Miles O'Brien

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again.”

Personally I’m a huge fan of bouncing a ball off a couple of sticks, but you like what you like, eh?

Having never knowingly committed war crimes, or killed children looking for food, I’ve never once felt so guilty that my sidearm looked more appealing than going to work tomorrow.

Crazy how “not committing genocide” does wonders for your mental health!

I mean, half of my hammers have had their handles remade with whatever hardwood was closest. So I’m gonna go with those.

However, the most complex thing that I can repair with sourced parts would be either my truck, or my truck. I’ve had to fix it with “close enough” parts before, and I will fix it until the frame rusts (which given Northern states and salted roads probably won’t be more than a few more years)

There’s a smattering of electronics that I’ve seen mentioned multiple times as well.

One thing that is theoretically repairable, but is hard to find parts for, my washing machine. It’s a old 50s model with a lever to engage the motor, a roller on top to squeeze water out, and a simple steel gear system to drive everything. I should be able to open it up with a crescent wrench and flat head screwdriver, but I doubt I will ever be able to find ready-made parts (I have looked briefly when I thought I had a problem with it that sorted itself) but I might be able to bodge some things together if needed.

Damn, I need this on one of my shirts. Unfortunately the only local place I knew of that did screen printing closed down and I’m not ordering from a website…

In the old days the brick-and-mortar stores would refuse to stock any game that was even remotely controversial in content or age rating.

Either you’re too young to have experienced “the old days” or you live in a very conservative area.

There was absolutely a mature section for nearly every store I went to, they either had sleeves to cover the games with printed/handwritten titles, or were collected and kept in their own area that was in view of an employee to tell kids to stay away.

Places like Walmart

Oh, you meant department stores, not actual local game stores.

“Our Glorious Eastern Soldiers”

“Their heathen rapist genocidal evil brutish westoids”

The message is good, the title is needlessly inflammatory, as if ANY major country has clean hands.

Reading comprehension is clearly low in this thread.

I do, but apparently pointing it out gets me down votes.

Yes, but whenever someone hints that an “eastern” country might not be the best, whataboutisms fly out everyone’s collective asses.

If it’s okay to criticize one way, it should be okay to criticize (when appropriately applicable) the opposing way.

“Our Glorious Eastern Soldiers”

“Their heathen rapist genocidal evil brutish westoids”

The message is good, the title is needlessly inflammatory, as if ANY major country has clean hands.

I saw a post asking the same thing the day I joined lemmy dot world with my first account.

That was a couple years ago now. I think I’m on my third instance?

“are corporations whose sole purpose is to extract as much money from the masses as possible with no thoughts to anything else up to and including destroying the house it occupies in order to maximize profits to blame for the world around us? Or is it those dirty fucking people with all their bad gross nasty purchasing of the things the corporation shoves down their throats?”

I’m sorry but did a CEO write this?

I’d love to be able to repurpose my old kindles. I have 3 of them that have been gifted over the years and another two that I could probably just ask for since family members have newer ones.

Ideally I just want to have a simple ebook reader and nothing else for at least two of them.

The only issue is from the (admittedly small) searching I’ve done, they aren’t easy to root or install custom roms due to the software version or how new they are. I’ll admit I don’t exactly know what I’m even looking for.

I’d rather reuse things I already have than buy a new tablet just to read books on, especially since it seems like they’re just overpriced generic crap that all looks and mostly feels the same.

Having a grimy, fingered little brother is always fun.

Look, he may be grimy, but kink shaming isn’t cool. He can be fingered whenever he feels like it.

go fuck a duck

Poor duck…

“the mods who freely give their time to a bootlicking, greedy shithole of a company are also bootlickers! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?” -u/Mboomo

I hate most scarves. Mass produced ones are terrible.

Someone knit me a scarf out of merino wool, and it was super duper soft, didn’t fuzz up, and was one big möbius strip.

My guess?

Lit room: lots of things scattered around, colors, visual noise, over stimulating

Dark room: dark, not very visible, less/no noise, not (necessarily as) overstimulating

There absolutely are movies I would go to see in theaters again.

Wedding crashers isn’t even on the list.

Wedding crashers isn’t even on the list of movies I would watch this month if I had no internet access and only 3 other dvds.

SNAKE?!