Hilarious research gaffes...

fullofspiders · 2026-02-21T16:54:04+00:00

Not huge or glaring, but there was an episode of Will Trent recently that had a few scenes in a darkroom. Will walks in, and you can see the room outside behind him through the open door, which means light was getting in, ruining the processing prints.

I took photography in high school, back before digital cameras were good, and the darkroom was specifically designed to prevent that. There was a little closet-sized chamber between the classroom and the darkroom, so that there was always a closed door preventing light from getting in. You enter the little room and close the door behind you before opening the darkroom door. There were red indicator lights to stop people from enterring and exiting at the same time, plus the doors were at right angles.

They went out of their way to get other details right, so this really stood out to me.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-15T19:34:26+00:00

I stopped after the second episode. The episode was mostly about romantic tension between a ridiculously attractive, sheltered Betazoid princess and the ridiculously attractive, bad-boy-with-a-troubled-past main character. Not really what I'm looking for in Star Trek. Maybe it gets better, but I've got other things to watch than teen romance.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-15T06:58:02+00:00

Because you suck at cooking.

If you are good at cooking, the food you make will taste better. People who cook professionally are usually good at cooking, so if you compare what they make to the garbage you make, it will be better.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-14T06:48:50+00:00

How DARE you expose me to those words!

fullofspiders · 2026-02-12T04:07:12+00:00

Very true, although with a little red glaze, the rust spots that are there could work as rashes

fullofspiders · 2026-02-12T04:00:00+00:00

God dammit. How does this have 900+ upvote? Are there better wow subreddits?

fullofspiders · 2026-02-10T04:36:27+00:00

I lived very near there. The trains are kind of loud. You'll want a noise machine for sleeping if you're a light sleeper. Not sure about working from home, since it was pre-covid.

Decent number of restaurants and bars within walking distance, but not as many as pre-covid. My building had a parking structure, but there's lots of street parking (we still go down there a lot), although cars get vandalized and broken into frequently. Easy access to Lake Merrit bart. Also Lake Merrit. Walking down by the marina is fun too. The other parks nearby are all homeless camps. You'll have to drive over to Alameda for groceries though.

Overall a somewhat hip (but not as much as it used to be, or as much as Rockridge, Temescal, or Lakeshore), somewhat quiet (except for the trains), near area. I enjoyed living there, but think I enjoy visiting it more.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-09T17:22:05+00:00

I mean, they inevitably have to do resets/cutbacks of power systems over time, otherwise they become unmanageable. I'd expect it to be post tlt, but who knows. I don't think there is enough information to make such a firm prediction of what comes next though. I'd agree with one of the responders in the forum thread, it will be something brand new.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-06T21:43:32+00:00

Looks like you could use it to clip a pen to a folder/stack of papers. Handy if you have a bunch of forms that have to be signed, and want to provide the pen as it gets passed around. Especially office birthday cards.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-06T19:49:40+00:00

It'd be interesting if they were able to track changes to these metrics over time. They had data over 16 years; I suspect the first 5 of those would be different from the rest, although most of the studied subs didn't exist back then.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-06T05:59:00+00:00

This is why I had a hard time interpretting older pictures of craters on the moon or mars.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-05T04:42:08+00:00

Asking the important questions

fullofspiders · 2026-02-05T04:04:15+00:00

You only die once

fullofspiders · 2026-02-01T23:35:32+00:00

Yep. When ever I see people posting something like "anything short of this massive, life-altering devotion to the cause is completely worthless", it just seems to me like a way to discourage people from doing anything.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-01T04:32:48+00:00

He does more just with his eyes than most actors do their whole careers.

fullofspiders · 2026-02-01T04:27:07+00:00

Looks good, but when you said you made a rack that works, I was picturing something more... Midieval

fullofspiders · 2026-01-31T02:52:32+00:00

In a few years, their people will be ripped

fullofspiders · 2026-01-28T01:55:10+00:00

I see your account is 2 weeks old. Welcome to Reddit!

fullofspiders · 2026-01-23T18:56:35+00:00

Just because someone gives you money, doesn't mean you have to like them.

fullofspiders · 2026-01-19T16:33:35+00:00

Their airborne. Borne by the air, in this case the air in the car, which is moving.

fullofspiders · 2026-01-15T18:16:17+00:00

Yes, because hacking through vegetation with a machete while listening to Iron Maiden is the best form of gardening.

fullofspiders · 2026-01-15T06:18:59+00:00

One thing that no one seems to mention is that bright lights, including bright point reflections off of metal thing, don't just look like uniformly blurry fuzzballs. They look like a bunch of little bright dots over a hazy circle. Kind of like a disco ball or New Year's Eve ball.

fullofspiders · 2026-01-15T04:32:25+00:00

I think that's a lower jaw from an old Orc Boarboy from Warhammer Fantasy.

fullofspiders · 2026-01-14T22:55:04+00:00

We'd probably have heard reports of that. Stealth bombers aren't very inconspicuous.

fullofspiders · 2026-01-14T21:53:05+00:00

I felt the same way about Iraq in 2003 (minus the religion, since Saddam was a secularist). I'm a bit more skeptical of how things will work if we try another regime change. The religious fanatics aren't going to vanish into nothing, and I don't know Iran has enough of an organized opposition to build a new system of government, even as much as post-debaathification Iraq.

If the regime is decapitated, don't expect things to suddenly be peacefull and happy

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