IamSparticles

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[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

A little from column A, a little from column B.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. And yet... they definitely want to be able to remove people from voting rolls.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Sure. But they already fired or demoted most of the military leadership that wasn't on board with following absolutely any order, legal or otherwise. So now the "dilemma" falls mostly to lower-level officers and enlisted.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 days ago

They have backup waste collection methods. It's a lot less pleasant, is all.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In order to stabilize the milk they use in the milk chocolate bars and make them last longer on the shelf, they treat it with a process that converts some of the milk fats into butyric acid. That's the vomit flavor. I'm sorry to report that it has probably always tasted that way, you just didn't notice. They've been using the same process since the early 20th century.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the risk of making a sexist comment, she should have been wearing a scrotum for those gigantic balls.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not safe for leggings?

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

Remember when he said his amazing new healthcare plan to replace the ACA was "coming soon"? That was 10 years ago.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

DHS was created in direct response to the 9/11 attacks. It is an agency that was created with the goal of coordinating efforts and information sharing between multiple other agencies so that we don't miss the signs of a terror attack again. But, as many people predicted at the time, that mission has been blurred and subverted. We now have a massively bloated and over-funded agency that acts like it is in control of all the other agencies it was meant to coordinate, without any real mandate to give them such authority. I'm in favor of getting rid of them altogether.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Part of it has to do with the fact that most of the oil we extract in the US now is shale oil, which is lighter and thinner than what they pull out with traditional extraction. Most of the refineries in the US are not equipped to process shale oil, so we export most of it, and import what we can process.

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Would you dare to suggest she does not?

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

We really just need to work on ourselves.

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Iris Nebula (lemmy.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by IamSparticles@lemmy.zip to c/astrophotography@lemmy.world
 

I got two mostly clear nights in a row (a rarity this time of year) and was able to gather a total of about 11 hours of sub-frames on NGC 7023. I wish I could get more of the fainter details, but I think I'm limited by the light pollution in my area (Bortle 6ish).
Gear: Dwarf Mini
Settings: eq mode, 60 second exposures, gain 60, astro filter
683 total sub-frames used in the stack

 

I've dabbled in amateur astronomy for many years, but I've never really gotten into astrophotography because, frankly, I didn't have the patience. Or the funds. Especially considering where I live. It's a Bortle 6 zone not far from Seatltle, so observing conditions are rarely great. This time of year it's mostly overcast.

In the last several years, though, we've got some amazing new devices coming on the market that make the hobby a lot more accessible. And in the last year or so they've become much more affordable. I just got my hands on a Dwarf Lab Mini. So far, I've only had one good clear night to really put it through its paces, but I'm already blown away at what I was able to capture with no real experience. This is the M81 cluster after about 4.5 hours of 60s subframes. The auto-stacked results looked okay, but I grabbed the FITS files off the device and re-stacked them using Siril, then did some post-processing using Seti Astro Suite. Really not much, though. It almost feels like cheating.

 

This is one of Ozzy's preferred snuggling positions this time of year. He'll wait until you're comfortable on the couch, then jump up on the headrest and sort of squirm his way in between the cushion and your head.

 

This is our Ozzy (short for Ozymandias).

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