Miles O'Brien

It was a stereo from 1987.

Ye Olde Analog airwaves, no fancy digital nonsense.

I tested this with my Facebook app in 2013. Found a Spanish radio station, set my phone down next to it overnight, and for several weeks I was seeing ads exclusively in Spanish. Deleted the app the first day I saw them in Spanish, and deleted my account not long after that.

My wife still uses them after 5 years together and me pointing out all the times it’s obviously eavesdropping on us, and she’s even been creeped out by it before. Still uses it…

Unless my microphone and camera have physical switches, I will assume they are being used. Those little “your camera and microphone are off” icons in the corner of the screen don’t reassure me.

This is such a weird comment, full of “NiCd batteries aren’t good enough so solar/wind are useless because we can’t store the power” energy.

It’s a test reactor, it’s meant to be smaller than the “big boys”, and in a few years it’ll be smaller and more efficient.

Sure, it’s not going to singlehandedly power an entire country, but distributed power is better than localized. 1000 small reactors placed all over means less likelihood of system wide failure than a handful of large ones.

a spy chief saying something out loud is mainly a diplomatic message and not a secret plan.

Unless you’re in the US, then they text secret plans directly to you.

But that’s fair, it just seems like something a child would say when they’re losing a game. “oh you’re all right where I want you, this was all part of my plan”

They still aren’t fully ready to fight Ukraine, in what universe are they ready to fight a NATO nation, let alone all of them minus the US?

The only way I see them being “ready to target NATO” is if the cheeto in chief is commanded to join in by his handlers.

Don’t judge until you try some ghost dick for yourself.

Well, I know what other video I’m never watching.

And people wonder why I don’t like being around any vehicle that carries things…

If it’s what I’m thinking of, camera footage of a vehicle interior.

Driving down the highway, going under an overpass when a brick gets tossed by some kids and goes through the window.

Passenger hit, husband is driving and screams.

You know that scream they mention in The Princess Bride? That “only someone experiencing ultimate suffering” can make?

If you know, you know.

I tried being a moderator on a forum once, and after alerting admins and the FBI about csam less than a week in, I decided I was done being a moderator.

It was a forum for RC stuff, mostly diy rc planes.

Unfortunately, therapy only helps you cope, it doesn’t let you forget.

we’re very far from that.

As usual, the only thing keeping humanity back is… Humanity.

Petty differences and ancient squabbles that turn deadly over the years has turned humanity into crabs scuttling around a bucket.

We have the capability to feed, house, and clothe everyone on the planet. We have the capability of electrifying every industry on earth.

The only things keeping us from doing so are “it’s expensive” or “the logistics are too complex”

All of which sounds to me like children whining “it’s too haaaaaard” when told to clean their room.

By no means am I saying you are wrong, we are very far from all that. It’s just our own fault.

The original comment was removed but I’m guessing the poster was trying to say the US is some scheming puppeteer of foreign countries to make this happen?

LMAO I could have believed that around 2005.

You could have even swung that convincingly in 2010.

This administration wouldn’t know what a puppet IS without the hand shoved up their asses drawing some pictures for them. They are the puppets. Half of them have an education in name only, their diplomas and degrees were paid for by status or money. Their positions secured through ass kissing and the ability to say “yes master whatever you wish”

You are spot on with your assessment of the military industrial complex. In my youth I enlisted, and it’s an entirely different beast from the inside. Simultaneously more and less coordinated than you thought, just in different areas. Day-to-day sure things might get fucked up, a clerical error makes comical goofs and endless maintenance delays… But once “war were declared” then I have never seen anything that moves in coordination more smoothly except literal machines.

Even with a group of idiots at the wheel, they aren’t the ones with boots on the ground. They aren’t the ones coordinating the logistics. If they decided to go to war, I would HOPE enough of the military would refuse to cooperate that any efforts fail before they get off the ground. I would have absolutely gone AWOL if the administration declared war on an EU nation. Not only do I have friends there, I know enough about them to know if we’re fighting, they aren’t the ones who started it.

I can only hope that the people in the military now would just decline any orders to invade a foreign country based on trade bullshit from an orange blob.

All that said, if they DID decide to start shit, I fully believe the EU is capable of defending its home from invasion, if not just blitzkrieg-era bombardment.

You could stop the armies, but not the navies.

Yes, but since the offending country 1: has nuclear weapons and B- keeps saying “whoopsie didn’t mean to pinky promise” everyone just throws up their hands and says “well they claim it was an accident so just bump the sanctions 2% and call it a day” rather than the literal acts of war that they would be in any other context.

It’s like watching what’s happened in the US happen on a global scale.

We all know things are being smashed on purpose with the intention of making life difficult for other people, yet nobody is doing a goddamn thing to stop it.

And just like in the US, I’m sure there are plenty who would absolutely love to row out and try to stop it themselves but a large ship is just gonna steamroll a small one. I would love to row out and start some shit with the ships cutting cables. But by myself, I’m getting crushed without a second thought, and tons of people will watch on and go “well what did they expect all by themselves they should have gone out in force as a group if they wanted to really put a stop to it. Now I gotta go post a Facebook update saying I stand in solidarity with the cable”

I’ll let the readers sort out this metaphor.

Well, I’ve only seen d9 and chappie, so I’m not too hopeful.

Honestly it’s more “I’m so tired of remakes” but hey, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by movies before.

Fingers crossed its good.

Lmao this will be so neutered and watered down it will be unwatchable.

$5 says they make it a generic action movie with no deeper meaning than “bugs needed killing we just defended ourselves”