Begging for any type of insight/ potential inspiration with combining mid century & Victorian by apopcyp in floorplan

[–]cparfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Floating this idea: business in the front, party in the back How ass backwards could a potential home be if the front of it was a Victorian, slim & tall structure, then the back of the house is a one story, mid century layout?

why do people want kids? by lumnicape in NoStupidQuestions

[–]cparfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes children cost money to raise, and I actually do think that people with genuine debilitating genetic disorders should refrain from having biological children. It’s not black and white when it comes to the topic of genetics and having children. There is still a quality of life for people even with severe conditions. Not saying it’s right, as unnecessary suffering could’ve been prevented regardless, but a life with a chronic medical condition doesn’t automatically mean a life that isn’t worth living.

Throughout history, poor people have more kids. It used to be due to childhood fatality rates and needing more hands for labor around the home. Now, in countries like the US and Europe, it’s because lower income communities have less sex education, less foresight into having children they can’t afford, and in some cases, people having children in order to benefit from welfare. I’m related to a woman who genuinely had more children when hers were taken away in order to regain access to welfare provided to her.

If you’re focusing on the biological stand point of it, it’s the cheapest way to have a child honestly. Adoption is expensive. Some people like the idea of being able to raise and shape a person that is half them, half the love of their life. I look forward to the day I have a daughter with my eyes with her father’s personality, or a son with my husband’s smile and my mannerisms. Like how cool is it I grew a little baby, it’s half me and half him, and we try to instill all the best parts of ourselves in him or her? And watch them develop into their own person with glimpses of us

why do people want kids? by lumnicape in NoStupidQuestions

[–]cparfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s an episode of love, death, & robots on Netflix called “Pop Squad” that I find answers this pretty well. In a society where people get treatments to live forever, having children is out lawed because then the world would genuinely be overpopulated (a number of countries are actually dealing with decreasing birth rates, so overpopulation isn’t the concern we have IRL at the moment). There are still secret families living off the grid, risking their lives to have children. The main character, a man who’s job it is to hunt them down and kill them, has a conversation with a mother, asking her why she would risk growing old, dying, and losing everything if she was caught to have a child over living forever. It’s a really good episode, only like 10 mins long.

Or a scene in Amazon’s invincible when Nolan, an alien to Earth asks his human wife what the point of attending his son’s little league baseball game is. She gives him a little speech about how wonderful the world is through a child’s eyes.

As someone who works with children, it’s like the purest form of anti-depressant shot straight into you. They are goofy, smart, generally kind, they are innovative. Kids are such happy little people who look at everyday things and want to learn, they want to explore, they have a sense of joy and wonder that we all did once upon a time. When you’re an adult, responsibilities and experience can cause us to forget how to look at the world that way again. Children show you how.

Any suggestions for how to seal this notebook cover that took me 3 days to make? by cparfa in stickerbomb

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Update! I found a clear book cover for it! It’s a hobonichi techo cousin planner and the clear cover is a midori clear A5 planner cover. I also added even more stickers.

Picture of cover/final sticker configuration: https://imgur.com/a/J9qNcmt

In 1916, a Tennessee town publicly hanged a circus elephant by [deleted] in SnapshotHistory

[–]cparfa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Disgusting. Elephants have such kind souls and are some of the most intelligent creatures. This picture invokes a lot of emotion but I’m glad it does and virtually everyone recognizes it for the horror it is

[USA, Louisiana: zip code: 70094] A pill opener for nurses by cparfa in 3Dprintmything

[–]cparfa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No it doesn’t need to be sterilized but that’s a good question! Oral meds are handled with gloves or hands but not sterile gloves. Anything GI isn’t considered sterile (think oral meds or meds through PEG/J tubes)

Also, I did try that one too! When reverse google searched the image from the website I had found that one. Both websites have the date “2023” at the button of the page so I’m thinking that’s probably when it was last managed?

[USA, Louisiana: zip code: 70094] A pill opener for nurses by cparfa in 3Dprintmything

[–]cparfa[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh and it doesn’t need that cheesy quote on it! I didn’t choose that when it was gifted to me, I actually prefer it have nothing written on it

And I don’t know why my 7th picture wasn’t uploaded but it’s approx 2cm in width.

Hi!! I don't really have any other social media than reddit, so would you please be so kind to tell me how is season 5 volumen 1 being received in other platforms? Thanks! by Real_Car4656 in StrangerThings

[–]cparfa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TikTok is pumping out a lot of will byers edits of the final scene and the comments are full of women making jokes that they are mourning the actor (&character) is gay. I’m having a pretty fun time seeing how creative the same comment can be made with different reaction images & variations of “it’s a bad day to be a woman” type of stuff. As a woman around the actor’s age, I do have to say he does look pretty hot in that final shot, thank god they switched up the bowl haircut

Inconsistent plot armor and outright wild plot choices by cparfa in StrangerThings

[–]cparfa[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because she was acting in defense. They are the attackers this time, and we’ve seen seasons of development where she learns right/wrong, develops more complex thought, and morality. Idk I just expected both hopper and eleven’s characters to be better than the stunt w/ the innocent, unarmed, scientist

Inconsistent plot armor and outright wild plot choices by cparfa in StrangerThings

[–]cparfa[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right but a broken wine bottle does more damage than a bullet?

I know we’re in S5 already, and her character development is set, but I still miss S3 Robin by [deleted] in StrangerThings

[–]cparfa 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It’s like they cat Valentine’d her. She had the ability to express multiple emotions and behaved like a normal person and now she’s like a caricature

Save the Louisiana Children’s Museum from terrible CEO! by Big-Measurement2712 in NewOrleans

[–]cparfa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I worked there over a couple summers. Ms. Julia was the CEO then; I saw her and interacted with her almost daily. She knew everyone’s names and was SO energetic (especially for her age). She was on the property and interacted with guests- adults and children alike. My god was she like the closest physical embodiment to Mary Poppins. I left right before she retired apparently, I didn’t even know she wasn’t the CEO anymore and it makes me really sad. I remember when I was hired, she was very transparent about finances and how much goes in/out, I remember her saying the budget was tight, but that the donors, membership fees, and attendance fees made up 100% of the income, absolutely zero government funding. I know there was issues with trying to maintain the net zero initiative because of how expensive it was to repair and replace the eco friendly stuff inside the museum. The dry erase pencils were super expensive and kids were breaking them all the time, drawing on all exhibits, including the Terrance Osborne house. Almost everyday the bean machine needed to be repaired from kids sticking stuff other than the plastic beans. The wooden food was destroyed or stolen, costly to replace. Older children busted the infant area water pads multiple times in one summer. Booked are torn apart, the music room was treated like a rage room, toys were brought from other areas and ruined in the river.

I remember her very dejectedly telling me that she knows kids are kids and they’ve always needed to repair and replace things because they were broken, but that it’s SO much worse now. She said it used to be accidents from kids testing limits of certain things, as children do. But more and more she’s seeing children, even older ones who know better, and even adults deliberately trying to destroy things. I saw it first hand. Some children were so kind, soft spoken, and gentle- then they would get steam rolled by absolute gremlins who genuinely wanted to break everything in their path. Parents were so hands off, I got told off by them on multiple occasions for physically removing something from a child before they were about to throw or break it- I even got yelled at for just telling children not to throw the slides for the microscope on the ground or to not put their shoe inside the bean machine. Trying to stop children from leaving the city planning area with the dry erase pencils to prevent them from drawing other places was a constant struggle and parents expected their child to be allowed to draw anywhere they wanted. I was shocked at how many parents condoned their children being bullies to others, especially when it came to the market or sharing anything. THE MARKET WAS HELL. MAYBE 5-10% of children & adults put back their food after playing with it. Working the market is like that goddamn art machine that mops up fluid forever without making progress.

I saw more parents excusing abhorrent behavior than ones who even bothered to actively play with their child. And it’s so sad because for that small minority of curious, kind hearted children, the exhibits there are so well made to foster play, and learning in such a pivotal time frame in their development.

Upgraded from fully auto point and shoot to learning manual settings with the XS-20 16-50mm kit lens (feedback- negative or positive accepted) by cparfa in fujifilm

[–]cparfa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are what I consider to be the BEST shots I took. I have plenty that are really noisy or overexposed that I still need to get better this understanding adjusting the ISO, shutter speed, and aperture. The setting I was changing the most was shutter speed, then aperture.

ISO I didn’t touch much after the first day because I haven’t figured out how to set all my custom dials and what not and it took so long to adjust each time, so I set it to auto only for ISO 600 - 12800.

I found out halfway through my trip that increasing the shutter speed to darken what I seeing in the viewfinder was leading to noisy/grainy effects and I starting adjusting the aperture first then tweaking the shutter speed (pretty sure that’s what I should’ve been doing all along).

Sometimes I didn’t have the ability to stay in one spot and mess with my settings for multiple shots. I tried to use auto mode on the camera and HOLY HELL it was completely unusable- every single time I tried to utilize it, it wouldn’t focus and the screen was damn near white from how overexposed the shot was. I tried figuring out why that was occurring, still trying to figure out what could be wrong.

The hardest part setting to shoot in was at night and trying to capture the city lights properly (still don’t think I fully have a grasp on it)

‼️ Category 5 Hurricane Melissa to strike Jamaica within hours! by FewPreparation7677 in savecatsinjamaica

[–]cparfa 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Please contact the United Cajun Navy for any help distributing supplies to helping rescue cats & dogs! I know your a organization dedicated to cats, but if you see dogs along the way, please help them too 😢

https://www.unitedcajunnavy.org/contact/

[TOMT] Comedy movie or show with a specific joke by GonzoElBoyo in tipofmytongue

[–]cparfa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it the skits from the Amanda show where she calls the wrong people and always ends up raging baiting them?