SARGE

There's 1,000 jokes that can be made in sure, but in the US I once found a grenade while magnet fishing and called a guy my parents know who is a cop. The moment I realized what it was, I told my friend to run to the end of the bridge, and I gently laid it on the pile of rope I was using.

They have a whole bomb squad that's about 30 minutes away at full speed, and they rolled up with their trailer, a guy in a suit came over to the bridge and placed it in a box, put the box in the trailer, and one dull THUNK later all I had to do was sign a paper saying this is where I found it.

I specifically called my parents friend rather than 911 because I had read too many accounts of cops showing up and attempting to arrest the magnet fisher for any number of reasons.

UXO is no fucking joke, don't for a second think you can handle it without training. You really have no idea what explosive compound they used or what it's stability level is after being exposed to the elements.

You're splitting hairs.

I've legitimately tried that, even tried no alarm at all.

The no alarm is a bad idea just because every so often I just sleep right on through, if I've had a particularly harsh day.

I think my brain just goes "you sneaky fuck, I know you REALLY want to get up at 7 so we are getting up at 630ishjust to be sure."

Any questionable software I have is coming up on 4 years old now, most of it is older than that. I move them to a new machine every time I upgrade, simply because I don't trust torrents anymore.

Honestly, I don't trust PDFs anymore unless they're from places I know are "safe" which kind of sucks because I've been getting back into RC as a hobby and it's hard to find non-pdf plans. I prefer vector files, but I'm having to try my luck with jpg and png files.

A lot of the programs I used to use have been surpassed by current FOSS projects, and I've been replacing them as I can. Finding an open source laser engraver program that isn't shit is proving difficult.

Addicts always gotta justify how they get their fix, I guess.

I don't need an alarm.

I wake up every few hours regardless.

And I'm always awake about 20 minutes before my alarm, no matter that time I set it to.

Existence is pain

I'm not sure how Canada feels about a foreign legion, but I'm willing to volunteer.

Note: this applies to any country the Orange Jackass threatens to invade.

But like.... Organize first.

Otherwise you're just a crazed lone gunman dead in the street.

I'm starting to think "Fascinating" is the universal translator's attempt at censoring Vulcans.

Its basically what all of them say when what they should probably be saying is "What the actual fuck is wrong with you?"

Sidenote: I absolutely cracked up in the episode of strange new worlds where Spock

If they all got their proper iron necktie, French revolution style, the only time they would be discussed is when you read another report that the lasting damage they caused has been repaired and the systems they tried to eradicate have been restored.

Human: "We took the second warp core you helped us build and plugged it into the first one, just to see what would happen.... It blew up. But we got to do some pretty cool science in the process!"

Vulcan looking on in pure astonishment

Vulcan: "Fascinating. You were meant to place that in another ship, or study it for improving your own designs."

Human: "yeah, crazy huh... Can we have another?"

Vulcan: arches eyebrow "Very well."

I can go to my individual comments and check the scores, but I like that I can't see any cumulative score. I'm a sucker for "number go up" games.

Lemmy isn't a competition.