Miles O'Brien

Five) is a good one. Like “oh shit… I fucked this one up too much, I guess I’ll see how it turns out but I’m gonna start over with a new batch”

I’d love to see someone more creative with writing than me do some writing prompts with that premise. Maybe have someone from this universe ascend or something and actually confronts god as they’re spending time with their new family creation.

六> is also a good one, it reminds me of the idea that every single person is God. And when all of humanity has finally lived and died, god will become a single consciousness and join the rest of their kind. It kind of pairs poetically with Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.

The way I figure it, one of a few possibilities is true:

1 there is a god. He lets all the bad shit happen, and therefore isn’t worthy of dedication.

B: there is no god. Shit happens. Nobody is there to be worthy of dedication.

III- there is a god. It kicked off the big bang and sat back to watch. Either it has the ability to affect positive change and doesn’t, or it can’t. In which case, it’s still not worthy of dedication.

The end result is the same for me

Damn, if you keep stuffing words into their mouth, it’ll probably suffocate them.

surely they’ll follow up with investments into US-produced solar equipment to boost the economy and bring prices down to competitive levels, right?

… Right?

I see their junk at every thrift store and flea market in Ohio.

I legitimately thought they went out of business.

Most people are too lazy or stupid to take the initiative though

Full stop, go fuck yourself.

Fun fact! To make a super duper effective cleaning solution, all you have to do is mix ammonia and bleach! Make sure you do it in a small enclosed, dark room in order to ensure the solution binds together properly.

Big Cleaning doesn’t want you to know this because it cuts into their profits when people realize everyday chemicals can be combined to make better soaps and sprays than they sell.

I mean, the reasons for hiding nefarious things are slipping down the drain.

Some EU nations are basically in putins pocket, thanks to their government, the US just elected a Russian asset as president, who is filling key potitions with yes men and more Russian assets, and they just get the finger wag “don’t do it again” every time they do something.

So why bother trying to hide it?

You remember adults telling you to ignore bullies in school because they’ll lose interest? That was all bullshit, as history class will happily tell you during your world War 2 segments.

My 4 month old laptop has hdmi on the back, ethernet on the left, four usb 3.whatever slots with two on each side, two USB c slots on the right side, and a microsd slot.

I think it even has a 3.5mm headset jack but I’d have to get out of bed to check. I don’t have any peripherals that use 3.5mm anymore though so it’s just a nice little bonus.

Having done exactly 0 research, I going to assume it’s one of those “DO NOT PRESS OKAY UNLESS YOU ARE EXPERIENCED AND KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING” and someone went “pffft I know what I’m doing. click now what does this option do…”

Personally I like “Shit tends to clump together.”

And “the turd doesn’t fall far from the asshole”

You mean to tell me the country that broke agreements to do the very thing it’s doing is unlikely to keep an agreement?

It’s the same society that just elected a fascist dictator-wannabe. No matter how many intelligent people you know, there’s enough to do that.

Maybe warning labels were a mistake…

You make a good point.

The sand consumes all.

… Antarctica doesn’t seem to have much in the way of law enforcement, so they likely wouldn’t deport him back to us.

Could we Try there?

the average Republican voter does not understand

You can just stop there, and be correct about almost any topic.

I had to explain tax brackets to my mother.

She’s got a degree to teach math. And I know she actually went to college since I can remember sitting in the back of her classrooms when she couldn’t find a babysitter.

She used to do her own taxes and my grandparents taxes.

But, as a teenager, I had to explain why a potential $2 raise doesn’t mean she’s losing more money in taxes than the raise is giving her.

She also doesn’t believe the welfare cliff exists, despite our family being precariously perched atop it when I was in elementary school.

At this point I think she’s just heard the same stupid shit repeated over and over, she doesn’t even question it anymore.

You joke, buuuuuuut https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-us-nukes-was-00000000-for-20-years/

The USAF has denied this, multiple times.

I do not believe them.

Mainly because I know how people were during the cold war and have no doubt in my mind that the thought process was “nobody will ever access this without a reason, so let’s make it super quick and easy or we might be radioactive slag before we finish typing”

The mere fact that it’s believable is a problem.

fair and square

LMAO someone hasn’t been paying attention the last few decades and thinks the system is designed to be fair, or for some reason is forgetting that fact to try and make a point…

I’m not saying Harris ran a good campaign. It was misstep after misstep, and don’t even get me started on Cheney…

But this election was not a fair one, nor has there ever been a fair election. It was designed to favor a specific class/group from the start.

I’m sure the Palestinian people will be safe now.

They should give a speech with a giant “Mission accomplished” banner overhead.

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.