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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  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoMemes@lemmy.mlGod's Plan
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    7 days ago

    Five) is a good one. Like “oh shit… I fucked this one up too much, I guess I’ll see how it turns out but I’m gonna start over with a new batch”

    I’d love to see someone more creative with writing than me do some writing prompts with that premise. Maybe have someone from this universe ascend or something and actually confronts god as they’re spending time with their new family creation.

    六> is also a good one, it reminds me of the idea that every single person is God. And when all of humanity has finally lived and died, god will become a single consciousness and join the rest of their kind. It kind of pairs poetically with Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot.


  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websitetoMemes@lemmy.mlGod's Plan
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    The way I figure it, one of a few possibilities is true:

    1 there is a god. He lets all the bad shit happen, and therefore isn’t worthy of dedication.

    B: there is no god. Shit happens. Nobody is there to be worthy of dedication.

    III- there is a god. It kicked off the big bang and sat back to watch. Either it has the ability to affect positive change and doesn’t, or it can’t. In which case, it’s still not worthy of dedication.

    The end result is the same for me











  • I’ve found one thing pretty helpful in explaining to people around me how to look at the situation. It’s very simplified on purpose. Nuance is dead.

    "You and your neighbor inherited your houses from your parents. They hated each other, but you never found out why. Growing up in their house made you dislike your neighbors too, though you have no reason to except any bad things the neighbors do to you because they don’t like your parents. You’re in the crossfire of anger. So when you and the neighbor move in, you both hate each other still.

    5 years go by and the neighbor decides to put up a fence, and the city council says that it doesn’t matter where the property lines are, they will set the fence and that’s where it stays.

    Then for years your neighbor is making improvements to their property, and what used to be half your yard. They begin moving the fence around to suit their projects.

    One day your neighbor kicks down your door, sticks a gun in your face, his brothers grab your wife and kids, shoot your dogs, beat your child to death and when you call the police, they sit back and say “they have every right to defend themselves” and start handing them more guns.

    now the neighbor is going down the lane, taking over each house and killing 1/3 of the people who live there, at minimum and the city council just shrugs and says “there’s nothing we can do, we can’t interfere in their internal stuff”

    The neighbor keeps yelling to everyone walking by that they are the real victim here. They are being FORCED to do this. Every house has people who want to kill them in it. And to prove it, they grab someone who’s been beaten for days, ask them “do you hate me” and when the person tries to attack them they get executed, the people walking by shake their heads and wonder why that person didn’t just let them have the house, because surely that would have made the neighbors happy.

    The current government of Israel was given land by foreign nations who had no claim on the land, and just compare modern borders with 1950 borders. The neighbors didn’t just move out and Israel bought the land. Any look at news from history will show you all their “defensive” actions that resulted in expanded territory. "

    If the person sticks around for the whole explanation, roughly 50% of the time they open their phone to look some things up.

    I may not be changing anyone’s mind, but if I can get them to at least question the official" bullshit then it’s a partial success.



  • Russia has thousands of nukes in its arsenal, and this is one person in one base.

    Even the US doesn’t have all its nukes well maintained, which is why they’ve been overhauling them for years.

    Personally I never subscribed to the “Russia has 0 nukes ready to go” theory because that’s just downright idiotic. Bare minimum you keep one well maintained so at the very least you can target whoever targeted you and try to hit their capital with a MIRV.

    Since no country really has a problem with taking what it wants from the people, it stands to reason that Russia would just squeeze its population a little tighter to keep as many nukes operational as possible.

    However, with that said I also don’t doubt a large percentage of it’s nuclear arsenal is basically useless.

    And anyone who knows anything about nukes can tell you it doesn’t matter if they have 10 or 1000, they could still kick off the nuclear apocalypse