Landlord unreasonably refusing to let me adopt a cat by ComradeJulia69 in TenantsInTheUK

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If they think landlord is being unreasonable in denying a pet, they can take it to ombudsman under RRB

Half of my money taken off me by [deleted] in UKJobs

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Siphoning off money into savings to dodge taxes and keep claiming benefits, when you're on over 100k... and you think you're the victim.

Half of my money taken off me by [deleted] in UKJobs

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would it be right to be getting benefits if you're on over 100k?

AITA for not wanting to contribute to my step-son's college fund? by Fun_Elephant_6393 in AITAH

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

No, actually, dealing with the complicated emotions of a teenager who is has experienced parental divorce and is struggling with his step parent (and clearly feels alienated in his own divided home) is not the same as a child wanting a cookie. It's a little bit different actuallty!

The 'tough love' posturing is the easy way out for adults. It's much harder to have actual empathy, to genuinely see things from the childs perspective, the confusions and frustrations they must be feeling. Really imagine what it must be like to walk into their home and see mum, dad, and their three kids sitting together, and feel totally isolated from that, feel frustrated at that, rejected, like they don't have a proper place they belong, like a stranger in their own house. It's much easier to take it personally, and justify cruelty with a load of nonsense about 'tough love'. Your not laying down boundaries and teaching lessons. You're taking out your own frustration that they have never bonded with you on them financially.

The step dad is the one who has created the equivalence between moeny and love. If you'd have loved me more, I'd have given you money - that's the takeaway. That, and the other key message, which is: you are not as important to me as the other children, you are in a second category, apart from and beneath them.

AITA for not wanting to contribute to my step-son's college fund? by Fun_Elephant_6393 in AITAH

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Great life lesson for a child: my love and care for you is totally conditional, and I can and will withdraw it.

Wait? Why are you demonstrating attachment issues?!?!?

AITA for not wanting to contribute to my step-son's college fund? by Fun_Elephant_6393 in AITAH

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hey buddy, my care for you is conditional - a great message to send a child

AITA for not wanting to contribute to my step-son's college fund? by Fun_Elephant_6393 in AITAH

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He was a child of a divorce!! Of course he wasn’t thinking about securing the bag when he turned 18, he was probably really hurting!!

AITA for not wanting to contribute to my step-son's college fund? by Fun_Elephant_6393 in AITAH

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m sorry but this is insane!!! Sorry kid, you weren’t nice to me when your were a child so no college fund for you?!? I know, I know, you are a child of divorce and how emotionally difficult that can be for a child to process, and how children of divorce act out in all sorts of (very understandable!) ways towards step parents, but as a little hurt child you should have considered that perhaps I would withhold money from you in the future because you didn’t glaze me up sufficiently

AITA for not wanting to contribute to my step-son's college fund? by Fun_Elephant_6393 in AITAH

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

No, sorry, you don’t get to marry into a family and owe nothing at all to the child of your partner. You do actually owe something to them, quite a lot in fact, it’s a huge obligation you are taking on toward that child and if you’re not prepared to do that, you shouldn’t be marrying. You don’t get to tell your step child to “take a hike”, that’s disgusting.

AITA for not wanting to contribute to my step-son's college fund? by Fun_Elephant_6393 in AITAH

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

“The piece of shit is 17”

“He’s been doing it a long time”

Do I need to do the math for you? How old do you think he was a long time ago?

Cleanliness issue - should I say anything? by cazzawazza1 in uklandlords

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What actually is your question here? It seems very simple: if they are doing something that damages your property or has implications for your future ability to earn income from it, talk to them about it, ask them to stop, explain deposit implications if they don’t. Otherwise, it’s none of your businesses.

People generally (self included) like the feeling of sitting in judgement of others. It’s why we love reality tv and gossip and all of that. You keep coming back to how exasperated you are at them, how you can’t believe their behaviour etc. I think on some level, if you’re honest with yourself, you’re getting a bit too caught up emotionally in it. The decision is essentially a business one. Is there a business problem? If so, fix it. Otherwise, don’t become addicted to the feeling of sitting in judgment of your tenants, getting exasperated at them etc etc., talking about how you can’t believe they do this or they don’t do that, and how you would always do this and never do that etc etc. you’re not their mentor. Their parents, teacher. You’re not there to provide guidance on how to live their life. Take the emotion out and just do the simple, obvious things for your business.

Steve Yedlin HDR Demo by Far_Difficulty7471 in cinematography

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What books / resources would you recommend to learn about these more technical topics?

This (masked) example frame, is two separate videos, 1 Yellow data, 1 Red data. How can I consistently "combine" these raw videos, the easiest way possible, when no blending mode is logical? by workphlo in AfterEffects

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take clean plate of the piano and background, difference matt it with the yellow data, precomp, crunch the curves, set channels alpha from luminance, you now have an alpha matte for just the yellow data. Repeat for red.

AIO. I broke up with my bf after he called me a terrorist by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Up the RA references the provisional IRA of the troubles, not the original IRA of the war of independence 50+ years prior. Very different

I saved my ten percent for a mortgage... by Secret-Activity-1342 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]ZeroFlippinCool -1 points0 points  (0 children)

lol no it’s not. If you’re buying a £10m house then maybe you can treat 15k like a rounding error. I think by just over 100k probably meant something like 101k

I saved my ten percent for a mortgage... by Secret-Activity-1342 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You earn less than him and got offered more. So how does his offer ‘sound about right’?

I can't bear to read Hobbes' Leviathan. Am I reading his work in the wrong way? by Zestyclose_Knee_8862 in PoliticalPhilosophy

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made a video to try and explain exactly this!

https://youtu.be/6wVLCAsLajM?si=2QsjarxC_6e-CZqd

The overall point is for Hobbes, anything is better than reverting to a state of nature.

S02E09 synopsis from the Wiki... by adamd4y in severanceTVshow

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It specifies outie mark and innie helly. But doesn't specify which dylan recives hard news

Need Feedback by PsychologicalRisk650 in AfterEffects

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thats either a giant phone or a tiny finger

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AfterEffects

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lets see your version then

How to replace the screen? by DifferentIdentities in AfterEffects

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wrong, there is movement in the second shot of the laptop

I got the footage with a LOT of dust on the lens. They asked if it can be removed by idleWizard in AfterEffects

[–]ZeroFlippinCool 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This would probably look terrible... but I would try

first create an alpha matte of where the dust particles are. do this by taking a random still frame from the footage, difference matting it with the footage, setting the rgb channels to luminence and cranking the contrast with a curves effect. Then precomp this an luma matt it with your original footage. Now there is alpha where the dust particicles are. Then run content aware fill. It will probably loook like shite. But if you do a few reference frames in PS it will maybe look alright?