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47m ago

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TIL the old brick factory near my town is now a drone mapping site

Drove past a place like that up near St. Louis a few years back. It was an old grain silo complex that had been sitting empty for decades. They had a drone buzzing around the top of the tallest silo and this guy on the ground with a tablet was literally watching a heat map of the whole structure, looking for weak spots in the concrete from all the way back in the 1920s. The weirdest part was there was still an old wooden ladder nailed to the side of one silo from back when someone had to climb up and check the grain levels by hand. Just kind of stared at that ladder while the drone did its thing, felt like two different worlds standing in the same wind. Did the crew have any old equipment sitting around that they were just ignoring in plain sight?

20h ago

in

Finally got a decent shot of the Orion Nebula after months of blurry mess

And yeah that light pollution filter makes a real difference, I threw one on after getting tired of washing out the fainter details in every shot. Even with a cheaper clip-in filter for my DSLR, it cuts down the city glow enough that I can stretch the data further in processing without the background turning all splotchy orange. Pair that with some shorter subs and you'll be surprised what you can pull out of even a moderately polluted sky.

23h ago

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Shoutout to the cashier at Taco Bell who talked me into trying the Cheesy Gordita Crunch

Did you end up trying the Cheesy Gordita Crunch back then? I gotta hand it to the Taco Bell workers, they steered me right when I swapped my usual Crunchwrap for the Crunchwrap Supreme, so I'd say trust them.

2d ago

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Tried those reusable beeswax wraps everyone raves about and my sandwich tasted like a candle

Hold up, I actually don't think it's the wax melting. Beeswax has a pretty high melting point, way higher than what a lunch bag would get to. More likely it's just the wax releasing its natural smell in the heat, which is still annoying and gets into food for sure. The cold water wash probably just sealed the scent in instead of rinsing it off.

2d ago

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A regular told me my fades were too fast and it made me slow down

Isn't that just like picking whether to fill your pocket now or keep the whole piggy bank for later?