• stelelor@lemmy.ca
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    Hobby: Telescopes upside-down or back-to-front, pointed through windows, with aperture caps on, without eyepieces, under heavy light pollution and glare, magically show Hubble-level images of something only visible from the opposite hemisphere.

    Job: The Government knows everything about you and any employee can pull up any info on anyone in seconds. Ffs we can’t even get two departments to cooperate on a common database format.

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      Also the images they show are only possible with a camera and a slow shutter and image processing; what you see through the eyepiece is completely different and usually just a bluish smudge.

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      The Government knows everything about you and any employee can pull up any info on anyone in seconds

      DOGE is working on that