Sounds like an interesting after work test! You've got me very curious. If I'm doing this hand held there will likely be some wind, so things are going to move a tiny bit naturally. That and most of my lenses exhibiting focus breathing, so even if the camera were stationary the perspective would change slightly.

I'll hopefully follow up soon.

Nice shot! Thanks for sharing the technique.

I'm pretty sure my body doesn't support in-body bracketing, but it does have a fast burst rate. I wonder if a slight front to back rock would be enough to get the shots needed for focus stacking.

Stacking any quantity photos of a flower like this would be maddening, at least to me. They love to move in even the slightest breeze

Yup:

The boy, identified only as Landen, was 5 when Emmanuel Aranda threw him nearly 40 feet to the ground. Aranda, who had been banned from the Bloomington, Minnesota, mall twice in previous years, told investigators that when went there “looking for someone to kill” after women rejected his advances.

The guy sounds like a real winner.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mall-america-settles-lawsuit-5-year-old-boy-thrown-balcony-rcna60301

TIL. From Wikipedia:

On April 8, 2019, private equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group—including The Onion, The A.V. Club, and Clickhole—from Univision for an undisclosed amount.[148] The properties were formed into a new company named G/O Media Inc.[149][150] In March 2024, G/O sold The A.V. Club to Paste Magazine and was reported to be seeking buyers for The Onion.[151]

On April 25, 2024, CEO Jim Spanfeller told employees that G/O had sold The Onion to Chicago firm Global Tetrahedron, which is owned by Twilio founder Jeff Lawson, with former NBC reporter Ben Collins serving as CEO.[152] As a condition of the deal, the new owners will retain the website's staff and keep it based in Chicago.[153] The name "Global Tetrahedron" is taken from a "fictional evil megacorporation" that has been the subject of a running gag in The Onion articles.[154]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion

yes

After the Department of Justice released thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a tranche on Friday that included a number of decades-old photographs of former President Bill Clinton, a spokesperson for Clinton on Monday called on all of the files relating to Clinton to be released.

"Accordingly, we call on President Trump to direct Attorney General Bondi to immediately release any remaining materials referring to, mentioning, or containing a photograph of Bill Clinton," Ureña added.

At first I thought you meant one casino three times. It looks like it was three different casinos with one bankruptcy each. I am not sure which is worse...

Display port over USB-C is totally a thing. With things like USB-PD USB seem to be getting dangerously close to becoming the standard for everything. The cables are a wreck though and are way too hard for a layperson to tell apart.

Check the post title ;)

When you frame it that way you make it sound like slavery was not the most pressing factor on everyone's mind.

If this was unintentional, go read either speeches from the time or the declarations of succession from the southern states.

Our new government is founded upon . . . its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery – subordination to the superior race – is his natural and normal condition.

• Alexander H. Stephens, VP

An increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. The States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have enacted laws which either nullify the Acts of Congress or render useless any attempt to execute them. In many of these States the fugitive is discharged from service or labor claimed, and in none of them has the State Government complied with the stipulation made in the Constitution ... For twenty-five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until it has now secured to its aid the power of the common Government. Observing the forms of the Constitution, a sectional party has found within that Article establishing the Executive Department, the means of subverting the Constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,” and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.

• South Carolina's declaration of succession

The tension between exquisite craftsmenship, gaudy, and hoarding is amazing. Every single wall is lined with things, nothing really flows together, and it's super obvious that the people who built this place, along with a lot of the furniture, were very skilled.

For anyone who prefers reading: https://www.cnckitchen.com/blog/brick-layers-make-3d-prints-stronger

As a parent of younger kids, we're sorry. We come armed with as many activities as possible and will take our kids outside if they're too excited until food gets to the table. That will help them focus on eating.

We very rarely went out to eat when they were toddlers due to fear of our kids bothering others and understand that our desire to experience some level of normalcy shouldn't come at the expense of others.

All that said, if the parents are trying to keep their kids occupied, please extend some grace. Being a parent can be extremely isolating and we're simply trying to pretend like we still get to do normal things once in a while.

You're not kidding. Some towns like Los Algodones built their entire economy around medical tourism.

Great read, with some amusing asides.

Shots fired!

More historic info: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japan-soba-noodle-delivery-men

This picture is probably an exaggeration, but is partially grounded in reality.

India's Dabbawala is somewhat similar - one person carries a massive quantity of food. https://feedr.co/en-gb/c/blog/the-amazing-dabbawalas-of-mumbai

Until your home instance defederates from another instance. Sure, you can always make another account, but your average user wants a lower friction experience.

I'm reasonably active in the fediverse, but I recognize that the more explaining it takes to the average user the less likely they're going to want to join in.

The old old top gear cool wall tried to hit on this concept. You could have a very technically excellent car classified as uncool because if you had to explain why it was cool to a normie you had already lost them.

It will be hard for the fediverse to get over this hump, which is probably why you see so many Linux users here and so few say woodworkers or other (somewhat) more niche communities.

Both. Ethonal is still corrosive and the majority of fuel systems these days are compatible with E15. That said, check your owners manual.

Using California as an example, agriculture consumes 4x the water of everything else combined - business + industry + parks + homes.

Austerity at homes is generally more of a show than anything else. You can read about the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, but it looks like the legislation isn't mandated to be implemented until the 2040s.

The amount of traceability in auto plants regarding what was put onto a vehicle would surprise a lot of folks. The capability to do this greatly predates AI and I'm not really sure what AI would add in the example you cited. Nearly any OE part with a barcode can be tied back to the vehicle it was originally installed on, what shift installed it, which other vehicles have a similar lot of parts, etc. Correlating this information with other basic record keeping, like which station installs the part and who was working at that time, makes it very easy to unearth trends. Plants have quality incentives, so there's a strong motivation to identify areas for improvement.

In addition to quality, it turns out the small additional cost of all this data capture and storage quickly pays for itself in the case of a spill. Being able to say "this specific set of vehicles" can save a ton of money. That's part of the reason why very small and targeted recalls have been becoming more common.