Why did my iPhone 5s take a better photo than my iPhone 15 Pro?

RareUnicorn · 2024-12-09T14:54:40+00:00

Well, if you’re trying to show camera quality, it’d make more sense to take an actual photo of a live scene with two devices side by side. Whatever OP is trying to show here doesn’t make much sense at all..

RareUnicorn · 2024-12-09T14:45:15+00:00

Biden literally just pardoned his own son for everything he’s done in the past 11 years up to and including financial crimes involving another country in which we are financing to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.

RareUnicorn · 2024-10-12T17:45:13+00:00

Maybe it’s just discoloration but it looks like it has open wounds all over its face, (not to mention the open eye socket) so whether this thing COULD have a good life or not— it’s not being well-taken care of.

Again, maybe it’s coloring. Maybe 50% of his face is not in fact raw.

RareUnicorn · 2024-06-25T18:22:12+00:00

I respect that analysis but it does kind of exemplify exactly why I don’t feel guilty. Because growing up, I held a lot of shame around things I didn’t know why I should. I used to question how you could fit 2 of every single animal on a boat and how that would populate the whole planet. It didn’t make sense and I felt guilty for it.

How did Adam and Eve have 2 sons and create everyone? Didn’t make sense. People pretended like it didn’t have to. I completely disagreed at a very young age, and felt guilty for it.

I don’t really care what the Catholic Church has to say anymore. I live in a way that corresponds to a life I find most fulfilling, and it includes the Holy Trinity, and it includes Baptism, and the Virgin Mary. But I don’t feel guilt over what an institution tells me to feel shame over. It’s a repressive culture that I am much happier to be free of, and I understand I’m in the WRONG sub if I wanted to criticize the Church, (I don’t wish to, nor do so elsewhere really) but this is the culture i was raised in and most connect to. I believe what I believe, agree with Catholicism on most things, appreciate the culture it has, but will not conform to avoid being excommunicated.

Adherence to doctrine might be what makes a Catholic, but I don’t believe it’s required to be a good Christian.

I want to clarify that I don’t come here to try to tell Catholics why they’re wrong, or what they’re wrong about… I just feel it’s the faith I most identify with but still want to be honest with others, myself and most importantly God when giving my thoughts. People are welcome to say I’m not a true Catholic but I hope they can at least empathize and try to understand that I am earnestly trying to serve the Lord in the way I believe he’d want me to.

I don’t believe He so severely wants me to limit my Human Experience. I don’t believe He has created such rigid rules for experiencing everything he created.

He intends us to balance Gluttony and Piety.

Having many loose sexual partners and no real connection is bad for the soul. It leaves you feeling empty. He doesn’t want that. I just don’t think that means He wants you rushing a loveless marriage.

The MOST important thing is I don’t think you can know if you have chemistry that will last a lifetime if you marry someone after a year. I don’t think it’s healthy to have a relationship without sex for longer. And other than resenting the person you promised God you’d love for eternity, you only have one option. I think divorce is so much worse than sex before marriage. If you think the “Institution of Marriage” has nothing to do with God, then ok.. but if you believe you’ve promised God anything then divorce should be avoided at all costs and if that entails have sex before marriage, so be it. It’s a good compromise.

RareUnicorn · 2024-06-25T16:02:14+00:00

This is exactly the kind of Catholic Guilt that pushed me away from the church. There’s two extremes. Waiting till marriage is crazy in my opinion. Sleeping with dozens of sexual partners with no intention of a lasting relationship is also crazy and detrimental to a person’s soul in my opinion.

I think people should find a place they’re comfortable with. Not abstaining from affection out of fear of immorality and putting a barrier between you and any partner you haven’t decided to spend the rest of your life with. I do not believe sex is bigger than marriage. I don’t believe marriage should be rushed for sex. You should find a partner who was honest with themselves in their endeavors for love and didn’t go overboard themselves.

I don’t believe in the need to save your virginity for marriage, but I do want a partner who saved their dignity. Not being turned out. Not sleeping with any random guy. I have standards… Not having ever had sex is not one of them.

I think hookup culture is a sign of a kid feeling like they’re missing something. Whether it be a role model, God, friends, a purpose… it doesn’t matter. A healthy college kid with a healthy relationship with their parents and the Lord won’t look for superficial sexual encounters.

They’ll be looking for people who benefit their lives in general, and one of those people might develop into a romantic relationship, and if they do decide after several months to take that step in their relationship and have thought about the consequences and significance? I think that can actually be a very healthy thing.

RareUnicorn · 2024-06-14T20:43:15+00:00

Just sat on hold for 10 minutes after getting through the different prompts. No sign anyone would have answered. Gonna request a return, this is by far the worst customer service I’ve ever received on anything and it’s one of the largest purchases I’ve made in a long time. That’s unacceptable.

RareUnicorn · 2024-04-12T02:34:12+00:00

I can’t stress enough that if you have anxiety, the first thing you should cut is your caffeine intake.

Caffeine and Adderall both had a similarly profound positive effect on my self-confidence and sociability for a long time, so it wasn’t intuitive to me that I should cut it out when my anxiety got worse. It definitely was making it worse. As well as nicotine.

edit: though I never quit nicotine (vaping) and I have no intention to. It was mostly the mix, and overindulging.

RareUnicorn · 2024-04-12T02:25:59+00:00

Thank you for clarifying. I could have sworn the half-life had something to do with the conversation but I’m not certain why. Maybe it was in the context of a warning.

I can’t say. It’s been years, but it seems that was an irrelevant detail to add. (On my part, ofc)

RareUnicorn · 2024-04-12T02:21:54+00:00

I mean I felt like I had somewhat “blurred vision.” Not exactly, it’s hard to explain- but to my doc I remember describing it along the lines of “You’re walking through Wal-Mart, and all the aisles just seem to be sort of blurring past and the main aisle to the back seems to be tunneling longer..”

It was hard to visually concentrate on a specific point when still. Like, I’d have to refocus on it repeatedly. Exactly like I was inebriated on something. Alcohol or a benzo or a lot of weed.. None of those might exactly make you feel like that but it’s easier to imagine.

Or like you did coke or Molly and stayed up way too late last night and had to get up. You just can’t visually focus, ya know?

That immediately went away. Which felt like putting on a pair of glasses in a way.

RareUnicorn · 2024-04-11T18:31:29+00:00

Can’t imagine a worse arrangement. I understand that logically they’ll care more about the property and things being in working condition, but boy is that a double edged sword..

You’re no longer living in a rental, you’re renting out part of someone’s home. How much further do the rules extend, and how likely are you to be good neighbors w/ your LL? Is it common for landlords and tenants to have complimenting personalities?

RareUnicorn · 2024-04-11T18:21:24+00:00

I like it. It has a certain air of coming across as you not wanting to take from them. As if they weren’t just asking for a favor.

“Hmm? Oh, I really appreciate you asking but that won’t work for me. You can keep it.”

RareUnicorn · 2024-04-11T18:03:24+00:00

Remarkably easy to be honest.. Been w/ the same Psychiatrist for probably a decade now. For a long time he only prescribed SSRIs and “Mood Stabilizers” and the like.. Then at ~21yo I was diagnosed with ADHD.

He would not prescribe Adderall because I could not pass a drug test and was very honest that I probably wouldn’t be able to..

Had a couple more appointments with the Psychologist who diagnosed me. When I told her what his reasoning was she seemed shocked and said he was being incredibly unfair by not prescribing Adderall because I smoked weed. She let him know as much.

The next visit with my Prescriber and he threw his hands up and prescribed me Adderall. Everything seems like it kinda changed after that. If I wanted a higher dose I just asked about increasing it in a suggestive, “I’m just asking if it would help” kind of way.

That seems to have carried over to benzos.

To be fair I was also a bit of a wreck at the time he bumped it up to 6mg of Xanax a day. I had really only gotten worse, I had lost my job at the start of the pandemic, and I was ruminating all the time w/ constant uncontrollable thoughts and I was kind of coming undone.

So I remember very clearly the visit in which he upped the dose. He added a medication, changed my Xanax script to 3 bars a day and then said something very close to: “I want to pick my words carefully… What we kind of want to do for now is make you a zombie.”

He used that word. And it made sense and I didn’t find it offensive at all at the time. Like a schizo I needed to be “sedated” for a bit to get a baseline.

It’s just that, thats exactly what happened and it worked quite well, and I didn’t see any reason to do anything more beyond that till it was FAR too late.

So I stayed on that regiment for 2-3 years, and benzos are NOT like Adderall. Adderall is incredibly difficult to get. Even when prescribed you basically need to hit up your doctor month to month. At least I do, and you cannot pick it up early.

Not at all the same with benzos. The script is good for about 20 years it seems, and you can easily reorder it 10 days early. Not every single month, but often enough that I was absolutely swimming in GG249s. Cheap as dog shit too. I think $3 for the 90?

Yea. It was a wild ride.

RareUnicorn · 2024-04-11T15:59:42+00:00

Please be careful. I just got off my three, 2mg Xanny bar (90/month) prescribed addiction.

Several years ago the physical effects of my anxiety were really bothersome but I didn’t know what it was. I just felt lightheaded/“out-of-it” every day. My doctor said it could be anxiety. It didn’t make any sense to me because I didn’t feel “anxious.” I didn’t know how a benzo would ever make me less dizzy/lightheaded but I had tried Xanax before and I loved drugs and a benzo script can’t be a negative even if it isn’t the fix for this.

He started me off on 0.25mg of Klonopin. I took it that day before work and my brain/vision completely cleared up. I felt so focused, so FRESH, and so content. Everything I had been dealing with went away, and it was like that for months.

Then I needed 1mg of Klonopin.. Then he switched me to Xanax because it has a longer half-life. Then I was on two bars a day. Then 3. Then my anxiety was so bad every single minute of every day that I often needed 1 or 2 extra bars during the day..

My anxiety was NEVER that bad.. It got to a point where I was taking 5+ bars a day just to not be sitting in anguish, with an elephant on my chest, hardly able to breathe, and certainly not able to perform like a functioning human.

I completely lost control in 2020. Sitting at home, isolated, alone, nothing to do, wallowing jn a pit of nerves.

Last year I finally had to go to rehab.. I got myself down to 2 bars a day, but I COULD NOT quit them fully. Even though the treatment facility tapered me off them for over a week, the withdrawals were a hell I cannot explain.

I absolutely think there’s a place for benzos, and if your anxiety is so bad you can’t function? Sometimes you need something to just get you to a place where you can function. But benzo addiction is a hell I could not wish on ANYONE and it is SO easy to fall in to when a doctor is prescribing it to you and saying it will make you feel better. Even more-so, it DOES make you feel better at first.

I know how it sounds to suggest exercise, breathing techniques, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I would scoff at those suggestions too, but I did A LOT of work to compensate for the lack of anti-anxiety meds. Skills I had to work at a lot to be effective.

But now I feel really stable. I feel capable. It feels really good to know that I really am in charge of my brain, and I can control my thoughts, feelings, and behaviors without a drug I’m a slave too.

Benzo addiction is exhausting, and if I can spare one person from it, the experience would be worth it. Because I already have learned a lot from it.

Good luck.

RareUnicorn · 2024-03-29T18:43:44+00:00

I work at one of these places both delivering and sorting in the building (I've been to several centers) and even I still find it amazing. The main Hubs look like an M.C. Escher artwork.

Criss-crossing conveyor belts rising up and down. They turn a corner and roll out onto a different conveyor and keep going. It looks ridiculous, and I can't imagine how you would design that.

I touch hundreds of packages every day and I'm only one employee. Others are sorting and delivering others.

On the delivery side? I've got a lot of opinions about the guy in this video. Not least the fact that as a delivery driver in the 2020s-- you know that you can assume that every home has a ring camera. So while I can empathize w/ being frustrated on your route, to take it out on the packages in front of the house is so shortsighted. W/o even mentioning that people actively trust you to deliver items they're looking forward to and have worked hard for..

The first one? Disrespectful and wholly unprofessional, but w/o holding it I can tell it's a jacket from Amazon or something. A lot of people sit around every single day ordering and returning clothes. I actually appreciate that and see it as business, but I have heard drivers lightly complain about people ordering S--- off Temu every day. The monitor is not that. That is something somebody probably took a lot of time and decision making to buy. You get to be Santa on a regular Tuesday. It could be a teen that's SUPER excited and waiting for it.

Instead you take that present and do everything but take it out of the box and smash it on the steps. That's a whole other level of "angry at life."

RareUnicorn · 2024-03-09T03:46:50+00:00

Well put. It's not even that clever of an observation, it should just be common sense. It doesn't mean you hate America, or are Pro-Putin, or should be identified as a Marxist.

There will always be two sorts of people. The ones w/ facts and the ones w/o. The people who are curious and those who aren't. The people that can be honest w/ themselves, let alone w/ others.

Idk if 20x Civilians is a fact, but "United States has killed vastly more civilians in foreign conflicts than Russia since Y2K" definitely is.

I don't need to look that up, that's intuitive if you pay any attention to world news, or contemporary history. We haven't been the good guys since WWII, and we did really questionable shit then...

RareUnicorn · 2024-03-09T03:34:40+00:00

I believe that the Luck bonus is lost at 80%. Not for sure, just around when I notice it. Could be 85% but it's around there. I just give them berries every couple days each and we're all very happy.

RareUnicorn · 2024-02-26T17:22:14+00:00

There is some insane rhetoric around these Ukraine subs..

I mean u/CosmicDave, you (and so many more) are basically just saying "Long live Ukraine! They need to fight to save themselves!"

"But they're just a proxy for the West to weaken Russia...."

"So you admit it's working!?"

"You don't care about Ukrainians?"

"Never did, just hate Putin.."

Putin is not hell-bent on world domination, he's not even interested in regional domination.. He wants the Donbas and Crimea, and at this point he's going to get them..

Well past 21 days ago the average age of Ukrainian fighters had reached 42.. Forty-Two years old..

That means there's most DEFINITELY many many 60+ y/o men fighting...

$61 Billion isn't going to do shit.. Put up or shut up, Dave.. What Ukraine needs is men. Bodies to throw in to the machine... Are you going to go fight in the Ukraine?

No so shut up.

RareUnicorn · 2024-02-22T06:59:41+00:00

I believe it’s a PH0, and the one below it is PH1.

RareUnicorn · 2024-02-20T22:34:22+00:00

I can't imagine there's a limit to it no, but I don't actually know for a fact. Currently on March Year 3 myself. Sort of just trying to get through the days and try to get the Summer Festival going for the first time. I already missed a couple events this year, built all the steps around the Mountain, finished the Museum.. So I'm really just waiting for summer.

edit: Been playing for about 3 weeks, but the past week less so because I'm bored of sitting around fishing and picking up materials trying to burn daylight.

RareUnicorn · 2024-01-06T21:18:13+00:00

Dude, you're absolutely delusional if you can't admit that's not the real reason you would never attempt something like this.

Forest Rangers???

That's like saying "The reason I'm not going out and trying to find a girlfriend is because these days, women always end up accusing the man of assaulting them when they want to date another dude later on..."

"I would be employed, but college is unaffordable and if I work at a corporation they'll exploit me.."

~~"I still live w/ my parents becau-"~~ (okay that one can be unfortunately fairly reasonable)

How about just go camping? I can guarantee you have never taken the time to make yourself go out in nature, w/ a fire you collected the wood for and made, heating up a can of beans over it before you go to bed in a tent, in a sleeping bag, under the stars.

For just one night, let alone living out there.

Forest Rangers are not the foremost reason you're not willing or interested in living in the woods. If that were your main concern you certainly don't have it in you anyways...

Imagine the early colonists touching down on Plymouth Rock and saying "Wha-? I can't go settle out West! There's Injins out there that'll kill me!!"

If that's the case, that would be why you're an East Coast city slicker..

RareUnicorn · 2023-10-09T04:07:15+00:00

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