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.
No, it absolutely isn’t.
It violated our own laws, international laws, and as far as I’m concerned it’s both an act of war, and possibly a literal war crime (please, anyone with more knowledge than me weigh in on that last one) and every other country should treat ours accordingly. We broadcast to the world that it’s do what our leader wants or we will take whatever we feel like.
Heck we did that decades ago, but now we aren’t even lying about it.
(not disagreeing with anyone, simply making observations from experience)
A German zweihander sword weighs around 8lbs, a gallon of milk is around 7. A typical hand and a half sword around 4, and a rapier can be as light as 2lbs easily.
The issue isn’t really the weight though in my opinion, it’s where the weight is distributed.
A gallon of milk is concentrated in a pretty small package that you can hold close to your own center of gravity.
A sword is long and it’s weight, by design, is usually not close to the hilt of the blade. I’m not 100% sure on historic examples, but I try to keep the weight centered around 1/3 up the length of the blade on ones I make.
Practical upshot is that a lighter sword will flop around and stab people easier than a gallon of milk is dropped due to weight.
If you want a child to be accidentally dangerous, give them a sword. If you want them to be dangerous on purpose, give them a fixed blade knife under 7in.
I fully expect oil companies to convince governments to tax their citizens 150% to subsidize their new oil wells, just so they can continue looking for and opening new ones LONG after it ceases to be profitable.
It’s like conservatives and democracy. They’re okay with it as long as they can keep “winning” but when they can’t win anymore, they won’t change their behavior, they’ll stop using democracy.
I’d argue we already passed that point for both conservatives (in most major countries) AND oil company profits.
The cost of dealing with fossil fuels has been far outweighing the cost of using them, and has been for many many decades. If our species makes it that long, our grandchildren’s grandchildren’s great great great grandchildren will still be dealing with our mistakes.
The characters in the comic are terrorists.Just like almost every depiction of arabs, muslims or people with brown skin in general
Uhhhhh I think that says more about what media you consume. I haven’t seen an Arab stereotyped as a terrorist since like 2015. In fact, most of the TV I watched for awhile was specifically portraying “US law enforcement sees all Middle easterners as terrorists and treats them poorly and it wasn’t any of them that had anything to do with the bad thing of the episode”
If I’m searching for it, I limit searches to before 2024.
If I’m browsing a recipe site, I ignore recipes posted after 2024.
Im sure I’m missing a lot of good stuff, but I don’t always know enough about cooking to know just by looking at the recipe that it doesn’t work.
Some AAA game company releases a big-budget title that turns out to be a complete buggy mess (like MindsEye)
[FREE SPACE] contenders in here, but I like this one the best. The next one is a very close second.
Either you are okay with dark humor, or you aren’t.
Clearly a lot of people aren’t, and that’s okay. Humor is subjective.
I got an email like this a few weeks ago, and then about 2 minutes later I got a new email with the corrected replacements.
I replied with a screenshot zoomed in on the “candidate name” bit and left it at that. Didn’t even get a half-assed “lol sorry Bruh”
Yeah, they should toss it in a landfill like everyone else! Fucking posers, trying to do literally anything with stuff that isn’t easily recycled or reused…
I wish my wife could play subnautica with me, as she likes swimming around and stuff but isn’t really “good” at video games, since she never played one until adulthood.
In Minecraft it’s mostly me doing the work while she does farming stuff. I once came back from a deep mining trip to see a once-empty field filled to the maximum with cows. We had a nice library afterward though.
I still haven’t beaten subnautica without cheating or taking shortcuts. Heck when I first downloaded it, it didn’t even have an ending yet.
9.3/10, it’s fun
We also didn’t need multiple movies with Russians as the bad guys, yet here we are.
They were already doing so, and this wouldn’t excuse anything Russians have been doing even if Ukraine had bombed the fuck out of the place.
It’s definitely a false flag (in my opinion, not actual confirmation by anyone as far as I’m aware), but not a very good one.
Well, putin orchestrated apartment bombings decades ago, so this isn’t too much of a stretch.
I guess he didn’t actually want to damage it though, since locals say nothing happened. You’d think he’d at least set off a grenade in the front lawn to make it more convincing.
Doesn’t targeting individuals for political purposes during a war break a bunch of international agreements or at least come close?
I’m not sure. That said, I don’t consider “ending a war” to be a political purpose, but if the “rules” of war say you aren’t allowed to take out the leadership, then the rules are “only the poor have to die” and fuck that classist bullshit…
And while your enemy being Warcrimes-R-Us doesn’t excuse your own war crimes, I think if your enemy is trying to genocide you, then you are within your rights to fight however you need to in order to not be genocided.
Genuine question to anyone with an answer: why the FUCK would ANYONE think drone-bombing the ABSOLUTE SHIT out of his residence would be a bad thing?
If anything, this just makes them look even weaker than usual. “we can’t keep this small country that we said would fold in 72 hours from making large-scale attacks against our country’s leadership” isn’t a great look unless you want to look pathetic.
I’m confused as to why they’re saying this like it’s some kind of “gotcha” moment that the world will somehow turn on them for.
I can only assume it’s because they believe Putler is somehow “above” the rest of us and the rest of the world should agree that you don’t harm the nobility.
Hey now those were TERRORIST KIDS looking for TERORIST FOOD because of their TERRORIST STARVATION
See you know they’re the bad guys because I called them terrorists.
You’d leave in a fucking second if you could.
Not op, but happily. In a heartbeat. Wouldn’t even have time to finish the conversation if it were an option.
And yes, they absolutely can be vocally pissed that a privileged old white rich man and his privileged rich kids will get to continue living much better lives due to their riches that allowed them to leave.
It’s like people here WANT to be pissed off at everything.
Lol
I’d love to if I could afford it. Neither my wife or I are particularly tied to our families.
“How much do you weigh?”
If they get defensive, that tells you all you need to know.
If it’s simple curiosity, and actually about finding “the right one” then surely a simple question of weight wouldn’t result in anything but a polite, if terse, response.
I mean, it is about finding “the right one” isn’t it? Surely both questions have merit and never result in hostility from either party.
Nah. Just forget them.