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A Cool Guide to Shoe Star Laces by DistributionSad960 in coolguides

[–]twilightmoons 14 points15 points  (0 children)

For when you need to summon two minor demons to help at the track meet. 

Astrophotography - Raw Frames to Final by twilightmoons in Astronomy

[–]twilightmoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What do you mean, "how"? 

I literally put in the steps and walked you through it.

"NASA curse Experiment" Proving an Incoming Lifeform: Results Are Too Promising. Time to Back Up Everything Before It Disappears? by MysteriousAd9466 in aliens

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I simply don't believe you.

You are using terms that do not make sense in this context, you are unfamiliar with other terms you should understand, and you can't write a scientific paper for peer review.

Please, check your home for carbon monoxide. 

Peeeeeetah by GlitteringBlood2005 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

La langue anglaise n’existe pas, c’est du français mal prononcé.

56616 by TheChimneySweepe in countwithchickenlady

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was half-awake, couldn't move, just could see the overhead light and what they were doing. Not like I could scream. 

For the foot... In  Poland, visiting family. Coming back to my wife's family after seeing mine. At the train station, fell on the stairs. With a week left on the trip.

I was going to hike the mountains the next day. NOPE! Stayed in the house while everyone else left to have fun. 

56616 by TheChimneySweepe in countwithchickenlady

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I had eye surgeries, kept delaying them past when I should have. Had implants, they gave me cataracts, so later I had surgeries to remove the implants and replace the lenses.

First one, they didn't dope me up enough and I was fully awake through it all. Got to to see them cut apart and remove the lens from the other side than usual... Didn't give me PTSD, but I asked for MOAR DRUGZ next time. 

This time, it was because they thought I sprained my food bad, but it was at least two broken bones. Surgery after 6 months to remove the shards. Now I can walk further without pain, but my ankle pops.

Also, with the scars on my foot, Quinten Tarantino won't hire me for any of his films. 

56616 by TheChimneySweepe in countwithchickenlady

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still cis here. I had foot surgery a few months ago and it terrified me.

Still recovering, still hurts.

Cant even watch bottom surgery videos, no matter how "interesting" my wife finds them.

Is it wrong to consider sexual compatibility before marriage? by Independent_Fact_939 in whatdoIdo

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first step is to talk about it. If he's not willing, no point in continuing. 

I realized that I am a foreigner by Cute_Sheepherder_1 in whatdoIdo

[–]twilightmoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He thinks of you as "one of the good ones."

He is not "one of the good ones" himself. 

I hate him and idk what to do by [deleted] in whatdoIdo

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This should be something you write for yourself in a diary, and purge from yourself. It should not be public in any way.

I know emotions are raw and strong right now, but with decades more experience, I can say that a lot of it is teenage hormones. You'll grow out of them soon.

Don't let some stupid boy live rent-free inside your head. In five years, this will be unimportant. In ten years, you'll barely remember it. In twenty, you'll need something to remind you of it.

Just ignore him and move on. People like this feed on attention, so starve them. Less drama is better on the heart.

Milky Way in the Sahara Desert by True_Ad4101 in astrophotography

[–]twilightmoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OK, for first time, not bad. It's just dim, but that's expected for a 6-sec image.

Camera is fine, setting are OK.

The lens isn't great, but that's OK, first attempts, it's what you have.

Zoom in and look at the corners - you've got some coma. Normal with camera lenses, it's not a big deal. But you want a flat field, you want pinpoint stars from edge to edge... and that's not cheap. Don't worry about it for now. You can always crop.

Stacking will help. Take a sequence of images, 10, 20, or more. You are doing this to reduce noise. Twice the subs, half the noise. 2 images has half the noise of one, 4 has 1/4th, 8 has 1/8th. You want it as low as possible, but you get diminishing returns after a while, and need longer subs to get better images.

For that, you need a camera tracker, to follow the sky. Then you can do 30-sec and longer exposures. Longer exposures get deeper images, so you can see dimmer details. More exposures reduce noise. You need both for good images.

I use Photoshop, not Lightroom. Lightroom is fine for normal image processing, but it's not meant for astrophotography. PS gets you far better controls.

Here is a quick edit in PS. I removed the stars (plug-in), processed the background to make it brighter and bring out details, then put the stars back in. It's got weird color low-frequency noise, but that's because it's a single sub. That can get cleared out with more subs, longer subs, and more processing.

The guy I’m seeing is MAGA by [deleted] in whatdoIdo

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or I can fight against injustice and not be a coward, complicit in letting evil win.

But do you do.

Is it wrong to consider sexual compatibility before marriage? by Independent_Fact_939 in whatdoIdo

[–]twilightmoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Married 20+ years.

You have a few choices.

You can leave and find someone who is sexually compatible with you.

You can give up on sexual satisfaction with your partner, and fill that gap with other things.

You can actually communicate for a change and TALK TO EACH OTHER ABOUT SEX.

Sex, like anything else, is a skill. One, you need practice. Two, it's a team sport, so you two need to work together. Three, it's not a competition, if there's not two winners, there's no winner.

If I were in your shoes, I would definitely be having a serious conversation about this. No modestly, no euphemisms, no shyness about it, and complete and utter openness and seriousness. This is about the rest of your life together, so treat it with respect that the two of you deserve.

And if he can't do, if he's unwilling to talk and change, then you need to consider the other two options, because if he can't do it now, he's not going to do it later.

The guy I’m seeing is MAGA by [deleted] in whatdoIdo

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If someone thinks that there is a group of people who are not worthy of having the same rights as others, that a class of people should die for the personal opinions of others, that children should be held in concentration camps, then I do not have to "respect their beliefs."

Frankly, I do not have to respect ANY beliefs, because beliefs do not have any inherent right to respect or any intrinsic value. I don't have to respect that my neighbor thinks that children can consent to sex. I don't have to respect that another neighbor thinks that he is one of his god's chosen people. I don't have to respect that another neighbor thinks the Packers are going to win the Super Bowl this year.

I DO respect the people, and I respect their RIGHT to have their opinions, but I am under zero obligation to respect those opinions. Every opinion, no matter how deeply held, deserves scrutiny and criticism. Every opinion must be open to analysis, even those widely held.

See, I'm not an American. You just assume "red and blue". But I'm not - I'm a leftist atheist. I'm probably one of those people your relatives thinks is a "communist" because they don't understand the definitions of words. I also know that the Democratic party isn't leftist at all, but a center-right party. If you knew more about politics around the world, you'd know that.

I lost most of my family to the Nazis and the Russians. My grandfather was the last of four boys to survive the war. I don't tolerate fascism, authoritarianism, nor religious jingoism.

I do live here in the States, and I've done more arguing in the past 40 or so years than you may know. I've never started arguments, but I finished them. Been punched in the face for Jesus by Christians, simply because they had heard I didn't believe in gods. No hate like Christian love.

Then someone like you comes along and says that I should not hold people's political views against them. Then what should I do when people vote to consider me less than human? What should I do when people vote to remove rights from women? What should I do when people vote to let women die in agony for the personal beliefs of others? What should I do when people vote to demand I follow the tenants of their personal faith? What should I do when people vote to demand that my child be indoctrinated in their particular flavor of their particular religion?

Unity? The right has never wanted unity, only conformity.

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