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Father's Day MelancholyMy dad passed away from leukemia back around this time of year in 2010. You never really get over something like that, but I've learned to accept it.That doesn't stop me from...
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Stayed up to an ungodly hour again on Friday night to get another pic of the Lagoon and Trifid nebulae (M8 and M20).This time, it was with a new, better camera (ASI2600MC), and using an L-eXtreme...
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Today is one of those days when I'm in a good mood and fully capable of working hard and being productive.... but I don't actually want to so I spend the whole time daydreaming and getting absolutely...
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Like, it's not one of those days where I'm not getting work done because I'm distracted by something else. I could do work, no problem. I'm pretty sure it's because I lack any sort of sense of urgency...
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I *almost* want to do work — I want that feeling of accomplishment — but it's not quite enough motivation to push me across that threshold.If anything, I'm feeling somewhat bored. I want to be doing...
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Now I know why this all caused me a vague sense of unease: If I have too much time to think aimlessly, the brain weasels attack.
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Just a reminder that compound interest is not a law of nature, it's a human construct
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What I mean by that is the idea that loaning money automatically implies accumulating interest is not accurate.It's a choice someone made. It's a choice people continue to make. Applying a moral...
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This is the argument to forgiving student loans and other forms of debt.Debt is a human construct. It's based on the moral principle of reciprocity, so it's not arbitrary, but it is imaginary. There's...
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"But that would have consequences!"Consequences to *whom*? Bankers? Why do we care what they think or feel? Who decided they *must* profit from every single transaction, without exception or limit?
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It's just really strange to me that our society is structured such that acquiring some wealth somehow entitles a person to acquire even more wealth? Like, yeah that's how capitalism works, but when you...
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And it's all based on simple ideas like compound interest that we take for granted to the point of basically being axioms of society.These are the kind of concepts that make a world without capitalism...
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I'm not even sure that compound interest is entirely bad. I just think that its ubiquity is wrong. Like, why do student loans have compound interest? I thought the point of higher education is that all...
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Happy Juneteenth!Here's the big ball of angry plasma in the sky that's currently trying to give much of the US heatstroke today. #solar#astrophotography
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I finally managed to put together a timelapse video of the annular #solar#eclipse from way back on October 16 of last year!#astrophotography
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Here's a zoomed in version to show the flare activity that I caught at the same time. #solar#astrophotography
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This was captured in Albuquerque, NM with a Lunt LS50THa telescope and an ASI178MM camera on a Sky-Watcher Solarquest mount. The changes in lighting are because the Solarquest mount was getting...
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It took me so long to make this because I was so new at astrophotography at the time and I didn't know how to turn the raw images into a timelapse.The real challenge turned out to be getting all of the...
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