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You're right. I think I'd had a little whiskey when I posted that... I thought it was just flipped.

I write code for a living. I certainly complain when I find a bug in one of my dependencies.

Would the six planets ever perfectly align with one another? That would be pretty cool if every so many years they all foed a line!

It might include infrared, but this instrument only has three visible channels (red, green, and blue) and one near-infrared band that is sensitive to methane at about 890nm. So, most of this would be visible light.

It looks like a lot of the work of bringing out the beauty of these images is done by citizen scientists. It would be interesting to find out what was done to produce this particular image.

I might try my hand at some of this, actually. My job is to do data processing for satellite imagery of the earth. I'm curious to learn more about what is being done here.

Link to the article this comes from.

I think this probably is illegal in the US too. Whether anything will be done about it is probably a question of money, though. So, since the infringed party here is not wealthy, nothing is likely to come of it.

OP got the photo from this recipe.

So, projects? I would love to see a solution to home prices and the inequality they create but I think projects have been shown to work out poorly in the US.

I see this sentiment frequently. What I don't see, though, is how this can cmbe achieved short of government owned uniform housing. Maybe I'm missing something, though. Can you helpe understand?

With regard to Japan, you're right, single family homes aren't intended to last all that long. This is largely because building standards there change so rapidly thst building something that lasts means that you wasted money. Even if it is built to last, it will fall out of code in a way that it will devalue over time.

That doesn't happen in the US because we don't have the same frequency of disasters and the same rate of change in building codes. Maybe that will change moving forward, though, given the increased frequency of disasters in the US due to climate change.

I've also run into tea bags entirely composed of plastic mesh rather than paper. I don't understand why someone would think that's a good idea.

By Code do you mean VSCode? I use it all the time with VIM key bindings. It offers so much more than VIM with less finicky configuration. It's the first IDE I've ever actually liked. Before now it was VIM or nothing.

At one point I had a plugin for MS Word that added vim key bindings because I kept leaving stray vim commands while editing other people's documents.

You'd have to be staring at the woman's belly pretty closely to see the 6mm embryo and, if you did, you'd realize that it certainly has no consciousness yet.

This is normal everyday stuff in Japan! Not meaning to minimize what you found, it's pretty cool that you found that in a local Walmart, but this is an everyday thing in my house.

Tip: Cook some rice, wrap in nori, eat, yum!

It sounds to me like Musk, acting as a goverents representative, is making wild threats against our allies. Maybe he's trying to sew division between us and our allies to help Russia and China?

As an academic, if I could make $1M/year by showing my body on OF, I would quit my job in a heartbeat. I would make my money while I can and reassess when no one is interested anymore.

Once I'd made my money, maybe I could use my academic expertise to effect some real change in the world. I'd certainly be more capable of making an impact if I were independently wealthy.

Where did you find the note? I can only find articles that dissect it without its context.

Any grave is a gender neutral bathroom if you want it to be.

Thank you for asking this. I've been wondering the same question for quite a while but have been too lazy to actually find the answer.

People are giving you somewhat bad information. This may differ in other states, but they do need to have practiced law in Georgia for seven years prior to being allowed to run for election.

Its a dumb system but not completely unregulated.

Other states have various methods of selecting judges. In Colorado, the governor appoints them for their first term, then they are subjected to a retention vote every few years. They rarely lose their retention votes.