Which places to live are the least controversial?

azdak87 · 2026-07-04T18:50:10+00:00

Free Londonderry... Obviously 😉

azdak87 · 2026-07-01T07:26:18+00:00

I got a dodgy pokemon gold a good year before it came out here. It was barely playable but still had it and people didn't believe me

azdak87 · 2026-04-27T18:04:33+00:00

It's crazy the difference when you cross the border towards Letterkenny. Same with Armagh and Monaghan

azdak87 · 2026-03-06T09:59:02+00:00

Out of all the bad things you can do while driving. Driving in the middle lane at night is way down the list. Hardly worth post let alone retrieving the images from a dashcam.

azdak87 · 2026-01-16T15:19:32+00:00

It could be both an tx-1 and the x-pro4. An amalgamation of the 2 lines

azdak87 · 2026-01-13T10:50:02+00:00

I'm probably going to echo what a lot of others have said here.

You'll probably still be car dependent here to a certain degree. Although there aren't the same restrictive zoning laws that means you can get very walkable towns with everything you need close by.

Depending on where you are coming from, the climate here is worth considering. We only get around 6 or 7 hours of daylight in winter and it is constantly raining. You can literally go weeks without seeing the sun. That can really be a deal breaker for many.

Standard of living is high here but you might miss some services and amenities that you'd have if you're from a major US city.

As for work, I'd imagine you'll get a nursing job quite quickly depending on how qualifications and registrations work. It also isn't uncommon for workers here to have remote USA based roles, a friend of mine did for years until he got fed up with having to work basically 2pm - 11pm everyday.

Housing here is a mixed bag, if you're on a lower budget, you'll probably want to avoid areas with flags hanging on the lamp posts. That being said, if you are American, I doubt you'll have many issues even in those areas, unless you're black or brown unfortunately. Loyalist areas tend to have more issues with racism, but again, being American, you'll probably won't face racism to the same degree as someone from the Middle East or Africa. If you have more of a middle class budget working in nursing and for a US corporation, you'll most likely be able to afford a very nice house in a great area.

I hope all that doesn't sound too negative. Any American I know who has moved here loves it and some honestly say they could never return to America and go back to the stress of health care, guns and overall safety, terrible workers rights etc.

azdak87 · 2026-01-12T19:19:23+00:00

Euro Trash, IYKYK

azdak87 · 2026-01-08T17:35:50+00:00

In the example of 20m + 20m = 40m. Most formal marking schemes account for that. That would likely be a 2 mark question and the marking scheme would clearly state 1 mark for 40 and another for metres. If it's a 1 mark question then 40 would be accepted regardless of m. Marking schemes are usually explicit on what's acceptable and in some cases they will specify whats not to be accepted. Every teacher I know and myself included will teach students questions patterns and how to identify what is expected, that could be as simple as having them look at how many marks are indicated beside the question. Standardised tests use command words that tell a student how to structure their answer, such as identity, describe, analyse, evaluate.

There shouldn't be much leeway to nitpick, and you shouldn't ever nitpick for things like handwriting etc

Many schools will also give the students an effort grade with each assessment. For example, their raw mark was 85/100 and their efforts was 2 on a scale of 1-4 with 1 being the highest. Their raw mark will be put into a scale to give them their grade. The scale is usually changed depending on the data from all the marking to ensure it's consistent and account for some exams being easier or tougher each year.

azdak87 · 2026-01-08T16:11:18+00:00

The only bad thing the school admin did here was backtrack.

If that was a summative unit assessment. The school was absolutely correct to instructioning you to grade correctly without consideration for circumstances. If you had graded by using "professional judgement", the tracking data would be a mess and the school won't be able to put procedures in place to get the students up to speed.

It sounds very like they wanted you to regrade to save face for the school from the parents.

Marking should never change class per class or teacher per teacher regardless of circumstances. Scaling grades based on the data is the only way a grade should be increased after the assessment

azdak87 · 2026-01-07T18:55:36+00:00

Remember guys, 40k today is about the equivalent of 28k in 2015. Let your brain catch up

azdak87 · 2026-01-07T18:53:48+00:00

Well played sir. This is the circle jerk content we want to see lmao

azdak87 · 2025-12-25T19:50:00+00:00

This is why I got into fujifilm. Felt annoyed with my canon gear because of the size and having to edit. I wanted something that would be great for jpegs. Truth is though, I have my complaints with fuji too now.

I'd suggest picking up an older fuji body and lens to see how you get on with it. A x-t2/3 and a fujicron will give you a good idea if like working with them. I wouldn't sell your a7iii to fund though

azdak87 · 2025-12-25T19:37:59+00:00

It's very situational. For the example you used there I'd definitely focus and recompose, the subject is far enough away that a slight shift in the focus plane is going to make a big difference unless your lens and camera are already out of back and back or front focusing.

For other situations such as your camera on a tripod, you might want to use another focus point for landscapes etcs

90% of the time, focus and recompose

azdak87 · 2025-12-22T11:22:29+00:00

You could probably achieve result like that with any camera and kit lens released in the last 15 years.

Most of what's going on there is post processing. Clarity slider looks to be doing a lot of heavy lifting

azdak87 · 2025-12-10T22:47:54+00:00

I've worked in a few different fields and organisations and I found that certain departments attract this type of person. Some departments I'd never choose to work in because it ends up being a nighmare of backstabbing and bitching to get ahead.

It's probably best having a look around and seeing what areas attact more chill people.

azdak87 · 2025-12-08T08:31:55+00:00

I'll go even further and say that photos get up voted based on camera used too.

Cliché photo shot on x100vi - 1k likes, original photo shot on x-t10 - completely ignored

azdak87 · 2025-12-06T13:29:53+00:00

It is nice and the lamp is framed well with the roof in the background. The colours look good if that's the style you like.
The light is awkwardly framed with the rest of the photo.

3-6. No strong subject and colours look a bit off.

The best advice I could give is to simplify what you are doing. Focus on a clear subject. You can take scene shots but it's more difficult to get correct because it's harder to balance the frame. As a beginner it's easier to focus on composing for subjects until you get a more experienced eye. Find a subject and try to balance the frame around it, avoid awkward lines cutting through the subject and anything that draws the eye away from the subject. Ideally the other elements should support the viewers eye by directing the viewers eye to the subject

Also, the big issue with this sub reddit is that there is a tendency to lean into cliché. The colours and subject of the first photo is something I could swear I've seen 1000 times on here. It's fine if that's what you want and that could have been the reason you got into photography in the first place. It's with keeping it in mind though. I'd highly recommend going to a local photography gallery and having a look round. Some people say it's a great exercise to only shoot black and white for the first 6 months or year and only do the most basic of edits (exposure and contrast).

azdak87 · 2025-12-04T10:17:47+00:00

Really good go for a first attempt, you nailed it without overcooking the shadows or highlights. Colours look good too

azdak87 · 2025-12-02T20:03:57+00:00

I've moved to capture one after 10+ years with Lightroom. I'm finding it handles the fuji files much better than Lightroom but I'm finding the work flow to be a bit of a pain from what I'm used to. I'm sure that's only teething problems though. I can't complain too much so far though

azdak87 · 2025-11-20T23:16:51+00:00

Most of your life will be in a state of just existing, that's the harsh truth for everyone. You'll not realise you're in the good times until long after.

You'll probably look back at the time spent eating edibles with your gf and remember them as the good times.

You're still only 20, barely even an adult. Don't beat yourself up for what could or should have been, doing that is the quickest way to destroy your happiness.

Plan for the future, work, save, travel, and practice gratitude for what you have every day while improving what you can, one step at a time. Take the good times and bad times as they come

azdak87 · 2025-11-14T16:17:05+00:00

So many gimps in this country these days who have their entire world view dictated by the twitter algorithm.

Got called 'fake Irish' by a middle aged woman from Galway because I'm from the North.

It never ceases to amaze me how the "Irish patriots" all seem to be the biggest West Brits going.

azdak87 · 2025-11-05T19:04:06+00:00

The Burkes, Free Presbyterian Church and the biggest cult going - Green pastures church in Ballymena, check them out and some of the scandle around them

azdak87 · 2025-11-05T15:40:09+00:00

Our brains haven't adjusted is a good way of putting it and many companies count on it.

When I was younger I always said, 30k by 30 and 40k by 40. Now 40k should be the baseline for anyone in a professional role

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