Most of the colours shown I wouldn't really call blue or green tbh. But it's interesting that there's a threshold where something does become too green to be blue. I suspect this is also influenced by whatever screen people view this on

Yeah there's a whole spectrum, as someone else already commented. Don't worry, you're still just as asexual as someone like me :3.

Even beyond that, there are of course more types of brains than any set of words can cover. I tried to word it with that in mind, because I don't really wanna make certain asexual or aromantic subgroups feel left out.

Whoa that's crazy. Happy that my pi 1 and 2 are still happily chugging along

As someone who's aromantic, asexual, and doesn't like kissing and sex etc: this seems about the same level as kissing on the mouth to me. Definitely less yuck than sex to my brain. Kinda funny seeing all these reactions

Hmmmm interesting. If they bring it to Linux I might have a look, people seem to be happy with their tools.

But voting doesn't counter the street action, it's not a zero sum game. At the very least people should vote for the right people, even if that's all they do. And if they wanna do more, like protest, then that's great because it's really needed. But in the end I'm of the opinion that you can't complain about how bad it is and then refuse to vote. If you vote and then your candidate is shit, you have a reason to complain. If you vote and it turns out they meddled with it, then you can complain. And obviously you can also complain if half of the country voted for some douchebag. But people who encourage not voting are actively lowering the chances of the right people to win, even in a system where the vote is rigged. The more people vote for change, the harder it is to cover up

I use an OM System OM-5 mark 2 and the Olympus 30mm macro lens for scanning. The OM-5II has a high resolution mode where it shifts the sensor to combine multiple images into a 80MP raw file. Now obviously that's 4:3 and not 65:24, so I had to crop a bit but it's still enough. I did size down the images a bit to be able to upload them, but I don't think that that extra resolution really contained any more detail.

The detail of medium format film is pretty crazy though. Previously I used an Olympus E-M5 Mark II whcih could do about 50MP in this mode, and when filling the frame on normal medium format square photos there was still detail missing. If I moved the camera closer and scanned the center of the frame at the closest distance, there was still plenty of detail left that wasn't kn the big scan, at least with Kodak Gold. With 35mm negatives I will usually get all the detail, though a few rolls like Ektar 100 and Ilford Pan F 50 did have me doubting whether I got everything.

Oh yeah the far left is also not necessarily organized. I feel like either extreme tends to converge to a dumpster fire of infighting. The moderate left is currently actually united here under the PRO (progressive) party, after a merger of the 2 largest left wing parties (our equivalents of labour and greens). And they're the largest in the polls, but only because the center failed to solve problems and the right is splintered into many factions. Unfortunately a lot of people here are still very much right wing.

Further left there's been plenty of infighting though, as is customary. Whether it's the Socialist Party trying to distance themselves from the communists within their ranks, the animal party getting into a row over defence spending, or the further left party constantly fighting and calling other members of its party racists etc. We have so many parties, yet apparently not yet enough to prevent this constant fighting.

As a moderate leftist I honestly struggle sometimes to communicate with the far left wing. To me it seems like they're constantly "purity testing" eachother and struggle with giving any kind of compromise. Despite not agreeing with them, the centrist parties like liberals and christian democrats seem like much more reliable and stable partners unfortunately.

Is it though? At least here in the Netherlands, the far right is not much better. There's constant infighting, egos tripping over each other, new "messiahs" taking over and crashing down. We have JA21 and van Haga who both split off of the FvD when the mask went fully off. We have groep Markuszower who split off of the PVV. And on top of that parties like the BBB and people like Mona Keijzer who try to claim the spotlight. The originally liberal VVD trying to get a piece of the pie.

I'm happy for it though. Much rather this than an organized right.

But yeah, leftists can definitely be a purity contest sometimes.

Okay Okay, but while you have Disney+, you might as well watch Andor if you haven't already. It's star wars, but unlike the other Disney slop it relies on clever writing, good cinematography, etc instead of the n-th cameo of a character who just happened to be there or explaining a line in the movies that never needed elaboration.

To watch Andor you don't have to like or know Star Wars (though having seen at least Episode 4 and Rogue One does help). The show isn't about lightsabers and force, but about fighting against an authoritarian empire. It's not necessarily heroes vs bad guys, but rather a story about rebellion an how messy it can be. It relates to so many real world events, both past and present.

So uhh, yeah, watch Andor. And if you do, know that it mostly follows a 3 episode arc structure, so if the first 2 episodes don't grab your attention, do at least watch the 3rd.

That's a cute fluffy dog! I hope you gave it some nice pets

What a neat dog!