Miles O'Brien

should be impeached

Impeached and then executed for treason.

From a certain point of view.

140 (87mph).

I’m sure there are cars where I wouldn’t feel a thing and all that, but mine would shake itself apart.

120/75 is my limit, and honestly my truck shouldn’t be going over 90/55 because it loses the tiny bit of efficiency it has.

New noises don’t bother me. The amount of things that can shake rattle and roll (it’s a mess but it’s all tools and things I need for work) means a new sound pops up every week.

It’s the new slightly different vibration that sketches me out.

Ever so slightly up/down vibration that you can barely feel when you get to 70? Congrats, next week when you drive to work you’ll hit a bump at 15 and the whole front bottom falls off. And now you have 3 other problems because drive shafts start flying all over and smashing into things when they break.

No, I love vehicle ownership and definitely wouldn’t prefer to relax on high speed rail for 20 minutes with a rolling bag/tool box or literally any other form of mass transit…

And I didn’t have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track

Which then was then synced to the Moog Modular

I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn’t realize how much the impact it would be

My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio

synth beats intensify

From my understanding, he has solar/wind powered well pumps, and a septic system he can “shovel out” himself. He had a covered box for deliveries next to his mailbox, and anything that needs to be dropped close to the house can drive straight in, I assume he plans those out ahead of time.

I just checked street view maps and since the last time I was over there he actually has a driveway now! With a gate across it.

Last time I spoke to him regularly enough that house questions wouldnt be weird, he was already working on solar power and already had a “battery wall” from 18650 cells cobbled together from surplus and garage sale battery packs. Had a whole table set up with testing and monitoring stuff for it. Apparently when the power went out, he could keep his fridge and freezer going for “almost a week”

I’m sure by now he’s gotten some of the trees cleared so he can have a garden, as that was also on the list of things he wanted to do to the place.

So he’s probably living as off grid as possible by now, while still using satellite or cellular internet.

It would be weird for me to just out of the blue start talking to him to ask more about it, we were never really “friends” friends, more “he’s friends with my friend so by extension we hang out” which makes it weirder. Not sure why, we just didn’t seem to interact outside of hangouts and group chats. Although if I’m being honest it’s probably because his family is rich so any time he went on about the stuff he’s “built” and “earned” it just rubbed me the wrong way.

But It’s a nice setup for sure.

I’ll be honest, they fucked this game over hard in my opinion.

It really does feel like they separated everyone into teams, and none of the teams spoke to each other once. They all just delivered their chunk of the game without connecting pieces together.

Base building was a nightmare, and that’s the primary reason I downloaded it in the first place.

Then I finished the main quest and spoilers ahead for anyone who cares

Kind of killed literally every desire I had to play the game. Especially when they patched the easily accessed chests that at least gave me a shortcut to some things.

I don’t understand this mentality from people who already have their name out there. You’re supposedly famous and you’re getting mad about being even more famous and recognizable.

A doll house where there’s an even smaller doll house inside, where the tiny TV in the living room plays episodes of the show Dollhouse.

I know someone who did something like this.

They bought a huge garage/warehouse on an empty plot of land, and built essentially two floors of a house right next to each other inside it. Didn’t make it look fancy though, just enough to keep the insulation in and hold everything solidly together.

His reasoning? “it’s got to be cheaper to heat and easier to maintain if it’s inside a cheaper building”

He’s lived there for over a decade and has since gotten married and had a kid, so it’s still working for him.

And I’m not trying to imply that there is no reason to need a truck or no reason to need an SUV.

I didn’t mean to imply that’s what you were saying.

There are exceptions, but yeah 99% of trucks and SUVs on the road simply don’t need to be there.

I’d love electric van, honestly. Most of the stuff I use my truck for doesn’t need the open space up top or the ability to drop a load from above/the side, and the few times I have needed that I could have spent an hour hand loading things. Plus I’d prefer the extra security of having an enclosed cargo space. Vans are better than trucks in all but a small set of circumstances

Most days I don’t need a truck. Most days I don’t want a truck.

But that’s what I’ve got and I can’t exactly just buy a new vehicle, or simply change jobs to one I can cycle to.

I’m a minority though, for most people it’s compensation for insecurity or attempted status symbol. Around here we call them “pavement princesses” because they never touch dirt and likely couldn’t navigate a back yard with its current driver.

My in-laws have a van that can out-pull my pickup. Partly due to my trucks age and how heavily it has been used over the years, but their van isn’t exactly a pushover.

And they have their own pickup that is only a few years old and it can’t tow their camper very well. They use their van whenever they can.

“hits harder than trumps tariffs” is a phrase I’m really getting sick of.

My wife watches shorts all the time and I keep hearing people saying that in them.

Oh completely 100% agreed, and neglect isn’t the only form of child abuse going on but CPS has visited them plenty of times and interviewed all the kids and neighbors (before we moved in) over custody battles with some adopted ones. (they’re all related, long story with too many identifying details but some parents died and all the children are cousins and siblings) so they at least aren’t doing anything that CPS cares about.

But holy shit I have never wanted to curb stomp my sister in law a-la American History X more than when I went over one day and I could hear screaming halfway down the 1/4mi driveway, and when I walked in she was in the 6 year Olds face screaming at the top of her lungs about how she’s tired of telling the 6 year old to put her shoes away, four of the kids were slowly doing chores in the living room and kitchen with tears running down their faces, and I could hear the 13 year old sobbing upstairs. Their mother screamed so hard and long that she burst a blood vessel in her eye and detached the retina. As usual though the moment she saw me she stopped and pretended like she wasn’t doing anything.

Since then I’ve had my phone on record in my pocket whenever I’m coming over unannounced just in case I can catch it. Bare minimum it will be something to show the courts when one of the kids becomes a serial killer.

Their dad is no help, he’s an enabler and honestly a broken shell of a person when it comes to his wife.

Grandparents are worse than parents.

My wife watches them whenever she can, and takes them on surprise day trips to get away from their parents and some of the siblings when possible but holy shit they do not make it easy to take them anywhere.

I don’t regret marrying my wife but I can honestly say my in-laws are insane and anyone could understand why I hate them.

Uhhhhhhh what was the topic again? Sorry for the vent.

In fairness, that’s why I feel like getting a leash.

Plus the oldest is 13 and at least she’s responsible enough for us to look away for a few minutes and she will still be there.

I’ve always felt weird about parents who have those backpack leashes for their kids, but now that I’ve been living next to my in-laws for a year, who have 8 children, I understand some of them.

I refuse to take some their kids anywhere unless one of them is with my wife and I.

One would absolutely go sprinting full speed away and hide from us just because he thinks it’s hilarious.

Two would wander off because they saw something shiny and their brains are like an etch-a-sketches where every time a new thought enters, the old one has to get wiped away.

One would do the exact opposite of anything we say just because he figures he can.

And three others would absolutely just wander off, not because they want to but just because kids aren’t always the best at spatial awareness and simply get too far away. And would be terrified if they noticed their adults were nowhere in sight.

I mean, that thing is working so hard it turned the entire surrounding countryside into desert!

“my car brain cannot fathom how such places can exist, where is the parking, why aren’t there more lanes???”

Turns out, productivity soars when you have a well rested, well compensated, well treated, healthy, and housed people who don’t have constant stessors of literally every aspect of their lives nearly crumbling beneath them…