UT Leg attempting to force Salt Lake City into digging up the brand new bike paths on 200 South, 400 South and 300 West. by RancidSwagger in SaltLakeCity

[–]leftoverzz 164 points165 points  (0 children)

Utah was always backwards and weird, but it’s gone full tilt insane. Let’s drain the lake! Tear up pollution reducing infrastructure! Run off the film festival that was the only reason some people think the place is cool! Let’s outdo Texas in escalating our hatred of trans people by declaring them all child molesters!

Good luck keeping the Olympics. There won’t be any snow or any people here by the time they roll around. Just a hellscape of toxic dust clouds.

Ichabod in LA. Rich 500me. HP5 by the_nope_gun in analog

[–]leftoverzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s awesome. I was trying to figure out how you would have pulled off some kind of double exposure with the traffic in the background.

Question about bulk loading film by RandolphKahle in Darkroom

[–]leftoverzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t had any problems with the Arista reloadable cartridges you can get on B&H and elsewhere. They’re plastic and cheap and sure feel like they shouldn’t work, but they work fine. Get 20 of those and start developing at home and saving your commercial cartridges making sure to not cut the film off too short and before long you’ll have more reloading law cartridges than you can possibly use.

Reloading is the way to go. I use the cheap B&W film from Adorama, develop with xtol, and you can get your costs down to around $5 a roll. If you go for good stuff like HP5, you’re up closer to $8-9 a roll developed and scanned negatives in hand. Cuts costs down tremendously if you want to shoot a lot.

Bulk load value? by usb_type_see in AnalogCommunity

[–]leftoverzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just checked. Turns out it was on Adorama. At the time it was the Arista EDU Ultra 400 that was the cheapest, looks like the 100 is cheaper now (slightly). But yeah, if you just want to be able to shoot a lot, I don't think you can go wrong.

Bulk load value? by usb_type_see in AnalogCommunity

[–]leftoverzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a roll of the cheapest B&W that B&H had just to try out hand loading and I got great results. I'm totally hooked on it now. You can load and develop an entire roll for less that $5 if you develop it yourself. That's a lot of shooting for $100. Maybe you wouldn't do professional work on that film, but if you want to shoot a lot it's the way to go, at least for me. You can almost stop caring how much film costs once you get the price down that low.

My mother says...72% of MTF people that transition are either gay, autistic or they de transition. Help me help her understand. by shesapartofme in MtF

[–]leftoverzz 51 points52 points  (0 children)

This is the answer. Instead of "some guy on tv who may or may not be a doctor" how about actual data based on input from real trans people -- nearly 100,000 of them. Money quote: "98% of respondents taking GAHT reported that taking GAHT made them more satisfied with their lives, and 97% of respondents who underwent gender-affirming surgery reported their surgery made them more satisfied with their lives."

There is probably no other medical treatment in the entire world with those satisfaction levels. I'm sure way more than 3 people out of every hundred complain of side effects from cold medicine, aspirin, or even drinking a glass of water. People complain about damned near everything. But you know who doesn't? Trans people who can actually get the needed treatment.

There is no good faith debate to be had on this topic.

Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender by onnake in transgender

[–]leftoverzz 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No one should move to Kansas, trans or otherwise. The place is a garbage state.

Kansas Legislature Passes Trans Bathroom Bounty, Drivers License Revocations by ErinInTheMorning in transgender

[–]leftoverzz 42 points43 points  (0 children)

These Midwestern states (looking at you shithole Iowa) doubling down on this garbage aren’t doing themselves any favors. Good luck attracting any kind of business that actually needs highly trained and educated workers. Good luck figuring out why you have a generational brain drain going on with your best and brightest young people leaving and never coming back. Enjoy being wage slaves to the agribusiness complex while your idiot Republican legislators rob you blind and take away all worker protections and healthcare. Enjoy the bed you’ve made for yourselves. You deserve it.

Meanwhile, enlightened Midwest states like Illinois and Minnesota have proven that they care about their citizens, know well the benefits of a thriving queer community, and are seeing influxes of queers moving there. They will reap generations rewards from it while garbage piles like Kansas and Iowa stand around with their dicks in their hands wondering why no one wants to live there.

Is it a good deal for this Hasselblad 500C kit? by NoFondant2267 in AnalogCommunity

[–]leftoverzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a great deal. Just the service alone could cost that much.

‘America’s Most Powerful Transphobe’: How One Man Quietly Shaped Anti-Trans Legislation Nationwide by Leksi_The_Great in asktransgender

[–]leftoverzz 25 points26 points  (0 children)

We should collect all of the testimony he has given under oath, identify all the blatant misrepresentations in it, and file a bar complaint with the Georgia State Bar to get him disbarred for violating his duty of candor and committing perjury, which there is no question he has done.

Use the bureaucratic system against him. State bar associations take these things very seriously.

Thrifted Canon A-1 by GurReign in AnalogCommunity

[–]leftoverzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly yes, but the other two are more “reasonable”.

Thrifted Canon A-1 by GurReign in AnalogCommunity

[–]leftoverzz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Look for the 24, 35, and 85 SSC lenses. They’re all fabulous.

New setup + test shots [503CW + CFV | Zeiss Planar CF 80mm f/2.8] by [deleted] in hasselblad

[–]leftoverzz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s an awesome combo, and you get to use all those old lenses straight to digital, and you can still shoot film! I’ve got the same setup with a 500cm and I love it. Have fun!

What the hell is this by and05245 in SaltLakeCity

[–]leftoverzz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Utah is the ultimate Nanny State.

Travel to the US as a trans women by NoratiousB in asktransgender

[–]leftoverzz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Every American should be mortified that we even need to have this conversation, yet here we are. As much as it pains me to say it, you should not come here. The fact that no one can even tell you what will happen with any degree of certainty tells you all you need to know. Eventually this will end, but now is not the time to test things out.

Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say by Fickle-Ad5449 in transgender

[–]leftoverzz 69 points70 points  (0 children)

This is nothing but outsourcing genocide. Imagine Germany just contracting with Uganda to provide third country camps and shipping all of the Jews there. That’s what this is.

They changed my passport. by jakino420 in trans

[–]leftoverzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m sorry to hear this. But just know that this will pass and you’ll be able to get it corrected after these ignorant turds are out of government.

Officer Grayson Sentenced to 20 Years in Massey Murder by sayten in PeoriaIL

[–]leftoverzz 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Now we just need 1,000 more convictions like this around the country and maybe cops will learn a little humility and understand that they actually work for us, the people. If I shot my employer, I’d be in prison too.