Miles O'Brien

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.

People talk about being there “for” someone. Here being there “with” him is more important.

When I’m depressed, having someone sitting on the couch in my living room scrolling on their phone is infinitely more meaningful to me than someone who is miles away and texting me a lot or offering to help with things. It’s probably part of my neurodivergence but having the person close in proximity while at least sort of paying attention to the room makes me feel less alone than having 10 people trying to check in on me all day.

Thanks to how history is being recorded, there’s no chance that he will be forgotten until civilization collapses.

I wouldn’t want history to actually forget any shitty person (or good person) because that makes it way easier for someone with similar ideals to take power again.

It’s more the sentiment.

I have a metaphorical bucket of piss just for Margaret Thatcher. ²⁶⁺⁶⁼¹

Life is one endless torment after another, soooooooo…

I can’t wait until Mccarthy has his final death and nobody remembers him anymore…

Most

Ah, an optimist!

A dozen wasps.

Level of aliveness is irrelevant.

As chonglibloodsport said, it’s a numbers game.

When you have enough enemies, and keep making more, you’re going to keep getting people who have had enough and don’t care about the risk.

If it weren’t for the “Russian suicide”, putin would have been black bagged long ago by someone who WOULD.

I always see people commenting on stories like this with things like “how does anyone actually believe that/think anyone will believe that?”

Well, that’s exactly the point. It’s not about the death being convincingly accidental. It’s very much about sending a message to others.

You don’t eliminate the competition and agitators with the exact same method of execution for 30+ years (with a few false-flag apartment bombings thrown in for good measure) and expect to keep things covert.

The only way they could make it more obvious is the “he hogtied himself, ate a cyanide capsule, jumped out the window and shot himself twice in the back of the head on the way down” trope.

When people start seeing huge rises in their electric bill, don’t be surprised to see normal everyday people trying to burn down datacenters.