I’ve had it with weird nerds shitting on Academy so thankfully I’m a bigger weird nerd.

@virtualbri @hacks4pancakes
I worked as an engineer on the Channel Tunnel project.
I also automatically pull every door that says Push. Every. Single. Time.

@hacks4pancakes I don’t know what you’re watching or reading to trigger that toot, I only know that I wish you joy of it!

@hacks4pancakes have they met teenagers?

@hacks4pancakes shine on!

@marcotietz no, weird sci fi nerds have never met the following:
Women
Queer people
Kids (strangely)
Actual military members

@hacks4pancakes also: https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/01/man-24-goes-hospital-ww1-bomb-stuck-rectum-26650643/

@hacks4pancakes Suddenly grateful that when I accidentally shocked myself with a camera flash capacitor twice at 15 I didn't need medical attention.

If the worst case can rattle a Sgt, I don't want to know what I was extremely fortunate enough to avoid.

@hacks4pancakes
“The main difference between the Boy Scouts and the US Army is the Boy Scouts have adult supervision”

(Maybe I’ll watch Academy eventually. Still gotta get around to finishing Lower Decks.)

@hacks4pancakes the number of times I’ve reminded peer senior NCOs that, yes, the juniors *literally* don’t know better, that’s why you’re here.

It’s a lot.

@hacks4pancakes swallowing the comm badge isn't even the dumbest thing they'd do. One of them would absolutely put it the other way round.

@hacks4pancakes they must have lived a very isolated and weirdly alternative lifecycle, coming onto this planet as grown up weird sci fi nerds skipping all the interesting parts.

@virtualbri @hacks4pancakes and I managed to shock myself with a capacitor from a camera flash. By myself. No need for someone to do it for me.

@hacks4pancakes I solve this problem by avoiding star trek, because I'm genuinely not smart enough for it.

@hacks4pancakes MySpace girlfriend?

@virtualbri I tried to pick an electric guitar with my mouth and died flying only a few measures toward the Sun that’s Hendrix.. @hacks4pancakes

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I was a legal specialist. I was 19 on my first assignment and entirely disabused of the notion of common sense before I was 20.

@hacks4pancakes Can confirm. We had folks that would take naps on the containers of depleted uranium 30mm rounds who claimed the goal was self-sterilization.