Miles O'Brien

And as usual, scientific journals have made me feel dumb again.

“I know some of these words!”

I get the gist but damn if journals don’t remind me I’m not as smart as I think I am…

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.

It’s just as sexist as telling a woman the most important part about her is her weight, her dress size, and her bust/waist/hip measurements, but you’re supposed to be okay with it because checks notes “a lot of men are also sexist”

It’s a good policy, “oh you’re being sexist and gross? Kbaiiiiiii” regardless of genders.

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.

Talking shit about financially struggling families during one of the worst wealth disparities in history is way trashier than a person’s roommate having a child.

Hmm I was gonna bring my safety glasses to do science, but I don’t have a poster telling me if I should or not.

If only there were some form of vaguely threatening poster and woman named Carol to better instruct people!

Because FUCK HALF THE POPULATION FOR BEING WOMEN

Literally, yes.

My supervisor at work has 2 broken teeth and one is cracking, he can’t have food on his right side of his mouth and about once a month has go eat soft foods because the cracked tooth on his left side hurts again.

Another coworker has a knife wound because he managed to slice his arm open with his own folding knife (not suicidal just stupid), and he’s just self-treating even though it looks infected.

I have had bronchitis multiple times in my life when I didn’t have any insurance and even when I was so weak it took all my strength to crawl to the bathroom, going without eating for several days because I can’t make it downstairs to the kitchen, because just the urgent care visit would have sent me into years of debt.

My sister ignored signs of cancer until her daughter asked her to go to the doctor. It could have been operated on if she had gone earlier. Now it’s chemo and fingers crossed.

This shithole country kicks people when they’re down andat least 1/3 of the population is polishing the boot as the rich are kicking us.

Next they’ll ask why red barrels explode when you shoot them…

Relevant

Feathered dinos are cool as shit.

When my wife and I were living in a basement, I made a fake window out of an old TV I had. High CRI led strips, a lace curtain, and some leveling later and we had a nice light source that made it feel less depressing in our room.

We aren’t in a basement anymore, but in winter I put the fake window in the real window around 430ish. It helps with seasonal depression a bit, but I miss actual sunlight every year. Especially now that I have a job that has me inside, away from windows, from before sunrise to after sunset.

As I like to say, “you can always put more clothes on. You can only take so much off before the cops show up.”

Ah, ad hominem attacks because you can’t counter anyone’s points.

I see my maga boomer comment was spot on.

You’ll go about spouting things as if they are facts, and when questioned you simply hand-wave them away as if checks comments “being old” and “being disabled” are in any way supporting your point.

You sound exactly like my MAGA in-laws.

Yes, capitalism bad, but uhhhhh

You’ll get it if you survive to my age.

OK boomer

You don’t love a pointlessly gendered meme debate while the world is burning due to class warfare?

Because the doctor is stuck in the mindset that women are baby factories and they should be that above whatever else they want to do in life.

“Boomer isn’t just an age group, it’s a state of mind.” -some rando on the internet

That’s… What finitebanjo said?

Han solo didn’t “shoot first”, he was the only one who shot, period.

Greedo didn’t shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.

They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less “noble” and more scoundrel-like.