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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Cake day: August 27th, 2024

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  • Only if you participate in an instance that tracks such things.

    I know startrek.website tracks individual comments and posts, but not overall. So I would have to go back and check each individual comment and add up the total if I cared to find out how many points I have accumulated.

    I know some don’t track any at all.

    I know lemmy.world tracks at least comment votes.

    I understand that a basic point system allows people to sort comments a little easier, but it really can reinforce echo chambers.

    I am guilty of often sorting posts with dozens of comments by top vote ranking, but I try to just do oldest to newest comments.




  • it was a guarantee to:

    respect Ukraine’s territory (which Russia vialoted, the US didn’t)
    
    bring any violations to the UN security council (which was done, but with Russia having veto power, useless)
    

    Most people I speak to have the impression that any attack on Ukraine meant the US would jump into full scale war mode to defend them. Honestly I wish it were. At least then it would have been harder for the Biden administration to essentially ignore.

    “here’s a bunch of old equipment, good luck buddy” was technically more than required, but grossly inadequate.














  • You can agree that something is disgusting on a fundamental level while still feeling nothing…

    I find the constant suffering of others to be heartbreaking, but I don’t actually go around feeling heartbroken all the time.

    Being desensitized by things I’ve seen on the interwebs over the years has dulled any reaction I might have, but I an still understand, articulate, and sympathize with those feelings.



  • As everyone should.

    Nobody should ever be looking at the 2nd Ammendment and think to themselves “oh god I just can’t wait, please lemme do it now”

    It should always be “please don’t make me do this”, while preparing to do this.

    sorry I went on a bit of a rant but ORGANIZE, PEOPLE! is the gist. Hidden to save space.

    The obvious republican mindset of “I can’t wait to be allowed to legally murder people” has always been crazy to me. As a kid I heard adults round me talking about how they’re “just looking for an excuse” and it very much seemed like someone who simply wanted to kill people.

    That said, I have always accepted the possibility that one day I might be forced to kill in self defense or defense of others if I plan to exercise my 2nd Ammendment right. The last 15 years have been a truly eye-opening experience since I left the sheltered religious life I was raised in.

    To anyone reading who is in the US, start with organizing with friends and neighbors who are like-minded and believe nobody should be kidnapped and sent to a concentration camp. I have a decent number of LGBT+ and immigrant friends , and have begun instructing some on the use of firearms. They have always been very anti-gun and for good reason, (I will not pretend the US doesn’t have major issues with firearms) but now have decided since their lives very well might be on the line tomorrow they need some way of protecting themselves.

    I am doing what I can in that regard, but the most effective thing is the act of organizing itself. Many of them didn’t know each other. Now there’s a network of people who can assist each other when something happens.

    Just this week a few of us had to venture out to un-bury the front door of one of the group that is disabled and got snowed in. They lost power and only had their battery pack and a phone on low battery to call for help, and had we not been organized the way we are they very well could have been frozen by the time emergency services got around to their call. We set them up with a kerosene heater, a CO detector, and extra battery packs to keep the phone charged until power was restored.