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I've always thought that 2001: A Space Odyssey is painfully boring and slow.

However the last time I watched it was likely in my early 20s, so maybe I would appreciate it more. I understand the effects were groundbreaking for the time, but that doesn't really make me appreciate excruciatingly long scenes of ships docking into other ships all that much.

i can't say i mind.

i feel like we could have had this current legalization push earlier if these movies werent so dumb.

though probably not i dont know.

I took a photo a few years back of the back of a US five dollar bill with my camera with an infrared filter attached at the end. The purple five disappeared, as we can see below

https://imgur.com/a/gSRXdNF

Now, I posted this online a few days ago somewhere because I thought it was interesting. I figured other people would, too. Some people may have been intrigued, but a lot of the comments were basically telling me this was basic color theory and not all that different from children's spy glasses. That didn't sit right with me, but I couldn't explain it, because I am no expert in any of this.

So this evening I took an image of a five with a different camera - one that has been converted for infrared photography - no filter. The five was purple in that image, but then, after discussing with a friend, it hit me. The image I took way back when was outside in sunlight. I could take a photo in similar conditions tomorrow with my new camera and I suspect it would behave similarly but my friend came up with an idea that worked exactly as he theorized.

I went into my laundry room, positioned my camera, the bill and two two remote controls(for their infrared light). I shut the lights off and took a long exposure clicking the remotes to introduce only infrared light(or as good I could get without being in an actual dark room), and here we go:

https://imgur.com/rS7J4pv

the five disappears but also two white strips appear. This was expected, but I have never been able to see this until now. Every denomination 5 and higher has these strips, too(but I don't think any have a purple 5 that disappears) so I'll be able to get images of those also.

And lastly, I took a photo of a fake five dollar bill I have to see how it doesn't appear any different:

https://imgur.com/OQjwgSu

Anyways, this was actually a kind of fun experiment but I am glad it worked exactly as my friend thought it might. I can also stop going crazy now because I have exactly the answer I was looking for but didn't know enough about to say.

Hot damn! Some day soon i'll image all of the notes with this method and we'll see!

I don't know. I'd want to pay less but if we figured my most played game, Football Manager 2013. Thousands of hours. I got it on clearance for 5.99 back then. I've gotten hundreds of dollars seemingly of value out of it. Heck the last few months in doing a save that has breathed new life into the game.

So in theory hundreds but shhhh game companies don't need to know that

I voted that I do not have enough knowledge, and I say that because of hearing people talk about the ordeal. Most of the time the conversations devolve into "this thing happened" "no it didn't!" People say Hamas are liars while posting video edited by the IDF. People say the IDF are liars while posting video directly from Hamas.

Ultimately my opinion doesn't matter, because I don't engage in debates about it and I haven't really taken a side. But my perspective is really how could I know a definitive answer with what I've been presented?

1990 was LITERALLY half of a 68 year old person's life ago.

I learned a LOT about geological stratums

You think I'd be heavily concerned about a daily +/- of...lots but I am lazy. I am now .263 seconds off of time.gov. noticeable but at least it is no longer the wrong minute.

I love fiscal conservatives because their presidents lower taxes to certain groups but they still spend like it's going out of style.

Democrats want to spend but they'll tell you they will raise taxes. Republicans spend as much or more but cut revenue sources and have no way to make that up. So a fiscal conservative for Trump must not have been paying attention as he did zero to lessen the US deficit and only increased it.

I don't know how big of an issue the border is really living in a northern state but I do remember Fox News was calling it a border crisis in Bidens first week in office(but obviously not under Trump), so I've kind of stopped caring because the border is about as much of a political tool as children are

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so adults just have to learn to ignore the dumb faces?

This couldn't hurt.

I find his thumbnails cringe, but they get him views. He has studied youtube like a full time job even before he got famous, so he knows what to do to get views. I can't really hate on it. The thumbnails are stupid but if a video idea intrigues me i might watch it, but only because ive seen enough Beast videos to kind of know what its about already.

This person is racist and shouldn't keep their job necessarily but she was portrayed as some big wig on a project when she's just an associate who might even have been contracted to EA in the first place(well the one screenshot said that could be possible, i don't know), and the video in question wasn't on the current EA project and was a few years ago.

She is a bad person and should probably be cut from the Black Panther project but what we don't need is some idiotic account like "libsoftiktok" blowing things out of proportion and just lying about certain details.

I don't care. It sucks that some places have no grocery stores other than these shitty dollar stores that are run horribly and treat their staff like shit, and people will lose their jobs but I just don't care. These are the kinds of businesses that deserve to fail, because they treat their workers horribly and don't even do a good job at anything. Customer experience in one sucks also.

I work at a retail store in a union(I am a manager in a separate union) and I have stolen two employees from the Dollar Tree in my plaza, because they both seemed like good people and the job i could provide them with is significantly easier and better and pays more, and has a path to actual benefits you can use.

After I hired the second one I have decided to boycott Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Five Below and Family Dollar because I had a friend who worked at five below and it was just a miserable existence. scheduled for like 8 hours a week(not in one shift of course) and you had to call to see if you were needed most days. Tree they let one of my people I hired go on some bullshit and I realized just how dumb it is and while most retail jobs stink, the bottom of barrel jobs don't need my support.

Like I said, it sucks that these places are a job(albeit low, low paying, stressful and stupid) for some and they may lose them. But these companies are so terrible to their workers I just don't care.

"and sometimes referred to as the winter vomiting disease"

yike

the strange thing is literally 100% of all military wives only have sex with their husband...IF he returns. They probably don't have sex ever again if he comes home in a casket. OR...

Mines in the high 700s or so. After a point it doesn't really matter too much.

Probably Marge. To me it seems like her role is mainly to be sensible in the face of Homer's shenanigans but she doesn't really do much otherwise. They did make fun of her in the monorail episode where people thought she was going to complain but she didn't.

I am going to say no, because a booby trap doesn't distinguish between somebody meaning harm(burglar), somebody meaning well(EMS, Police) and the homeowner if the homeowner is an idiot.

I left my last job which was in retail for a better job in retail. I worked at Wal-Mart for 7 years. I was a cashier at the front and over time the staffing got so bad every shift was like a skeleton crew, and I hated having to sit there with a line of 5+ people all day because of it. I also hated having to apologize I'm one of two lanes open because when you get down to it, the trillion dollar company obviously could staff their stores better, but they know the average customer will still shop there still or just migrate to buying their shit from the companies website.

I moved to a different sector in retail only found in a handful of states in the US. I now work at a state owned liquor store chain in one of the states that is still control. For me this is night and day. Staffing is much better, no sales goals to push, no credit card apps to push, etc. It's retail but without a lot of the corporate bullshit because it isn't corporate. I am an employee of my states government and also in a union.

I like this job so much more to the point I am now the GM of a store, when before I never would have wanted to be a GM or even just a manager.

For me I just got tired of putting up with being given a bogus set of tools from a billion dollar company almost every shift. Took a minute to get out as I wasn't going to take a pay cut to do so, but it did happen.

I seem to be noticing more and more often people seem to disregard red lights. I don't normally see ones this egregious, but people will assume command of the first few seconds of their now red light seemingly half the time. At least once a week my light will be green but some dumb motherfucker will still be turning - going while it's been red for a second.

He doesn't need it to calm his nerves, he just really likes the taste of American adjunct lager

higher level enemies = higher level magic to draw. Granted there are easier ways to get magic, but they did include a benefit to doing so.

I can't claim to know much of Batman lore, but I've always felt like it's funny that Batman could kill Joker but he doesn't.

It's like "hey Fred, yeah 6:00 PM next Tuesday works for you? cool!"

And also, I'd LOVE to be a steak doneness snob but actual steak doneness snobs ruined it for me by being so cringe.

I'd never eat a steak that way but I also don't care how people like to eat their steak anyways.

most common in older watches and clocks, they do us IIII for 4 more often than IV.

I kinda like IIII but it is kinda weird.

I don't even know if I was affected or not but 6-8 months later red bull was in my mailbox.

I got a four pack of red bull once from a class action lawsuit.

I remember people freaking out at JonBenet Ramsey when I was 7. Other than that, I remember the Steelers Super Bowl loss in 95, but thats not a nationwide major event in the same sense.

It has happened before where the knife-shoe strikes a guy by accident in a critical spot, but most of the time you're fine. Clint Malarchuk is one player that unfortunately had a skate strike his neck, but he did live. The video is semi gruesome(lots of blood but you dont get a clear image of impact)

in hockey fights happen and it's mostly okay, one or both gets a 5 minute penalty otherwise we're good. In baseball there are bench clearing brawls, players can be suspended as a result and it rarely seems to involve fighting like hockey(I could be wrong). mainly just a buncha dudes yelling.

In any other sport(including baseball), if a player gets into a fight it's suspensions, fines from the league, outrage.

I kinda like how hockey does it. Plus, they're wearing knife shoes.

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Yikes, but anyways...

https://imgur.com/nIyeVdW

this one time i was walking in a trail in the woods and this huge bear came out of nowhere and ran past.

it wasnt a bear it was a huge leashless dog. I didn't say anything. it startled me but that was it, but please lease your fucking pets.

A lot of people talking about not knowing how to junction or do other things. Some are given formal explanations, most everything is explained in the computer in the Balamb Garden classroom.

Did I understand this game very well my first playthrough as a kid? Ehhh...no. So it isn't like I was any smarter than anybody,

edit: Also, everybody always talks about the level scaling in this game. Higher level enemies have higher level spells to draw, though there are easier ways to get things than drawing them, so one benefit of being a higher level the ability to draw better stuff. But the lowest level or level 100, the game isnt difficult. The enemies scale with you but with even simple junctioning I don't see an issue. This is the easiest FF game I've played to lowest level(since you can get enc_none so early). You can skip every battle aside from forced encounters and bosses 2 hours into the game) and also the easiest to get to level 100 (each level is 1,000 XP, max of 100,000 XP).

Funny enough I cannot replicate this now but it did happen.

It was one of those links that says "ad" under it in small text, but not like an actual popup ad or anything else. I do use adblock but I guess a few google links that look like search results slip through.

Well, I type "US bank" into the browser bar which functions as a search bar. Anyways, I have an account with them and rather then go to www.usbank.com I just type it in and click on the link.

However, since google is such ass, the first link to come up was an AD for Bank of America.

....NOT what I asked for!!!

I'd still probably go depending on how much snow and how far away it was and how critical the appointment was.

But no, in general if you are apprehensive about being out in snow that's....fairly normal, so no real worries.

This story may be bullshit but I remember hearing the one asian kid a year below my grade got a perfect SAT score and when the kids went into the gym to collect their scores the SAT people gave him a standing ovation.

That sounds like bullshit but I don't know.

I will get mad to myself sometimes or flip people off, but even if the other person is an idiot, I should calm down and only save it for the worst of the worst.

Honking I only do when I am calling somebody out(like a guy blatantly running a red light) or when somebody really fucks up, like a few weeks ago a guy passed a garbage truck when he likely did not have a clear view of my lane and came close to hitting me. That got a honk.

PO is at minimum 6'3" we got eem now.

My friend Scott, mentioned above, one day brought his guitar to sing a song he wrote for a popular girl to ask her out. Now, I understand this is awkward, but ultimately I don't see the issue assuming somebody backs off when told no(which my friend did) but everybody has to go OMG DID U HEAR ABOUT WHAT SCOTT DID and it's like yeah i get it but this is only making the situation more awkward, but it's high school so what are you going to do? Ultimately I think the answer was no and that was that but you'd have thought the principal choked on a dang pretzel or something.

I never play multi-player unless it is local. I used to play CSGO deathmatch and I never talked shit. Just a friendly gg at most. I had one game where I was close to winning but the top player edged me out. Nothing but a gg and respect.

I did play the serious more traditional counter strike mode competitively once. I was the last person alive and got shot with 5 seconds left. A bunch of shit talking and t bags later I was done. Not worth it(and that's likely tame compared to whatever else people do)

(speaking about the United States).

Before I begin I generally do go with the flow of traffic within reason. If the speed limit on a highway is say 65, and people are going 80 in general I will "go with the flow".

But I have always been curious who determines what the flow is? If the speed limit on the highway is 65, and everybody is going 65, is the person who wants to go 80 now setting the flow or disrupting the flow?

I live near a lot of roads that are one way in both directions. If the speed limit is 35 on a road, and the person in front wants to go 30 or 35 max I follow that because I do not want to tailgate and I cannot go through them. But, what if I am on a road with nobody around going 35(speed limit) and somebody comes behind me going 50. Should they not "go with the flow"? Who sets the flow?

Maybe this is just a lot of words and spinning around for something like this but I have always been curious. Is there any US law that states who "sets the flow?"

Senior year I made sure I had study hall as my last class, because you could leave early if you did. I did not drive to school so I sometimes just hung out at the playground across the street(community park) and ran back to catch the bus. I have some memories of sitting on swings listening to music.

I was also on the TV production crew one semester. There was a small studio where you'd record and produce the school announcements. I was anchor a few times. I was horrible at it(way too stiff and nervous) but i kinda liked being up there.