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.

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  • There’s a spot in Ohio that has like 20 lanes, and an overpass over itself so that people in the far left lanes don’t miss an exit. It basically just shifts two left lanes 6 lanes to the right by picking them up, shoving all the others over, and dropping it back down.

    The first time I noticed it I thought for sure I was mistaken.

    Surely another lane might solve the congestion issues making that necessary?






  • Every time I see a post like this I go pat my Ruger MPR and tell it it’s just as good.

    I’m not complaining I love seeing other setups because it gives me ideas. 10/10, love the setup.

    How do you like shorter foregrips vs longer? I tend to go with longer just for the extra grip I get, is there any particular reason behind a shorty?

    I’ve been wanting to get a decent holo/magnifier combo, maybe as a canted sight on my AR or a main sight for my PCC, but they all seem to be so expensive. You have to pay for quality though, I’ve seen cheap holos shatter on people at the range.




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    It was.

    In Ohio? I’m almost positive it isn’t legal. It’s definitely illegal in states like California. But they’re banking on nobody recording their interview audio (which I will now be doing as Ohio is single-party state) and nobody complaining if asked.

    I doubt it’s a company policy, but I did send an email to their company offices to complain about it, for all the good it will do.


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    Not programming, but in the same vein, A Trek Bicycle store manager asked me in an interview if I would be willing to work a trial shift the next day building bicycles. Unpaid, of course. Just to see if I was a good fit.

    Of course, since I was used to building 50 a day, I would have gotten all of them done in a single shift whereas they were needing to call in stores from surrounding areas to come help in a few days.

    I laughed and said if they needed help tomorrow I would be happy to work for my usual fee of $20/bike.

    Oddly, I did not get the job




  • Is that not common knowledge? I mean I guess if I assume people don’t know how to throw I should also assume they don’t all know how to build them…

    I’ve had a bottle crack from heat and start leaking mid-throw, unfortunately a cap/cork (I prefer cork/rubber stoppers) isn’t guaranteed safe.

    Combine smart construction and smart throwing for best results


  • And throw it around to the side, not over the shoulder.

    Up-and-over can drip all kinds of flaming liquid over you should the container not be sealed properly.

    Out-and-around/sidearm flings it to the side.

    Make sure you have the clearance to the side and nobody is in the literal line of fire, and you’re good to lob your cocktail at the spot you intend to hit.

    Super lpt: get a lacrosse stick, become proficient with it.



  • At least you all can get your family to use it.

    I can’t even get my spouse to use it unless she thinks what we are talking about might be illegal where we are (it usually isn’t)

    I’ve tried convincing family to use it, but all that happens is I just never hear from them until I see them in person or they call me.

    They don’t even feel the need to back up their Amazon Kindle collection before they get cutoff from it… Thousands of dollars wasted if they ever lose access to the account.


  • Calling out reposts obsessively is weird to me.There’s more people who have not seen something than who have seen it, at least on the internet. I think most people have seen the moon…

    But if I ever have a problem where the vast majority of the posts I see are reposts, I’ll simply block the channel for awhile. It costs me nothing, and takes less effort than typing out a comment complaining in every repost.

    It’s the “STOP LIKING WHAT I DON’T LIKE” meme, come to life. And I’d rather let people have their fun. Doesn’t cost me, nor anyone else, a thing.


  • Weird, I just had a bunch of mls tell me just the other day that a comment I made was strawmanning a hypothetical tankie telling me I’m wrong.

    And here we see yet another ml strawmanning.

    Super Weird.

    All I see is a bunch of people saying this is dystopia nightmare shit, and so far the only person I’ve seen do anything other than call it what it is is the ml comparing this to China.

    Surveillance states are bad anywhere, you won’t get many people arguing that city wide government facial recognition is a good thing.