Miles O'Brien

I am Texacus.

Here’s the one that convinced my dad that connecting everything is bad:

Your smart fridge knows what’s inside and knows you just added a 12 pack of soda and donuts to the shopping list. They sell that data to a bunch of companies, including your insurance company. They know you have diabetes.

Your insurance rates just went up for the fifth time this year because your insurance company knows what you’re eating.

And it’s a good thing you don’t drink beer or your car insurance would have gone up ‘due to increased risk factors.’ too bad you wanted to buy a new car this year.

Not only can you not afford it now, the price went up because they know you want a car. I’m sure they would make a payment deal with you though.

And every company will know all about the deal, the beer, the donuts, and all it took was sending money to whatever company had the information, and they were more than happy to sell it.

The more we allow companies to freely operate like this without regulation and without proper punishment for breaking the rules, we will continue sliding toward the hellscape of Ferenginar. For the non trekkies, it’s a hyper-capitalist species of profit-driven assholes.

Hey! Got any garlic onions?

bum bum bum bahdadahdahdahdah

Red = ded

If you don’t want ded, make sure no red.

My old school didn’t understand why none of us wanted to use the shiny new dark green playground equipment on the large flat freshly sealed blacktop.

Never mind the fact that it’s too hot on the pavement, the tar sealant smells horrible, and the color choice of the equipment guarantees 2nd degree burns…

We wanted the grass and wooden equipment back. But the school though wood was too much maintenance, And grass grows too much.

I’m not gonna go check to see if kids are even using it anymore, but satellite imagery shows the playground is still just as gross.

Me, having very little knowledge about keeping vegetation alive: “oooh, that’s a nice plant.”

I actually sent a rescue mission to save one of my kerbals and the science they had on board, and ended up needing to launch a mission to save the rescue mission…

Had to break it up into three launches, two to build the larger ship in orbit and one to fuel it up.

I learned a lot about orbital mechanics that day…

Total time in space was probably about 20 years…

And I may have forgotten about a kerbals in one or two plays…

I saw an arcade version at a flea market in Ohio a few weeks ago.

I was confused as fuck, but figured “well the creator probably doesn’t give enough of a shit to sue anyone over it”

I guess I’m kinda right.

Every time my wife gets mad at a video, I remind her the only reason she is seeing it is because she’s watched similar videos before, so it thinks she wants more. If she didn’t rage-watch, it wouldn’t show her more.

“Yay, I get to legally murder someone today! This’ll shut up my hippy liberal relatives” -Metz, shortly before pulling up to the teen’s car

This definitely reads like one of my KSP exploits…

And since this is the world we live in, most people proceed with that understanding.

This was not the case in 2007.

I mean, didn’t he kind of already do that once with an “I don’t feel safe here anymore” walk-off?

If it bleeds, it leads.

You go right ahead and ignore the lever, I’m sure all the people on both sets of tracks understand you not wanting to get involved since it doesn’t benefit you to pull it.

That could come later.

For now it just means reassigned to a desk somewhere not too far from MPs.

Not always involving Rome. Not always the past. Not always even human when you wake up.

But for a brief moment I can try to imagine how good that must feel to not have any of this be a concern of mine, because I’m so far removed from it, it cannot affect me.

Like waking up as a sentient mycelium colony on a distant planet. Who gives a shit about housing prices or what youtube channel is allegedly being treated unfairly when your sole purpose is to slowly expand across the surface of an alien world and you can instead contemplate the quality of nutrients.

I’m never sure what she’s currently watching, since she flips around between various shows, and hinges them quickly.

Currently she’s watching some procedural crime drama shows, but I’m sure she will be looking into more when she finishes the current series.

I’ll have to suggest those to her when she starts up again!

100% for sending a message.

That bridge is pre-sighted for artillery or has its own dedicated missile just waiting for someone to hit the proverbial button.

If it’s not, then that’s just bad planning.

The real question is “do they wait for someone to try crossing before blowing it up, or just do it the moment Russian forces twitch in that direction?”