Miles O'Brien

regular hours.

Apologies, but as someone who has never worked in an office, “regular hours” is a meaningless phrase.

And here I thought you’d need an archeologist or a bunch of space dwarves to find the bar for that one…

N=N+1, apparently.

Lol nvidia CEO couldn’t do my job for an hour.

I am absolutely confident that I could do his job for an hour.

The empty chair in his office does his job just as easily, too.

You can tell me all about the meetings and deals they have to worry about but ultimately, by the time a company gets that large, it could run itself without a c-suite for quite some time.

No worries, tone isn’t easily conveyed in text and with everything else it’s totally understandable.

And if I’m being completely honest, it may have a slight bias toward that way just from me being from the US. I just didn’t consciously/purposely do so.

I did mean to simply say that I wish we could achieve such things here without resorting to what arguably most modern governments have done, if not recently then in the past.

It’s doable, we just need the people in charge to have the best intentions for all people.

Fat fucking chance of that in the US these days (or for the last 40 years)

You just gave proof that the people who are in the way don’t matter in the US either, as long as it’s about building inner city highways.

I don’t know where I managed to say anything to the contrary… As you point out, I literally give proof that people in the way don’t matter.

It’s impressive what you can accomplish when the people who oppose it/are in the way don’t matter in the slightest to the people in charge.

I’d love to see this level of expansion anywhere in the US, done properly and without targeting minorities and the poor like we do too often…

If I could ride a metro line to work and to the store, I’d be soooooo happy. No more daily driver for me! Except my bikes, of course. I’d be saving all that money for more bicycles.

Whenever someone asks “well why isn’t there a STRAIGHT pride?” or “what about X lives, don’t they matter?”

Rather than explaining that you can celebrate one thing without pushing another out, I’ve decided to use the tools people like this keep saying I need: the Bible.

Luke 15:4-6 4 Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’

Nowhere does it say “Jesus said the shepherd should abandon that one because ALL sheep matter, and there will be NO celebration of the thing that was lost and has been regained.”

Of course, I’ve been accused of being “a satanic supporter of the antichrist” because I “cherry pick verses that say things I like” Without a hint of irony.

They’re going to come for FIFA’s club games, or they’re going to come for the World Cup, or they’re going to come for the Olympics, come and see sporting events

Nobody’s coming anymore, nobody wants to risk being thrown in a concentration camp because they aren’t white and rich and supporting Trump enough.

Getting ANYONE who isn’t already actively trying to reduce their own vehicle usage or doesn’t use primarily mass transit to pay attention to how much space has been given up for cars is like pulling teeth from a stone.

Even people who have never had a car seem to think cars are the only thing to use.

Getting anyone to even acknowledge the complete lack of travel infrastructure around my area is hard. There are few sidewalks outside the downtown area and a few surrounding residential areas. There are no sidewalks connecting downtown being 4 intersections.

There are two bike lanes that total about 1.5mi, marked on the shoulder of a street as an afterthought, and no penalties for parking in it.

Some of the roads around here don’t even have enough shoulder to allow two semi trucks to pass, let alone two cars and a bike.

I’m contemplating making a sign for my bike trailer that says “IF YOU ARE ANNOYED I’M HERE, TELL YOUR LOCAL COUNCIL TO BUILD A BIKE PATH”

I have started saying “bike path” instead of “bike lane” when talking to most people since they get offended at the mere thought of “losing a lane” to cyclists.

I’ve also thought about making a sign that says “rider is armed and carries a brick” since people literally throw things at me and some have even gotten out of their cars to scream at me.

Just for that, I’m going to NOT use my car when I was otherwise planning to.

I mean, I pretty much only drive now when my destination is too far to bike, but I’ve biked to other states before, I can do it again.

Why not just tattoo a number on their arm?

I’m sure there’s no possibility that subdermal trackers would ever be used in shitty ways.

Why not both?

Well, at least in my state, we ALL own the road, since we all* pay taxes. YOU get 1/5000000th of the road, YOU get 1/5000000th of the road !

So yes, you partially own the road, but SO DO I MOTHERFUCKER. Me being on a bicycle changes nothing.

*inversely proportional to net worth

If you are going to make a principled vote in the name of sending a message, I think it’s only reasonable to be honest about the effects of that decision.

Oh my god I feel this so much.

Did you take a stand and stick to principles? Yes! Congratulations. But if you cannot accept that in doing so, you effectively voted for whatever you felt the majority of votes would go to.

I am related to several people who voted 3rd party, are adamant they did nothing to assist Trump getting elected, but ALSO hold the opinion that congressional members who vote “present” instead of yes or no are cowards hiding behind a “no vote” because they want the majority to win but they don’t want to be on record for it.

What is a 3rd party vote if not “present”?

Lol I say I agree and I get shit on

OK, boomer

The “I’m doing the thing you’re doing but throwing it back at you” and “thanks or whatever” definitely is.

I’m cool with people snitching on someone pouring greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere.

They’re being helpful and assuming you may genuinely not know the word, and are giving you the correct version for the context.

Getting defensive isn’t necessary.

And the best part is, you don’t have to try choosing the right one!

Just slap it all on, and each republican will happily pick the one they like best and cling to it, while dismissing everything else as immaterial to whatever discussion they are in.

See also: single issue voters.