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Teen Trump supporter charged with threatening Harris backers at polling place with machete
  • 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.

  • Fairy by Me : Someone recommended I post this here

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

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    Fairy by Me : Spent the 8 hours doing this and have nobody to share it with

    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.

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    Since we're posting gulls - here's my Western Gull

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

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    Photography @lemmy.world escapedgoat @lemmy.world
    Dragonfly hung out with me at the lake

    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.

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    Help me understand why rolling shutter effect happens
  • 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.

  • What's the best concert or live performance you've ever attended, and what made it unforgettable?"
  • 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.

  • Netflix Hints at Price Increases, Plans to Retire Basic Service Amid Ad-Tier Growth
  • Netflix already costs over $185 a year. For that price I can rent 6 5k UHD movies a month at redbox and get much higher quality viewing. I can't find 6 good things to watch any given month on Netflix. I might turn my membership back on for the final season of Cobra Kai or Stranger Things, but there's just not much else that's compelling me to spend that money.

  • Adult Mourning Dove

    Saw the Juvenile post and felt it needed a companion post for an adult.

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    escapedgoat @lemmy.world
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