Miles O'Brien

Those aren’t the eggs I’m looking for.

However, could you assist me in locating a ham?

Well, most likely you will be the poor fucker.

Or you’ll show up next time to a little thank you note and a small box with a single beer inside.

I guess you couod show up to all the wood gone, but fingers crossed!

I spent roughly 2 hours getting into geoguessing…

I did some quick and easy ones, with like obvious signs and stuff. After spending 30 minutes tracking down flight info based on the time the photo was taken, I decided I didn’t have the dedication for such things and if I couldn’t figure it out in 2 minutes based on signs and landmarks, I’m okay with not knowing the exact location a picture was taken.

Hats off to the stalker-level people who can pinpoint the specific 30ft area in a cornfield a video was taken based on time of day, the color of the dirt, a specific toad croak at 12m37s into the video, etc…

I once had the opportunity to take a really nice microscope from a school district I was working for when I was 18.

I was working on sorting all the old curriculum for 1st-12 grades core subjects for disposal/recycling and then receiving new stuff.

They were updating the entirety of all science departments and the highschool was getting rid of their old microscopes. The ones that were in working order were to be placed aside for donation, and the non-working ones simply tossed in the dumpsters.

I was allowed to take whatever I wanted that was to be thrown away, but I figured I didn’t want to spend time and money tracking down the right bulb to fix the best non-working one, and decided not to take one.

Current me is cursing younger me because I could have easily swapped out the light with a LED, and even if I couldn’t, there were LITERALLY microscopes with broken optics and working lights, and I could have just taken one extra one for parts…

Young me was dumb.

I did snag a mostly-complete rock sample set for demonstration of various geology testing techniques. Also a fist-sized chunk of silicon.

So I wasn’t completely dumb.

This post was good enough to kick me off my phone for the night. I just woke up after about 3 hours and only meant to pull my phone out to turn the audiobook back on, and instead started scrolling.

So thanks for the reminder I should be sleeping!

No, it’s not possible they’re allergic to the base, as they would be allergic to their own body. Your body produces it, and you ingest it in plenty of other foods.

But hey, I’m glad you’re not a scientist, and I don’t have to hope since you’re confidently making assertions with no knowledge base to pull from, like a shitty person might do.

Personal anecdote from cooking for years for a variety of people of varying intelligence, background, and countries:

Most people claim it gives them headaches and nausea.

They “know” this because they feel it every time they eat (american) “Chinese food”

Not a single one has ever had either symptom after eating my cooking that has a little sprinkled in.

Now, I have tried to prove a point to some by informing them (many hours after the food, and asking about how they feel) that they in fact ingested MSG without issue and had no symptoms, usually to rounds of spontaneous nausea and headaches that had apparently gone unnoticed for hours until just then.

It could be that ingesting a shit-load of greasy, oily, carbs and over-eating that caused their nausea and headaches when they gorged themselves on “Chinese” food, but no, they know it’s the MSG.

Police who made these claims after a single driver took the open bag after they initially found nothing, then reappeared with a closed bag and no gloves, then somehow magically they found super bulky items that would not have been able to hide inside the backpack.

The fact that other commenter posted that without a hint of sarcasm tells me they’re either drinking the coolaid, they’re arguing in bad faith, or they’re just plain ignorant and extremely naive. Possibly stupid, but I try to assume ignorance over stupidity. “They caught him with tye murder weapon, a manifesto, and a signed note saying I did it” is something a literal child would think. In fact, I vaguely remember an episode of a children’s TV show where the snitch kid writes a note that says “I did it -TJ” and the teacher used that as an excuse to put TJ in detention for littering and admitting it.

I am absolutely not convinced that Luigi mangione did anything but have a strong chin and dark eyebrows like some guy in a hood on grainy security footage.

That doesn’t make Luigi any less of a martyr to me. The government has made the same mistake many in power have made over the years. They assume bythrowing their weight behind punishment, it will deter future attempts by increasingly desperate populations. Historically, we can see that is never the case for very long, if it works at all.

People who believe in “auras” and actually think that thinking good thoughts in relation to a specific thing will affect it on any way are deserving of mockery.

It’s religion for people who don’t like organized religion.

I am someone who is interested in rc planes, multirotors, and automation in general. Not an expert by any measure, but have some experience.

A hybrid quad-rotor/plane would be much better for this. They can VTOL, hover, do all the quadcopter stuff, but there’s still the usual plane motors to push the whole thing forward. The wings provide tons of lift and reduce the overall power usage of the system. Have it circle above an area until you don’t need the pop-up mesh network.

I’ve seen a few content creators like rctestflight make full solar planes, running ardupilot to fly way point missions and circle around for as long as possible.

Combining the two might reduce the overall efficiency when compared to either separately, I imagine the extra grams from the mesh radios would still allow for very long flight times.

So theoretically you should be able to toss a couple out that can circle overhead and act as super long line-of-sight relays and provide coverage over a huge area, all of which couod be deployed and packed up in minutes.

It doesn’t, any more than “from the river to the sea”.

The only way you can think “river to sea” slogan implies genociding the Israeli occupiers is if you can’t possibly imagine any other way to transfer ownership than brutal imperialistic colonizer-like expansion. You know, like what Israelis are currently doing to Palestinians.

Framing it as “you’re calling for genocide” is just another way zionists try to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

It seems to me like people like this are telling on themselves that they’re stuck in Colonial/imperial mindsets and lack imagination.

Hmm I was gonna bring my safety glasses to do science, but I don’t have a poster telling me if I should or not.

If only there were some form of vaguely threatening poster and woman named Carol to better instruct people!

Relevant

Feathered dinos are cool as shit.

You don’t love a pointlessly gendered meme debate while the world is burning due to class warfare?

Because the doctor is stuck in the mindset that women are baby factories and they should be that above whatever else they want to do in life.

“Boomer isn’t just an age group, it’s a state of mind.” -some rando on the internet

That’s… What finitebanjo said?

“you’re not resisting in one of my personally approved ways, therefore it’s worthless”

Big yikes

And the average person has (usually) no idea if what they’re being fed is even correct. But as long as it sounds correct to someone who has no idea…

Aliens have to figure out our vaginas from scratch.

“The fuck is you talkin about, I looked a buncha stuff up on my phone that’s research!”

-majority of conservatives