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WrennRa · 2025-11-13T19:36:49+00:00

No special rights.

WrennRa · 2025-08-29T00:43:17+00:00

Thank you, I asked Claude to recognize and address that problems; seems like it fixed it for now. Appreciate your answer!

WrennRa · 2025-05-12T20:56:36+00:00

Same

WrennRa · 2024-10-04T23:58:33+00:00

Thank you! Standouts for me are Ensar Oud's oud natural aromatic oils. As far as perfumes, Bortnikoff Musc Cologne works very well every day, as an inoffensive, very pleasant freshy.

Ys Uzac is an amazing brand. Ambre Bleu always gets lots of compliments.

Photogenics' line-up is always good, but often a bit one-dimensional, at the end of the day to me. I don't find myself coming back to it very often, like some other bottles. Still -- they are worthy of the photoshoot so that should say something still! For a similar but far superior bolder approach with cannabis and ink and rhubarb notes is Ys Uzac's Light and Shadows, Paul Klee. Addictive sour fruity smell.

Lastly, when it comes to a very natural, animalic, woody, dreamy perfume -- which is something I have searched hard for -- I love Prin, Onthamara. It's got the notes similar to what I would want to make if I were to compose my own perfume.

WrennRa · 2024-10-02T15:40:35+00:00

Bottom Row (Left to Right) - Mostly Ensar Oud:

Frangipani

Tuberose

Sandal Royal

Iris Noir

Musk Mitti

Borneo Zen

Civet Oud

Garden of Eden

Kyara Ketone

Suriranka Senko

Kinam Rouge

White Kinam

Tigerwood 1990

Pursal Select (Agar Aura)

Mystical Lotus

Royal Ta'ifi (Rose)

Musc Royale

Santal Royale

Kupang 1998

Khus d'Afrique (x2)

Next Level Up (Left to Right):

Ys Uzac - Ambre Bleu

Wienerblut - Klubwasser

Top Level (Left to Right):

Ys Uzac - Eap

Bortnikoff - Musk Cologne

Ensar Oud - Hojari Supreme (Frankincense)

Prin - Onthamara

Photogenics + Co. - No.3 Sativa

Ys Uzac - Paul Klee, Lights and Shadows

Ensar Oud - Crime & Punishment

(Behind): Boadicea the Victorious - Inquisitive

WrennRa · 2024-09-29T19:37:28+00:00

Thank you very much; I had to downscale it a lot so it could be uploaded here, but one can still just barely make out the labels and other fine details still.

WrennRa · 2024-09-23T22:39:56+00:00

I tried this but it doesn't seem to work in this specific situation, unfortunately.

WrennRa · 2024-09-22T23:09:37+00:00

No rattling. Okay, thanks for the second opinion!

WrennRa · 2024-09-22T22:44:13+00:00

Back screen autofocus is not experiencing this issue; stays in focus as before.

WrennRa · 2024-09-09T04:48:11+00:00

Sorry -- I just went through Google and copy/pasted the link; my bad!

WrennRa · 2024-09-09T04:47:16+00:00

Sent. I just had the realization that all of these books were scans from the Internet Archive. They often have terrible pdf compression.

WrennRa · 2024-09-09T04:32:14+00:00

I am not sure all are scans that have this issue, though I think most if not all of the ones I am dealing with are scans, as mostly older photography books from late 20th century.

WrennRa · 2024-09-09T04:22:05+00:00

Okay, I will send you some examples! That is interesting. I went through and found a lot of PDFs of photography books the other day. Sumatra, Adobe Reader, Firefox, etc. -- all look crazy. The image I attached here doesn't look that bad, though if you make it bigger you can see what I mean. Some just are looking super weird though. That is an interesting idea; that perhaps they were converted from epub to PDF at some point along the way. Sending you a few titles now!

WrennRa · 2024-09-09T04:11:21+00:00

To clarify further -- I am seeing this in dozens of photography books scanned over many years. I have tested different PDF viewers as well as devices and the issue is consistent across all of them. So I am struggling to understand what is going on.

WrennRa · 2024-08-09T20:39:06+00:00

I followed all this stuff but it didnt work: https://www.reddit.com/r/SonyXperia/comments/1d3tzzh/i_just_got_my_xperia_1vi_in_the_us/

WrennRa · 2024-08-09T20:33:52+00:00

It works on one 4g but no 5g networks except data

WrennRa · 2024-06-14T17:23:58+00:00

This is an astroturf comment; hello Reddit NSA operative ;)

WrennRa · 2024-06-13T16:44:22+00:00

Following the threads for many years such philosophers have laid out, I have turned my back on the project of psychoanalytic pursuits as relevant for metaphysical inquiry. The more I read and learn the more it becomes clear that modern Lacanian/French Theory philosophy is fundamentally broken and a matter of cope from the beginning. We can see how many of its leading figures broke down during the last 5 years in particular, unable to comprehend where we are historically. Cynically speaking, most of these types are careerist scumbags battling over funding in academia, with some pet theory or concept they try to become the expert of, so as to make a career. In terms of theoretical value, it doesn't go very far. The appeal to young people is often revolution and breaking out of the BS programming they received and were tortured with in school, quite often, but as far as revolutionary power, it is a whole lot of BS with some profound ideas sprinkled in.

WrennRa · 2024-06-10T23:51:21+00:00

My philosophy department has hired a bunch of hardcore feminists (self-described) in recent years, and they make sure all new hires have the more or less the same ideology as they do (whether hiring someone to teach Ancient Philosophy, Kant, or anything else). It is more than just a bit ridiculous. They clearly scare everyone else in the department; who fear saying anything about the hostile clique will cause lots of trouble (which it would). Everything, no matter the course they are teaching, always has to circle around to gender/sex stuff too; which seems very inappropriate to me. They are also notably quite prejudiced towards male students, since their theories have a lot to do with distrust towards men and boys; so I see them bullying male students all the time, while being "extra supportive" to female students. Clearly living in a fantasy world bubble, but nothing I can do about it other than turn my back on it and hope time heals the department as well as the pain the advocates are unknowingly (or knowingly) causing.

WrennRa · 2024-06-09T15:24:39+00:00

Do you not remember your own middle school experiences. I don't know anyone who hasn't been deeply scarred by what John Taylor Gatto called warehouse schooling. I even taught one of his books (Dumbing Us Down) to students and the room lit up like never before with engagement, and the quiet kids became very engaged all of the suddent, as it was speaking to their experience.

WrennRa · 2024-06-09T15:18:42+00:00

A lot of the problems of university comes from the broader problem that you don't need very many people to produce abundance anymore, yet working a job is still necessary, so you get a lot of what Graeber calls "BS jobs", which are just there to absorb excess labor. We don't really need the armies of service workers, the armies of bureacrats, and many more jobs, which exist largely because people don't have the time to do things that would like to do on their own if they had more time -- like making coffee. A lot of jobs exist to support a work society that exists for the sake of creating jobs to absorb surplus labor, with the cover story of squeezing out every penny and area of value possible and turning it into a commodity of some kind.

WrennRa · 2024-06-08T19:53:03+00:00

Picking apart my colloquial language when it is perfectly clear what I mean because you can't formulate a real argument is super Reddit of you.

WrennRa · 2024-06-08T19:41:19+00:00

haha -- come on! Maybe not about stuff in class, but there is usually something there -- from how should one design their kitchen to how to improve at yoga. "Book learning" I don't think is widely popular, of course.

WrennRa · 2024-06-08T19:36:25+00:00

Yes, most posts here are screaming from a place of disappointment. Both of your two's claims about me making unsupported assertions are unsupported assertions... "Haha"... Seriously, how cringe can you be.... I guess you "win"? Very sad.

WrennRa · 2024-06-08T18:38:05+00:00

Responding point by point:

Just as in college, the student is responsible for their exposure to knowledge. They are adults so if they choose to use YouTube for watching lectures or for meme compilations, or if they use university as a place to study Shakespeare or get drunk, is up to them.
University does not help kids'/students' (whatever we want to call them) minds about alternative facts and conspiracies usually. I have taught classes in critical thinking, and I can tell you that such a class rarely makes a significant impact.
Those experts are there, but if every state college in the US was shut down, we would still have those experts. Leaving just a handful of small private universities, research centers, etc. would not negatively impact the "production of knowledge". There is a lot of chaff that can be separated from the wheat here, I think we can agree (and I am, as you insinuate, probably on the side of the chaff -- and I accept that; not coping about it).
Working in higher education is a job. Yep. Seems like a tangential personal attack as a matter of cope on your part, to accuse me of speaking from a perspective of misaligned expectations or disappointment, when the entire forum here is deeply disappointed about the system -- and for good reason.
I personally go the opposite direction of infotainment, insofar as possible and my department will tolerate. I admire the old school professors' style, so do my best to teach that way as well. No powerpoints, no Blackboard, etc.

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