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- palimpsest0
Re: https://www.qbn.com/reply/413516…
Prompt:
K. Let's say you're on vacation. In another country. You burned your Face off. Then you're bandaged. Bandaged up face. How do you get back to your country with a passport How would they identify you?ChatGPT 4o:
# How to Get Back to Your Country with a Burned Face and BandagesIf your face is burned and you’re bandaged up, making facial recognition for passport identification impossible, here are alternative methods authorities can use to verify your identity:
## 1. **Secondary Identification**
- **Fingerprints:** Many countries keep biometric data like fingerprints on record, especially if you’ve used a biometric passport. These can be checked against your passport or immigration records.
- **Other Documents:** If you have secondary forms of ID (e.g., driver’s license, national ID, credit cards), these can support your claim of identity.## 2. **Emergency Travel Documents**
- **Contact Your Embassy/Consulate:** Your country’s embassy can issue an Emergency Travel Document (ETD) after verifying your identity. This often involves:
- Interviews with consulate staff.
- Verification with family members or authorities back home.
- Providing alternative documents or details (e.g., previous addresses, tax records, etc.).## 3. **Witness Statements**
- **Travel Companions or Witnesses:** Friends, family, or other travelers who have seen your identification before the injury can vouch for you.
- **Local Staff:** Hotel or medical staff who have your personal details can also provide statements.## 4. **Medical Records**
- **Hospital Documentation:** Clinics or hospitals treating you might document your identity based on the details provided during admission. These records can serve as evidence.## 5. **Facial Recognition Alternatives**
- **Distinguishing Features:** Any scars, tattoos, or unique physical features that remain unaffected can be compared to your passport’s physical description.
- **Medical Certification:** A document from the hospital explaining why facial identification isn’t possible can help immigration officers understand the situation.## 6. **Home Verification**
- In some cases, authorities may allow you to travel under supervision or hold you for additional checks upon arrival, where you can verify your identity with local agencies.---
### Key Tip:
Involve your country’s **embassy or consulate** as soon as possible to expedite the process. They are well-equipped to handle such emergencies and can liaise with immigration and border control on your behalf.Claude 3.5 Haiku:
Let me walk you through the process of international travel with a severe facial injury:
When dealing with passport identification after a significant facial injury, there are several key considerations:
1\. Passport Identification Process:
- Border control and immigration officials are trained to handle cases of severe facial trauma or changes in appearance
- Your underlying facial structure, bone structure, and other biometric markers remain consistent even with significant surface damage
- Passport control will likely use multiple verification methods:
- Comparing your current appearance to your passport photo
- Checking other identifying features like height, weight, eye color
- Verifying your personal information and passport details
- Potentially using additional biometric scanning technologies
2\. Recommended Documentation:
- Carry medical documentation explaining your injury
- If possible, have a letter from a medical professional describing your condition
- Keep your original passport intact and undamaged
- Consider having additional identification like a driver's license
3\. Additional Verification Steps:
- You may undergo more thorough screening
- Officials might consult additional records or use advanced facial recognition technology
- In some cases, you might need to provide additional proof of identity
Important Practical Advice:
- Contact your country's embassy or consulate in advance if possible
- Ensure you have comprehensive travel insurance
- Have digital and physical copies of your important documents
The key is remaining calm, having proper documentation, and being prepared to patiently work through additional identification procedures.
- jagara1
That Zuckerberg pic with his tongue out pic bothers me. I've been seeing it pop up every day since someone posted it here. I'll puke soon. Into his mouth.
- palimpsest-1
YakuZoku: "K. Let's say you're on vacation. In another country. You burned your Face off. Then you're bandaged. Bandaged up face. How do you get back to your country with a passport How would they identify you?"
# What Would Joe Rogan Do?
If Joe Rogan found himself in a foreign country with a burned face, bandaged up, and needing to prove his identity to return home, here's how he might approach the situation:
## 1. **Leverage Resources and Contacts**
- **Call His Team:** Joe would probably have his manager, publicist, or assistant on speed dial to sort things out with the embassy or airline.
- **Pull Out the Rolodex:** He’d likely know someone—an embassy contact, influential friend, or expert—who could fast-track his verification process.## 2. **Be Charismatic and Persistent**
- **Talk His Way Through It:** Joe’s gift of gab might help him charm immigration officials or consulate staff into moving the process along. A little humor and Rogan-esque confidence go a long way.## 3. **Use Technology**
- **Pull Up Podcasts or Social Media:** With millions of followers and hours of his face online, proving he’s Joe Rogan would probably just take a quick YouTube search or a DM to Jamie ("Pull that up, Jamie!").
- **Biometrics:** He’d likely point out that fingerprints, iris scans, or other biometric data could be used to confirm his identity.## 4. **Get Philosophical**
- **Reflect on the Situation:** Joe might wax poetic about how burning your face in a foreign country is a lesson in resilience. Expect some tangents about survival instincts, ancient humans, and DMT.## 5. **Go on an Adventure**
- **Take It in Stride:** He’d probably see the chaos as an opportunity to embrace the absurdity of life. Stuck in customs for hours? Time to observe human behavior for a new bit on the podcast.## 6. **Adapt and Overcome**
- **Make a Plan B:** If all else fails, Joe would adapt. Maybe he’d charter a private flight (if the budget allows) or find an alternative route home while waiting for the paperwork to clear.---
### Summary:
Joe Rogan would likely approach the situation with a mix of resourcefulness, humor, and a touch of his usual curiosity about the human experience. He’d probably end up making the whole ordeal into a killer podcast episode titled: *"Burned in Bangkok: Lessons in Identity, Resilience, and Customs Lines."*---
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- OBBTKN5
Our youngest daughter is going to Sicily on Erasmus next year... so the rest of the family will go "visiting" too.
I still remember, in 2000, NYC, in little Italy, asking an old man... where I could find a certain place in Italian, his answer is engraved in my memory: "Io Non Sono Italiano, Io Sono Siciliano!" love him, LOL
- This is the way!
Erasmus is key in the project for Europe.palimpsest - The university was founded by a Basque priest, so it is a way back ;)OBBTKN
- Sure, it’s a way back in heritage, but let’s not forget Erasmus is funded by the EU—a cornerstone of the European project for unity and collaboration.palimpsest
- The name is symbolic; the vision is European.palimpsest
- Agree, no prob. with that yo! ;)OBBTKN
- I do admit I was on the defensive on that one. All is good.
I'm sure she'll have a blast, as well as you when you visit.
<3palimpsest
- This is the way!
- Ianbolton2
I feel like I'm having a mental breakdown with all the bullshit information I've taken in recently with both the UK and US elections. I have no idea what side of anything i'm on - not saying I was ever a 'I'm on this side' kinda guy. My head's clogged with bullshit and I've lost yet more good friends and family with all their outrageous ideas they've read online.
- I feel like the internet is a disease. Maybe QBN is the antidote!! Love you guys. xIanbolton
- If you want to take my hand I'll guide you down my side. Easy-peasy.palimpsest
- https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Or you can take the easier way out.palimpsest
- That's Russian's (dis)info overload tactic at work.i_monk
- We have such sights to show you.palimpsest
- i_monk3
Switched my default search to Brave to see how that goes. I've noticed Google increasingly ignores boolean operators to include just whatever it wants. Plus that idiotic AI Overview is generally wrong.
- Salarrue2
Hello everyone,
I am looking for the best equipment to achieve something similar to Edward Ruscha's work.
Source : https://www.moma.org/collection/…
My challenge is to take a photo of a street on the hill, here is a test with raw unedited photos:
With all my lenses I will have the problem of perspective on all the trees and houses.
Instead to multiple hours of editing I am wondering if there is a more effective way or if there is any lens, equipment or technique that will allow me to take several photos without perspective distortion like this one:
Thanks
- You could try to use a slit-scan technique where you take a video while moving the camera over time, then join one column of pixels from each framemonNom
- That’s basically how a flatbed scanner works. You’ll still get vanishingpoints for the vertical axis, but horizontal will be free of distortion.monNom
- You might also investigate telecentric lenses, which eliminate perspective. However the lens must be at least as large as the subject so may not be feasible.monNom
- Or maybe the most obvious of all- use the panorama function on your iPhone, which will essentially accomplish the slitscan technique.monNom
- Thanks monNomSalarrue
- My pleasure. Hope you make something cool.monNom
- Nairn1
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How odd for me that you should ask this now.in these colder dark evenings I've been getting the bus home more often, and one thing I love is staring out of the window, parallel to the buildings and looking straight at them, revelling in the slightly weird 'computer game perspective' that arises as things like businesses slide past with depth forshortenning (not sure if correct term). The effect is paricularly acute around here, with businesses based in long but not very wide premises that promote the visual effect.
I've been wondering how to replicate it somehow. MonNom's suggestion of using the panorama mode might work, if I just plant the phone on the window and record that way.
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I kind of get lost in it when I do it, and I wonder whether fellow commuters sideye me and wonder if I'm autistic or something. Or, worse. Just staring at myself for the entire journey..
- That sounds cool as fuck. Panorama might work but could lose tracking if moving too fast. Record video at high frame rate. 120fps. Then you can process offlinemonNom
- Raspberry pi camera will allow extremely high framerates from a cropped sensor readout like a line scan/slitscan.monNom
- If you want to get crazy, you can source machine vision linescan cameras surplus on eBay. Current gen are 16k pixels in a single column, so 12k easy to find.monNom
- But that’s going to be a very challenging technical project to get working, I would think.monNom
- That is exactly the same feeling I got from multiple random places. I think there is no shortcut for now, but to digitally merge the photosSalarrue
- I found this software interesting https://hugin.source… you can control the mergind pointsSalarrue
- Good find. This tutorial seems like exactly what you were after: https://panospace.wo…monNom
- Awesome!Salarrue
- bainbridge1
All my work friends are women.
The guys I work with just aren't as nice or interesting.- Or have cleavage?_niko
- I like women too ;)OBBTKN
- Now seriously, Almost all my clients are women, I've always been surrounded by them (two sisters and two daughters) knowing them well helps a lot!OBBTKN
- @OBB somehow, the same.
From agency bosses, to client service, freelance clients, so on...
90% maybe, very rarely any issuesgrafician - Yeah graf, issues are very rare, especially related to ego issues.OBBTKN
- https://www.youtube.…rzu-rzu
- @bainbridge, have you told your father you’re gay?ideaist
- At my work, women are even naked.SimonFFM
- Bumps before humpsutopian
- I was waiting for Simon to chime inautoflavour
- SimonFFM9
Done with my shoots. Right before the Calima started.
- jeez I thought you said clamitia_niko
- Morocco?OBBTKN
- https://www.youtube.…YakuZoku
- OBBTKN, i was just wondering the same thing... SImon..where is this?exador1
- FuerteventuraSimonFFM
- LIke, CALIMA Calima????
https://static.wikia…mg33 - Calima? Did a cult leader rip your still beating heart out of your chest then lower you into lava?Akagiyama
- Canarias!! Windy days eh? ;)OBBTKN
- do you mean the scirocco?hans_glib
- jagara9
Another acquaintance dead from cancer. Another tap on the shoulder, a reminder to live and love.
- So sorry. And yes, live and let live!OBBTKN
- <3PonyBoy
- So sorry.
I lost one of my best friends last month. It was about 2 months after he got married.CyBrainX - all my close friends have dealt with loss this year, and i lost my best friend last month too, been some shit this year.BabySnakes
- Lost my best friend this year too... and lots of acquaintances with cardiac problems, In one week, 3 people under 60 have died from it in our town!OBBTKN
- @BabySnakes @OBBTKN I did not lose a best friend, just an acquaintance. Sorry to hear!jagara
- Gardener7
I won the local pub quiz with a bunch of 80+ year old a few weeks ago and it was 52 years ago last week that I won the inter-schools
competition with my classmates. I am on the right hand shoulder of the teacher - see if you can spot who was to become the big school bully who terrorised the pre-teens until he hit the secondary!- First top right, with the stoned girl next to himOBBTKN
- YupGardener
- Bingo!OBBTKN
- Obviously I won't name him but he was a right bastard to so many kids, he went on to become an estate agent.Gardener
- Every school had its cunt child of satan didn’t it? At least one. May they all be estate agents lol.mort_
- Or bank / insurance commercial, car sellers, politicians... There is always a pattern at the level of personality and the profession that is performed.OBBTKN
- utopian20
The day after Thanksgiving, I caught the flu. A week later, my condition worsened. I went to an urgent care center the following week because I couldn’t stop coughing and was struggling to breathe. Urgent care ended up sending me to the emergency room, where I was diagnosed with pneumonia and acute respiratory failure—my condition was so severe, I nearly died. I spent a week in the hospital, where they pumped me full of antibiotics and a range of other medications. Nearly a month later, I’m still recovering. It’s been the worst month of my life.
- regular flu?pango
- Fuck bro! how you feeling now??YakuZoku
- Ah shit man. Get well soon.
Pneumonia is no joke.PhanLo - The flu magically transformed into pneumonia...the holiday magic!utopian
- I'm doing okay now, but I lost between 18 to 22 lb. and I'm weak as fuck.utopian
- Jeez, get better soon man!_niko
- oooooooofpango
- Woah, get well... "I nearly died..." No fun.OBBTKN
- all the best !neverscared
- Fuck. Feel better!mort_
- Jeez, that's rough. Glad you're doing better.Fax_Benson
- This hurts me. I hope u feel better. Psalm 118 might help. Good luck.cherub
- Holy shit that's serious stuff. Glad you're on the mendstoplying
- Damn bro. Glad you’re alive.monospaced
- Yikes, ‘topes... no dying, brother. <3PonyBoy
- damn man! look after yourself!renderedred
- fuck man!YakuZoku
- Oh man glad you are recovering mate. Get well soon.Salarrue
- Thanks everyone, apparently this is happening to a lot of people. https://www.buzzfeed…utopian
- Joder, utopian, un abrazo...Miesfan
- Good to hear you're better. Scary shit!Beeswax
- Best wishes Utopian. Recover well.Horp
- Eh, walk it off.bezoar
- Seriously though, take care of yo'selfbezoar
- stoplying6
8 Roma tomatoes
1 eggplant
1 white onion
1 bulb colossal garlic
2 bell peppers (red, orange)This is what went into my pasta sauce last night. Roast veggies on a baking tray with some olive oil, seasonings. Throw everything into a blender and presto - healthy sauce for the fam. Tastes even better when it's 18F and the wood burning stove is cranking.
- BusterBoy2
My wife's cousin died last week...49 years old.
Quite sad...but fuck me...I hadn't seen her for probably 10 years...during and post the pandemic she fled down the rabbit hole of batshit craziness. Started posting all this garbage antivax and conspiracy rubbish...non stop. I unfriended her when she started posting 50+ posts and links each day. Just fucken crazy stuff.
She was diagnosed with cancer about a year ago...and of course she refused any type of mainstream treatment. The cancer took hold quickly and despite the fact she has 2 teenage kids, continued to refuse any type of treatment.
The last month when she was in hospice, she refused any food except bone broth. If anyone in Australia knows Pete Evans...former celebrity chef and now anti vax and conspiracy crusader, bone broth was his recommendation if you were sick.
Anyway...surprise surprise none of this shit worked...and now she's dead...leaving 2 young kids behind.
At her funeral, the coffin was draped in the Australian Red Ensign...which has been co-opted since the pandemic by conspiracy theorist anti vax fuckwits....I realy wanted to walk out...the crazy was out in force.
Totally fucked up.
- Sorry, that's so sad :(utopian
- DamnYakuZoku
- Crazy, so sorryOBBTKN
- So sad, I know a few as well. Too many low iq people plus social media plus doing their own research plus Russian psy-opps_niko
- Fuck man. That’s wild.thumb_screws
- covid made many people go crazyrenderedred
- YakuZoku0
I'm back in Arizona visiting my mom for the holidays and I gotta say this place is way cooler than when the boomers were running shit
- Akagiyama0
How are the holidays 2024 finding you this year?
- Too many errands. The tradition of American gift giving is a slog. But otherwise fine.nb
- Try secret santa, one gift each, problem solvedgrafician
- But 11grafician
- 4OBBTKN
- Tried. Fam won’t accept anything less than hours waiting in various lines to buy more disposable crap that no one needs.nb
- 10 & 12jagara
- OBBTKN4
Enjoy this days, holidays, christmas days...
Love and peace!
- liked and shared, thousands upon ten-thousands blessings may overflow in the lives of you!sted
- cute :) the only face my cat makes in these days is the "give me whatever you eating".sted
- Her name is Kiki. It's not that she's very nice to say the least, yes, photogenic, for a while :)OBBTKN
- https://riotheatre.c…pango
- PonyBoy5
COVID, round 4
:(- Awe fuck!YakuZoku
- Oh my... Get well soon Kevin <3OBBTKN
- round 4?!?! were you actively trying to get them? O_Opango
- Yikes! Take care. :(Akagiyama
- Gotta collect them all!skinny_puppy
- Paxlovid to the rescue!PonyBoy
- Ugh hang in therestewart
- How you feeling Kev?YakuZoku
- Doing good :) this has been the easiest round to deal with... Paxlovid is good stuff.PonyBoy
- Gardener10
My wife has been asking for a dinner gong for a few years now, I forgot about this for a couple of years then remembered last Xmas so bought her the one pictured below. She was very happy when she opened it but we were both never very all that happy with the actual sound of it, calling the family in for dinner it was often either unheard or misheard, so this year I decided to up the gong levels.
The first gong, I bought this sound unheard on eBay last year, and despite it's size and art deco appeal it has been a disappointing gong for a whole 12 months.
The latest gong is probably twice the size of the other one and I spotted it in a second hand shop just before Xmas and loved it's resonating bonggggg, so was please to pick it up for £25. Dinner gong mission accomplished!
hear the gongs in action : https://streamable.com/2yt6qd
- I need this!palimpsest
- "My wife has been asking for a dinner gong..." Define "dinner"... The only similar junk I knew of, was for more "pleasant" uses ;)OBBTKN
- No recording of the good gong?robotinc
- yes it's in the streamable link at the bottom of the postGardener
- Well now. There's something I didn't know that i needed in my life. Congratulations on the new gong. She's a keeper.Nairn
- oh my god. The new one is considerably more gongy. Love it. Great investment GIanbolton
- robotinc