escapedgoat

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[–] escapedgoat 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Legally, there are a couple challenges to be made to his eligibility that will likely be brought by some states. The main one that comes to mind is If there is a case for insurrection then the 14th amendment applies.

Another potential is the 25th amendment. This would require J.D. Vance to get half of the cabinet on board to remove Trump from power. I'm wondering if this is something that is already in the works considering J.D. Vance's true feelings for Trump that were revealed in the past. It's probably a long shot, but who knows.

[–] escapedgoat 1 points 1 month ago

The Democratic Project 25 - as in the 25th Amendment on Day 1.

[–] escapedgoat 37 points 2 months ago

We all get it, the type of porn you watch is still legal even though it has teen in the name.

This is regarding a legal matter where the man's sentence will likely be decided by the fact that the court sees him as an adult. In most cases and as the other user pointed out 18 year olds are referred to as men in a legal context. This disturbingly seems to be the standard practice when describing black males of 18.

Generally speaking, describing alleged criminals as teens implies a lack of legal agency and thus biases the reader toward compassion. The point is that sometimes language can induce bias and consistency is needed. If that consistency falls towards the technicality of having the word teen in their name so be it, but that is not the case with our current media landscape.

[–] escapedgoat 5 points 4 months ago

Don't forget the joe user in the corner wearing a trench coat with a bomb strapped to his chest wired to a dead man's switch.

[–] escapedgoat 22 points 4 months ago
 

Haven't done any real art in decades. Decided I was feeling a little artistic yesterday and created this. Hope you enjoy.

[–] escapedgoat 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the pointer. I recolored a bit and updated based on your suggestion. I also reframed too just because it felt a little unfocused.

 

This is mostly done with brush strokes and blending in Affinity photo 1.8. Haven't done any real art in dozens of years. I'm happy with how this turned out.

[–] escapedgoat 1 points 4 months ago

California Gull

 

Taken in San Francisco with a Pentax K70/18-135mm lens at 135mm f5.6 1/2000s

[–] escapedgoat 79 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Well I'll bring the average to 66% but I'm not going to say which direction to mess up the math.

 

Went to the lake when spring weather started to set in. There were four of these guys hanging around me keeping the mosquitos at bay. They sat with me the entire time I was there occasionally flying over to the water to drink and coming back.

[–] escapedgoat 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most camera sensors can only be read one line at a time. This means that the second line isn't captured until the first line is completed. This goes for all of the remaining lines on the sensor of which there are thousands. For example a 24 megapixel camera might have around 4000 lines of pixels to capture.

The image processor captures the state of the top line and moves on to the next. By the time it's captured the 2nd line, if the subject has moved, that line is no longer aligned with what was captured in the first line. Continue this 3998 more times and you have a frame of a video where the bottom of the frame is further ahead than the top of the frame.

To slow this down to a human understandable scale, while watching a video close one eye, then open it and close the other. By the time you've opened the second eye and closed the first things have moved. Just don't do it while driving.

[–] escapedgoat 4 points 8 months ago

Las Vegas, early June in the early 2000s they used to hold "JuneFest". $10 to get in for the day, all day outdoor event with everyone from REO Speedwagon, Joan Jett and Jethro Tull to Kansas, Jefferson Starship and Bad Company and more. It was a who's who and who's still alive of the classic rock genre in 2003. But it was one hell of an event. I think it got killed due to lax id checks at the vendors and some violence and heat related injuries.

[–] escapedgoat 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think it's only fair that from now on every interviewer of Sen. Kennedy ask him how long he's secretly been a Marxist.

[–] escapedgoat 2 points 11 months ago

Can't boil the frog unless you turn up the heat.

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Bird Search (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by escapedgoat to c/wordsearches
 

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submitted 11 months ago by escapedgoat to c/wordsearches
 

Here's one I threw together the other day. Have fun - and hopefully I spelled everyone's names right this time.

Solutions

 

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I'm open to recommendations on custom word searches.

 

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50 Famous Actors (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by escapedgoat to c/wordsearches
 

Here's one with 50 famous actors. Have fun solving.

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-- Updated to fix typos - Thanks to @DABDA for catching them

 

She knows how to be adorable.

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