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Friday Night Photos Stacked Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 5:00pm

Happy Friday everyone. Hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

For anybody who read the thread title and expected to see photos of well endowed women I'm sorry to disappoint you. In this case stacked refers to stacking multiple frames of the same image shot at different focus points to increase the depth of field. Depth of field (DOF) is how much of the subject is in focus. The two main factors that determine DOF are the aperture setting of the lens and distance between the camera and the subject. The larger the aperture the the smaller the DOF and the smaller the aperture the larger the DOF. With distance, the closer to the subject the smaller the DOF, the farther from the subject the larger the DOF.

5 frame stack
2023-02-23-02.48.22.2 ZS PMax

Open Thread - 02-24-23 - When is Enough Going to be Enough

Submitted by JtC on Fri, 02/24/2023 - 7:44am

The divisions in this country are staggering.

Let us count the ways.

  • War
  • Politics
  • Race
  • Wokism
  • Pandemic
  • Immigration
  • Religion
  • Gender
  • The Economy
  • Geography
  • And others I'm surely forgetting

The divisions are tearing society apart at the seams. Long term friendships are ending. Families are being broken. Hatred is the new normal. We're on the brink of world war.

Is it learned behavior? Or is it innate to the human condition?

Who benefits from the division?

When is enough going to be enough?

I recently found this quote somewhere on the web, I don't exactly remember where, but it caught my attention and I copied it and saved it:

"Optimism is the only way to win. Despair is aid to the enemy. Resistance is essential, not futile".

We must work together or we are finished. As a society, as a country, as a species.

CBDC news and The Humanities below the fold

Covid Chernobyl

Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 02/22/2023 - 1:40am

I was watching Chernobyl for like the 4th time (it is such a great show) and it occurred to me how similar the original reaction to the disaster was to COVID.

"It's just a cold."
= "It's just like a chest xray."

"It's only dangerous to old people and people with pre-existing conditions."
= "Everything is under control. There's no reason to evict people living around nuclear reactor."

Important Announcement - Embedded Videos Part II

Submitted by JtC on Tue, 02/21/2023 - 10:54am

Let's try this again.

The c99 text editor is the box where you write your comments and essays. The row of icons above it make it easier to format HTML. The icon that some here used to embed videos has been disabled because it was causing a bug in the c99 software.

The video icon worked by going to a youtube video and copy the URL and then pasting it into the now disabled video icon box. The URL of a web page is the web page's address shown in the address bar at the top of web browsers. The video icon no longer works but there is an easy solution.

Below the c99 text editor is a long box titled "Video URL". That "Video URL" box works exactly the same as the icon did. Simply paste the video URL into the box and it will display just like the icon did. It's actually even easier to use than the icon was.

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