@ChrisContiPhoto

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Commercial still & motion photographer. Licensed commercial drone pilot. Loves democracy. Twitter refugee from @ChrisContiPhoto.
Work:https://www.spectaclehill.com

The universe is more beautiful and more mind-boggling than any science fiction.

In this one tiny sliver of the sky, we can see over 45,000 galaxies... each with billions of solar systems.

Zooming in on an unremarkable area (red) shows more worlds than humanity can fathom.

Bravo, NASA & JWST.

Saw some fun aircraft today: a few RAF F-35s, a couple USAF cargo planes and tankers.
@stevesebban @felipebaez Classic case of "that which you get for free costs too much." 😝
@ferricoxide I'm not a criminal lawyer, but AFAIK the Stormy/document forgery charges wouldn't carry jail time... and none of his current supporters will be turned off by those charges being proved true (they all already know they're true).

@ferricoxide That's fair, but practically the impact may be negligible: Trump's political career is over after this coming election *either way*: if he loses, the GOP will cast him aside. If he wins, he'll be term-limited out of office (unless of course he manages a complete coup and installs himself as a dictator... not likely, but as we saw not outside the realm of possibility).

So the only goal/benefit of any of the prosecutions is to keep him out of office *in 2024.*

@stevesebban @felipebaez That's interesting. I think Messages on the iPhone is so easy and convenient (both for iMessages and SMS with Android users, and mixed groups!).

I had WhatsApp on my phone very briefly, and even then, having one conversation in WhatsApp and others in Messages wasn't inconvenient.

People's different tastes are interesting.

@stevesebban @felipebaez
Wow.

That's... depressing. I wonder how that happened... and I hope it doesn't happen here!

Here SMS & iMessage are the standard between friends, and phone & email are the standard for customer service.

I agree with Filipe... if I were in that situation I would go to extreme lengths (a burner device, etc.) to keep as much privacy as possible... but then again, Filipe and I are certainly edge cases 😝

It's quite funny to me how big a deal everyone (right and left) is making of the affair hush-money/forgery indictment, when everyone (at least everyone who's paying attention) knows that in light of what's coming, it will be a trivial, inconsequential afterthought.
@stevesebban @felipebaez If I may, Steve, where do you live where WhatsApp is so prevalent? I am in the US, and in my experience I've had a few acquaintances who are dedicated die-hard users who want everyone else to use it, but they are the outliers and rarely succeed in converting the rest of us 😝
Like Filipe, on a principle basis I refuse to use any Meta product, and it has been easy for me to avoid WhatsApp.

@Trenton_Hoshiko Yeah, every time I've used potting soil I get gnats too.

I haven't heard of the baking method; I'd be concerned about killing off beneficial things in the soil too! Hopefully that isn't an issue though. I'll be curious to hear!