Oh no, the homeless?! 😱 Did they staggered while walking and shouted cccooooooiiiiiins, at least in your head?

Good thing you were looking out for that child.

Thank you, I enjoyed that thoroughly.

Was immer noch zu teuer ist fuer eine Baeckerei. Ich arbeite im Labor mit geeichten Waagen von Kern. Eine simple Lebensmittelwaage von Kern (1g bei 6000g Maximalgewicht) kostet geeicht ca. 350€.

https://www.kern-sohn.com/shop/de/produkte/industriewaagen/food/ffn-6k1ipn/

Aber man kann natuerlich beliebig viel Geld fuer alles moegliche ausgeben.

Ah, I love how incredibly stupid and careless the Buffy "remaster" was made. Let me talk about that in two pictures:

Hell, why not show parts of the set, including the crew. Color grading was completely skipped for some scenes, which derails the whole narrative, as they're now seemingly taking place during day, for example. It's amazing.

You know what, that's a pretty cool hat.

Honestly, if you got rid of it due to Elmo being a scumbag and a fascist, props to you. We should absolutely talk about that. I would have also accepted getting rid of it due to Teslas generally being garbage, but that would get an extra nod.

Grundsaetzlich loeblich, aber hier geht es um aktive Sterbehilfe im Krankheitsfall, speziell um Betroffene, die nicht in einer psychischen Krise stecken.

Ich wuerde nun annehmen, da postet man ggf. auch Links zu Organisationen, die genau diesen Vorgang unterstuetzen.

Do I spot a Coprinus there?

... and being smug about it. What a fucker.

It's absolutely not. You can take perfectly fine, artsy photographs with a bunch of cheap gels and Chinese import lights.

You'll be shocked to learn that people took fantastic pictures before an $8.6k M.ZUIKO lens came into existence.

Go ahead and tell me what a setup the likes of what Evans or Miller had at the time would cost today and stop putting art behind a paywall. Stock photography and repeatable product pictures are expensive, but that's not art.

Professional photographers have expensive equipment because it makes certain shots commercially feasible, not because it's impossible to create art without money.

Yes, that's exactly what I said. In ye olden times everyone would shout REINHEITSGEBOT and a decent chunk of modern beers would have been impossible to market, which is pretty funny since even Germans acknowledge their neighbors in Belgium having the odd decent beer, but then seem to completely forget that Kriek exists. But no one has to venture out of the holy land to see how silly the modern interpretation of the Reinheitsgebot was, Gose was allegedly invented in Goslar, after all.

Unless you follow the advice of cooking the sauce for a couple of hours, after which all that will be left of the veggies will be basically fiber.

To be fair, when cooking a sauce (or stew, soup etc.), some of the nutrients will enter the sauce (vs. cooking water that will later be thrown away), but preserving nutrients / vitamins etc. while cooking still means reducing heat / cooking time.

Please don't cook vegetables to oblivion and assume this will fulfill your kids nutritional needs. Not talking about you in particular, just making sure here.

How does it hold up? I'd be worried that it would slip out under load - I always get the hotglue - filled heat shrink tube, super versatile stuff.

I find sales numbers to be a very poor proportional indicator of quality. Very much like the books on popular bestseller lists are usually trash, and often harmful.

Germany has prided itself on its beer and the nonsensical Reinheitsgebot for a while, but we're living in the post craft-beer era now, where the hype has faded, not everything is an 8.8% IPA anymore and it's actually possible to get your hands on great beers pretty much everywhere.

Let's face it, AB-InBev has bought many larger German breweries and continues to produce its garbage there. I wouldn't look to any megabrewery if I wanted a quality beer.

If we're talking about good German beers that are not overly exotic (i. e. you can buy them almost everywhere in a regular supermarket vs. a dedicated store), look at Maisel & Friends, Insel Brauerei, Lemke, Brlo, Nittenauer, Stoertebeker. There is plenty of more obscure stuff available, but then we're back to speciality beers or limited runs.

There is only a handful of known cases where people suffer from acute kidney injury after consuming psychedelic mushrooms.

Looking at the published cases, I know of 3. In the first case, it turned out the patient had actually consumed Cortinarius, which contains an "amatoxin", a harmful substance found in Amanita and (similarly) im Cortinarius mushrooms.

In the second case, the woman claims she only ingested psychedelic mushrooms, which unfortunately were no longer available for lab testing, but mentioned she did not experience any psychedelic effects.

The third case is a teenager who did in fact consume P. cubensis, which were available later on for lab testing. His buddies consumed the same mushrooms and did not have any issues. There might be an unknown predisposition, or a suspected cross-contamination.

I am not anyone's doctor, but across the long history of mushroom usage and given the known facts about the cases we do know about (actual Cortinarius ingestion, no psychedelic effects etc.), mushrooms can be considered rather safe to consume, if they are grown and prepared properly. This is consistent with current research, i. e. not just a personal opinion of mine.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6322052/

https://journals.lww.com/jasn/fulltext/10.1681/asn.20223311s1895a~a-rare-case-of-magic-mushroom-psilocybin-related-aki-and

I think eventually, you're saying the same thing. If you want to shoot professionally, it makes sense to get equipment to save time and have a manner of control over reproducibility. That's also why the local metal shop gets the $200 carbide endmills vs. grinding HSS blanks by hand. I did state that already.

I'll still disagree with two things. You absolutely did say "art is expensive", and stock photography will not produce a lot of art. It can be shot artfully, sure, but that's more of a word choice and eventually rather equates to craftsmanship. I'm sure there is at least one stock photographer out there, producing art all the time. Same with any amazing shot that happens to get uploaded to a stock library not becoming any less meaningful. But that's not common and simply not how the process works, claiming anything else would be disingenuous. I'm not out to disparage the craft or the skill of anyone involved, that's a completely different topic.

Finally, I was actually absolutely thinking of the Contax 1. Now, don't adjust for inflation. Why would you do that? This camera auctions for around $200, $250 today. Did something happen in the past 86 years that now makes it impossible to shoot the same, great pictures with that camera? I don't think so. Yes, shooting has become a lot more convenient, a lot more consistent (some people would argue that's a bad thing), but surely it's not the tool then that enabled these photographs. That was my angle.

(Please let's not get hung up on the particular camera model, availability of film etc., it's an example to make a point)

That's a pretty normal picture if you have regular, social interactions. What's weird is posting that anywhere outside your circle of friends and the picture becoming the topic of public debate after one of the subjects allegedly shot someone.

That being said, and I say this as a married, retired old fuck - that guy definitely fucks.

The cherry on top is the warning about the PowerShell team cooking up their own version of a download command with an incompatible syntax, but still calling it curl.

They actually joke about it in the show, screaming "Aah, a crocodile", and it's just some woman working there. Same with the director being a lion, I believe.

The exhibit has turtles and penguins.

As someone who often lifts a finger, types out the first two sentences of a comment and then just resigns: thanks for the well-written comment.