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  • I said I'd put more effort into the work, not that I was putting no effort into it. Like, my grandad was an amateur photographer and I have all these negatives of his work. I can't afford the money to get them scanned professionally (so many negatives!), but I bought a pro-sumer grade negative scanner and am scanning them myself. Unfortunately, as I said, there are a lot of negatives, and it takes me around one hour to process each roll. It's gonna take me another year to scan all the negatives.

    Then I have an entire bookcase of photographs that need to be scanned (only a small subset of these are granddad's work). Again, I can't afford to get them scanned professionally, but I have a decent scanner for the PC, so that's what I'm working with, but it'll take a long time to scan in and process all those photos.

    My uncle was a professor and the university taped some of his lectures; a different aunt was a very small-time actress and has maybe 200 VHS tapes of her performances. Granddad was a local musician, so we have some audio tapes of that. Etc, etc, etc.

    Everything needs time and concentration, and I'm only one person. It's gonna take me years to finish everything.

  • I'd put more effort into recording family history. Why aren't I doing so now? Because it's a lot of work and I don't have anyone to help me with it. It includes scanning photos, scanning negatives, and labeling and organizing all the pictures; converting reel-to-reel takes, mini-cassettes and audio cassettes to digital, and labeling those; converting VHS to DVD and labeling those; finding and transcribing family recipes and organizing them into an annotated cookbook; transcribing old letters from the early to late 1900's in various handwriting styles, and every medium from faded pencil to blotted fountain pen to hurriedly scrawled ballpoint, in everything from tissue-thin airmail paper to fragile student notepaper to cat-pee'd-upon cards; and writing a short biography of the various people who are pictured, recorded, written, etc, in all the various media.

  • People are posting pictures of Kennedy's inauguration, where it was 22F and he wore just a regular suit with no coat.

    Edit: pic: https://i.imgur.com/TIIOOAd.jpg

  • Most of my cars, I've bought from friends, co-workers, or relatives, or people that they knew. We agree on blue book value, I get it checked by my mechanic, occasionally I've had to get a bank loan, and it's done.

    Part of it's starting to keep your ears open when you think your current car may be getting toward the end of it's life, so that you can take advantage of anything you might hear about. Part of it's asking people if they've heard of anyone who might be getting rid of their old car. And part of it is people remembering that you've asked about these things before so that, when they or someone they know start thinking about getting rid of their old car, you're one of the people they think of who might be willing to take it without hassle, at a fair price.

  • Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg will be sitting together at Trump's inauguration. This also is a comment that I felt like making for no particular reason.

  • Virtue signalling means that you want to appear like you're better than you actually are, at least in public.

    So it means that Zuck thinks people who leave Meta are actually scum, they just want to look nice to others.

  • If you threw away the cheese, it's clearly not yours anymore, why are you depriving them?!?!

  • Because live captions are frequently shit, especially for live broadcasts of local or regional issues. They're behind the images that are shown on the screen, so you get things like someone saying "you see here where the fire is coming from" and they switch to a second map just as the captions appear on the screen. The captioners are rushed and can't always keep up and they make typos. Auto-generated captions lose words and nuance and sometimes just output pure gibberish.

  • Italy's population density is twice that of the US.

  • the American people will turn on him quickly if the news is full of children and hardworking families being rounded up.

    Why would they? A significant portion were perfectly fine with those reports last time he was in office.

  • Archive also usually has a direct download option, if you can't get the content from torrents there.

  • So, methylene blue can be used as a fabric dye; it can also be used as ink for temporary or permanent tattoos. However, medically, it's used in the treatment of methemoglobinemia, as a urinary analgesic, anti-infective, and anti-spasmodic agent, or in endoscopy as a gastrointestinal dye, and can also be used as a rescue antidote in life threatening poisonings causing refractory shock states and other shock states.

    While I sincerely doubt anyone's state IV cancer has been cured by methylene blue, dismissing it as "a fabric dye" is wrongfully dismissive of it's actual medical uses.

  • The drawer grippy things are often still slide-able when momentum is applied, which is why I went with a cut-down bath mat.

  • Nah, with Trump in office, he'll be delighted to hire in H1B slave labor ...

  • Ours is an old carrier. The interior dimensions are 16 inches tall, 14 inches wide, and 24 inches long. Our cat was maybe 14 inches tall, but of course she wouldn't want to stand fully upright and either bang her head on the roof, or constantly brushing her ears against it. Plus the bath mat and towel 'raised' the floor a bit. And sometimes when you scream, you just want to throw your head back and let go!

    I like the bath mat because I can suction it to the bottom of the carrier, so neither she nor the towel slide around like they would on plain plastic or metal.

  • One cat would yell for a while, then settle down. When she was older, it took longer for her to settle down, until she was just yelling constantly for hours. I finally gave up and let her out of the carrier - the only time I've ever done that, and we were an hour from home with no traffic and no stops needed - and she stopped yelling immediately, just stood on my lap, panting.

    At which point I realized that, as large as our car carrier was (it's one of the largest 'carryable' ones I've seen), it wasn't quite tall enough for the cat to stand completely upright and she was in pain because of her arthritis. We'd been torturing her, for hours! We made some changes after that!

    For people who have carriers with a smooth or only slightly rough bottom: your cat may be yelling because they can't keep traction and are unexpectedly sliding a bit on curves and turns. We got one of those non-slip shower mats and cut it down to size, to reduce slipping, then added a beach towel for comfort. Everything is still washable (use white vinegar to get rid of the smell of cat urine), but the cat is much happier!

  • I just want to say how much I love this question! Yes, I should think more often if the things that I really enjoyed as a kid :)

  • I was wondering when he'd find out. Fucker.

  • It's not "sampling", it's quality control!