u/madmelomaniac

I took some photos of the night sky with my phone and I'd like to know if I could have a better result with other settings than the current ones I use :

- "pro mode" from my phone camera ;

- long exposition (maybe 30sec) ;

- I don't have a tripod atm but I will and until then I put my phone on a table with only the button reachable from below, then I stop touching it.

My phone is a Xiaomi 13T pro.

I'm not a photographer, not even amateur. I just love stargazing.

Does anyone have advice ?

I can provide the photos I already took yesterday if you want to see where I'm at for now

(Sorry if I'm breaking the community's rules by posting this, I don't know where the line is drawn when it comes to asking questions 😅)

Je viens d'apprendre l'existence du site oups.gouv.fr en corrigeant ma déclaration d'impôts et je suis absolument morte de rire. Pourquoi ? Pourquoi ne pas avoir mis un truc plus sérieux genre droitalerreur,gouv,fr ? C'est tellement goofy.

I've seen a lot of videos on YouTube about how the Bush administration killed the education system in the USA with its "No child left behind" policy, and how it provoked a literacy crisis all across the country in the later.

Kids graduate without knowing how to read accordingly, whole books are not mandatory in the curriculum anymore, etc.

Is it exagerated online?

Is it really all across the country or only the poorest states maybe?

Can you see it yourself in everyday life if you don't have children or aren't a teacher? Like are some of you cashiers, waiters etc. and witness it daily? Just made me think, are some of you waiters and have seen young people struggling to read the menu??? Because I've seen videos of a guy handling a little piece of paper with something writen on it to highschoolers and most of them couldn't read it out loud without scattering at every single sillable. Well, then I saw another video of a way younger girl that wasn't able to read her mother's handwriting but could read the exact same sentence writen on a phone. So maybe these highschoolers had the same problem but even that is still scary as HELL.

I'm honestly really worried if that's the future of the leading world power.

The phenomenom doesn't seem to be globalized to other countries tho. Not in Europe, at least. But it is still pretty concerning.

(Context: I'm French and my source is mostly Casey Simpson's YouTube channel T.T)

Pour vos posts sur des communautés internationales, vous écrivez :

- en français et laissez Reddit traduire

- en français puis vous postez un copier-coller d'une traduction

- ou en anglais par vous-mêmes ?

Parce que je me demande si tous les français de Reddit sont quasi bilingues, si je suis delulu sur mon niveau en anglais, ou si les traducteurs sont devenus bien meilleurs aujourd'hui que je ne le pensais x)

C'est sûrement un subtile mélange des trois

My bestfriend doesn't like New Girl !!! And it's killing me

I've known him for 7 years now. So he trusts my taste and my judgement. I tried to watch the show with him multiple times, his ex also loved it and tried to convince him with me but he never got into it. It has nothing to do with his ex btw, I'm not cruel, he simply thinks it's more often cringy than funny. A point I can grasp since he first agreed to watch it around 2022, and I would imagine it had already been a little bit outdated. I think Jess really annoys him too

He did say he wanted to give it another shot, but skipping the first season. I told him it wasn't a bad idea because it's kind of like the Office. I didn't really like the first season until I first finished the whole show.

But I don't know if he'd enjoy Re-Launch (s2ep1) tho, as it mostly is a continuation of Season 1.

So maybe from Katie (s2ep2) ? The beginning of Jess' "Sam era" feels like an adequat fresh start

Let me know if you have any idea lol I feel like I'm rumbling and over explaining (its almost 6am where I live and heat is making me crazy) but the question still stands and context matters here 😂

Edit to clarify: he does love cringey tv shows. But he thinks the ratio isn't balanced enough in New Girl first szn. He actually laughs at later jokes, which makes him want to try the show again

I'm rererewatching the show, currently watching "The Cubicle" (s6-ep12) and Winston gives Cece a buzzer that says "Bull" when you trigger it for her home office and I never understood why they all laugh. Am I missing something? Or is it funny just because it's nonsensical?

Hello,

I'm currently on sick leave since november and there's no way to know when i'll get back to work. So, I'm obviously bored as hell. I've tried a lot of different hobbies : Legos = too expensive, crochet = not for me lol, gardening = too complicated because of my wheelchair, and so on.

I love visual arts and I always liked drawing, but I'm not very talented and kind of a perfectionist, which gets frustrating. (btw if you've got any tip regarding this, i'll take it too lol)

So I figured I could enjoy collage, since it doesn't really require any solid drawing skills. I also never really did collage (except maybe in school) so I think it could soothe me to start something from the very beginning.

Do you have any advice ? Like, what type of paper should I use to stick on? What type of glue? Where can I find cute pics, is it still a thing to collect newspaper and magazines? Is it better for a beginner to practice on paper or on some kind of software?

Edit: about newspaper and magazines, I feel like most of them are kinda ugly and not very illustrated, and when they are it's often some pic of the mayor's latest public appearence or random popstar gossip

Désolé, j'ai pas connaissance d'un r/AskCat x)

Vous auriez une idée de pourquoi mon idiot de chat préfère boire dans la gamelle de ma chienne ?

C'est exactement le même modèle de gamelle, les deux sont surélevées sur un pied (celle du chien davantage), on change leur eau à la même fréquence. Seule différence : leur position dans la maison pour éviter que la chienne pique dans la gamelle du chat.

Mais ce petit con préfère boire l'eau de ma chienne.

En soi, c'est pas grave. Mais ce qui m'inquiète c'est qu'elle est beaucoup dans la protection de ressources, elle lui grogne dessus si elle le voit s'approcher de croquettes. Elle s'en fiche un peu de l'eau mais j'ai peur qu'un jour elle s'énerve parce qu'elle le voit boire et qu'elle croit qu'il prend sa nourriture.

Edit: ce qui m'inquiète le plus, en vrai, c'est que mon chat risque de crever l'oeil à ma chienne si elle vient le gronder 🤣 Sachant que de temps en temps Môssieur préfère aussi les croquettes pour chien (c'est les mêmes ingrédients. Quel petit con)

(Silly ass title. Don't mind me. I didn't know what else to say)

Hi, first of all and for context : I'm French, we don't even have Waffle House here.

But I watch a lot of american youtubers (such as Kurtis Conner, JT reacts, Chad Chad, Michelle Mana, brookeshark etc) and I've heard several times that people often fist fight at Waffle House and it seems like it's common knowledge all across the US

But.... Genuinely... Why is that? 😭

(Edited for typo)