I would argue you can absolutely disprove it, empirically. By demonstrating. Just do the thing and go “wow it didn’t take forever!”
Miles O'Brien
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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They’re “going fishing” trying to find probable cause to get you out of the vehicle and allowed to search you and it.
If you say you’re going to / from the bar? Well obviously you’ve been drinking, please step out of the vehicle.
I don’t always say “officer you don’t need that information” I just say something like “home/library” since it provokes the least amount of questions.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•What a savingsEnglish
15·1 month agoGalaxy Quest is Hands down the best star trek movie.
Confession time: I actually love every single movie except the motion picture. Sorry but it’s boring. I don’t understand the hate Insurrection gets. Other than sexist dialog and weird attempt to change the previously established “not-a-relationship-it’s-complicated” thing Picard and Dr. Crusher have going on… Which I try to ignore and pretend the writers room didn’t have RICK RATFUCK BERMAN’s influence…
I don’t give them my license, I only need to show it to them. They can copy down the relevant information needed to verify it’s legitimacy the same way they do when they take it.
I don’t need to roll down my window, I only need to communicate with them. They can speak up and I am more than capable of yelling so they don’t misunderstand anything. An open window is not needed unless someone plans on reaching through it, which neither of us need to do.
I don’t need to give them my insurance card, they only need to know it’s current and for this vehicle. Again they can copy down relevant information and call the insurance company later, which they weren’t going to do anyway.
I don’t need to tell them where I was, or where I was going, as it’s none of their business and not relevant to the stop, which was likely for failing to signal properly, or speeding due to a missed sign.
There’s plenty you dont HAVE to tell them, give them, or show them, but if you’re going to do any of the above, know your state and local laws regarding these, and don’t be intentionally rude, since they’re already going to be pissy.
Also note: it’s much easier to get through this sort of interaction if you’re white. We all know cops are racist shitbags just looking for an excuse.
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, just someone who is tired of being targeted in the areas around Columbus Ohio that are known for pulling people over for the slightest of infractions in order to go fishing for a reason to arrest someone.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•You take your dog into an elevator and they look at you funny. "Why did we get in this little room for a minute and walk back out?"English
17·1 month agoShe tries to go around or leap over them, or runs across them like they’re a platform in a video game that will fall if you stand on them too long.
Likely she is ripping out paw pad hairs as the slats shift around and pinch together, and there is the possibility of getting claws stuck as well.
That’s why my largest dog doesn’t like them.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Remember, they are the good and honest guys. These are just some of the US ones.English
68·1 month agoMkultra is STILL treated like some nut job conspiracy theory.
I bring it up as example of how the government will do whatever to whoever and lie for decades, fuck the consequences.
People look at me like I’m crazy, and plenty have even straight up told me mk ulta isn’t real, is just a conspiracy, just an excuse for hippies who did too many drugs, any number of “that didn’t happen” excuses. Including “if it actually happened, we would know”. To which I responded “THEY FUCKING ADMITTED IT” and that was the end of the conversation because I cursed and therefore lost an “argument” I didn’t know I was in…
Ohio is crazy…
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memes@lemmy.world•An employee who allegedly burned down a California warehouse compared himself to Luigi Mangione in a message to co-workers after setting the fire.English
7·2 months ago“we cannot get out: the end comes soon we hear drums drums in the deep. They are coming”
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•What, like it's hard?English
12·2 months agoMy headcannon: having read the Absolutely 100% canon books “Q-zone, W-Strike, and Q-space”, my personal belief is that since Q is partially responsible for the entity in the center claiming to be god, Q decided to artificially speed up their journey to the barrier and back home. Nobody on the ship brought it up because nobody was even thinking about travel time in the middle of all that.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Creating the cloaked, self-replicating mines qualifies Rom for "miracle worker"English
4·2 months agoWell you see, the people in charge of tuning the replicator just need to be motivated by death, and then they’ll find a workaround for literally any shortcoming!
Cant replicate a phased electron catalyzer and we don’t have a backup? Well if you don’t, everyone on this ship and that planet are dead in 20 minutes, so just invert the hadron matrix and it won’t be a problem anymore!
(repeat every other season)
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Creating the cloaked, self-replicating mines qualifies Rom for "miracle worker"English
7·2 months agoThe only things it needs are power and base material.
The problem with complex things like starships and the like are some things can’t be replicated, they have to be manufactured, refined, or otherwise produced.
Gotta have something to cripple how overpowered they are.
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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
451·2 months agoNobody needs/wants the white liberal to speak for them, but another voice in the crowd demanding something surely can’t be a bad thing?
Completely unrealistic.
The cops would have been there already dragging people out the doors to beat them away from the cameras inside.
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World News@lemmy.world•1 crew member rescued, search underway for another as 2 U.S. military jets downed in IranEnglish
24·2 months agoAs former enlisted, I wonder if at any point while floating to the ground they thought to themselves “holy shit, I’m gonna die in a desert for pedophiles, why did I go along with this?”
At least one gets to think twice for now, but I doubt they will.
That’s why they scream until they die. They held it in all that time.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•No, I don't know what a rabbit is, nor do I care.English
14·2 months agoThose aren’t the eggs I’m looking for.
However, could you assist me in locating a ham?
I’ve got a couple busted laptops and some loose memory floating around, I just need to find one of my working hdds.
Technically I have an extra one but it’s acting as my media drive right now and I don’t even have a backup of it…
I definitely want to make the switch BEFORE my current setup dies, since it’ll be easier to transfer/convert everything I can.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•This may be a stupid question, but what does "crunchy" mean?English
2·2 months agoLmao Tone is hard to read, I wasn’t upset so if I came across that way my apologies, I was just adding more info in response to points you had raised.
I would assume if they meant it as some kind of a dig, they wouldn’t accept the invitations to hammock with us. Their tone was friendly, it’s just not a term I’ve heard and given the different comments so far, it seems to be a mixed bag as to whether other people would consider it an insult or a compliment.
Really though given the context, I’m going to take it as a compliment even if it was meant as an insult.
I haven’t read it in full in well over 15 years, but that comment made me go find it.




Personally I view it more as “find the right balance between technology and the other living things” and “take time to appreciate the things around you”