u/amphibbian

Few months ago I had both wisdom teeth extracted on one side in the chair. Considered "traumatic extraction" because they had hooks at the end + multiple assistants needing to hold my head down because the dentist couldn't pull it out to start, but once started, needed to finish.

It was very long, painful and difficult experience.

At the end the Dentist said to just have panadol and Advil, didn't question it.

Fast forward to my boyfriend having a simple x1 tooth extraction, he was given 15 days of codeine strong enough to knock out a horse. Stronger than some of my post surgery meds I've had in the past.

Now I'm no stranger to medical misogyny but this is one of the more blatant example I've been faced with.

I remember calling back with Dry socket and the dentist & told me to wait it out, whereas my boyfriend got a personal unprompted phone call the next 2 days asking how he is, if he has dry socket or if he needs more pain relief.

I just don't understand how the same dentist and clinic and treat me so differently. I'm so angry and no one understands.

Checking my food I touched it, cold and a bit soggy. I explained I'd rather my money back than to eat it and the worker took it back saying that they didn't know I wanted fresh food, so to park and wait around the corner🥲

The new Procreate UX changes have broken so many established workflows.

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Moving something as fundamental as grouping into a submenu on the left side of the Dock is jarring, slower and completely disrupts muscle memory.

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And before anyone says, “It’s only one extra click,” in UX, one extra click is a big deal. For animators and artists repeating the same actions all day, that becomes hundreds or thousands of unnecessary clicks.

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The entire goal of good UX is to minimise steps, not add more.

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I genuinely don’t understand why rolling back isn’t an option, especially when major UX updates usually include transitional workspaces or some level of customisation. It's industry standard.

They’ve increased the number of steps, broken existing workflows and offered no way to revert or customise the layout. I just cannot get behind this change.

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At the absolute minimum, users should be able to choose to to back to the original as roll back.

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I needed one final push to switch to Clip Studio Paint, and apparently this was it.

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UPDATE: Sheriff took his car.

8 weeks ago I won VCAT case for defective concrete boundary around my house. Looks good at first glance, but drains don't work and it pools water towards the house.

No legal representation. No court costs. Just fees for inspection reports.

Cash job. No formal invoice or quote. Handshake deal.

Concreter kept making promises to come back and fix it, led me on for months before I threatened legal action. Got laughed in my face. This wasn't the first time he's gotten away with something like this.

He didn't show up to the hearing. A lot of people warned me I'd never see the money.

... So then I googled the next step and I filed monetary order with Magistrates and summoned him to an oral examination. This cross examines his assets before the court.

Around that same time I also filed a warrant to seize property.

8 weeks later, Sheriff knocked on his door with the civil debt.

He was warned about all of this. He ignored everything. Cue giant emails of him trying to re-open the case, offers to give me the original cost of the job back, and accusations of bloated repair costs.

Well it was too late. Courts don't like people waiting until enforcement escalates to respond. He tried to adjourn the oral examanination, and failed to show up to that hearing too.

Which allowed me to issue a warrant for his arrest.

So now refusing to show up to x2 legal proceedings, failure to comply, has him with an active warrant for his arrest and property seizure.

The sheriff called me the other morning to tell me they sighted his car and are about to tow it. They will auction it and pay me out from that.

All together it cost me roughly $2k for professional reports, skip tracing and service of court documents. Which I get paid back with interest.

Court fees were $0

(aside from filing for warrant which was a few hundred that I'll also get back)

And so I get the cost of the ORIGINAL job back + repair cost + damages + ancillary expenses. Aswell as some nice interest at 10% per annum on 26k.

If you have been done dirty by contractor or business owner, and afraid that a cash job or court costs will blow you out, please see this and consider VCAT.

It was a matter of putting together inspection reports + evidence and that's all I needed. Im a mid twenties graphic designer with no formal legal experience. All the help I needed was found online from VCAT & GOV websites.

I'm used to using my hand that's holding the pen to pinch Rotate and zoom the canvas.

It feels godly Un-natural for me to reach across to a navigation window to move.

I also miss rotating / whilst zooming. I can't figure out how to do both at the same time

How did you transition from iPad and procreate to CSP without a tablet screen?

I'm trying to improve my posture! (hence ditching iPad!)