You seriously consider speeding up research at your lab by turfing it to a younger, but more "exceptional" lead researcher
You've stopped your monthly donations to NPR because you plan to invade their homeworld
You dread every confirmed discovery of an extrasolar planet because that's just one more thing you'll have to change about your system maps
Your solution to the "low fuel" light going on in your car is to pull into the nearest gas station and siphon some fuel from nearby civilian vehicles.
the navy of your native country has, sadly, rejected your proposal to replace the small number of large missile launchers on their ships with a massive number of very small ones
you've written to both NASA and CNSA to critique the design of their martian shuttle system.