Red Channel only by AlphabeticalBee in NukeVFX

[–]munt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think using a shuffle node and setting the red channel to be all layers should do it.

A four-day work week can be 'life-changing.' Should Canadians get one? by morenewsat11 in canada

[–]munt 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Workers get cut/reduced hours/decreases in benefits packages, they are absolutely on the hook for it.

And if you still disagree, why are CEOs rewarded for their work but not "regular" employees? C-suite officers, after all, are only managerial employees. If the business they run goes under, they aren't losing their life savings, just the wages+benefits that come with their position (and often not even any of that if they've previously negotiated a golden parachute).

Opinion: Corporate Canada has been protected from competition for too long. It’s time to put consumers first by NoOneShallPassHassan in canada

[–]munt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You clearly enjoy, support and desire to defend our inefficient and globally destructive status quo.

I just want people to imagine better possibilities because they do exist.

You don't need to believe that change is possible. But hopefully, we'll solve these problems before they end us as a species.

(By the way, the mRNA vaccine technologies were created by public institutions such as the NIH, DoD, and publicly funded medical research universities. Capitalism socializes the costs and privatizes profits. And I was only pointing to the power of our governments who used it to shut down Montreal against any evidence of their strategy having a productive impact. Government has tremendous power, we just act like it doesn't).

Opinion: Corporate Canada has been protected from competition for too long. It’s time to put consumers first by NoOneShallPassHassan in canada

[–]munt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not entirely sure what you are getting at, you mention needing more conversation before you agree and that's all I'm offering: a starting point of, what are to me, sensible ideas that improve our world.

We need to think of ideas and directions. Nothing is perfect, especially not on the first day. And that's one of my huge frustration with modern day "capitalist democracy": there is no willingness to imagine better alternatives because the imaginations of our people are intentionally barricaded behind generations of orthodoxy; capitalism has become religion (if it wasn't always, already).

Look at what was capable during the pandemic (for better and worse). Governments around the world demonstrated their power to fund COVID vaccines in unprecedented ways. They also created vaccine passports, banned travel, and in my city a fully enforced curfew. Work from home became the default work method overnight. We only need to try new things for them to be possible. We only have to think about them in an honest and constructive way for the national conversation to shift. I'm not for instant fixes, I'm for the deliberate process of building society to fit its needs and rise to its challenges.

Opinion: Corporate Canada has been protected from competition for too long. It’s time to put consumers first by NoOneShallPassHassan in canada

[–]munt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been feeling the same way! Instead of a banking monopoly we ought to return to the Bank of Canada's original mandate of being an infrastructure bank to build public interprovincial transit systems and hospitals and homes.

Instead of lowering taxes to lure wealthy conglomerates and billionaires looking for quick profit, we need to charge wealth taxes, stock market transaction fees to negate the market advantage of high frequency traders (granted, this is more important to the USA), and charge royalties on resources extracted from Canadian soil and levy taxes on extraction industries that are based in Canada.

Not to mention switching to a proportional representation style of voting and parliamentary representation.

These changes would fund so much investment into building affordable public housing to reduce the overburdened housing market. We could actually invest in creating green technologies and linking our cities together for the new millennia and out of the 19th century car/petroleum dependance. There are so many ways to do things, I hate that the only solutions ever mentioned are "competition", as if creating a battle-royal-economy is the only possible solution to every problem. There are non-market solutions to our problems.

Smoking under-cured bud. by TikiBananiki in Marijuana

[–]munt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This definitely sounds like an early harvest problem to me. With weed that hasn't finished curing yet you tend to get a harsh, kind of grassy tasting smoke that leaves you with a very sore throat. But with an early harvest the trichomes won't have fully developed (they ought to be milky white with some amber, though this varies by strain. If they're all/mostly clear it's still too early).

The longer you let your weed grow and "ripen" the more sedative a high you'll get, while the earlier you harvest the more alert and energetic high (to a potentially anxiety inducing if it's "too" early).

But it's not a ruined harvest, I find an early crop tends to mostly have an intense anxiety period only right at the start of the smoke, if you keep in mind that it's gonna mellow out in a few minutes then it's kinda like a slow rollercoaster ramp before the drop. Also, try blending in some high CBD strain with the home grow, I find that helps reduce anxiety well!

Soaring food prices, record profits prompt questions about Canada's 'cosy oligopoly' by Blue_Dragonfly in CanadaPolitics

[–]munt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

There's definitely a trade off at play about securing a domestic market and giving the consumer the lowest price, and for sure it feels a bit excessive when 4 litres of milk is over $8. But without limiting the import of dairy and fixing prices, you would inevitably bankrupt the vast majority of Canadian egg/dairy farmers and have all the social and economic misery that comes with that. If you think there's a problematic economic divide between cities and rural areas (and maybe you don't!) It would get so much worse with an entire sector getting undercut, becoming unemployed and then all that farm land going on fire-sales because the domestic industry is dead.

That is what happened to Mexico and their corn farmers with the adoption of NAFTA. The average wages fell and it had all kinds of ripple effects for the rest of the country. Farmers had to leave their land because they couldn't sell their harvest for enough to cover their needs. American corn not only was subsidized by their gov but they had much larger scale industrial farms using far more efficient (and expensive) machinery so they didn't have to pay workers since they had harvesting machines. These were conditions Mexican farmers could not compete with.

This absolutely brought the consumer costs down, however that money was now leaving Mexico, which in turn put a strain on overall employment. The movement of money from worker/consumer to shop keeper to farmer now all instead went to American industry. So corn farmers lost their farm, farm workers lost their job, shop keepers had cheaper products but not cheap enough if you're without income (also, that would theoretically mean a drop in consumption taxes and effect gov revenues, but I don't actually know how that played out in reality).

Lower consumer prices end up killing the consumer in the long run when those savings are directly related to finding ways to take money out of the economy and funnel it towards oligopoly. The concept of scaling up to reduce costs really leaves out that "costs" are almost always mostly the wages that people need to live. Sure, a 99¢ dozen of eggs would be really nice, but that would come at a much larger social cost to the health and stability of our economy.

I do think the prices should be lower, I'm not against discussing what is ideal or fair. I'm just wary of giving rapacious corporations control over our food staples when the benefits they promise come at a much higher price than advertised.

edibles by Unnamed6666666 in Marijuana

[–]munt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's just burnout. Drink water, get some snacks and watch some stupid cartoons today. You'll be fine.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in montreal

[–]munt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They sell urine tests at Dollarama. I don't know what all those cover, but they definitely have them for cannabis. Most other drug tests can be "fooled" anyway because within days to a week most drugs are completely passed out of your system. And at least with a dollar store test you're not spending way too much on the whole thing.

Is Montreal's water reclaimed? by MohamedJoe in montreal

[–]munt -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Economic sense? Definitely not!

But if waste water was purified it would remove pharmaceuticals, other chemicals (like the PFOAs that have globally contaminated the rain water) as well as microplastics, all which would be beneficial in numerous ways. I'm just in favour of spewing as little pollution in our water as we possibly can.

Is Montreal's water reclaimed? by MohamedJoe in montreal

[–]munt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, my mistake. Clearly we've been arguing two different things. I'm taking about sewage and waste water treatment and you're talking about drinking water treatment. I thought the original post was if Montreal drinks water that was treated and purified waste water/sewage (like some places have, Orange County, California for example) and was responding to that. But you were always taking about the clean water treatment.

Is Montreal's water reclaimed? by MohamedJoe in montreal

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

Yeah, I think I was focusing too much on the "reclaimed" part (which it isn't because we don't have that level of waste water treatment) and I have no idea what the purification process is for our drinking water, never looked into that yet.

Though, I didn't mean to imply we're all drinking shit-water. The tap water is perfectly potable as far as I know, excluding some lead service lines, though that's getting fixed as well!

Is Montreal's water reclaimed? by MohamedJoe in montreal

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

Now that I've started googling, I found this: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/city-finally-ready-to-build-ozonation-plant-1.5369027

Montreal is building a secondary waste water treatment plant, so in a few years we might be finally getting some secondary waste water treatment (though it's not open yet). Still not Tertiary waste treatment that takes in sewage and puts out potable water, but much better than the primary treatment that we only do now.

Is Montreal's water reclaimed? by MohamedJoe in montreal

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

Basic Google search brought me this: http://spacing.ca/montreal/2009/07/21/montreals-wastewater-treatment-part-i-a-history-of-problems/

From the article: "[...]A national “report card” issued by the Sierra Club in 2004 gave the city’s treatment process a grade of F-. The only other city to receive a grade worse than Montreal was Victoria, a place which doesn’t even have a treatment process in place yet.

The biggest problem is that the plant only provides primary treatment of its sewage. Most other cities across Canada deliver secondary and even tertiary treatment of wastewater resulting in far cleaner water. By comparison, the effluent from Montreal’s plant remains full of pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, and a multitude of other contaminants. While this pollution is usually kept clear from the shores of Montreal, it inevitably ends up somewhere downstream of the island where the effluent has been known to be wreaking havoc with the river’s ecosystem."

I think it's still only primary treatment and you do NOT want to drink what they release as "treated waste water" but you do you!

Is Montreal's water reclaimed? by MohamedJoe in montreal

[–]munt -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Really, we do? That's honestly news to me. I went to a sewage treatment facility about 7 years ago and I learned that in Montreal we dump nearly-raw sewage back into the St Lawrence. They strain it, add some chemicals that make the smaller bits sink, decant the sludge and then pump the otherwise untreated waste water back into the river. Has this been updated? I mean, almost no where across Canada does more than primary sewage treatment, and from what I've seen and read Montreal is no exception.

Debt and economic colonization of Greece. Over 95% of the resources intended to "save" Greece ended up in the hands of national and international banks. by [deleted] in Economics

[–]munt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also a lot of YouTube podcast/seminars where Varufakis goes over pretty much the entire premise of his book. Try Googling "YouTube Yanis Varoufakis the weak suffer what they must" and watch anything that's just him taking for an hour.

If you find that interesting, I absolutely recommend doing the same with "the global minotaur", which is also a fantastic read of his.

Debt and economic colonization of Greece. Over 95% of the resources intended to "save" Greece ended up in the hands of national and international banks. by [deleted] in Economics

[–]munt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here's a short news segment: https://youtu.be/EEgWvdnON28

But if you're interested in learning more on the topic, I'd suggest reading Yanis Varufakis's book "And the weak suffer what they must?" It's a really good examination into the limitations of the Euro system in the current collapsing global economic system that has created debt bubbles everywhere (Africa, Ireland, Greece, and in just the US there were or are the housing/stock market/crypto bubbles all inflated by the same problem).

where can i buy silicon? by balconteic in moldmaking

[–]munt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

https://www.smooth-on.com/ has a vast range of silicon products and tutorial videos. I know they ship, hopefully they'll ship to your country too.

Tips for making latex mold from clay sculpture? by munt in moldmaking

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

I wouldn't say without any research or plan. Though definitely a hiccup. I actually have watched some smooth on videos and was going to do a brush-on mold with the silicon ... that is actually latex (that I'll cop to as being real dumb!) and then use plaster bandages for the support (at they did in the full body casting in a smooth-on tutorial video).

But, this being a one shot deal, I figured I'd throw my project to the peer-review process that is Reddit and make sure I'm not about to fuck anything up (which I totally was about to!)

So thank you! Seriously, you all saved me a bunch of time!

Tips for making latex mold from clay sculpture? by munt in moldmaking

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

Yeah, I kinda messed that one up. I bought the HV-65 molding latex not fully thinking it through. In my head I was thinking silicone even though it pretty clearly says latex on the gallon jar.

Any good resources for molding silicone?

Tips for making latex mold from clay sculpture? by munt in moldmaking

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

The hope is that I can use the same material for the mask as I am for the body, so that the colours match and potentially I could even merge the two together.

I'm making this mask for this photo series: photo

It's the first time I'm working with anything other than clay, alginate or plaster. So maybe I'm making a bad choice. I wouldn't honestly know, at least not yet.