Mothers and fuckers of the jury

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
egberts
egberts

getting the house ready for the kittens arrival. i am so nervous. i haven't cared for a kitten in a decade 😳 I'm trying to imagine their tiny little selves walking around and what they might do. the house is so big compared to them. the anticipation is killing me

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egberts

somehow this is pretty good advice about kittens

striders

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lou immediately found a plastic knife under the couch, so.

naamahdarling

"A KNIFE!"

"NO!!!"

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teaboot

My first time operating CCTV cameras I was handed control over what was essentially 50 independently moving eyes that collectively covered an area about the size of a football field and from that experience I now know that

  1. Suddenly having 50 moving eyes can make you disoriented and barfy and the adjustment period sucks ass
  2. It takes both more and less time than you’d think to figure out what the structure as a whole looks like and where those eyes ARE
  3. After you get used to it the entirety of the structure itself and all of the eyes you can see from feels like an extension of your nervous system in a very bizarre way. Like I have dreams now from the perspective of A Building and I’m not sure how to describe that.
  4. Once you are aware of an unreachable blind spot it nags at you constantly and you can feel it like a hard little lump under your skin you need to poke and scratch at and it’s ardghgguychgghhbhhhbhhh
teaboot

And on top of that, having operated CCTV at multiple locations now- my favourite and most comfortable one having excess of 60 cameras- it can be REALLY hard to suddenly jump to a different operating interface and display configuration, because all the muscle memory is wrong

On my COMFORTABLE system, the one I spent the longest time on, I never had to think about what code I needed to punch in. If I needed to watch a specific person, I could follow them all over the site without thinking about it.

Now at a different location, all the manual equipment and codes and lag and resolution are different, and it feels like going from playing the piano to driving stick shift on the left side of the road with my feet

The closest I imagine I can equate it to is like. Getting really really good at painting with a pair of prosthetic hands, and then suddenly having them swapped out with someone else’s

teaboot

Not the best depiction, but. Feels like this

A man with a knife on his belt walking down a hall and texting on a phone, shown by multiple angles and multiple distances. Each view is labeled by a different ID code, and each ID code branches off á command code, which runs back to a single indistinct figure surrounded by eyes moving in different directions. Views unrelated to the man show a few black rooms and an outdoor view of a duck.ALT
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The Beholding

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caressthosecheekbones

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

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chthonion

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work