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Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.

Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.

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  • I stopped being “Proud to be an American” when I started learning more than my Christian republican parents or Bible belt education system taught me.

    While nothing that came before I was born was my fault, it’s certainly nothing to be proud of, and nothing that has been happening since has been much better.

    Sure, we haven’t directly been carrying out genocide, but we sure support it! With the very arms used to carry it out, and intelligence support, and so on.

    We haven’t been enslaving huge swatches of people for arbitrary traits, but we sure do enslave imprisoned people which also due to socioeconomic reasons and good old fashioned racism also happen to be a large percentage of people with aforementioned arbitrary trait.

    We may not have been openly declaring war on everyone, but we sure do like to interfere with special military operations and sabotage. Yesterday’s supported insurgencies are tomorrow’s enemies who have every reason to hate us.

    Saying you’re “Proud to be an American” today is a flashing neon sign that says “I’m a racist piece of shit who hates everyone who isn’t exactly like me”


  • That’s actually a common misconception.

    It’s not because Japanese ninjas are bad at being ninjas, it’s just that other countries ninjas are completely invisible to the naked eye.

    Obviously we all know we can see our own country’s ninjas, but other countries are invisible.

    Thanks to years of cultural import/export, most humans can naturally see Japanese ninjas.

    So congrats, if you can see a Japanese ninja, you’re actually just close to being a weeb.















  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetomemes@lemmy.worldfolding@home@home
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    From my understanding, he has solar/wind powered well pumps, and a septic system he can “shovel out” himself. He had a covered box for deliveries next to his mailbox, and anything that needs to be dropped close to the house can drive straight in, I assume he plans those out ahead of time.

    I just checked street view maps and since the last time I was over there he actually has a driveway now! With a gate across it.

    Last time I spoke to him regularly enough that house questions wouldnt be weird, he was already working on solar power and already had a “battery wall” from 18650 cells cobbled together from surplus and garage sale battery packs. Had a whole table set up with testing and monitoring stuff for it. Apparently when the power went out, he could keep his fridge and freezer going for “almost a week”

    I’m sure by now he’s gotten some of the trees cleared so he can have a garden, as that was also on the list of things he wanted to do to the place.

    So he’s probably living as off grid as possible by now, while still using satellite or cellular internet.

    It would be weird for me to just out of the blue start talking to him to ask more about it, we were never really “friends” friends, more “he’s friends with my friend so by extension we hang out” which makes it weirder. Not sure why, we just didn’t seem to interact outside of hangouts and group chats. Although if I’m being honest it’s probably because his family is rich so any time he went on about the stuff he’s “built” and “earned” it just rubbed me the wrong way.

    But It’s a nice setup for sure.