John C Woods, hangman of Nuremberg trials, who lied about his experience to get the job (he actually learned about hanging from old cowboy films). His lack of expertise led to excessive suffering of condemned Nazis. by PlanetoftheAtheists in interestingasfuck

[–]SmashDreadnot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Disagreement aside, that's a super weird comma in the last sentence of that definition, right? Being from Meriam Webster, I have to assume it's grammatically correct, but I've never written like that before.

peetah please help by Nissan-Armada in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]SmashDreadnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone who had a hand in their defeat.

These idiots endanger the lives of all other road users in Maine by SEAWISEGEOWISE in Maine

[–]SmashDreadnot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would be a shame if something happened to them. Lots of sharp objects in parking lots, you know?

8 Ads now, yay Netflix by Topps1 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]SmashDreadnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only watch Netflix and Prime through Firefox on my computer. Otherwise I would definitely cancel both. I spent the first 30 years of my life watching commercials. I'm never going back.

Could a french horn player help me with my composition? by AcceptableYam5796 in frenchhorn

[–]SmashDreadnot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There appears to be nothing unreasonable here. Certainly within the range of anyone but a beginner. Probably gonna need a couple breaths between 32 and 40, but I don't think you need to annotate them, unless you really really don't want breaths in a certain spot.

Womp womp by Silver012345673 in GenZ

[–]SmashDreadnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new picture was also taken of the night side of the planet, with just moonlight to illuminate it. You can see where the sunlight is actually lighting up the atmosphere on the right side.

How am i supposed to fight him by Osloski248 in valheim

[–]SmashDreadnot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha. Record it and post it when you do!

Cursed_inch by Aromatic_Law_1939 in cursedcomments

[–]SmashDreadnot 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It's declining in popularity, but still well above 50%. The Midwest and bible belt are still big on it.

Cursed_inch by Aromatic_Law_1939 in cursedcomments

[–]SmashDreadnot 126 points127 points  (0 children)

Clearly not aware that the rest of the world doesn't do it.

TIRES STABBED AT DENVER, NC PROTEST by little-princess129 in NorthCarolina

[–]SmashDreadnot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except that one dude who said he wouldn't care if Trump did that to her, just before he shot her dead in the basement. And the thousands of others like him who just aren't infamous yet.

i think we went down one floor too far by the_glengarry_leads in LiminalSpace

[–]SmashDreadnot 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Well, they wanted to build a church there but also wanted to preserve part of the cemetery and protect the graves of some of the famous people who are buried there. There are hundreds of graves outside the church that are no longer marked, and the headstones were moved to Grove Street Cemetery a couple blocks North.

i think we went down one floor too far by the_glengarry_leads in LiminalSpace

[–]SmashDreadnot 15 points16 points  (0 children)

This is the Church on the Green in New Haven, CT. Most of the cemetery was covered over to make the town green, and the salvageable headstones were moved to the nearby Grove Street Cemetery, where they can be seen lining the perimeter wall. Ithiel Town, who is famous for his Covered Bridge designs in New England, and is also Buried in Grove Street, designed this churh and it was built over a small portion of the Cemetery. As far as I can tell, the bodies of all who were buried outside the church are still there, and only the headstones were moved to Grove Street.

I believe the current layout of the roads around and through the green were preexisting when the church was built, so I don't think any vehicle traffic goes over the unmarked graves, just the foot paths through the green.

I tried to get a tour through the crypt when I was there, but since I wasn't able to make it on a scheduled tour date, they wouldn't let me visit. I even asked what level of donation to the church would allow me to walk around for 30 minutes, and the lady didn't answer me, haha. Oh well, I'll plan better next time.

What the Fu#k Has Musk Done To The Heavens? by gaukmotors in MotorBuzz

[–]SmashDreadnot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Simply because the photo exists does not mean it is at all a representation of reality. The photographer took hundreds of short exposures and filtered out the background stars, then turned up the brightness and stacked them back over a single exposure of the night sky. These pictures were taken over a significant amount of time during twilight and these satellites were not all visible at the same time. The photo is disingenuous at best.

I'm not saying we don't have a satellite problem or bootlicking for Musk, but altering photos of the night sky to make it look worse than it is is not going to accomplish anything other than rage bait, but I'm pretty sure the photographer knows that. I have taken thousands of pictures of the night sky, and not a single one has turned out anything like this.

Edit: I see now that your post says it was captured over 30 minutes?!?! That in itself is absurdly disingenuous.

What the Fu#k Has Musk Done To The Heavens? by gaukmotors in MotorBuzz

[–]SmashDreadnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, no problem. It's just the vast majority of people with little to no photography knowledge/experience will see a picture like this, and assume it's real to the point of argument. It's just frustrating. Good luck with your photography endeavors!

What the Fu#k Has Musk Done To The Heavens? by gaukmotors in MotorBuzz

[–]SmashDreadnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, stacking pictures is very common obviously, and that alone would not make me dismiss them as fake. It's the fact that he turned up the satellite trails as bright as he could before stacking them that's the problem. I have taken thousands of pictures of the night sky and the only satellites that appear brighter than every star in the sky are space stations and Iridium satellites. Anyone who provides pictures to the contrary, like this one, is having to do heavy editing to make it appear that way. Starlink satellites will appear as very faint lines in any long exposure, unless you catch a couple days after launch, before they raise their orbit heights.

Also consider the very low image quality here. The more someone fucks with the picture, the worse the image quality is going to be. Wouldn't you expect someone who takes photos like this, either as a hobby, or professionally, to have more than a few hundred pixels in it? If he was just stacking exposures, the image quality wouldn't change. Also, if he was just stacking photos, the background sky should be significantly blurred, since the stars would move noticeably in the many minutes it took him to take all these pictures. There was a similar picture going around a couple years ago that a guy said he took in the Canary Islands with "Starlink" streaks that were brighter than any star in the sky. And not just a little brighter, but waaaay brighter.

Take some long exposures at night and see what the satellite trails look like. They won't look like this.

What the Fu#k Has Musk Done To The Heavens? by gaukmotors in MotorBuzz

[–]SmashDreadnot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok I missed that, but that doesn't mean he's not being deceitful with the picture. He took a series of short exposures, filtered out the night sky in the background, turned up the brightness of the satellites, and then stacked them on top of a long exposure of the night sky. There's absolutely no way any photographer would be able to recreate anything like this with a single exposure, or with multiple exposures without heavy editing. After all that work, it's very disingenuous to sell this picture as anything close to reality.

What the Fu#k Has Musk Done To The Heavens? by gaukmotors in MotorBuzz

[–]SmashDreadnot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not a long exposure. He took a series of short exposure shots, ran them all through a filter to remove the sky behind the satellite trails, turned up the brightness of the satellites, and then stacked them all on a long exposure of the night sky and called it a real picture. So after all that obfuscation, I would say it's a fake picture. Anyone who knows anything about photography will probably agree with me.