msfroh

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[–] msfroh 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I find this funny, since I did a Gimp tutorial back in 2000 (early Gimp 2.x maybe, but maybe still 1.x -- I don't remember that part). I got okay with it.

A friend asked me to do some early photo editing a couple of years later since they'd heard that I was "good at Photoshop". I pointed out that I was actually "mediocre at Gimp". I was plunked down at a computer with a (probably pirated) install of Photoshop and asked to touch up some photos.

I hated it. Nothing was where I expected it to be coming from Gimp. If I recall correctly, I closed Photoshop and just downloaded Gimp for Windows.

It sounds like I might hate Gimp 3.

[–] msfroh 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Huh... That sounds like the 16th century anabaptist argument (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism). This is almost a coherent argument from the sovcits.

Almost.

[–] msfroh 5 points 1 month ago

Poland that that me espresso.

[–] msfroh 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow... Indiewire should find someone who reads their own site to proofread their articles.

If you click on Jeff Bezos's name, it links to other articles mentioning him, like the 2021 article saying that he would step down as CEO of Amazon in 2022, which is what happened. Yet this 2025 article refers to him as "Amazon CEO".

Sure, he still owns a lot of Amazon stock and nobody knows who Andy Jassy is, but getting facts that that wrong is pretty ridiculous.

[–] msfroh 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My PCP got me to do an online questionnaire through ADHD Online.

He thought it was quackery until the pandemic essentially forced him to try sending people down that route. He now trusts the results (and finds it way quicker + cheaper than a referral to an in-state specialist). Basically, your questionnaire takes the place of an in-person interview and gets assessed by a doctor in a low-population state. (I think mine was reviewed by a doctor in North Dakota or something.) I think it was about $90 (out of pocket).

Based on that I was diagnosed with ADHD, depression, and anxiety.

I followed up with my PCP, who got me on a low grade antidepressant. I don't feel depressed or anxious anymore, and it's helped me turn my ADHD into a superpower. (My brain is still all over the place, but I have the confidence to weaponize it.) I'm definitely one of the lucky ones, but that's the journey I took.

[–] msfroh 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] msfroh 8 points 2 months ago

As an Ontarian who was drinking in Belgium in high school, came home for university, moved to Europe for a few years, then moved to the US, I have to say "What?!"

Everywhere else that I've lived has had a far better selection and prices. Also, as someone who doesn't drive and lived in Toronto in my 20s, walking 30 minutes to the nearest Beer Store (I lived at Yonge and Eglinton) and carrying a 2-4 back home in the winter sucked. Everywhere else I've lived, I can buy beer a block away.

[–] msfroh 1 points 3 months ago

False. The Liberals are generally centre-right even within Canada. Your compass is off.

Your Newtonian physics argument is nonsensical and frankly rude.

[–] msfroh 49 points 3 months ago (6 children)

So when you zip some files and then unzip them, some of the bytes are missing? Really?!

[–] msfroh 1 points 3 months ago

Wait... Is that community run by Gerald Holmes?

http://www.l8r.net/geraldholmes.freeyellow.com/ (a 25 year-old, very likely satire site)

[–] msfroh 5 points 3 months ago

I babysat a brother and sister in the early 90s and we played Mousetrap properly after dinner to kill time until bedtime. Worst babysitter ever.

Then I let them stay up past bedtime while we figured out the most cursed modifications/add-ons. Best babysitter ever.

(In truth, I remember that I had talked with the parents beforehand about "stated bedtime" versus "real bedtime".)

[–] msfroh 22 points 3 months ago

Shoulda known better than to drive [Private] to Publix. That's how they get ya.

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