[-] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

Sweet!

I've never been able to get into them, but I'm definitely buying this as a gift for someone.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago

You should come down to transporter room 3, the pattern buffer has something you'd find interesting....

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 98 points 1 week ago

It's gonna be peak face-eating season during holidays when my parents go to retire during this presidency but find out that they can't because social security doesn't exist anymore, 75% of their paycheck goes to either the military budget or kings tribute tax, and everything has doubled in price.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 154 points 1 week ago

My first thought was "So we call 'following the law' a loophole now?"

If the law meant a fucking thing, he would have been in prison decades ago.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 129 points 3 weeks ago

In my 30s, and while I've heard "let's 86 the _____" numerous times, I honestly wouldn't have connected that to "86 cherries" on an order.

I've worked in food, fast and fancy, and nobody would say "86 cherries" instead of "no cherries". Clarity is conducive to a smoothly flowing kitchen.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 120 points 1 month ago

I was today years old when I realized that she was talking to Homer Hickam, and I've seen the movie October Sky more times than I can count.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 129 points 1 month ago

The Enemy is strong

At the same time

The Enemy is weak

Straight out of the Fascist Guidebook For Dummies

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 111 points 1 month ago

This sounds like something that was made up for a fallout game.

Of course, so does "bombarding myself with xrays and moving around to entertain the audience looking at my bones" and "including uranium in paint to make watch dials glow"

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 215 points 2 months ago

Here's the one that convinced my dad that connecting everything is bad:

Your smart fridge knows what's inside and knows you just added a 12 pack of soda and donuts to the shopping list. They sell that data to a bunch of companies, including your insurance company. They know you have diabetes.

Your insurance rates just went up for the fifth time this year because your insurance company knows what you're eating.

And it's a good thing you don't drink beer or your car insurance would have gone up 'due to increased risk factors.' too bad you wanted to buy a new car this year.

Not only can you not afford it now, the price went up because they know you want a car. I'm sure they would make a payment deal with you though.

And every company will know all about the deal, the beer, the donuts, and all it took was sending money to whatever company had the information, and they were more than happy to sell it.

The more we allow companies to freely operate like this without regulation and without proper punishment for breaking the rules, we will continue sliding toward the hellscape of Ferenginar. For the non trekkies, it's a hyper-capitalist species of profit-driven assholes.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 140 points 2 months ago

Nationalist Christians?

Hmm.... We should come up with a word for that.

How about Nat-Cs?

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 163 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They wear their title proudly. Openly admit it in the streets.

And yet for some reason, are allowed to continue to operate freely.

Our country goes to war for less.

Edit: A friend of mine got this shoved in their mailbox today

Totally not domestic terrorists...

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