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- Comment on business is business 13 hours ago:
I think eventually, you’re saying the same thing. If you want to shoot professionally, it makes sense to get equipment to save time and have a manner of control over reproducibility. That’s also why the local metal shop gets the $200 carbide endmills vs. grinding HSS blanks by hand. I did state that already.
I’ll still disagree with two things. You absolutely did say “art is expensive”, and stock photography will not produce a lot of art. It can be shot artfully, sure, but that’s more of a word choice and eventually rather equates to craftsmanship. I’m sure there is at least one stock photographer out there, producing art all the time. Same with any amazing shot that happens to get uploaded to a stock library not becoming any less meaningful. But that’s not common and simply not how the process works, claiming anything else would be disingenuous. I’m not out to disparage the craft or the skill of anyone involved, that’s a completely different topic.
- Comment on business is business 1 day ago:
It’s absolutely not. You can take perfectly fine, artsy photographs with a bunch of cheap gels and Chinese import lights.
You’ll be shocked to learn that people took fantastic pictures before an $8.6k M.ZUIKO lens came into existence.
Go ahead and tell me what a setup the likes of what Evans or Miller had at the time would cost today and stop putting art behind a paywall. Stock photography and repeatable product pictures are expensive, but that’s not art.
Professional photographers have expensive equipment because it makes certain shots commercially feasible, not because it’s impossible to create art without money.
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 1 week ago:
Yup, exactly that. Not only does that show they internalized using AI for the most banal tasks and think that’s normal, but also just shows how tone deaf they are in a discussion about using AI to replace an employee 🤦🏽♂️
- Comment on Autism Rule 2 weeks ago:
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, not being able to sleep, and figuring out that Eurorack exists. 🥲
- Comment on How come they don't do a cooking show for poor or middle class people? Something that is under 10 bucks that will last a couple days and be great. 5 weeks ago:
Where could you even find healthy ingredients for under $10 that will last a few days?
It can’t be beans and rice again, all the time.
- Comment on Thanks, little buddies. 1 month ago:
- Comment on They're Lying To You. Get The Truth Out. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Some people can pull off anything 2 months ago:
Summa Cum Laude maybe?
- Comment on Life Hack 2 months ago:
The thumbnail of this image looks like a singular eye observing spaghetti.
- Comment on Need a AI update 3 months ago:
That’s fine for simple work, but soldering can absolutely benefit from a temperature controller. That’s either a simple analog controller, or a microcontroller that has a display, menu, and consecutively, firmware. There is nothing complicated or “eccentric” about that in case of a soldering iron.
I’d even argue it’s the same with the device in the original post. I get it’s a joke, but let’s face it, that’s not simply a kitchen knife.
Now if anyone can tell me why the fume hood in my kitchen is wifi - enabled… I never hooked that up, obviously, and all I can think of would be push notifications in case of an upcoming filter change, you know, the thing that could be implemented with a simple LED for 4ct.
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 5 months ago:
This has existed long before the AI hype. Dialog systems were around in the 80s, operating off of tapes. The concept itself is even older.
I ran an Asterisk server with speech recognition 20 years ago. Sure, TTS didn’t nearly have the recognition rates it has today, but it was enough to figure out the caller’s intent from the email message that was delivered after the fact.
I still run a very similar setup today, except I no longer self host and pretty much ever component has improved. Honestly, its a godsend to be able to deal with people or businesses that still rely on phone conversations, something I will never tolerate. I simply don’t do phone calls.
- Comment on I would also be confused 6 months ago:
I’m 100% sure I can wash that throw.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 6 months ago:
In the 40s, fluoroscopy was available, basically giving you a real-time, animated view of an X-ray picture. And yes, it did have all the associated dangers of prolonged X-ray exposure.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 7 months ago:
Let’s not forget to mention that these resistant bacteria start to spread, making antibiotics less and less useful over time, for everyone.
We’re already at a place where antimicrobial resistance has become a huge issue, rendering treatments with antibiotics useless in many cases.
who.int/…/13-10-2025-who-warns-of-widespread-resi…
If you ever suffered through a bacterial infection and remember how you felt once the antibiotics finally kicked in, and the prolonged suffering resistances would cause, or ever watched a loved one in a hospital die from a bacterial infection just because the were in a weakened state and the stem they caught was already resistant, you’ll understand why that sucks so much as it does.
- Comment on Harken, mortals, your saviour is born 7 months ago:
Cosplay is by www.instagram.com/strawhiskey/
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 9 months ago:
For what it’s worth, I’ve been actively involved in psychedelics for almost 51 years, so I trust even you will be able to deduce that I’m unfortunately the opposite of a teenager.
I already admitted that I opted for a rather inappropriate way to express an opinion that was (rightfully) misinterpreted and tried to better express what I was trying to get at.
You are free to completely dismiss that attempt as well, but please don’t try to bring seniority into this.
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 9 months ago:
I agree. I tried to hint at it, but I should have probably formulated it less dismissively, less absolute. That’s on me.
What I wanted to express is the unfortunately very common notion that each beneficial trip, or any trip really, has to be a pleasant experience, and that’s simply not true.
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 9 months ago:
So, what did your integration look like? Did you talk to a professional about this? That’s the part most people seem to leave out, and without that, well…
- Comment on Psychedelic Truth 9 months ago:
As the meme says, there are no bad trips. If you’re serious about psychedelics and not simply taking drugs for entertainment, you’ll always get the trip you need, but not necessarily the trip you wanted.
A “bad” trip just means you either needed to process some difficult stuff, or you might have violated a bunch of rules regarding set and setting. In both cases, you get the expected outcome.
Honestly, difficult trips are often the most rewarding since they help break up stuck patterns of thinking and behavior or bring things to the light you’ve been trying to hide from yourself whose repression caused internal suffering etc.
This always assumes you’ve done your homework and you don’t suffer from e. g. preexisting medical conditions. If you’re schizophrenic and take psychedelics, you might have an actual bad trip, that’s a completely different story, naturally.
- Comment on X-Files '90s promo shoot 9 months ago:
I have a sudden urge to watch anime.
- Comment on Careful what you wish for 10 months ago:
I can confirm, this is a pretty old picture. Also, all connections are clearly visible, I don’t even know what the comment is referring to.
- Comment on I don't care if you can't provide for your family! You WILL provide for me! 10 months ago:
Heihachi Mishima
- Comment on Lies, all lies 10 months ago:
If you must use Spotify, you could at least not link to it.
- Comment on Always so loud 😒 11 months ago:
I went through so much bullshit, it’s the last guilty pleasure I have in this world. I deserve at least that.
- Comment on the frame 11 months ago:
Fantastic Four 588. The Human Torch was killed by Annihilus one issue prior, so Ben is mourning.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 11 months ago:
If only. My wife’s phone is affected by a Google battery recall. You basically get $50 of shut-up money and get to live with a software update that nerfs your phone to an almost unusable state, or you can try and have a local, approved repair shop replace the faulty battery.
We’re living in a large city, there is exactly one approved store available. You can’t contact them by email, no one has picked up the phone in weeks. She is close taking the $50.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 1 year ago:
Even having a funny and weird relationship with my mother, this would be suuuuper cringe. And inappropriate.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
What? We’re not talking about death here, what kind of a reply is that? We’re talking about making a decision at a very young age that might have irreversible consequences, a decision many 20yos are simply ill equipped to make, in particular, when alternatives exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No, they’re not always reversible. You can opt for one that isn’t, and even if you decide to go for it, it might simply not work.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’ve had a vasectomy. Give it a few years, 22 might be a bit young.
