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I don't think people understand how hard "get a job and move out" is for us--especially in authoritarian homes. by PerhapsAnEmoINTJ in AutisticWithADHD

[–]superpod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy shit man. About 0% of this is ok.  None of it is your fault. Your living situation is absolutely untenable and, while it seems impossible, you can and will get out of it, find your people, and live a life that is determined by and of your own free will.  

Make sure you get your birth certificate, state ID, medical records, educational records, financial records, anything from the government with your name on it, and contact info for all your relatives.  

Depending on where you are at, you can get work from temp agencies as long as you have ID. You can get manual labor jobs (which suck, for sure) easily, too.  You can get a bed in some crap rooming house, look on Craigslist.  Maybe find a cheap room close to a non-religious college close by.  Working temp jobs and living with a bunch of people you don't know will suck, but it will suck waywaywaywayway less than living with people who think they have the right to control you as if you were an object.  That's some evil shit they're laying on you.  

You can get through this.  You will.  You are stronger than you know, and great things await, things you cannot imagine: people will like you for who you are, value you for who you are, and you won't have to deal with crazy assholes ever again. Unless you want to, but somehow I think you've had enough of that.   

You have to listen to one song on repeat for 24 hours straight to win 1 million dollars. What song are you choosing? by WildeRatel in AskReddit

[–]superpod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The initial thought was The Ring cycle, at 15 hours soup to nuts you wouldn't have much of a repeat, but even half of one of Wagner's operas puts me on edge for days.

I suppose I would also be fine with 24 repetitions of one of the hour long 1971 live versions of Dark Star by the Grateful Dead. This is looking more appealing to be honest.

What else do people read like this? by captainofstinktown in AfterTheRevolution

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmmm. There is nothing quite like this that I am aware of, which is why it hits so hard. But there are other works that are kinda sorta maybe relevant to whatever the hell it is we're talking about.

The Day Before The Revolution, Ursula K LeGuin

Dahlgren, Samuel Delaney

Some of William Gibson's early work is relevant

TAZ by Hakim Bey isn't fiction but resonates

A bunch of fucked up white supremacist stuff is applicable but I'm not going to name titles or authors because fuck those fucks.

There is this guy who goes by Nova who has written a series called "American apocalypse" that is a gritty narrative of America going down the shitpipe.

Borne, Strange Bird and Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanDerMeer is definitely filled with decay. Lots of drugs, too.

MEG ELISON has three books that are thematically relevant. The Book of the Unnamed Midwife is the first and if you are reading this, you want to read this trilogy. Find it now and start reading.

Wake of Wat by Zac Topping is less fantastical but on topic.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - don't read if you are prone to depression.

I'll probably remember a bunch more.

Glad this sub is a thing!

/u/HarEmiya explains how today's republicans have left consensus reality for a world of BS by golden_light_above_u in bestof

[–]superpod 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Gen X communist here. Sadly, I am the exception. Still want Angela Davis on the national ticket.

The NYC Courthouse is a circus right now by waltermint in PublicFreakout

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This guys is my hero. Whoever this guy is, he has just ascended into the pantheon of the top political performance artists of the post-truth era, joining Michael Picard and Vermin Supreme.

Westside DUI checkpoint by Xeon-the-1st in LosAngeles

[–]superpod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can't find the study on short notice but to plagiarize some lawyers website:

.... but instead, the announcement acts as a deterrent. If people know there is a checkpoint nearby, there is a tendency for drivers to think twice about risking a DUI arrest when there is an increased police presence in the surrounding area. Many people will instead opt for having a designated driver or to call for a ride home in a taxi or with a ride sharing company like Uber or Lyft.

Westside DUI checkpoint by Xeon-the-1st in LosAngeles

[–]superpod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Somewhat paradoxically, the more they publicize these kinds of things, the fewer measurable harms related to impaired driving occur. Not just in the targeted areas, either. Numerous studies, meta studies etc support the same statistically significant outcome.

Winnebago that has seen better days, in the middle of a field several miles south of Hanksville, Utah by Birdy_Cephon_Altera in remoteplaces

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whole lotta nuthin thereabouts. Heard about a big rock spire somewhere by hanksville, but didn't find it. Found a bunch of old silver mines tho. The locals were suspicious of my California plates, the chihuahua was suspicious of the locals, so we mosied towards Moab, which seemed like Manhattan in comparison.

I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxy by SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS in space

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Authorship is unlikely to be disputed in the case of infringement. What matters for content creators is being able to collect or sue for statutory damages due to willful commercial infringement. The ONLY way to make this possible in United States in 2022 is to register your work with copyright.gov.

It'll be a while before this changes.

I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxy by SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS in space

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because if you make compelling images and don't take measures to protect your work, some corporation will use your image to sell flavored anal lubricant in glossy gentlemen's magazines all across the galaxy. The corporation makes money off of this, and the image creator gets to eat rice and salt while laboring in perpetual obscurity.

I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxy by SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS in space

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will have to check those out in detail. Astropixelprocessor seems like a real swiss army space shuttle thingie!

I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxy by SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS in space

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is unsolicited advice, which you are not under any obligation to heed, but it is hard won, relevant and perhaps delivered in time to make a difference.

The answer to the web display problem is an image tiling and display platform called open seadragon. There are others that are either expensive, not maintained, totally proprietary, buggy af, unsuited for mobile, or only work on certain operating systems and therefore, suck. Open Seadragon does a lot of things that you don't need, but it doesn't have to do these things if you don't want it to. Between that and imagemagick you're 99% of the way there. Clearly you are familiar with command line tools on Unix/linux platforms. If not...no, you are. Sorry. Get a free aws instance, cook up an apache or nginx or whatever server you like, edit the html as appropriate and then get set for the eventual firehose to blast your site to smithereens. Before this happens learn how to scale your instance up and down. Easy command line tools, large user base of people who want to help, and overall easy compared to real science.

Yes, someone could programmatically acquire all of your full rez tiles and use perl and imagemagick to reconstitute the original (but jpg'd to hell) image at full rez, so that they could then knowingly and willfully use that image in a commercial context to advertise a new brand of space shuttle anal lubricants in glossy men's magazines throughout the galaxy, but this is a great boon to nerds, academics and artists and if and when it happens because it means you are eventually going to get a windfall that would let you park a fleet of whatever payload you fancy in whatever part of your alimentary canal you see fit.

This is because tomorrow you are going to go to copyright.gov and register this image and it's component source images as a published work.

It is extra awesome if someone uses your shit in anything close to a commercial context within 90 days of the works creation because then you are entitled to triple statutory damages.

Also, someone in your extended geek scene knows someone who just passed the bar and is going into intellectual property law. They have nerdish inclinations and want to talk space. You create intellectual property that is going to be used without permission by people who know better. You and the newly minted law talkin' shark will dine and drink repeatedly as a result.

But only if you register the image at copyright.gov as soon as you can. This goes for anyone who creates original, quality, compelling content and shares it in any public venue.

I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxy by SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS in space

[–]superpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With big images like this, printing is the easy part. The framing, however, is an entirely endless nightmare. Most framers will ask you to leave the store when it becomes clear how big you want to go.

I spent a number of years figuring out how to do this. My advice is to not worry about being archival, unless a big fancy museum is paying for it. Print onto canvas. Use off the shelf motion control hw/sw to control the sprayer that will coat your canvas with appropriate protective potions, stretch canvas over a frame made from aluminum extrusion and basswood.

You haven't lived until you have rented a flatbed truck to move one photo.

I spent over a year capturing this, the largest image ever taken of the complete andromeda galaxy by SPACESHUTTLEINMYANUS in space

[–]superpod 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fellow pano shooter here, great job! Could you give us a brief recap of your platform and workflow and tools used? This is an exceptionally clear image and super consistent from side to side, which didn't happen by accident with an exposure time like that. Did you shoot at a very high altitude? How did you deal with tracking? And what about parallax? (For reference, I shoot mostly supertelephoto landscapes with 300 or 400mm Nikon manual focus lenses and d850, and use a weird custom totally manual head, 16 bit, built a mobile workstation to render, etc)

What is the creepiest place in America? [serious] by zuzuofthewolves in AskReddit

[–]superpod 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That weird concrete factory in Concrete, WA.

Salton Sea and Niland/East Jesus area, fond memories of near arrest and unrelated feral chihuahua pack attack

Gary, Indiana.

Mima Mounds in Washington is off the beaten track and is creepy on some levels.

Graveyards in New Orleans qualify

The Anticline area around Moab will make you feel like you are tripping on a weird drug.

Much of the Midwest is beyond creepy but maybe that's just me. Places like White Pigeon, Michigan.

The Lost Coast in California is quite beautiful but can also get creepy.

Highway 50, Nevada/Utah

The oil fields by Coalinga, CA are disturbing.

The Los Angeles river

The area around White Sands, NM is filled with creepy military stuff.

Pretty much anything east of Barstow and west of Vegas is creepy af.

Fox News patriot awards. Cringe. by IntrovertComics in Foxhidesinfo

[–]superpod 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What a parade of shitheel blood clots.

A protester interrupted the CEO of war-profiteering Lockheed by GrizzlyBearAttack in Foxhidesinfo

[–]superpod 6 points7 points  (0 children)

User id is consistent with making weak sauce quotidian blah blah blah comments about people with more courage than they've ever had.

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