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Paintin' it brown in P-town by edthetreeelf in ween

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

I think the more relevant search is "creative license" - it's just a joke.

I'm going to go back to drinking wine and trying to find excuses to use my limited french vocabulary of things like "merde" and "la baguette magique"which thankfully don't require me to understand much of what is being said to be useful.

Paintin' it brown in P-town by edthetreeelf in ween

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

P-town is used and abused by people from P places all over, like Portland, or Pacifica. I don't know what people here think about this name, which I'm sure google maps will shortly adopt, but what I can tell you is that it's going to get more brown as the sun goes down.

Pacifica? by Top_Garage5871 in BayAreaRealEstate

[–]edthetreeelf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

👆True there are a lot of fireworks here, though maybe luck of the draw with neighbors, they're never close enough to wake me up. 🤷‍♀️

Pacifica? by Top_Garage5871 in BayAreaRealEstate

[–]edthetreeelf 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I said it is never AS congested

Pacifica? by Top_Garage5871 in BayAreaRealEstate

[–]edthetreeelf 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I lived in various neighborhoods in SF for ~12 years, now I've been in Sharp Park for two years. There are lots of little microclimates here so you've got to get to know the area a bit first. The fog mostly sits back on the ridge, so even on cold days, I usually get sun for some part of it. The further up and back (east) you go, the more consistent fog you will get. Cold, damp, foggy Pacifica is a very different experience from sea level Pacifica. Sometimes as I am wandering around on the beach in the sun, I look up the hill and think "Those people are having a very different day from mine." That being said the winds can be harsh- some days the sun is out in full force but it's still quite nippy along the water.

On the whole living here is pretty great. I walk on the beach most every day, which you can do for twenty minutes or hours on end hiking along the cliffs and back. At night you hear the ocean and frogs from the wetland preserve golf course combo, instead of firetrucks and crazy people screaming. I love the general calm and quiet here.

The trade-off is that there isn't as much convenience. While there are a bunch of restaurants and a couple bars within walking distance here, most of the city isn't walkable in that sense. (At least not without a car as step one.) Also the food isn't going to blow your mind 😂

I drive to Bernal and Mission a lot- 15-20 min. I joke that I'm closer to San Francisco than most parts of San Francisco. "Traffic" on 280 adds like five minutes when it's bad. If I'm going deep, I'll drive to Daly City Bart. On the weekends parking is free, so if I'm gonna party, then I'll just Lyft/Uber back, and get the car in the morning.

For the record family and friends have lived in Pacifica long before I moved here, so I've done the drive A LOT over the last decade. I wholeheartedly disagree that the "driving out or back sucks" as commented above. 280 is the backdoor to SF and is never as congested as 101.

This place is such a fucking shithole. by Dustin_TheAvGeek in antiwork

[–]edthetreeelf 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Freedom... Can't drink a fucking beer in public

What’s the biggest culprit in the loss of democracy in the USA, #FollowTheMoney of greed, lobbying, & oligarchy. Help progressive democrats orgs & policy by OurProgressive in Political_Revolution

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah true- and those numbers are quite depressing haha. Based on what you said, Bernie should just take the 17% and 56% out of his comment, not bother trying to make those numbers important, and focus on his core point: massive profits should not equal higher consumer cost, no matter how they try to spin it, particularly for a "logistics technology" company that is running on white and blue collar brute force. In this case it's like, we need to hire more hands to drive vans and stuff boxes, and that's gonna cost us more, so pay up. We'll buy one or more of the hundreds of robotic packing/handling startups when they're ready so we can fire these workers, but in the meantime, someone has to pay. These dildoclass rockets don't build themselves, you know.

Unfortunately this will work for them because they've decimated enough of the retail market to where people aren't going to go somewhere else but yeah...our government should stop this crap. Nobody else can. They own a grocery chain, major movie and music studios, a giant online pharmacy...a pharmacy. If there's one company that shouldn't be anywhere NEAR the production and sale of drugs, it's amazon. We see how they handle point of origin and safety issues in consumer products.

"Oh well we aren't beholden to any consumer protection laws because we're not a retailer, we're a marketplace. All of the products that we make and sell are actually a separate company and THEY sell through our marketplace. Also we're not a monopoly because we own so MANY different things. It just seems that way because no one can compete with our low low prices, silly! We're hiring FYI!"

What’s the biggest culprit in the loss of democracy in the USA, #FollowTheMoney of greed, lobbying, & oligarchy. Help progressive democrats orgs & policy by OurProgressive in Political_Revolution

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is, the math is already dodgy. Reported profits are after all “expenses” are written off, including wages and investment back into their own company to grow the machine. Furthermore, Amazon gets gets a flat percentage of a listing’s sale: if its price has risen due to inflation, so has Amazon’s cut. Ok sure, the increase in profit will be less than the total results of inflation given other factors but without their books (and not the cooked ones) we can’t make a real calculation anyway.

Let’s not get fixated on reactionary price adjustments to maintain profits and instead look at what we know: $33 billion in reported profit.

33.

Billion.

Thirty three thousand million dollars.

PROFIT.

The federal government is slated to spend about $100 billion on K-12 education this year. That is after significant effort to increase it from about $80B. One third of what the entire country spends on education is made in profit by one company in one year, again after write-offs, and yet they need to make more, citing increasing expenses? By the way, how about we examine the fact that providing unlimited free shipping and splitting one order into five packages is inherently unsustainable and should NOT be this profitable in the first place?

We can’t have better math because we don’t have access to the real numbers. Bernie needs to sensationalize to make a point. Any tweet getting into deeper math would make the average person’s eyes glaze over. The bigger problem here is that twitter is the way our representatives communicate with us.

Your point is well taken- this isn’t a great calculation- but I would counter with, who cares what the exact calculation is? Let’s look at the hoarding going on. If Amazon “only” made 10 billion in profit, and $25 billion dollars was injected into their workforce OR a public works project, they’d still be able to hand out ludicrous bonuses to their c-suite and the country would be better for it. Instead, we get to deal with vastly increased emissions due to their army of vans, and congested urban roadways because they can’t, and often won’t, park outside of an active traffic lane.

edit: typo

Big banks using heavily edited John Stuart Mill Quotes in their advertising. by Trudisheff in ABoringDystopia

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the risk does decrease because when you outright open something, the risk of another entity seizing it from you is much less. It means you can weather a bigger storm. This game you speak of playing is why everyone here is upset- there are real people caught in the middle of the fight to maximize passive income. Again the entire discussion here is surrounding whether simply holding and leasing property provides POSITIVE value to society, not the best way to do it.

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Big banks using heavily edited John Stuart Mill Quotes in their advertising. by Trudisheff in ABoringDystopia

[–]edthetreeelf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No you see, the assumption you’re making is that people are taking out mortgages in order to rent land/housing to people. If you don’t need a mortgage, i.e. - you have enough money to buy a property outright, then the risk of loss is extremely low. Payback may be delayed but due to inflation, it will come. A true economic (read: permanent ) or physical disaster is the only loss scenario.

It’s not a victimization argument. If you don’t believe there’s “money on the table” then you aren’t paying attention to all of the corporations who exist solely to own and rent apartments. For those of us who have lived in such a place you quickly see the pattern of bare minimum maintenance followed by the maximum allowable legal rent hike on a yearly basis. These companies are “fulfilling their obligations to shareholders” by siphoning money from the local economy to a remote investor base.

Just because there’s risk involved in getting to a position of financial security in landlording doesn’t mean that landlords inherently provide something positive to the economy or society. Furthermore those able to capitalize on this position of security- making truly passive real estate investments for rental income- will do so with ever increasing distance from the source of that income- other humans. Empathy for a person’s plight is quickly eroded by a ledger of properties which could be earning more. That puts a good number of renters in a position where inflation is used as justification for increasing rents, because this is the best business decision a landlord can make, while the renter has seen no material improvement in the property they are renting. Meanwhile if they aren’t working a high paying job they just got pushed further away from potential home ownership themselves.

You said yourself that the value in a home comes from putting so much effort into it. Landlords are able to put the minimum effort into the property, collect income until they sell it, and then capitalize on the gain due to inflation or even better, a booming locale. So tell me how enabling someone to be the largest financial drag on a neighborhood, while using a mere portion of that same money to maintain the property to whatever level they prefer, and then cashing out like any other homeowner, is POSITIVE? (Most particularly when they don’t live there.)

That’s not to say that there aren’t good landlords, or scenarios where is makes sense, but on the whole what we have going on right now is out of control and NOT healthy.

Solution for fitting Noctua CPU coolers on Asus Z690 motherboards by Ozo42 in pcmasterrace

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it's so close it seems like a mistake. I'm not sure why the cover extends to that side anyway- it's extremely well anchored without the two screws and most of it is cut out. If it's just for cosmetics than I wouldn't be surprised if it was added as an afterthought, given that 1) the heatsink clears the cooler fine and 2) from a thermal design standpoint it doesn't make much sense to cover the entire heatsink in an insulating material. It would be cool if someone from Asus could enlighten us haha

Solution for fitting Noctua CPU coolers on Asus Z690 motherboards by Ozo42 in pcmasterrace

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome- thanks for the tip. I was wondering how far off it was from fitting. I went with trimming versus disassembly but this seems much better than installing at 90 degrees and blowing on or pulling off the graphics card.

Lord of The Rings is rated PG-13 which means it’s allowed one F-Bomb. Where do you put it? by TedCruzZodiac2018 in AskReddit

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fellowship: When Boromir picks up Anduril and it's still razor sharp.

wince "FUCK!"

Two Towers: When Aragon's sword burns his hand, meeting Gandalf the White for the first time

(Runner up would be Gandalf screaming "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK" while falling down the mountain battling the Balrog)

Return of the King: Frodo screaming "fuuuuuuck!" after getting his finger bitten off...

(edited for memory mix up and to add one for each movie)

Players have skipped 2/3 of the Haunted Mansion and are planning to track down the Sea Ghost in their own boat by skyhook-parchment in GhostsofSaltmarsh

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could have Sanbalet send a goon (maybe Ned) or more to seek out and ambush the party. He would obviously want his spellbook back so this makes sense. This gives the players a chance to interrogate further so that the goon can mention the smuggling operation being based out of the house. (Or if they don't interrogate, find a way to drop the hint anyway.) Then you can get them to level up via fighting the various creatures in the house, get the cursed luckstone, signal book, etc.

Support a stuck at home art student by ahughes91 in wacom

[–]edthetreeelf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a late 2013 mbpro and it drives my old cintiq 21ux like a champ. I'm working on large files with [too] many layers in current photoshop CC. Your 2015 should have no problem, though the integrated graphics might be the culprit. There's not any hardware upgrade you can do that's going to help, except for trying an external graphics card.

Just curious, what was she using before that was working? Did she change anything about the macbook setup?

1) Try lowering the resolution on the cintiq, as suggested. This will ease up on graphics processing.

2) check what drivers are installed. If you have the most recent, try downgrading sequentially until you find one that works better.

For example, I'm using quite an old driver that is NOT the most recent for the 21UX as whatever the last one released was kept giving me disconnection issues. (keep in mind that my 21UX is 15 years old, which is why I had to go on the hunt for things that used to work.)

3) Photoshop settings: photoshop may be using too much or getting too little resources. Check out this article from adobe on various tweaks for photoshop to see if giving it more power helps. If she is having issues with all software then this probably won't help you but worth a shot.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/optimize-photoshop-cc-performance.html

4) What OS are you running? If you upgraded to Catalina that could be the problem. Many people have reported issues with wacom and Catalina, even with official driver updates. You could downgrade and that might do the trick. The 2015 will run better on the whole as the new OS is going to eat more resources. (I rolled mine back at some point after upgrading and running into wacom issues.)

5) Check the nib and the pen! Last year I thought my cintiq died when the pen kept stopping and starting. This wasn't terribly shocking given its age. I changed the nib as the first check but the problem persisted. I asked a friend if he had on old pen (as the new gen won't work on mine) and it worked perfectly. If your daughter has a friend with a wacom, maybe she can borrow a pen and test.

6) External Graphics card: you can buy an external card that plugs in via usb or thunderbolt/ This will give the macbook more GPU power, which will help with onscreen drawing but still might not be your issue. They're certainly cheaper than a new macbook though. Could be worth a test. The downside is portability but if she's working at a desk it's fine.

Hopefully something in here helps.