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Miles O'Brien

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Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I've spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.

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.

  • big facts

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  • People who believe in "auras" and actually think that thinking good thoughts in relation to a specific thing will affect it on any way are deserving of mockery.

    It's religion for people who don't like organized religion.

  • What are some things you think of when you see something related to your field outside of work hours?

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  • I used to sell and fix bikes, now every time I'm out I'm judging people's choice of bikes.

    Not in the "ugh you're riding a mongoose?" way but the "you need to give that bicycle to a teenager and get a larger one that fits your size, how tall are you? What kind of riding are you expecting to do?" and many other such questions if I strike up a conversation with them.

    I want everyone to have a pleasant time while out on their bike. If they don't have fun, if they are too tired after a ride, or in pain, they won't want to ride more, and then less people are out not driving cars.

    Lpt: (in general) when riding a bicycle, you want the top section of your leg (femur) to be no higher than parallel to the ground at the top of the pedal stroke, and you want your leg to be extended, but not fully straight, when at the bottom of the stroke. You can injure your hips, knees, and leg muscles if you ride an incorrectly sized bike for long periods.

    Most adult bicycles should be measured from the spot where the pedals go to the frame to the hole where the seat post goes in. If it's not measured in inches or centimeters, it might have letter sizing, and if it has bone of those, I wouldn't trust the quality of the bike. These measurements are more of a guide, when in doubt, use the leg position rule.

    The type of bike you have will change your experience quite a bit. If you try to take a road bike (super skinny tires, often has ram horn handlebars) on the mountain trail, you're gonna have a bad time. Mountain bikes are geared for more power, road bikes are more geared for speed. Hybrids have a good balance and make light off-roading possible. Downhill bikes are like mountain bikes but with a steeper angle on the front fork, to give you better handling while, you guessed it, going down a hill.

    I die a little inside every time I see an adult riding a child sized bike.

    "well the teenager at Walmart said I needed a 26 inch bike for the hiking trails so I got the 26 inch bike" he said, standing at 6ft3 next to a 15 inch frame bike with 26 inch wheels and tires about an inch wide...

    And now when I see aluminum construction, I wonder how it's been done and try to figure out the various extruded pieces they used.

  • Pope Leo XIV asks priests to stop using AI tools like ChatGPT to write sermons

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  • Because it's a lot easier to discredit a religious argument when the sermon cites "4th Thessalossians 67:B" and gives the most generic sounding paragraph with the one weirdly specific phrase they instructed the bot to include and em—dash thrown in for good measure.

    At least if they all use the same manual, it's easier to pull over the ones who are on the fence.

  • Pope Leo XIV asks priests to stop using AI tools like ChatGPT to write sermons

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  • I don't have a perfect memory but I do have a good one, and I can confirm that the pastor at my parents church when I was growing up re-used sermons from multiple years prior.

    So at least some recycle. As expected, they are still just as (ir)relevant.

  • show must go on

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  • "That's disgusting! Which ones?!"

  • Trump says US has begun ‘major combat operations’ in Iran after Israel launches strikes - live

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  • If I had to guess, it's because up until now you've held the assumption that the people in power know what they're doing for the most part, and nobody was a dying felon in his last years on earth terrified of going to prison for raping children.

    Now you are under no such illusions, and the people in charge ARE dying felons that rape children and have no morals, and the government doesn't even want to try and check or balance itself.

  • Precedent

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  • I always loved this.

    Doesn't care so much she had to have someone go out to find finger paints for her to paint over her clothing so she can show everyone how much she doesn't care.

    You know, like that whiny 15 paragraph comment you saw once where someone starts and ends it with "i don't even care"

  • Ukrainian startup launches production of segmented combat wheels

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  • That would make me less irritated at work.

    Small company owners are too cheap to order replacement wheels, but some chucklefuck speared a tire on my lift with their fork and took a chunk out. So now I get a ka-thunk and spine-jarring jolt every rotation, and I have to be extra careful when my forks are up or I'm turning. "It still works" so no getting a replacement any time soon.

    I mean, I'm sure they'd be too cheap to order spare segments, so it wouldn't matter either way, but I can dream...

  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • Ah, then no forced air through ventilation ducts to move air around.

    My current house doesn't have vents either, but I have fans that move air around the important bits that get occupied the most. With my dogs needing to go out, and work, the doors are open enough, and there's enough leakage to not worry about co2 levels. Except my wife sometimes trips the sensor in the hallway when she takes a long bath while burning multiple candles...

  • How often are your windows open? What about during Winter? or during Summer? Do you open windows to let in fresh air?

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  • Lpt: if your residence has central heating/ac and was made within the last 50 years then your house is probably getting sufficient airflow.

  • [North Carolina] Mom of 3 who vanished 24 years ago while Christmas shopping found ‘alive and well,’ authorities say

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  • I once went to a K-mart at around 2am because I wanted to buy a friend a copy of a video game we were staying up most of the night to play. We had been passing the controller back and forth every time we died or finished a mission, and he decided he wanted to buy the game but it would need to wait until payday. Nah, we gonna get you that copy NOW. Hooked his Xbox up to the spare TV and started the game with fresh characters.

    No ragrets

    That said, I only chose Kmart because they were the only place that sold video games that was open and under 30 minutes away...

  • Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch

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  • That solar panel looks useful.

    Since I have never gone out in nondescript black clothing at night to destroy these things, I can't say from firsthand knowledge....

    But yes, yes they are. They make great trickle chargers for large batteries that only get used intermittently. Or string several together and enjoy an ebike battery charger. I have a similarly sized and shaped panel I found somewhere that I use to charge my 18650 bank.

  • You ever wake up and question, "am i the bad guy"?

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  • I feel very bad for whoever considers me a villain in their story.

    Like not to belittle them or their struggles, but uh.... gestures to self just look at me...

  • Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers

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  • A couple flock cameras near my town keep getting taken out and put back up.

    The latest blurry security camera footage to catch the culprit has led to sweet FA since they ride a nondescript dark color mountain bike, wear all black clothing without logos or text, and seem to avoid riding their bike unmasked near businesses with cameras and houses that might have door cameras.

    I don't even think they know gender/skin/hair color. Anything other than "average human height" really.

    Anyway, shout out to everyone who destroys one of these things. It's illegal, but it's the morally correct thing to do.

  • Saved you a click: a 1911

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  • FN P90 because they are objectively the coolest guns

  • And then just going about your day

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  • It's a legal border map, not a landmass map, which is weird to me.

  • Road/driving tracking devices

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  • The white brick at the bottom is for detecting large objects (cars) and is either controlling a traffic signal, or is being used to count traffic going through that spot.

    An intersection near me uses them to switch the lights at an intersection where traffic almost never comes from, so a timed light is unnecessary, but important traffic still comes from that direction.

  • Aluminum in our diets far exceeds that from vaccines, researchers note

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  • I work in a place that deals primarily with aluminum extrusion and sheeting.

    About a month ago one of the guys at lunch was saying something about how he doesn't want his ex-wife to get his kids vaccinated because "all the aluminum and mercury is gonna make them r*****d"

    I told him to take a closer look at his tuna sandwich because he definitely has shed aluminum dust onto his food unless he takes his jacket off and shakes his hair out, and he should probably wear a mask because that faint glitter in the air isn't fairy dust. Also look up mercury content in tuna.

    The HR guy came out because apparently I "called a coworker a slur for autistic people" when he connected the dots that "if I believe those things make one autistic then they must be calling me autistic since I inhale and ingest aluminum all day at work and mercury is in my food" and felt that I was insulting him by informing him of the things he should already know.

    (apologies if this was a little incoherent, I just woke up)

  • ‘Flattered. Thanks, JD!’: Eileen Gu claps back at Vance after criticism for representing China

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  • As long as you behave yourselves like good citizens and don't say true things about the party that make them look bad, of course you can return!

  • Karim Diané from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is doing an AMA on Lemmy today

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  • Pretty much all I've been hearing is praise. I think it's more reflective of which places we go for discussions than reflective of the quality of the show.

    With a small but vocal minority hating on the (in best ferengi impression) feeeeeeeemale characters, it's been mostly "it's great" or "it's not my cup of earl Grey but it's being done well for the most part and I hope it does well"