Miles O'Brien

Bread is hamas now, I guess.

Red = ded

If you don’t want ded, make sure no red.

Me, having very little knowledge about keeping vegetation alive: “oooh, that’s a nice plant.”

I actually sent a rescue mission to save one of my kerbals and the science they had on board, and ended up needing to launch a mission to save the rescue mission…

Had to break it up into three launches, two to build the larger ship in orbit and one to fuel it up.

I learned a lot about orbital mechanics that day…

Total time in space was probably about 20 years…

And I may have forgotten about a kerbals in one or two plays…

This definitely reads like one of my KSP exploits…

Oh is it time for another final warning again?

Damn, lost a bet. I thought for sure it would be at least two weeks.

Hey, I’ll have you know I only have one alt!

… Don’t tell Keiko, but it’s for porn.

Well I mean… I sure hope not. I personally don’t see any reason to think it’s anything other than China trying to gain support from nations that are on the fence or don’t care about them, which to be clear is not a bad thing. They’re free to pursue any relations they desire, and the other nations are free to do the same. Hopefully the politicians involved are truly working for the betterment of both countries.

That said, the person making the shady deal would clearly say “it’s not a shady deal”, and the person duped by aforementioned shady deal would obviously not want to admit being duped by said shady deal. So everyone involved has every reason to say this anyway.

In other words: a lot of words to ultimately say nothing. Much like this comment.

I think at this point there’s a significant number that have only realized they were completely wrong about Mr “drain the swamp”, but are too embarrassed to admit they were wrong, so they just double down.

I see no problem with blocking users for their belief that I should be slaughtered over the sin of checks comments being born in the USA.

And I see no problem blocking instances where they gather.

The smaller you get, the more bizarre things become.

The world as you know it ceases to exist.

Here there be monsters.

Guaranteed knockout, first time every time.

It works quite well against the cardies.

Hey that sounds like studying linguistics to me! ^{Pun mildly intended.}

That’s gotta be a bit of a gut punch though…

I’ve only ever met a few native Germans in person, and understand just enough to get to the bathroom, so I don’t know if I just misheard, or they’re one of the few people who do say it that way.

I’ll take any native German’s word on their own language though! Lol or even anyone who’s studied.

The whole point of that was to hilight how racist people like to call someone “educated” when what they really mean is “wow you sound white”

It was mocking the exact kind of person you seem to believe I am.

I’ve internally been saying “eesh eel”

… which now seems like calling it "me earl’

I always love when cough “educated” people (usually just what they like to say when they mean “not black”) go on about how “black people don’t speak proper English!” because certain vowels can be dropped here or there, grammar shifts, the works. Most of us have heard AAE (also maybe heard it called “Ebonics” if you’re a little older) at one point or another, and likely don’t have an issue understanding what anyone is saying. A few things that skew more metaphorical or slang words might slip by but you get the gist.

That’s the point of language. Convey information. If the information is conveyed, then language has done its job. Yay language.

If anyone wants to continue saying “it’s not PROPER English” well… I have bad news for you. Neither is any other modern form of English. So many words have been borrowed, or stolen, sentence structures have changed, entire words change meaning. And that’s just in the last 100 years.

English is an amalgamation of many different root languages, and has so many borrowed words and phrases, along with nearly every other modern language, can any of them still be said to be “proper”?

When I think of the difference between “proper English” and “improper English” I’m reminded of My Fair Lady. “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain” Eliza vs Henry Higgins (or 'enry 'iggins if you’re feeling improper)

Cuba, the “dirty evil communist” country that only struggles because of a bullshit embargo placed on them by people who are dead and whose opinions are irrelevant to modern day?

The Cuba that churns out so many doctors, they basically have to leave the country to find work because they have so many doctors already?

The Cuba that, if I bothered to look at quality of life statistics would almost all point to “Cuba is a generally well run country but suffers because of trade bullshit”?

That Cuba?

Or you could try bringing up occupied Palestine “Israel”, I’m sure you’ll have your “gotcha” moment there!

Lmao calling me a liberal is an insult

Miles Obrien understands the importance of a union, and the importance of the people who actually make the wealth for the owning class.

Miles Obrien also understands that fascists should be stopped at all fronts, including your precious dictator states.

I’m sure you’ll use your spotlight to throw around more school yard insults about people’s intelligence or political leanings, or post gifs or emoji, but all you’ll get from me is pity.

My wife has issues involving texture and trauma specifically at the dentist office, so I usually accompany her to appointments. So far no office has had an issue.

One time though, she needed to have those spacers put in her teeth, and she told the dentist and hygienist that she would throw up if it was in too long, and that she WILL bite down if there’s sharp pain, so use slightly more local anesthetic than normal and wait a little longer for it to work well.

They rushed.

She bit.

The moment I heard the cry of pain and felt my wife squeezing my hand super hard, I already knew what happened without having to look around anything.

I just said “And that’s why we told you to wait longer. You were warned.”

They were Super chill about everything, all things considered. I know I’d be pissed if I got bit by someone while doing my job, even if that job was literally their teeth.