Miles O'Brien

At first I thought “wow, really? Only 8 seconds?”

Count out 8 full seconds in your head.

Now imagine you’re being hit by young teenagers with baseball bats.

8 seconds is a LONG time

I have changed my opinion from “Janeway did nothing wrong” to “Janeway did the right thing”

It’s a subtle, but important, distinction.

You know it’s funny, I actually tried two different multicolor pens, but there’s a limited size for the pen to fit, and the colors are never quite what you want them to be.

I use pilot g2 pens with a 0.38 tip. The gel pens work best, as there’s minimal to no bleeding on the page like markers, normal Bic style pens are too hard on the paper to actually mark anything, and pencils don’t auto-feed.

I’m sure a multi-color pen is feasible, and I’m positive I could find the perfect one for a price. But this works for now, as long as I don’t feel like adding more than 4 colors.

In my 30s

At this point my wife and I are considering buying property we can put a well and septic on, and park an rv.

The USA is kidnapping innocent people off the street and sending them to death camps.

Always have been. Now we’re doing it in broad daylight to our own citizens.

I like that handwritten look, but I’m also not dumb enough to use my own handwriting.

My anonymous letters are written with one of those vinyl plotter/cutter things, but it uses a pen attachment to write things instead of cut. It looks very nice when finished. And most importantly, as long as you wear gloves, you don’t leave any evidence on the paper.

Note: you can also use it to draw things, but swapping out colors is tedious.

Gotta love all the people who seem to think if we keep doing exactly the same thing (non-violent protests that are out of people’s way) and if we ask really really nicely that we will be allowed to go back to a less insane country.

Anyone who wants to sit down and ask ICE to not deport them to a concentration camp is welcome to do so I guess. I’d say “your funeral” but you’ll never get a funeral. You’ll be dumped in a mass grave or incinerated.

If Obama did it, I’m positive we would have sitting congressional members calling for his execution for treason publicly.

Well you may not be able to get them to swap out a box magazine from a machine gun in 6 seconds, but you might be able to get them to pull a very small weapons platform? I’m thinking “1911 taped to a stick on a sled” but I’m open to brainstorming.

While you an pull the upper/lower apart, idk if I’d consider that “cat carrier size” unless you have an SBR.

My rifle would need to have the barrel and stock pulled off. Definitely need some sort of takedown rifle, but most mass produced ones are crap. I used to sell guns at a previous job, and we usually didn’t get high end stuff unless it was a special order.

I think by the time you “NEED” a rifle in an end-of-world/society scenario, most of humanity is probably dead, the nuclear fallout has mostly dissipated, and you now need one to assist in hunting/scouting. Until then, I’d wager you’re right about one not being necessary. Shorter barrels, less weight, you really aren’t going to be engaging with anyone beyond 200yds even in large urban settings.

Honestly, I confident enough with my 9mm and my 45 that I could see myself just grabbing those with my utility bag and 4 day kit, and leaving all the heavy ass rifles at home. The only exception is if there’s enough time for my wife and I to grab another round of stuff after corralling the dogs.

As for needing the rifles during civil unrest, well… I have a few neighbors who are definitely going to be ICE targets soon, and they have been invited to start shooting with us in preparation.

I miss the good old days when target practice was fun and banter was abound, now things are too far gone for any sort of levity in those situations. We all know why we are practicing, and will likely need the skills to be as polished as possible soon.

Ah. Well that’s a relief, I removed foxit, and never had anything Adobe.

I open the pdfs in inkscape to pull the vector files and save them as an svg. There’s probably a simpler way, but this allows me to open the vector in a lot more programs like my laser software and my CAD programs.

The only pdfs that get printed like a normal person are small rc planes and the files are from trusted sources.

It’s nice to know I can do a little extra to protect myself from pdf based attacks though, thanks for the info!

Oh damn, that gave me flashbacks of trying to get my page to look the way I wanted it while knowing almost nothing about any type of coding…

You’re thinking of Lance Armstrong

He was a tall, bald black man who was a great actor and starred in movies like John Wick, and also did voice overs for tons of games, including Destiny.

Elmo has claimed to be autistic at multiple points. Most recently to my knowledge, to try and excuse his nazi salute.

So when RFK was drooling droning on about how terrible autism is, and how autistic people can’t use the restroom unassisted, by extension he was saying Musk can’t have a solo bathroom experience.

Everyone, everywhere, has a duty to stop fascism and help their fellow man, regardless of what ultimately insignificant speck of a human decided to put a line on a map.

This is such a weird comment, full of “NiCd batteries aren’t good enough so solar/wind are useless because we can’t store the power” energy.

It’s a test reactor, it’s meant to be smaller than the “big boys”, and in a few years it’ll be smaller and more efficient.

Sure, it’s not going to singlehandedly power an entire country, but distributed power is better than localized. 1000 small reactors placed all over means less likelihood of system wide failure than a handful of large ones.

Armed minorities are harder to oppress.

organized armed minorities make the government afraid.

Ask the Black Panthers.

Oof, don’t tell Ocelot that. He might take it personally.

The obvious choice is to buy a multi-piece rifle, full size or pcc is up to you, that breaks into 2+ pieces.

Have your pet carriers modified to carry the pieces and some utility things like ammo/cleaning/batteries/etc.

Now when you load up your pets, you also have your carry gun!

No part of this was thought out for practicality, results may vary from intent.

Arm your kitties.

Oh god it’s another cursed abomination from gunnitrust.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen it today, and if it wasn’t made by AI I have to assume someone crafted the original image, giggling to themselves as they put so many features that don’t mesh into it, while also seeming like it could.

Honestly it almost looks like a Bren 805, but something doesn’t quite look right about the receiver. Like it’s a high receiver from an AR platform, but everything else looks like an 805.

Ive been wanting to get a 308 for awhile since most of my stuff is pistol caliber or 556. Awhile back I almost got a coworkers dad to sell me his FAL, but then the day before the exchange he decided he wanted to keep it. Ah well.

What guns? I lost mine in a boating accident. Terrible tragedy, but I figure they’re a waste of money and haven’t bought another one.

Oh, all that ammo? I just keep that for emotional support. It’s been hard since the accident…

Just don’t ask what’s behind my “I sure do love me some Jesus” shrine or why the wall behind it doesn’t make sense with the wall placement in the other room, or why I have 42 copies of the Bible in extra large print on one shelf in the living room…

(LPT: they don’t open bibles and they probably wouldn’t destroy a Jesus memorial in front of others who supposedly love Jesus in order to discover the hidden door to the storage room)