Notices by NeonSnake (neonsnake@kolektiva.social)

@hakan_geijer obvs I will! ;)

@hakan_geijer I'll probably pass on tamales - difficult to get the masa, here, and I'm not *quite* confident in my skills yet.

Yes, though, to enchiladas - thank you - feels like a very "layer them in a foil tray" dish, which is what I'm looking for (like, as a European, I'm looking for equivalent to being to make dishes of shepherd's pie or lasagne or whatever that someone can just pop in the oven for 30 mins whilst doing other bits).

Also, yeah, a few dishes of soup and a bag of tortillas with some "pop these in at the end" feels do-able too

@hakan_geijer @KevinCarson1 @waitworry

I'd be curious as well.

The "Gray Tribe" thing is *relatively* new to me, in as much as I recognise the term, but have never had the inclination to look much further into it.

I *think* I get it - looks very much like that guy from EFF (? I've blanked on his name) that went off the rails about how "wokeness" is ruining tech and the "important conversations around it", but that impression is based more on vibes than anything solid, right now.

@hakan_geijer oof! - thanks for that, was wondering what I'd missed (a lot, evidently!)

@hakan_geijer lmao I remember being first week or so of April 2020?

I am *built* for this shit, right? Hairy-chested motherfucking cans and making the best of it, yeah?

Cracked open a can of corned beef or something similar, and cut open my finger while doing so.

I was not, as it turned out, built for this shit after all lol

@hakan_geijer For sure! Again, I would go back to "your photos are well composed"

Beyond that, it's up to you, and I'd guess there's a bunch of us who are willing to help *if* you want to add that to your capacity - but if not, mate, that's some good shit!

@hakan_geijer Editing is a mindset; I used to enjoy editing over a coffee or a glass of something nice after a day out of shooting, but it's very much a "second stage", I started with film, so it was natural.

In terms of equipment, I had a very old second hand-DLSR, and gradually moved down to mirror-less, and then to point-and-shoots. Hauling around lenses and bodies became less and less attractive to me.

I'm currently rocking an LX-100 (second-hand) and the TZ-100 (new, at the time).

These two very easily cover all my needs, whilst sitting in a bag, and can be charged from a USB port. A little bit of dicking about, and I can perform edits on my phone, or wait until I get home to do more major stuff. I'd say we're well past the point of needing a bag full of lenses, unless we're doing something professional.

Second hand camera equipment isn't hard - there's a decent amount of "oh, shit they bought out the LX-200, I need that one instead!" types that you can pick up an LX-100 off for cheap (for example) - but, again, I'd always say, don't spend money on something unless you're bloody sure you'll use it!

if it's something you think you might want to get into, then try to - if you can - grab a cheap camera and work with it for a few months, then maybe expand from there.

@hakan_geijer All photos are biased 😉

When I occasionally do my "on this day" sessions on here, I'm picking a multiple of 4 (for fedi posting reasons) from a bunch of photos that I took and decided were good enough to process and keep, that were themselves a subset of *every* photo I took. Like, I'm showing you 8 out of - sometimes - 500 or so, most of which went in the digital bin for being rubbish, and the others don't represent what I'm trying to show about (most recently) Amsterdam, say.

I'd also very strongly encourage the idea that the "moment" is personal to you.

Like: if you're taking a mountain shot and you feel warm, but the camera (on its settings) takes a "cold" shot, then use software to warm it back up until it represents what it *meant* to you at the time. Your eyes don't work the same way as the software in your camera, which is just trying to grab 50% gray, or whatever!

In terms of equipment, this is always a tricky one - cameras are *bloody expensive*. As with anything, I'd always advise to start with something cheap in case it turns out to be a fad that you're not gonna keep up.

I personally like Panasonics, but I've just looked up the price of a used TZ100 and it's 50% more than I think I bought mine for when new 😳

@hakan_geijer Phones nowadays (and for several years tbf) have had enough physical technology in them to easily stand up against the decent cameras of yesteryear.

Not just megapixels (basically sensor size), but the actual lenses are - within the bounds of physics - as good as a consumer grade digital camera.

It's obviously *very* dependant on what type of photography you're doing, but landscape like this set of yours is very well within the reach of your phone, where you essentially want the whole photo to be in focus.

And in all honesty, composition *always* trumps sharpness, depth of field, dynamic range and all the other technical bollocks anyway 😉

@hakan_geijer They're always the best shots!

Golden rule of photography: No amount of getting up at 5am because sunrise is at 5.48am precisely, setting up yer tripod, focus point etc will *ever* trump your mate who went "that looks nice" and pulls his phone out.

Your shots are really well composed

@hakan_geijer Obvious like is obvious, but that sunset photo is stunning, as is the one with the fog. Loving the foreground interest on the latter.

@folkerschamel @NicolaElle @samuel @SallyStrange @steve@s.yelvington.com

Mate, I don't know how many people need to tell you the same thing.

People are in favour of their admin blocking threads, because it massively reduces the chances of them getting spanked in the face by repeated racist/transphobic/homophobic/misogynistic/fascist insults.

Now, COULD they do it themselves? Sure. But by that point, they've already seen it.

Now, for the likes of me - and assuming your picture is you - as a middle-aged cisgendered white bloke, what will happen if I see something horrifically bigoted, is that I block the individual/instance, have a few moments of distaste, and then I get on with my day because I'm not directly and personally impacted by it.

No matter how much of an ally or whatever I consider myself, I simply cannot be impacted by (eg) white supremacy in the same way as someone who isn't white. I can be angry, I can be ashamed of my fellow white people, I can feel all sorts of sadness, but at the end of the day, I'm still white.

But by the time someone who *isn't* white has seen the white-supremacy post, and blocks the person/instance, it's already too late. Now, I don't know, and will not presume to know, how it makes them feel, but I rather suspect that they feel pretty shit for a hell of a lot longer than I do.

What you're advocating for is allowing those people to feel personal discomfort/distress, so that the likes of you and I don't have to go to the effort of, oh, I dunno, joining threads and finding the decent and interesting people ourselves?

Seriously?

@fabio @greenWhale @SallyStrange @aud @aral @eatyourglory @nonlinear

Mate. This isn't a difficult thing to grasp.

You're arguing in favour of people being put into uncomfortable situations, and putting the emphasis on *them* to get themselves out of it.

Other people are arguing that they'd rather not be put into that situation in the first place, especially because they've entered a building which explicitly says - on the outside, before they walked in - "we don't let in bigots" - and feel that that plaque should be honoured.

To then turn around - especially after the event - and say "welp, I think you need to toughen up, kiddo - I'm letting them in anyway - but, y'know, I'm here for you ❤️ and will defend you against the people I've advocated to be let in the front door - now say thank you"...

I mean, It's not...well, it's not the best approach, is it?

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@HeavenlyPossum

"Starvation is rare among forager societies"

I'm sure some smart alec will come up with "natural disasters" as a counterpoint.

And that might be true. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it was - although I've little idea how common it was, to be very fair.

The situation we're in now, though, is a little different - we're perfectly able to help people who suffer from "natural disasters"...but we don't.

So we've gone from "nature is against us" which is not great - to "our own species is against us" - which is much worse.

@MakBerberovic I think that's a fair comment, I *was* dancing around it, to an extent, because saying "It's because our leaders utter fucking evil cunts" (excuse my industrial-strength language) is hard to say to someone, sometimes, when they need some hope.

I was chatting online with an acquaintance last night, a friend on the periphery of my circles who I don't talk to that often, and they asked me about the Israel/Palestine conflict, prompted by the mess that is the UK parliament right now.

(Now - before anyone even *thinks* about suggesting to me that they should already know everything about it, they're *incredibly* ill with CFS, and have been bed-bound for several years. Anything above day-to-day survival is hard for them. That's not to say that they've ignored it or are ignorant of it, but they've not kept up with it to the same extent that a lot of us have)

The bit that they didn't understand, once I'd given them my basic understanding of the history that led to it, is why our "leaders" aren't united in utterly condemning Israel's actions as out and out genocide.

And I truly had no answer. Not even a "Look, this reason is clearly wrong and immoral, but this feeds into it. Like, people are so petrified of being accused of being Nazis, that they'll reflexively support Israel. Or, the only bigotry that the right-wing will denounce is antisemitism, because their whole identity is caught up in the so-called glory of WWII" and so on. It all sounded so hollow, even to me.

I couldn't come up with *anything* that sounded even vaguely plausible - no matter how much I disagree with it myself - that wasn't transparently and obviously utter bollocks.

Between this, plenty of other stuff, and Covid, my faith in humanity is at it's utter lowest right now.

@hakan_geijer @sidereal @CedarTea

It's a free market exchange.

Contentiously, perhaps, I would further say that if I pulled out a crisp €100 note and you accepted it for your wooden figure, we still haven't *necessarily* (strong emphasis on the necessarily) done a capitalism.

It's plausible, and indeed likely, that we've performed a grey market transaction.

@hakan_geijer @CedarTea

Picture the regular Friday night drinks crew at the pub.

You're all good mates, and you don't *reaaaally* pay too much attention to whose round it is, and whether on any given Friday it's all worked out evenly.

But it becomes noticeable after a while if someone isn't chipping in.

Ideally - the opening statement is to make sure they're okay - are they having money troubles, etc? Can we help?

But eventually - if they're genuinely just freeloading - they become a little uncomfortable, they know they're being talked about it. A few pointed remarks here and there.

Little pushes to get them back on track, before more drastic measures (exclusion) are taken.

That kind of thing.

@hakan_geijer

100%, that's what I meant earlier by:

"If they are all snapped up by rich types, that's a different matter, and things can be done to...discourage...such behaviour."

Markets that don't involve at least the possibility of Big Chris from number 18 having a quiet word in your shell-like are...suspect, and reliant on scaring off Big Chris (and his mates) by threat of police. At which point, we're talking about capitalist markets, not freed markets.

@CedarTea

@hakan_geijer @CedarTea

I chose food processor for a few reasons, btw, just in case this helps inform the discussion.

From a personal level, I genuinely would be far less capable of looking after myself, without mine (I have an amount of loss of function in my fingers, making chopping very difficult, but not impossible)

SO: it wouldn't be impossible. So, it tips into the "nice to have, but not 100% necessary" - it's not *quite* on the same level as my eye-glasses, or a wheelchair, but it's *important to me*.

Also - trivially obviously - they require manufacture. It's not like my apple tree where I have more apples than I can use, and therefore don't care if you want some. Someone, somewhere (someones plural, in fact) needs to make decisions to manufacture them, with all of the downstream supply chain issues that implies.

And that choice to manufacture the food processor that I've fixated on might involve *not* making something else.

(I'm okay with the assumption that it's not made from plastics that cannot be recycled, and so on, in a non-capitalist world, and would be more modular and robust, and more fixable and so on - I would make those assumptions myself)