Miles O'Brien

In the Radio Drama, Obi-Wan even says to Han Solo that he hasn’t touched money in a long time and has been making his way on his own for some time.

I take that to mean he has no official presence on tatooine.

Plus let’s be honest, rim worlds don’t exactly have good, robust governments that keep track of everyone. They made that clear early on. You can patrol the streets of major cities and their space ports, but without a major presence, the empire has no idea who lives where in the outer rim.

Plus “Skywalker” would definitely be a common name given how historically on earth a lot of last names correspond to trades and careers, so a “Skywalker” was descended from someone who got their name piloting, or generally being someone who spends a lot of time in space.

So combine all those together with the characters being on a planet that Darth Vader has every reason to hate and disregard, (he was a slave there, his mother died there and he feels responsible, and also… Sand…) the empire could comb the desert and not find shit.

When people get impatient and honk at me to move when I can only scoot a few feet, I hit the brakes and come to a full stop while traffic keeps inching. Maybe I’ll let another car in our lane,maybe not. Either way, we will both be leaving traffic at the same time whether I’m an inch away from the car ahead of me, or 30ft. If I can get out and walk faster than traffic, there’s no point in getting pissy over cars not squeezing in every inch they can.

People like my dad, who grew up in the 70s and early 80s, still jump at the mention of the dirty evil C word

Fuck, parts of my family have definitely been here longer than most current politician’s families, but apparently I’m a domestic terrorist.

I have freaked out several people because I stop mid-drive to carry turtles across the road.

Remember: take it to the side it’s moving toward or it will just cross again.

JOB

There was a bigger turnout for our hastily organized last minute pride in a rural red state town.

… People actually do app subscriptions? Not a meme, I’m actually asking because that sounds crazy to me.

It’s a sawyer, and both marketing materials and real world testing say otherwise. Personal experience also tells me my filter is keeping me healthy while my neighbors don’t even bother listening to boil advisories.

For drinking pure water, we use a brita tap filter, and a sawyer filter straw, and just have it gravity feed into a pitcher. The pitcher usually doesn’t last a full day.

For cooking, we just use the tap filter and a cheap gravity filter with a reservoir. No need to go all out when you’re boiling the water lol

The Sawyer filter can be cleaned by forcing distilled water through in reverse, it unclogs the straw/membrane filter, but it only works for so long. Luckily the sawyer still works like a charm after thousands of gallons.

Disclaimer: I have not been testing for bacteria or other contaminants, I just go by taste and swap filters when something tastes off. I have no proof this filters everything, but neighbors have gotten sick around times when boil advisories go out, when we’ve been healthy the whole time. Could just be coincidence.

I’ve been using a water filter to filter my tap water for years, because tap water tastes nasty.

WHO’S LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES! I mean, not me because things still suck, but at least I’m reasonably sure I won’t get a disease after my city reduced funding for water treatment.

… Ew. That’s a gross sentiment.

Yeah but that’s different.

Because… Something something USA sucks HAHAHA A PWND now let me spam emojis and gifs while pointing out spelling and grammar errors because I have no real argument and just want to feel smugly superior.

/s, obviously.

Immigrants are both lazy slobs that mooch off society, AND taking all our jobs.

The enemy is both weak and strong.

I’d love to!

Now if anyone wants to donate to my Moving Fund…

Either that or it will become a toxic cesspool that you can smell for kilometers.

As someone who used to like the pool, I hope this happens and stays that way until we sort our shit out.

I have been getting the lgbt+ people in my area acquainted with firearms, and while some of them aren’t mentally in a place where they can join us, they will be protected if needed.

Already this year one of my “students” has had to defend themselves in an alley while walking home. Guy made transphobic comments, waited outside and followed. Security cameras managed to catch everything but in this city if there hadn’t been cameras, she’d be tossed in a cell with a bunch of guys and then the cops would leave and hope something bad happens. It wouldn’t be the first time.

When the people surrounding you would happily chuck a stone at you or hoist the rope into the tree with the rest of the lynch mob, and cops won’t protect you, all the people trying to mock you for being prepared just look like naive children whose world view extends to the end of their HOA.

Look up “Certifiably Ingame” on whatever front-end of youtube you use, and check out his Playlist on starships. He goes into detail about various classes and specific named ships, and for the classes will bring up their naming conventions and uses and whatnot.

Side note: I don’t understand the idea that an animated comedy show is somehow “less Canon” than a live action drama show.

Why?

LD is just as Canon as discovery. Honestly discovery, in my opinion, is entirely implausible because the runners were adamant that it be set before TOS, but the tech and shipsizes is definitely post DS9. Possibly even golden age of exploration huge.

But for some reason lower Decks is “not Canon” to some people…

I would argue you can absolutely disprove it, empirically. By demonstrating. Just do the thing and go “wow it didn’t take forever!”

They’re “going fishing” trying to find probable cause to get you out of the vehicle and allowed to search you and it.

If you say you’re going to / from the bar? Well obviously you’ve been drinking, please step out of the vehicle.

I don’t always say “officer you don’t need that information” I just say something like “home/library” since it provokes the least amount of questions.