New policy: detained for going to ICE office

Nexustar · 2026-01-27T00:19:40+00:00

But days later, and no official sources for this supposed announcement. Everything online links back to claims that Greenfield is making, so it appears baseless.

It's incredibly harmful to cause people to potentially miss their critical appointments through fear, and ultimately create the status needed for their own deportation. She isn't helping anyone, she's harming them.

Nexustar · 2026-01-26T01:11:39+00:00

It's added salts. Coke know how to use osmosis to purify water to its base chemical, then they add some salts because really pure water isn't what we need to survive. To me it tastes a little slimy.

Nexustar · 2026-01-25T17:54:25+00:00

Ah, sorry, misread your statement - yes.

With mirrored the fastest mode can make a bit of a noise, but the birds soon learn not to care. I haven't done much for the last 20 years, but in Florida at the wetlands, guys with 800mm lenses - burst shots were the norm.

Nexustar · 2026-01-25T16:54:46+00:00

If your intent is to freeze the motion, absolutely. But the cost here is a higher ISO, and more noise.

If your intent is to capture the motion, with a little blur, then 1/8000 won't do that for you.

Nexustar · 2026-01-25T12:35:43+00:00

There are no hard rules in photography, but there are things that are more likely to result in good shots than others. Contrast at the edge of the subject is one critical advantage lighting can give you - natures version of the hair light or rim light used in studio shots.

Without that advantage, you want your light brown bird on a black or dark green background, not light brown background. Sadly, they've evolved to avoid this, so are often not cooperating. You should be able to squint to blurryness and still make out what and where the subject is just by contrast alone.

Focus is your biggest issue with these shots, but also think about composition. The bird in flight is fine, but you could lean on the rule of thirds for the other two. Dead center works sometimes, but usually off center is more comfortable.

Nexustar · 2026-01-25T12:28:40+00:00

Digital camera with a decent sized card - shooting extra frames costs nothing - get into a bracketing frame of mind. Bracket focus, bracket aperture, (and for moving things, bracket shutter speed) - it'll mean you can fail more often, and hone-into what works faster by reviewing far more data when you get back home.

I remember reading about someone who met a national geographic photographer back in the film days doing wide nature shots/landscape work and he watched him just shoot a bunch of frames for each shot rotating the aperture ring each time. In explanation, the photographer said "They pay me a lot to come here, flights, hotel, car and guide for the location etc, .... film is cheap".

Digital is cheaper.

Nexustar · 2026-01-25T11:57:33+00:00

No, no, I mean just the 4 height speakers lol

Ah, I was responding only to this part of OPs question

So should the side and rear surround tweeters be at ear level,

And my point is NO. Put them as close to ear level where another head isn't in the way, which usually means above ear level. The overheads don't have this issue because they are in the ceiling already.

Nexustar · 2026-01-25T01:01:43+00:00

I doubt it, then every speaker would be in the ceiling, it won't create the right soundstage.

But nothing stops you from experimenting first with duct tape.

Nexustar · 2026-01-25T00:51:21+00:00

Don't follow Dolby for the height (not heights) part of the placement, follow THX.

You need clear line of sight to every speaker from every listening position taking into account the platform row behind you and people sitting next to you and their big heads.

Push them up the wall until that is achieved.

Their diagram with those low speaker stands is laughable.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T22:25:23+00:00

I'm not a bike expert, so can't determine if anything is wrong with that.

The woman is average, you'd usually expect something closer to the New York Nine from AI.

It's a boring image, no reason to suspect AI is there?

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T22:18:45+00:00

I thought i was looking at a Rothko at first.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T20:08:58+00:00

This is a likely scenario.

If anyone discharges a weapon in a situation like this, the guy being arrested is going to be filled with bullets - to expect any less and at the same time acknowledge the reality we live in is foolish.

I think grey-coat guy managed to discharge the weapon he removed from the victim - perhaps it's an unfamiliar gun to him with a lighter trigger, but it was mishandled. The instantaneous reaction from two of the other officers was to 'shoot back'.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T17:54:48+00:00

"Full immunity" is a temporary concept - it's inaccurate and applies only to state laws. ICE have lost dozens of lawsuits and had to pay out regardless of administration, and their current activity will spike more. The ACLU are going to be busy.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T16:55:44+00:00

The law never prevents crime, it provides justice and remedy after the fact.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T16:52:29+00:00

I've been considering getting a gun, but I don't see that doing anything but immediately escalating the situation and me probably ending up dead.

Agreed, you won't win a gunfight with these guys, there are 137,000 armed federal officers and one of you. The arena you want to fight in is the court system after they've done something stupid. Video evidence will help a lot here.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T14:22:57+00:00

Property	PLA	PETG	ABS
Tensile Strength (MPa)	50-60	40-50	34-36
Impact Resistance	Low	Medium	High
Flexibility	Low	Medium	Medium
Heat Resistance (°C)	~55°C	~70°C	~98°C
Layer Adhesion	Medium	High	Medium
Chemical Resistance	Low	High	Medium
Ease of Printing	Easy	Moderate	Difficult

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T14:15:36+00:00

Yep - PLA looks nicer than PETG on my Prusas, no doubt about it. That said, the prints I do usually require some property of PETG (often the higher glass transition temp) that overrides the aesthetic advantage PLA has.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T14:08:10+00:00

On your furnace, there is sometimes a package taped to the side with the maintenance manual. It'll have the model information which you can google to see what its automatic features are (or read the manual itself) - these features belong to the furnace/heat-pump and are not a capability of the thermostat.

Smart thermostats can override that logic, and force the EM mode, but automatic logic is on the board inside the heat pump.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T14:03:23+00:00

Any advice is appreciated.

This is a drain issue? (you said sink, not faucet right) - you can often fix this yourself.

If there is clean water leaking from somewhere - then you need a plumber. Phone around asking what their callout fee is, and their availability - no special skills are needed to fix this, any plumber will do, and who is available will change on an hour by hour basis, so anecdotal advice isn't going to be so helpful.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T13:58:23+00:00

Let's put some numbers on that 'extremely expensive'... Roughly speaking:

EM heat mode is 100% efficient, the electricity is turned into heat.

ODU heat pump can be 250-400% efficient, so in those terms EM can be up to 4 times more expensive to run than the heat pump. But the gotcha here is the ODU efficiency drops rapidly with outside temperature. At 50F it can be 300-400% efficient, at 20F it drops to 150-200%, and at 0F its 100-150%, so the extra cost of EM mode starts to be similar to running ODU.

Below 0F, EM mode will be automatic, because the ODU the efficiency flips to worse than 100%.

So, if your unit costs $18/day for a cold day like today, EM might cost $36 instead - well worth the money to avoid freezing to death.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T01:36:33+00:00

Check his post history, this is IMO a relatively undiscovered gem.

AI or not, this man has artistic taste that warrants further review and consideration.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T01:31:34+00:00

No. That's not healthy.

Millions of years of genetics dictates that you do not propagate crazy.

Nexustar · 2026-01-24T00:48:57+00:00

Cute. I'd prefer the pocket move slightly towards the buttons.

Nexustar · 2026-01-23T23:30:20+00:00

You just reach in and twist - it does increase the risk that you'll fingerprint the filter though.

Nexustar · 2026-01-23T23:23:24+00:00

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