Miles O'Brien

Is it considered normal to type out a normal question format when using search engines?

If I were looking for an answer instead of making a funny meme, I’d search “heat movie cast Angelina Jolie” if I didn’t feel like putting any effort in.

Then again, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen someone use their phone to search google “what is 87÷167?” instead of doing “87/167” or like… Opening the calculator…

People do things in different, sometimes weird ways.

Okay I know I like to joke about how bat’s look like sky puppers, but this is CLEARLY a bat-canine hybrid of some sort.

BAT-DOG!

I mean, by process of elimination, I guess.

I thought about including orks in there, but they do too many uncool things like trying to fight people who don’t want to fight.

They’re perfectly happy fighting anyone and everyone, including themselves, and just want a good propper fight.

Kind of hard justifying a fight with puppies though…

Unfortunately, they very much do.

And they don’t understand who the good guys are in 40k either (it’s no one. Except maybe tyranids acting at an instinctual level)

Treating a telescope like a jackhammer isn’t going to work well.

They just haven’t figured out your jackhammer just looks a lot like their telescope.

Indeed.

Despite my own work in making knives and other blacksmithing things, where I LITERALLY have a magnet on my anvil so I can test for when the steel hits it’s austenitic temp, I somehow managed to forget the iron will go non magnetic…

So yeah. Thanks for the reminder!

In my defense I haven’t made any knives since moving a year ago…

However, this is aluminum I think? I’m not entirely sure how magnetism works with lenzs law and if there’s a temperature it stops working…

Luckily for me I got the job in-store for bicycles, but then after a few months they couldn’t keep people behind the gun counter and had to ask me to start filling in. By the time I left, I was behind the gun counter more than the bike counter.

I’m positive my looks nowadays would draw plenty of comments, but back then I looked like the stereotypical straight white guy that didn’t have any strong political opinions… I know I’d be getting comments about my appearance now. Lgbtq+ support and long hair are enough I’m sure I’d even have some locals waiting for me to get off work to harass me. It wouldn’t be the first time a republicunt took issue with an employee and tried to wait until closing to start shit. Which is a bad idea when half the employees have their CCW.

No worries about the neighbors owning guns. They’re citizens, they just don’t pass the “paper bag test” for cops, and have their own firearms. They used to be staunchly against firearms until 2020. Then with all the political bullshit leading straight into covid made them reconsider.

I miss being able to shoot a text to 6 friends asking if anyone wants to go shooting at friend 2s house, and within two hours we’re all laughing, chowing down on snacks, setting up a ton of clay targets for some friendly competitions… Now I’m down to 0(ish) friends that aren’t primarily my wife’s friends, and they don’t do target practice. They can strip and maintain all their guns with a blindfold on, but I don’t think they’ve even sighted them in properly. Many discussions have been had over this unfortunately.

The bystander effect made 8 people watch from 15ft away as I literally crawled across a street, covered in blood, my leg twisted the wrong way, after a close call from a truck while riding a bicycle made me eat shit. After one person FINALLY ran over to me, suddenly all 8 were walking over, apologizing saying they thought someone else was coming over first.

Because of that I have decided unless there is a CLEAR leader in getting things taken care of, I’m always going to try to be the first to act when someone is in need. If someone collapses on the ground, I’m running over to make sure they’re breathing/conscious, and I either actively calling an ambulance or pointing at a specific person and going “YOU, MALE WITH THE RED SHIRT, CALL 911 RIGHT NOW” since people react far quicker when called out specifically. Don’t assume someone else will show up to help. You ARE RIGHT THERE. So help.

Anyways, daily reminder that armed minorities are harder to oppress. Armed minorities make governments afraid.

Aww, I wanted to see it splat into the floor when they turn off the induction coil…

At first I thought “wow, really? Only 8 seconds?”

Count out 8 full seconds in your head.

Now imagine you’re being hit by young teenagers with baseball bats.

8 seconds is a LONG time

You know it’s funny, I actually tried two different multicolor pens, but there’s a limited size for the pen to fit, and the colors are never quite what you want them to be.

I use pilot g2 pens with a 0.38 tip. The gel pens work best, as there’s minimal to no bleeding on the page like markers, normal Bic style pens are too hard on the paper to actually mark anything, and pencils don’t auto-feed.

I’m sure a multi-color pen is feasible, and I’m positive I could find the perfect one for a price. But this works for now, as long as I don’t feel like adding more than 4 colors.

In my 30s

At this point my wife and I are considering buying property we can put a well and septic on, and park an rv.

The frequent lack of desire for people to experiment and learn anything on their own is very off-putting.

Any time I hear someone say “I didn’t think about that” when dealing with a very simple problem, I just want to pull out “How long did you piss on the toilet seat before someone told you to lift it when you go?”

Seriously, I shouldn’t have to describe how to remove the ball bearings from this part, because I explained how to do an identical one 2 minutes ago.

I love taking things apart to know what makes them work. Electronics and mechanical devices are fascinating.

And I don’t understand how someone can look at things and go “yeah no need to look any deeper, I know enough already”

The USA is kidnapping innocent people off the street and sending them to death camps.

Always have been. Now we’re doing it in broad daylight to our own citizens.

I like that handwritten look, but I’m also not dumb enough to use my own handwriting.

My anonymous letters are written with one of those vinyl plotter/cutter things, but it uses a pen attachment to write things instead of cut. It looks very nice when finished. And most importantly, as long as you wear gloves, you don’t leave any evidence on the paper.

Note: you can also use it to draw things, but swapping out colors is tedious.

Gotta love all the people who seem to think if we keep doing exactly the same thing (non-violent protests that are out of people’s way) and if we ask really really nicely that we will be allowed to go back to a less insane country.

Anyone who wants to sit down and ask ICE to not deport them to a concentration camp is welcome to do so I guess. I’d say “your funeral” but you’ll never get a funeral. You’ll be dumped in a mass grave or incinerated.

If Obama did it, I’m positive we would have sitting congressional members calling for his execution for treason publicly.

Well you may not be able to get them to swap out a box magazine from a machine gun in 6 seconds, but you might be able to get them to pull a very small weapons platform? I’m thinking “1911 taped to a stick on a sled” but I’m open to brainstorming.

While you an pull the upper/lower apart, idk if I’d consider that “cat carrier size” unless you have an SBR.

My rifle would need to have the barrel and stock pulled off. Definitely need some sort of takedown rifle, but most mass produced ones are crap. I used to sell guns at a previous job, and we usually didn’t get high end stuff unless it was a special order.

I think by the time you “NEED” a rifle in an end-of-world/society scenario, most of humanity is probably dead, the nuclear fallout has mostly dissipated, and you now need one to assist in hunting/scouting. Until then, I’d wager you’re right about one not being necessary. Shorter barrels, less weight, you really aren’t going to be engaging with anyone beyond 200yds even in large urban settings.

Honestly, I confident enough with my 9mm and my 45 that I could see myself just grabbing those with my utility bag and 4 day kit, and leaving all the heavy ass rifles at home. The only exception is if there’s enough time for my wife and I to grab another round of stuff after corralling the dogs.

As for needing the rifles during civil unrest, well… I have a few neighbors who are definitely going to be ICE targets soon, and they have been invited to start shooting with us in preparation.

I miss the good old days when target practice was fun and banter was abound, now things are too far gone for any sort of levity in those situations. We all know why we are practicing, and will likely need the skills to be as polished as possible soon.

Ah. Well that’s a relief, I removed foxit, and never had anything Adobe.

I open the pdfs in inkscape to pull the vector files and save them as an svg. There’s probably a simpler way, but this allows me to open the vector in a lot more programs like my laser software and my CAD programs.

The only pdfs that get printed like a normal person are small rc planes and the files are from trusted sources.

It’s nice to know I can do a little extra to protect myself from pdf based attacks though, thanks for the info!

Oh damn, that gave me flashbacks of trying to get my page to look the way I wanted it while knowing almost nothing about any type of coding…

You’re thinking of Lance Armstrong

He was a tall, bald black man who was a great actor and starred in movies like John Wick, and also did voice overs for tons of games, including Destiny.