thy name is [ERROR, SURPRISE NOT FOUND]

100%

I regretted setting my hand of fire with hand sanitizer.

I did it on purpose, fully knowing fire burns.

I just didn’t think it would hurt so much before I could plunge my hand into the sink.

I did it intentionally, it wasn’t an accident. I just wasn’t prepared for the consequences at 11.

This administration has 0 excuse.

The problem is not the price.

The problem is Ai “art” is inherently stealing the work of other people, and not in a way that a painter can say they were influenced by some other painter.

No joke, I started listing some things off as a proposed law to my in-laws one day, and both my wife’s parents and her sister’s husband thought it sounded like good ideas.

Right up until I informed them “congratulations, you support sharia law on the united states! You can’t argue that you don’t, because you were just praising it for how it represents good Christian values.”

It’s 100% because it wasn’t invented by Christians. Or rather I guess, Christians mostly dropped its equivalents over the last few centuries.

I use shit bags for my dogs on walks, they’re quite useful.

ICE on the other hand…

If ICE starts coming for leftists who are critical of them, they’ll be dealing with a lot of second Ammendment rights.

Come at me, nazi fucks. Dealing with them is a bit of a family tradition. It just skipped a generation.

Yes, I am.

Everyone involved in ICE can remove their sidearm, place it firmly against their temples, and squeeze.

I wouldn’t piss on them to set out a fire.

Old people and overreacting to normal things because new ideas are scary and confusing

Name a more iconic duo

Everyone acts like there’s no easy solutions…

In fact we know of very effective solutions at stopping fascists, nazis, and terrorists.

For some reason that just isn’t an option for most people. It wouldn’t be proper to fight back.

I wonder if they hand out shade cards or if they just hand out paper bags “for lunch” at the start of every shift…