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My understanding of the term is that it describes leftists who have grown disillusioned with the methods of the left (primarily society level stuff like the proletarian revolution), instead focusing on the more local level through stealing and insurrection etc…

Basically leftists but who no longer hold out hope for the wider society.

Televangelists believe in nothing but money

Stars are dim. Earth and the Moon are bright. If you exposed the shot such that stars would be visible, the Earth and the Moon would be horrendously overexposed.

If you look at this one of the moonlit nightside of the Earth they took on the way out, you can see stars. The website has EXIF-data on the bottom with more info on the exposure.

I’m betting that we get a vast majority of the pictures after the splashdown. They aren’t even at the moon yet, so the most important pics of the trip are yet to be snapped.

That being said, I really really really like this one because it’s showing the moonlit nightside of the planet with auroras, airglow and zodiacal light in the background. A picture like that has never been taken before.

That would be airglow, a completely natural phenomenon, although a bit tricky to photograph from the ground.

Other than that, I fully agree with the rest of your comment

Oh damn, took me a moment to realize that first image is showing the night side of the planet. Much more interesting than what it seemed at first, with the moonlit planet, the aurora and the zodiacal light!

Indeed, not a specific field for it. That’s why people use the body of the post (the part where one would write an essay if they did a text post) for it.

After they know if the user is human, the logical next step would be to nail down exactly which human. The governments would of course love that and the advertisers would start manipulating people on the individual level like never before. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is also laying the foundations for some universal digital ID that would do just that.

I fully agree with the message, but how are you supposed to pronounce “womxn”? Why the x?

Quality shitpost

Ah, yes, because Trump and his cronies are all about destroying hierarchy, that’s right. A true populist selflessly serving the common people!

Anarchism isn’t about destroying civilization.

Plus, who’s age are they going to use for the root user on 99% of the servers in the world?

They don’t care about those, unless they happen to be owned and operated by an individual, because those generate valuable data and concretely tying it down to a specific person would be a gold mine. And by they I don’t mean the politicians, but the marketing lizards and control freaks (cough cough Peter Thiel) who’s bidding the politicians are doing.

Not saying that it justifies anything, but it does explain things…

The US military budget is inflated as hell, but lasers are neat for this kind of stuff precisely because shooting something down costs only the electricity needed to power the laser, instead of a missile or some fancy airburst shells.

And here I actually thought that this shitty idea would stay in the realm of Black Mirror…

Huh, I wonder how it compares to that other country to the west there.

I hope it’s radioactive as well

So that’s what the huge budgets and the surveillance is for…

Are long exposures bad as well? Almost every picture of the northern lights looks better in a camera than how they look to the naked eye, because cameras can perform better in low light with the right settings.

I used to be quite puritanical about not editing the pictures I take, but over time I realized that there’s no way to capture perfectly realistic photos, because there is no perfect baseline for that. Every sensation of sight is already subjective, because the brain is doing a lot of image processing and each brain and eyes are a bit different. Colours don’t exist outside the brain. Dark scenes aren’t actually desaturated, our retinas just suck at colour vision in low light.

Photography tries to emulate a very subjective impression of a scene. If the photographer makes tweaks to some settings of the RAW in order to make the final image closer to the impression they were trying to capture, then that’s quite fine in my opinion. Just the same as changing the settings of the camera beforehand. If they want to include multiple exposures with different settings, then that’s fine by me as well, because your eyes change aperture and focus each time they flick to a different part of the scene.