I wish we's just pick standard time. This whole "let's let noon be at non noon" thing is bizarre.
Kichae
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Being subscribed to those communities (n a single website.
If people would get the fuck off Reddit and decide it was ok to have multiple websites to log into, it would be harder. Internet centralization is a personal security risk.
Americans? No, not as a rule, though I'm getting increasingly fed up with many of their "I'm one of the good ones" declarations.
The USA, though?
Pax Americana has always been a threat, and the country has always been a fascist bully. The sooner we accept that and treat them accordingly the bettet.
Maybe they'll actually do something about it, for once.
I remember CEOs going on national TV to whine about employees working from their couch. They don't give a shit if we're working. They're paying to have control over us.
Probably not so different from some of these CPC MPs.
It's about damn time
Do... Do you think she's seeing this comment?
BMW drivers ~~not signaling~~ should get their car taken away.
I like the taste of sugar. Why do you hate other people's choice when they don't involve you? Seems like a weird thing to put that kind of investment in, and kind of a toxic thing to say.
So, I'm in my 40s, and have never really used noise cancellation. My brain has had all of the time in the world to learn how to do this. Instead, it chooses to amplify and focus on background noise.
Having a conversation in a noisy public space is literally just me doing my best to guess what you are saying at any given time. All I hear is a loud hiss of crowd noise.
And that deal had nothing to do with making allies. It was about selling seed and grain.
The point of it all is not to avoid dealing with bullies. That is not realistic. We are not in a position to do that. It's, rather, to ensure that we're not just a vassal state to a single bully, to be taken for granted.
It weakens the US position if we have other large markets to sell our shit to. It weakens China's position if we haave options beyond them. We don't make ourselves stronger by closing doors and hoping we lock ourselves in with the best bully, but ensuring there are a large number of open ones for us to escape through when things get abusive.
Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.
Hey everyone, just an update to my last post from Sunday night.
The eclipse went off without a hitch -- thankfully, I am not personally capable of interfering with celestial events -- and I have to say, nothing could have ever possibly prepared me for the experience. No photo has ever actually captured what I saw Monday afternoon. I don't think any of them have come close.
Picture of my own attached for total lack of effect.
As I looked down at my camera screen and watched the last light of the crescent Sun disappear from my view, I felt totality occur. The umbra of the Moon swept over me while I looked down, and the world got noticeably chilly. The wind died down. The world was silent for a hiccup. I immediately and excitedly looked up, and I think my brain broke.
Hovering in the sky over Potato World was an black, alien orb, surrounded by a thin ring of brilliant white and pink shimmering fire. It was something straight out of a science fiction movie, and not necessarily a good one, either. It looked so incredibly fake.
It looked downright cartoony.
And it hit me like a ton of bricks. I wept as I stared at it, completely unable to maintain composure. I gawked at how bright the solar corona actually was -- I had completely expected to have to strain to see it. I marveled as I realized I was seeing, with my own two, naked eyes, solar prominences arching over the limb of the Moon. And I just sobbed through the whole experience.
My fiancee, whose interest in this had seemed to be primarily a mix between modest curiosity in a significant natural and cultural event and support for my interest, also cried at seeing it, while her son sat on the ground with his mouth hanging open.
It was both the longest and the shortest 3 minutes of my life. When it was over, I just stood in the field in a daze, periodically pressing my camera's shutter button. In just a few minutes following the end of totality, the field, in which hundreds of people had gathered, was nearly empty. Only a handful of us remained, and most of the others had heavier equipment than my DSLR and tripod.
At the end of the day, I didn't quite get the pictures I wanted. I had hoped to get bracketed exposures during totality, and I had assumed that my camera's settings for that when using the LCD display as digital viewfinder would be the same as when using the optical viewfinder, and they weren't. But I'm not too fussed about it. The pictures still turned out significantly better than I could have hoped for.
I'll be posting the rest of my photos -- including some pictures of Potato World itself -- to my PixelFed account, which can be found here, if anyone's interested: https://pixey.org/i/web/profile/384533916920271164
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Saskatchewan isn't on DST, though... "Amazing how others have figured this out by doing the opposite of it" is not the winning argument you think it is.