Miles O'Brien

I wanted to get rid of an old lawnmower that was technically operational, but literally held together with duct tape and baling wire. That’s not an exaggeration, I had to use wire to keep the deck from falling off, and it still did if you hit a bump too hard.

Sat out every nice day for about a week and a half with a “FREE” sign next to it

The day I replaced the sign with “$20”, I went to hammock in the park, and came back to a sign, no mower, and no money. Exactly as I wanted

Well, not from the same country, but yeah close enough and also when you explain what each country is doing that’s bad, not really much of a difference.

$5 says we live in the same country, but even if we don’t, I feel that so hard

Most people even agree on the reasons you dislike your government, and agree that you as an individual can’t do much to change the course of your country.

Plenty even suggest finding a better place to live.

The second you suggest you might seek refuge in their area though, the pearl clutching begins.

A few months ago I basically said “it sucks because I would move to X country but based on immigration laws I’m not a refugee yet and I don’t have a degree” and someone straight up said then maybe I should have gone to college.

It’s like people expect you specifically to be some wonder woman superman and single-handedly and change the course of the largest most expensive government and military on the planet, and if you don’t then you should be doing your part by rushing a cop while holding a gun because protesting and organizing isn’t good enough for their timetable while they sit comfy and cozy on their couch.

It’s bullshit mental gymnastics and good old fashioned cognitive dissonance. Denial and ignorance are rampant, because if they stopped to think about it logically they would have nothing but compassion and understanding for the people trying to flee an oppressive regime.

This hand-crafted, gold necklace with diamond, ruby sapphire, and emeralds adorning the intricately carved centerpiece?

5 gold pieces.

That moldy slice of bread you picked up accidentally from a barrel in the bottom of a 1500 year old shipwreck?

… I’ll give you 3 gold.

Well, it’ll be taught, just not as official curriculum.

I learned about a man from Nantucket at school.

Because their only experience with anything involving trans people is in porn, and there is a huge amount of trans-fem content when compared to trans-masc.

So they literally don’t think about FtM trans people at all.

It’s also why many of them view trans people simply existing as inherently sexual.

Knowing nothing about these specific setups, but knowing how charging lithium ion and LiFePO4 batteries work and my own experience with charging at different rates, yes.

It definitely reduces the battery life to jam that much current in and out of it, the higher rate you charge, the less accurately you’ll get to 100% charge, and you don’t want to overcharge or repeatedly undercharge it. This will more rapidly degrade the battery.

That said, with battery prices plummeting, and presumably only doing this when you absolutely NEED the charge ASAP, it might be worth it to have the ability to charge that fast.

Plus it would make for some sick EV racing, when you have set battery sizes and 10-30 second pit stops for more power being part of the race.

That was my breaking point.

I used to love jack black as a musician and an actor, he wasn’t the best ever at either but he was fun.

Then he started becoming more of a caricature of himself and it started getting annoying.

After his display of bending the knee, he can eat shit. He could easily have carried on as if he didnt care one way or another and nobody would have batted an eye, but he just had to panic and preemptively lick boot.

Tiocfaidh ár lá

If posting memes and commenting on memes isn’t therapy then I’m in some trouble…

And the United States government, whose nuclear launch systems for decades had a default “0000000” password on systems so old they figured nobody would know how to hack them in person anymore, and they’re incompatible with the internet.

It’s disturbing to me that my high school hobby of fixing and operating old computers meant I could have launched nukes.

The misfits in question: you wanna take on “The Man” but your mom says you have to be back inside by 5:30 so you can go get a pair of JNCO jeans at the mall.

It’s less that we “send each other videos we know the other doesn’t like” and more “when we’re relaxing and watching videos, we will show each other a funny video or two but eventually neither of us really cares about the videos as much as the other but neither of us dislikes them enough to stop it because it’s not about the videos it’s about spending time with each other”

Last year most of the fields around me turned to slop as it was too wet for many weeks, and most fields couldn’t get equipment through the mud

As someone who has access to about 3kw of solar panels, and wants to cut down on my electricity bill, where did you manage to get batteries so cheap? I’ve been burned on 18650s from supposedly reliable retailers before…

While jailed and unable to pay bills, Lipps lost her home, her car and her dog, she said

Fuck suing, I’m going to prison for murder. I can live without the stuff, but if someone touches my dog they must not like living.

I’ve been managing to drag some of them further left, I think, through conversation about things.

A few are 100% on board with a union as long as I keep calling it “collective bargaining” and don’t use the scary U word.

A few are on board with most social safety nets, especially when they find out Healthcare would cost less than it currently costs them in taxes alone, let alone not having to pay for insurance anymore, but the second you call it socialism or use any sort of word like “welfare” then they panic.

Individually I think I’m breaking some of them, but collectively they’re fucking idiots.

To anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration, remember my coworkers:

Most believe vaccines will kill you before old age does

Most believe doctors are never going to provide a real cure because then they’d be out of a job

Most believe masks make more people sick than they keep from getting sick

And most disgustingly, most of the guys I work with don’t wash their hands and the ones that do usually just wash BEFORE they go, and then put their hands all over things in the bathroom, even before lunch.

If my coworkers are like this, imagine how many more people all around you every day are like that, or worse.

Useless knowledge: a black hole can technically exist inside a super-massive star.

The gravity of the black hole pulls in hydrogen, the force of the hydrogen fusion and Hawking radiation pressure from the black hole try to push the hydrogen/star stuff out.

For awhile at least, with enough supply of hydrogen (that likely doesn’t exist in a large concentrated enough supply), it can hold itself in balance as the biggest star you’ve never seen.

Note: take this with a grain of salt, this is my understanding of a kurzgesagt video I watched while high.