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5-29-22, 12:45am
The whole image, across the entire color frequency range, from the Apple-spec curves to the Fuji ones, which have vastly more color saturation. ...
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5-28-22, 11:24pm
I learned how to remap color profiles in photos.
First, photo right off older iPhone, standard Apple color map.
Second, remapping that to...
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5-28-22, 5:00pm
After spending decades helping my partner with that, and having available the best mental health services money and contacts could buy, I'd have to...
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5-28-22, 2:23pm
I have never bothered with it.
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5-28-22, 2:11pm
It's clever marketing.
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5-27-22, 5:06pm
There's some cultural adjacency to the MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way), PUA (Pickup Artist), and MRA (Men's Rights Activist) communities.
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5-27-22, 4:40pm
I think the incels self-label though?
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5-27-22, 4:20pm
Stop that, I'm almost out of eye-bleach!
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5-27-22, 4:17pm
"Incel" to me seems like shorthand for "misogyny, patriarchy, and privilege".
Amia Srinivasan's recent book "The Right to Sex" is a good read, btw.
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5-27-22, 1:33pm
I think the first question is "what am I going to college for?" Is it to learn something specific? To get a credential? To impress people? To...
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5-27-22, 11:57am
I don't know if you noticed, but before the bodies were even cold, fake-news was circulating on the Internet claiming the shooter was trans/queer,...
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5-27-22, 1:07am
Did y'all see the Oklahoma bill that got signed into law today?
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5-26-22, 9:57am
The responding police department did not, from news accounts, follow the current nationwide protocols for responding to active shooters.
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5-25-22, 1:56am
The brakes seem to not be wearing much due to the regenerative braking, and there is a 1200 foot descent from my house to the main road here every...
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5-25-22, 1:49am
I suspect you are wrong. Might want to read the Heller decision.
When the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written, it was commonly-accepted...
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5-25-22, 12:32am
It is "Elvis", the only word he knew when I got him from the rescue agency years ago, as a totally wild ~2 year old. He's saved over 40 lives so far...
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5-25-22, 12:27am
I believe if you look at the last 20+ years of discussion on this topic on this forum you might find some suggestions involving:
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5-24-22, 11:16pm
Perhaps the problem is more nuanced than that?
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5-24-22, 11:14pm
He's quite a genius.
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5-24-22, 11:00pm
It is nearly my favorite car, and I have a whole fleet to pick from. It's reasonably zippy here, handles like a go-cart, the dog fits in the back or...
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5-24-22, 10:36pm
Today here at Ice Station Zebra:
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5-24-22, 9:27pm
I believe the traditional phrase is "useful idiot".
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5-22-22, 11:09pm
I'm just glad I taught my daughter to sail.
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5-17-22, 2:45pm
Because it's North Korea.
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5-17-22, 10:34am
The North Korean economy…. I think there’s not really much to destroy.
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5-14-22, 3:56pm
Nifty:
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5-13-22, 7:07pm
Not especially artistic. But, I've been experimenting using some of my astronomy image processing tools on terrestrial photos.
Modern computers...
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5-13-22, 6:17pm
Get help.
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5-13-22, 5:40pm
Get help.
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5-13-22, 5:25pm
It seems to be that you are the one engaged in deflection and general buffoonery.
And your assertion about my views on medical providers is, of...
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5-13-22, 12:08pm
Same. With one set of notable exceptions - my Aunt some years back suddenly became a "quiverfull" fundamentalist Christian, and her opinion changed...
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5-13-22, 11:15am
We know what you are saying…
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5-12-22, 8:16pm
I have some friends who have been happy using "obsolete" Android phones as simple media players. They are basically free.
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5-12-22, 3:47pm
I just load music/podcasts/audiobooks onto my Apple Watch now. And turn off notifications.
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5-12-22, 1:45pm
I'm happy to stipulate that human life begins at conception. And I believe both the mother and the child deserve consideration of their interests....
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5-11-22, 1:37pm
"Easily-bypassed" restrictions which are more stringent than my own state currently has. Where we don't seem to have many "late-term" abortions. ...
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5-11-22, 1:09pm
The bill under debate proposes a *more stringent* standard than my state currently has. Yet we have very few "late-term" abortions here. (And you...
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5-11-22, 12:11pm
Odd, that's not what the text appears to say. It seems to protect abortion "at any point or points in time prior to fetal viability", and allows it...
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5-11-22, 12:45am
Yes, my sister and her husband made quite a bit of money selling their children. They had one deal fall through for a bit, and brought the newborn...
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5-11-22, 12:31am
Plus the doctor might have been worried about liability concerns from damaging the man's property.
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5-10-22, 11:12pm
I believe I have related the sordid tale of my sister on these forums before. She and her abusive husband, to support their on-the-lam life of...
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5-10-22, 9:56pm
Remember in 1999 when we lost the Mars Climate Orbiter because of an English/Metric conversion issue? $125 million of your tax dollars, flush.
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5-10-22, 9:50pm
I sent Elon a note the other day to see about getting one of my strobes up there, but I haven't heard back yet. Soon though!
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5-10-22, 9:37pm
When I first moved to Silicon Valley in the mid-80s, my classmates and I rented a 5 bedroom home in Atherton for the 10 of us, and used it as our...
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5-10-22, 9:32pm
I believe it is considerably cheaper to educate them, provide them other essential services, and get them into productive lifestyles, than to end up...
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5-10-22, 9:04pm
As is mine. Guess I'm a bigot then. Well played. Enjoy.
Excellent job letting Q-Anon disrupt and derail useful information.
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5-10-22, 8:17pm
When your doctor is calculating dosages, does he use pounds and teaspoons? When he looks at your chart with your self-reported weight, or the...
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5-10-22, 8:03pm
Just took a shot out the window, looking down into the sound, by the oyster farm. There's a lot of it today:
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5-10-22, 7:58pm
Wow. Where do you make this stuff up? I assure you, we use the metric system here in our medical protocols. And I've seen, well, probably a lot...
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5-10-22, 7:28pm
Perhaps, oh, I don't know, because we use the metric system generally in science and medicine? Even here in the USA(*)?
You don't even know...
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5-10-22, 6:54pm
My source is a well-respected physician and researcher, who happens to have directed some of the most effective covid response efforts in the...
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5-10-22, 5:24pm
Doesn't the draft decision mention problems with "the domestic supply of infants"?...
I bet there's some unpacking to be done there...
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5-10-22, 5:20pm
By pure coincidence, I went to a training class a couple weeks ago to become certified to work at a marine observatory right near there. That is...
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5-10-22, 4:55pm
The sun is at last showing up here!
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5-10-22, 4:49pm
I guess I'm bibliosexual :-)
I read 1-2 books a day, like clockwork. (Reading quite rapidly, and having near-total control of my own time helps a...
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5-10-22, 3:49pm
Not all of those texts are for all audiences. You know this of course....
I mean, my math/physics library contains a copy of Misner, Thorne, and...
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5-10-22, 2:51pm
Just a quick handheld shot from the deck last night, during a brief period of clear sky:
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5-10-22, 2:48pm
It must be horrible to have such a constrained life that you can't imagine people having expertise in a variety of subjects.
I can point you at...
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