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I've become so disillusioned with humanity. I'm rooting for the asteroid at this point.

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I've gone on many long road trips with my EV now, and I don't regret switching to electric... ... except when I have to wait 40 minutes for a spot to open up at the only charger within range 😒

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Even then, I'm not annoyed because I have to wait as much because there needs to be like a bajillion new chargers if this EV thing is ever going to happen. Good ones — 150kW MINIMUM. With the political...

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Sometimes I can just about convince myself I should unplug my modem and never connect to the internet again

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I think being in the office last week helped my mood for a few reasons:• Actually focused on work - Less time on my phone - Less time available to think about, well... everything - Actually let myself...

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uspol tropeIn the past, I've found the videos from LegalEagle to be interesting and often informative, but lately they've been triggering me because they are something like "Can Trump do X?"Asking...

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uspol trope cynicismThis is the thing that gets me so depressed. People don't see how the guardrails (if they ever existed) have been removed.I'm not depressed because I believe a fascist coup is...

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"Do Not Comply in Advance"❌ bossy❌ already a cliche❌ Implies permission to comply later"Fuck You, Make Me"✅ leads by example✅ directs yelling at opposition instead of allies✅ easy to chant at a protest...

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I just discovered I've been using one of my #astrophotography cameras wrong this whole time 🤯🤦🏻‍♀️Well, not "wrong", but not to its full potential. Everything that I've done with my monochrome camera...

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For reference, I'm referring to my ASI294MM camera. I had no idea the 66ke full well depth spec *only applies in Bin2*. The full well depth is only 14.4ke in Bin1. I've been imaging with a quarter of...

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If that sounds like technobabble to you, here's a quick explanation:- Full well depth: if each pixel on the camera sensor is like a little bucket to collect photons like rain drops, then this is...

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A challenge in astrophotography is that the stars in an image are orders of magnitude brighter than most of the objects you want to image. To get a good pic, it's very easy to set the exposure time (or...

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Now I'm very excited to redo some of the images I've done. Particularly, my pic of the Helix Galaxy. I wanted to get a better pic, but I wasn't sure whether there was much I could do other than to just...

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Apparently today is the day of the Superb Owl 🦉

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ALL PRAISE THE SUPERB OWL

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I just had a brief moment of amusement thinking about how people used to be shocked at the notion of a woman wearing pants lolHumans are dumb lol

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I was too curious about how one of my little experiments from last night turned out and it distracted me from work. It turned out okay, all things considered (the moon was bright and I did a number of...

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dreampostingI had a dream last night that a jet carrying Amazon packages from Arizona blew up above us and we were running around dodging falling boxes and keeping whatever random crap was in them. We...

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Sometimes I feel like I should just quit my job and focus exclusively on fighting to keep democracy alive in this country, but I literally don't know what *I* could do that might have an impact.

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To be clear, it's not that I don't think anything can be done. I just don't have the competencies and disposition to be any good at them. I'm an introverted loner electronics nerd, not an inspirational...

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