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May tinker with cameras, motorbikes, and infosec automation when not being antisocial. See also: @notalenthack.org
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Thanks!
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FYI if you ever want to do focus stacked macro work: the newer Nikon DSLRs can't focus stack with AF-D lenses without being tethered with third party software like Helicon. I'm not sure if they work on Z cameras either
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My Duc has 4 gauge wires for the starter. They're aftermarket because I wasn't drunk enough at the time to have the confidence to do electrical work on a bike that had sketchy wiring when it was new in 1996
Some bikes (HD) draw 200+ amps and need car sized cables
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I'm originally from rural Louisiana and I still get all happy every time I see snow.
I lived in San Jose for two years way back when the bay area was fun and stores like Weird Stuff and Frys were still around. I miss that place even though WA is great too.
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Thanks! Iron Goat is one of my go-to hikes if I don't want to put any effort into it or drive halfway across the state
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It's a wood or concrete wall & roof to protect trains or roads as they go along the mountainside - the tracks go where I was standing in #1 below.
This one is from the ~1890s and most of it has been reclaimed by nature. It was replaced by the original Cascades tunnel, shown below.
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Thanks! The side of the shed was covered with trees and the sun filtering through the leaves gave it a nice green glow
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Thank you!
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Thanks!
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Wellington, near Stevens Pass ski resort in WA, was the site of the worst avalanche disaster in US history, killing 96 when a wall of snow hit a train and shoved it off the tracks and down the side of a mountain
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welling...
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She got her name from (literally) trying to eat a neighbor's baby - I thought it was fitting.
I'm sorry to hear about your Dingo, she looks like a good girl.
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Not trailer park republicans. He wants child labor back on the books: www.npr.org/2025/04/05/n...
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He's not fat!
Someone just forgot to empty his diapers.
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Wow, it requires some real talent to drive that poorly
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Caption: After a long day of shooting reporters in the back and shopping at the discount paintball gear store, #4 from the left stares longingly at the symbol of his doughy god
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Great shots. Is that the SMC 50?
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I got the same treatment for asking someone to tag their posts as NSFW.
It was such a letdown because engagement was great here for a while
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The less lethal munitions are usually rubber slugs or bean bags, fired from either a 12 gauge (~15.6mm) pump shotgun or a rotary launcher (37 or 40mm). Despite the name they're plenty lethal
Source: My former neighbor was a cop and swiped some of the department goodies when he retired
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That's so sad, the only one worse off is the poor old floppy disk cenobite. I can't even install Slackware with him unless I solve the Lament Configuration like 26 times
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Cicadas are one of the very few things I miss from when I lived in the southern - summer evenings in WA are too quiet without them
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Well that's just fucking horrifying
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That's what Ansible is for though. Coffee cattle > coffee pets.
Not related: brogrammers at my old workplace filled a $25,000 automated coffee machine's milk reserve with powerade and destroyed it. HR took the entire office's coffee privileges away. This is why I loathe the techbro crowd.
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Gas is $4.70'ish a gallon here
I paid $9 a pound for fucking tomatoes last weekend
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Why bother with all that? If you're gonna go all scorched earth just skip to the end, publish their DMs outright, then bribe someone at truth social to do the same
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There's just no way that wasn't intentional. The graduating cadets should have to redo the entire academy course, and whoever led them through the crowd should be canned
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Hey now, don't do Vigo the Carpathian dirty like that. I'm sure Vigo can figure out what FEMA does, unlike some people
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Oh god a few weeks ago my MAGA neighbors were going off about how roving packs of reintroduced wolves in WA were going to cross the Cascades and start eating people.
When they find out about the plan to bring grizzlies back to the N Cascades they're going to have a stroke
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The high pipes don't work for me either
I really like his carb setup and kinda want to copy it for the FCR41s on my 900SS. I still have the airbox (minus the lid) on that and it doesn't seem like it would flow that well
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My theory: the second hood is there so you can use a fire extinguisher on it without having to open the main hood so often
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Mine ('15 R1200 GS Adventure) was well over 650 pounds wet with the side cases and crash bars
What was really amazing was how low the CG was and how light it felt vs the reality of it being a porker
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If you're going to send people to the Library of Congress, the Sanborn fire maps also warrant a look: www.loc.gov/item/sanborn... (example from 1908)
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I left my camera in my yard (Snohomish Co) running on auto. It picked up a few dim
colored streaks around 12:00 - 1:00 AM but that's about it.
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This ones for you, Kimberly Landry Coates
(PilotWagner's excellent cover song aside, the simple physics behind chemtrails don't work: Where would an airliner carry all the material it's spraying?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dLC...
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As someone who climbed both sides of that bridge, it's pretty sketchy underneath it.
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Likewise. By not checking for genetic issues and going for a quick buck, they've made animals less healthy than ever.
Thanks in part to their carelessness and greed, Hushpuppy passed away from angiosarcoma in early April.
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that poor little peak design clip was never made for carrying such a huge package