BassTurd
@BassTurd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can I learn how to "photoshop" images without PhotoShop^TM and also on my iPhone? 1 day ago:
There are a ton of image manipulation options out there. Free would be inkscape and gimp. I’m not proficient or even mediocre at either and perhaps one would be good enough, but I’ve used both for various production elements I’ve created or modified. I don’t use iPhone, so I’ve got nothing for you there. I know that Pixel phones have built in editing tools, so I assume there’s an iPhone option that will more or less hold your hand through some level of manipulation.
The knowledge behind the fundamentals of editing images is fairly equivalent across platforms. Things like layers and some common tools exist everywhere, it’s just knowing which button to use. There will assuredly be resources out there for what you want. Think of specifically what you want to do, and search for solutions…when you come across a solution that mentions something that you aren’t familiar with, open a new tab and dive down the rabbit hole. Eventually, things will start to click and your ability to absorb new information will go much quicker since you have built a solid foundation.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 week ago:
Firefly == lightning bug
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 week ago:
Used to catch them growing up. There would be thousands of them periodically blinking in the yard and across the field every night. I was pretty and serene.
I saw one just the other night when I let my dogs out before going to bed. It was so surprising that I had to wait a minute and verify I wasn’t just seeing things. It was a real life lightning bug. It was a happy sad moment.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 week ago:
When I’m driving, if there is a path crossing that has a light, and if there is someone sitting there waiting that hasn’t pushed the button, I’m not stopping. It’s not to be a dick, it’s for safety reasons.
A few years ago, there was a fairly high profile local situation where someone hit and killed someone in a cross walk. What happened is it was a 4 lane in town road and someone was waiting to cross. Car A stops and waves then through, car B in the other lane drives through unaware there was someone crossing in front of the car that stopped in the middle of the road. Predictable transportation is safe transportation. Whether you’re walking, biking, driving, or whatever, be predictable and consistent with the rules.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 week ago:
I’ve been road biking a lot more frequently training for a triathlon. You gotta keep you head on a swivel because too many people don’t understand right of way. I have a few roundabouts near me, and when I get to one, it’s a coin flip as to if the other drivers no how they work. They aren’t new. I had to lay on the horn the other day when someone stopped in the roundabout to let a car in. It was warm and windows were down so they definitely heard me yell, “don’t stop in the fucking roundabout, dumbass”. I haven’t called someone a dumbass in a while. I’ve grown harsher in my insults, and bringing out a classic like that felt good.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 week ago:
Never forget.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 1 week ago:
I’ve also cared less about calling people out as I’ve gotten older, but it takes one unhinged douche to pull a knife or a gun and end it. I’ve come very close to getting into a physical altercation a couple of times for calling people out. One being someone that ran me into a curb when they went from in to out on a double left. We had a shouting match through our windows, he threatened me, cut me off and brake checked me, then said let’s go fight. I was going into work, and he didn’t follow me. I hate people so much.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s the farts, Mr. Fartographer?
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 weeks ago:
Kind of related to this… I was out on a run this spring and I was approaching an intersection that I didn’t have to stop at and the road to my left had a stop sign. I saw a car approaching the stop sign, and there weren’t any obstructions so I was clearly visible in my bright green shorts. I’m always watching because people suck and I’m glad I was, because I ended up parkouring this dude’s hood when he finally stopped 10’ past the stop sign. I was the Heisman trophy for a moment. I turned around and gave him the “what the fuck” hands and gestured at the stop sign, and this mother fucker looked at me like I fucked up. Fortunately I didn’t get taken out at the knees and I just kept going . I still think I should have busted his side mirror off and put a fist sized dent in his hood. I’d love to watch him try and explain that to a cop.
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 2 weeks ago:
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. I’ve never heard the term cross ride before, so your question was useful. Perhaps it’s the keying thing, but a bunch of the comments in here are about hitting the car, so yours isn’t any different. Whatever I guess, fake internet points and all that, but it’s peculiar.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll say fuck off without saying fuck off as to not get my shit removed, but bad faith arguments still need to be refuted so that ignorant people don’t only see something like that and believe it’s true. The amount of effort put into that only needs to be enough so that there exists a counter point.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
Their argument indirectly hurts transgender people. It’s akin to when BLM (the movement, not the corrupt organization) was big and to counter it, conservatives parroted All Lives Matter. I’d say using the term transracial is arguably worse, because it’s all bullshit, while technically All Lives Matter is true, but it’s bad faith argument. I personally feel it’s the duty of rational people to fight against that sort of speak.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. If people like the idiot this post is referring to are allowed to spew bullshit without push back, then other idiots will believe it and spread it. These people need to be shamed and publicly corrected for their bullshit stance that can hurt others. I say hurt others, because an idea like this can be used to delegitimize transgender people.
- Comment on More than 90% of JPMorgan employees reported a decline in morale following RTO 2 weeks ago:
The best half cocked reason I’ve heard from my own employer, is optics when clients are visiting and tours and shit. It’s not a good reason, but it was the only reason I’ve heard with any explanation.
There are plenty of people that I know that like going to the office and others that like hybrid. I am hybrid 3 days at home, and I’m okay with that, and if I want to, I’ll just say I’m not coming in, and nobody asks questions. The point is, if you need asses in seats, find the people in the company that want to, and work within those bounds, or incentives fringe people if you need more. If my company required RTO, I’d immediately update my resume and start shopping around.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 3 weeks ago:
In a small Midwest town, if the police force has more than 3 members, I bet half of them are classified as obese.
- Comment on How to get to Santa Claus beard status 3 weeks ago:
I have a full, luscious beard. I maybe shaved less than a dozen times before I was 20. At some point, I just let it grow, and would knock everything down with the same length guard, increasingly getting bigger as the slow growing areas caught up.
Keep you neck trimmed to not look like a dirty neck beard. Before I had length, I’d shave everything a finger or two above my Adams apple, down. Find that line, about a finger about the apple, tilt your head to a side, and trim a straight line across the neck, then back the other way. That gives a bit of a natural curve in the neck. You can kind of eyeball that a bit too, but I would say don’t go to high and shave under your chin. If you do that, you get a chin strap and an Amish look that can appear thin.
Find the line for the top of your beard and keep that relatively clean. Something from the edge of your lips, angles up to your sideburns. I keep mine a bit higher, because if you get too low, you get a lot of cheeks and your back to a chin strap. The cheeks are the slowest to grow in, so it takes time.
For my stache, I like a big one, not a pencil thin one. Proportionally, a thin stache and a thick beard looks bad to me, but the trade off is I frequently compete with eating and keeping the handle bars out of my mouth. I’ve learned to cope, but things like a big burger will pull the handle bars in to your mouth.
That’s a lot of words to say, try to keep everything fairly even length, and slowly let the overall length get longer. Since your cheeks are established, you can let the rest grow, and either learn to maintain yourself, or find a good barber that can clean it for you. I do myself most of the time, because most barbers go too thin on my stache or take too much of the sides, and a get a pointy beard.
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 3 weeks ago:
Turboprops are no less safe than your typical turbo engine. If that’s your concern, then I would suggest reading up on how they work just to ease your mind a bit. They are loud AF though. If that’s your issue, then ANC work well, but outside of that, a different flight may help.
- Comment on Month-long awareness celebrations 3 weeks ago:
Aw man, we need some of that everywhere.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 3 weeks ago:
I have a pixel 9. I use a case that slim, but larger than the bezel so when I accidentally launch it off of my laptop across the room, it will survive. I can’t do thick cases.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
That’s fair. I agree, tailgating is inexcusable. Both left lane campers and tailgaters suck, tailgating adds another level of danger, so they are worse for sure.
Unfortunately, I have family members that defend left lane driving. The dog shit argument is that if a deer were to jump in the road, there would be more time to react from the left. The false implication is that deer can’t come from the otherside, which I have a buddy who hit a deer that came from the median, so anecdotally, that’s bs. They both say that they get over when someone is coming, but that is also a shit statement, because I know that it’s not true 100% of the time, and the person coming up doesn’t know if they’re going to move, so they are put in a position of unpredictability.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
The one thing that I really care about is consistency. If you want to do 60 in a 65 on the hwy, and you’re in the right lane, that’s fine. What I hate more than most things is when you pass me doing 75 in a half mile, and then I pass you again after that. I hate that so much, I just want consistency and predictability.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
The implication is that there is someone in the right lane that they are passing. Without running that person off the road, getting over has to wait until the pass is complete. Tailgating that person isn’t going to make that faster, just more dangerous, and if you’re doing it to me I will slow down, so it will also take longer.
Don’t drive like an entitled cunt, and these issues just magically don’t happen to you. I’ve never tailgated someone and had to deal with them slowing down, brake checking, or literally anything else, because I don’t tailgate people like an asshole.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
This is how lanes should be driven in. If I’m passing someone in the left, and I see someone screaming up behind me, I’ll usually try and speed up, get over to clear the lane, and then resume where I was at. I don’t cut anyone off, ideally the person passing doesn’t catch me before I get over, and life goes on with minimal interruptions.
Too many people go on autopilot and are completely unaware of other traffic around them. I’m consistently watching mirrors, traffic around me, and for animals deciding to cross the the road. It’s not no work, but it’s where everyone should be at when driving.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
That’s my two lane strategy. I use cruise everywhere I go, and I consistently go a little over the speed limit, usually about 10% of the posted amount. That’s not enough for some people and they tailgate. I will immediately set my cruise to the speed limit, and if they don’t back off, I will gradually get slower and slower. I don’t break check, but if there is a hill, I will ride the brakes all the way down as to not accidentally exceed the speed limit.
- Comment on Bruh, chill 4 weeks ago:
If you are in the left lane, and aren’t actively passing someone, you are in the wrong and in most highways, breaking the law. Left lane campers are the reason people have to pass on the right dangerously, and if they did get to the right like they should and drive predictably, then it wouldn’t cause a cluster in the right lane traffic, because it is the expectation.
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 1 month ago:
In the past 10 years, you can’t think of even one movie that was good and went to theaters?
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 1 month ago:
Ok.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 1 month ago:
You’re not pushing back against anti trans people, you’re pushing back against people trying to change and understand. You are doing more harm than good to the trans community, and if you understand that and continue to be that way, then what does that say about you?
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 1 month ago:
Nope. I very specifically said I’m not arguing about that. I’m giving an example of something polarizing that someone may want to have their mind changed on.
Maybe ease up on the hostility. There are people out there that were raised a certain way that want to change or perhaps have questions due to ignorance on the topic. By being combative, you’re doing more harm than good for something you clearly care about.
- Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview? 1 month ago:
And that’s definitely an opinion you should be able to post and discuss in a forum like changemyview.