I threw this together in 2 minutes: 
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Salamander on Anaximander
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.
I threw this together in 2 minutes: 
Salamander on Anaximander


There are three things you don’t mess with
Mother nature
Mother in laws
And my mother fucking money
No pay, no work.


I mean, after a certain point, yes.
Two frogs sit in a pot of water, one turns to the other and says “were on a fire, we should leave before the water boils”
The second frog turns to the first and says “you’re being alarmist, things aren’t that bad.”
This sounds like the second frog.‡
It might be the more practical choice to keep backing away and keeping yourself and the people you care about out of the spotlight as long as possible, it’s certainly the safer choice and one that probably leads to a longer life…
You are certainly more optimistic about the future of the country than I am. I train because honestly I find it a little fun, competing with my own best times on various drills and courses. I also in recent years have come to train even harder and begun introducing LGBT friends to firearms, because I believe the country is headed toward civil war.
I’m not inviting my LGBT work friends to my range because I want them to attack ICE. I invite them and encourage them to buy their own firearm and train for self defense because I have literally heard other coworkers say, out loud to be met with nods and agreements, “any day now they’ll let us loose and I can go killin all them fs and tr***s (slurs for LGBT people)” and no end of bullshit about how “mentally ill” and “unstable” they supposedly are.
Besides, if my choices are “concentration camp v0.95” and “best case scenario being on the run after a shootout with the gestappo” then I know which choice I’m making.
You definitely have way more faith in our (metaphorical) neighbors and the system than I do. That probably a good thing, I’m a depressed pessimist with tons of anxiety about the state of the world. If more people were like me we would be like 10 years into a Civil War already or worse.
‡(frogs don’t actually sit in blowly heating water as certain movies like to say, they still will leave at some point when it gets uncomfortable)
I’m not bi but I like frogs…
So… I have nothing here. I’m at a :.|:;


My state surprised me during covid.
It’s not surprising me now…


And what about very old fiends?


Well I know who I think I am.

In a similar vein, by one of my favorite music-ish channel:
How rap sounds to non English speakers: https://youtu.be/BdOtR2A5agc
You’re still more patient Than I.
It’s great that they’re rational enough to change their views in the face of evidence, even if it takes more evidence than it usual.
bit my tongue to not torpedo our relationship
I’m so glad my wife is basically no contact with her parents, because I never have to play nice with them.


“EU considers following modern Nazi policy”


If I give France $1,000,000,000 to use a specific shade of color, but make the color on Brazilian machinery owned by Brazilians… I’ve still given France $1B. Have I not?
Oh, it’s definitely a thing. Especially with Lower Decks being animated, and therefore easily replicated in style.
… Not that I’d know anything about such things.
Infinite realities means infinite possibilities, so somewhere in the multiverse there’s a starfleet absolutely filled with cock monsters.
The question is, do they seek out new life for exploration?
Or is it for cocks…


I guess Google just says “fuck 'em”?
Yes, 100%, absokutely correct.
Google is a company.
Companies do not care about you. You are not a person, you are a number.
My favorite experience with this was when I worked at a sporting goods store, we had a district wide meeting an hour away at 7am, planned in under 24 hours which changed everyone’s weekend plans, and it was mandatory.
The district manager comes out and does this, but to only a handful of good mornings, and the second time was met with dead silence.
He awkwardly tried to use our lack of enthusiasm as an example of “employee bases theft from the company” because if we aren’t faking being super happy and perky the second we’re at work, the company loses sales.
They handed out some shopping bags with some kind of peach smelling candy and some hand sanitizer. When the meeting was over, I didn’t see a single person take the bag with them, and everyone basically sprinted to their cars in under a minute.
Productivity was just a word the next morning. It took two days to unload a truck that normally gets done in 6-8 hours.
I don’t think anyone organized some kind of slow down and forgot to tell me, I think we just all felt the same way “fuck this place, I work hard and they call it lazy so let’s see how they like it when I AM lazy”


10 white guys
NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR


I used to think my own sight was bad enough. I get little tiny Starbursts around lights. And I mean tiny. This dot - • - would look like the same dot with a / plastered on top.
Finding out the OP picture is how my wife sees the world at night was a little mind blowing. I knew it could get bad, but damn.
“930”
We have differing opinions on “reasonable”
… I spent $98 on the cheapest toilet in my area.
It flushes.
10/10