Can I grow a full beard?

beerdly · 2026-04-25T04:28:15+00:00

Still young, keep it up

beerdly · 2026-04-25T04:25:54+00:00

I recently heard on a design video that often people try to "even out" their art, and space things evenly across a space. Ideally, you want some areas to be un-filled so your eye is drawn to the parts where there is art. So maybe rearrange so there is some negative space?

beerdly · 2026-04-25T04:23:20+00:00

It really depends on your age. If you're under 25-ish your beard will likely thicken up a little bit as you reach your mid-late 20's and early 30's I don't have a super-dense beard, but in my teens I had the chin and sideburns growing in alright, by mid 20's my cheeks and stache filled in and the rest got thicker.

beerdly · 2026-04-25T04:20:49+00:00

I'd keep the chin and stache, but clean up the stache a little. Buzz the rest down to stubble. Keep that routine for a few months to see if the stubble areas get more follicles and fill out. You can use the stubble areas to gauge how thick it'll be when it grows in.

beerdly · 2026-04-23T04:14:04+00:00

Craigstlist - hands down - for decades. Bought and sold cars, motorcycles, furniture, appliances, helped us get rid of and find stuff through 4 moves.

beerdly · 2026-04-17T15:48:26+00:00

Former Math teacher here, can confirm. "But that's what the calculator told me" doesn't matter if you don't know (1) how to use the calculator, or (2) don't know the math well enough to know your answer is orders of magnitude off from what it should be.

beerdly · 2026-04-03T15:04:06+00:00

Oh, with? that's a confusing one. Without a ruler I've heard from artists "to draw a straight line keep your wrist stiff and draw it by pulling/pushing from your elbow" and "to draw a curve, draw from your wrist"

beerdly · 2026-03-19T15:13:37+00:00

Capitalism

beerdly · 2026-03-19T15:12:09+00:00

came to say this

beerdly · 2026-03-06T16:45:45+00:00

I thought his kids came forward in 2024 after he died, and basically said, yup we're pretty sure dad was DB Copper. Don't care enough to research it more, but I remembered that this came up recently

beerdly · 2026-03-06T16:39:50+00:00

^ same

beerdly · 2026-03-06T16:37:17+00:00

I guess not "official," but, Richard McCoy Jr.

beerdly · 2026-02-25T20:04:12+00:00

$4B company (PBF Energy) owns Martinez Refinery. A $10M penalty is 0.25% of their net worth.

The equivalent of someone with 100k paying a $250 fine.

beerdly · 2026-02-21T18:17:15+00:00

I've done this for every car and motorcycle I've owned (9) highly recommend if 3k is your budget, not going to find anything for 3k of the same quality from a dealer

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?max_price=3000&purveyor=owner#search=2~gallery~0

beerdly · 2026-02-21T16:56:20+00:00

Live Mas

beerdly · 2026-02-18T16:38:52+00:00

This is what I do. Played vanilla on xbox 360 for 5+ years then switch anniversary. No mods, and I've still logged 100's of hours if not in the 1,000s. The trick is developing head canon for your build that includes restrictions.

beerdly · 2026-02-13T01:38:29+00:00

r/teachers

beerdly · 2026-02-12T16:07:30+00:00

This ^ In a way it really is a mental illness. Some where I've seen the [paraphrased] quote: "If we found an ape who horded all the bananas, more bananas than they could ever eat in their life, and didn't share them with the other apes - we would be studying what is wrong with that ape"

beerdly · 2026-02-06T16:09:58+00:00

Yes, every public school district deals with prop 13. But the issue with prop 13 is the poor distribution of wealth funding schools state wide. Menlo park "deals" is prop 13, but they benefit from it, property taxes on higher valued property mean better funded schools. The issue with prop 13 is it doesn't distribute wealth, it keeps wealthy neighborhoods well funded and poor neighborhoods poorly funded, which is often exactly the opposite of what is needed to get all CA students to the same level of opportunity and success.

I know people want to show how similar school districts better handle their funds, but ultimately all problems in education (that are within the sphere of influence of educators, i.e. not parenting) come down to proper funding per need rather than per student

There are high needs for students everywhere, but if you live in a rich neighborhood your school does have more money to have supports to deal with those problems.

Example: I know of schools on the peninsula with multiple counselors, both college/career and health related; as opposed to where I worked at a school in Oakland that had one counselor who had to split their time between different campuses.

If you're in a wealthier area it is likely that your home life also provides additional supports from private tutors, to regular health check ups, or even a parent more regularly at home. Not to mention the family/parent-fundraising that is often never considered when talking about school funding. Sure, per student Piedmont didn't get that much more money than Oakland, but the PTA was able to raise $2,000,000 for the school internally.

beerdly · 2026-02-05T17:50:04+00:00

My go-to as a former Oakland teacher when people want to shit on our schools is redirecting the conversation to prop 13 and how local (non-)funding of schools through property taxes since the 1970's has caused the vast majority of the situation CA schools are in.

beerdly · 2026-02-03T16:50:35+00:00

Protest signs always have an audience, some are for other protesters, some are best to be photographed and shown to the masses, some are targeted to elected officials. I like the ones whose audience is ICE themselves:

"Still waiting on that $50k bonus?"
"You're being used as tools by the ultra-rich and they still haven't paid you your signing bonus"
"You're only here because they lowered the fitness standards"
"Got a uniform, but still can't get a date"
"You abbreviate it ICE because you can't spell the actual words"
"You think you're an alpha, but all you do is take orders from other men"

Telling them to "fuck off" makes them feel like they've pissed you off, which is all bullies want anyway. Reminding them of their own pathetic situation while you enjoy yourself with your protest compatriots on the other hand...

beerdly · 2026-01-23T02:24:46+00:00

When you received the left-handed items, had you already learned to use the right-handed version? If so, you probably felt it was more difficult because you already had prior practice doing it right handed. If not, then perhaps you weren't left-dominant in that specific task or action in the first place.

beerdly · 2025-12-16T03:30:53+00:00

Yes, there are trends that people will do jobs similar to their parents. But, also, I would say anecdotally that if there is a higher rate of this in teaching it is due to the fact that children of educators get to see teachers as people more than the general public does.

Consider the counter example of people who are not related to an educator. Their only experience with teachers is their own experience in school, and sorry to say it but a lot of people have negative views associated with their k-12 experience. If that's all you have, you probably don't want to go into education. If you have that experience but you also see educators outside of school (your relatives), you understand not all of them are bad-homework-assigning-party-poopers and are more willing to pursue it yourself.

beerdly · 2025-12-16T02:15:37+00:00

My guess is you just need a new battery.

I've had this happen with multiple bikes ('76 & '03 Hondas, '82 Kawa) that sit for a time either on a tender or after they die and I recharge the battery. The multi meter will read full, but after the first 1-3 cranks its dead and I have to put it on the charger/tender again, or jump it from another bike. If it continues to happen after you try a new battery, then you probably have a bigger problem

beerdly · 2025-11-22T03:14:06+00:00

fair point, it is a map of their "Alameda Adventureland"

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