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@buler good post. A family member of mine (sounds like) just had a similar surgery last month. They are doing fine right now, but the first week or two seemed like it sucked. Thankfully the prognosis is good, but in part because of checking their PSA as you note. Hope your recovery is quick and smooth and indeed, things being normal is a sort of amazing that’s easy to overlook.

By the time the jeans are scheduled to be delivered some time in March or April of next year I’m sure I’ll have to pay something on them - that is if I can end up getting an order in. Not sure how motivated I still am - this is a pair much like I was hoping for but at the same time I have more than I need.

I did. They told me to use buyee, and I told them the issue they said to talk to Buyee. 🤷‍♂️

I’m trying to. I ordered thru zen market on Raze and then Zen Market refunded me saying they were out of stock. But Raze is showing that they are not. Two proxies causing headaches from 2 different shops now.

I agree OSBs response really seems like a missed opportunity. I’ll note two things - probably they actually should hire a PR team - and not using a photographer saves them basically neglible dollars a year, the way that industry has gone. Using a bunch of customer photos for free promotional value shouldn’t be a point of pride for brand.

Ok denim wizards - Crossovers shop is telling me to use Buyee. Buyee says that their website isn’t supported - any clue what I’m doing wrong?

I disagree. Perhaps it’s the old journalist in me, but some skepticism is always warranted when an incomplete online story catches fire. A letter from the FTC is obviously concerning, but there is some grey area in the law that’s defined, and it’s quite possible that they’ve been doing the same thing for quite awhile and it was okay under a previous administration, and now it isn’t. These laws written vaguely as such leave a lot of discretion for enforcement. This isn’t to say they don’t need to comply, and that they should absolutely be transparent about their sourcing - I’m just saying that suspicion ≠ is not confirmation, and I feel like - at least given from what I know in the letter - they should at be given the benefit of the doubt for the period that that the FTC gives them to comply (whatever that actually means in practice). Anyways, it sucks either way, but there’s too much unknown in there at this point. What if, for example, the leather is American, the sole is American, the sole stitching is American, but the stitching on the upper is Dominican. It’s mostly USA, right? I wouldn’t label it MiUSA myself, but the way the law is written arguably leaves room for that, or did. And I do completely agree that it’s not hard to be transparent, and they should if they are not. That said, this can all get pretty complicated because almost everything now is somehow a global product. Even jeans have cotton from one country and thread from potentially somewhere else and hardware from who knows with metal from who knows. I digress - I’m not defending OSB. I just want to see a little more information first.

That’s moiré - it’s probably not sufu related in particular but rather related to the camera or the way the image is being sized. Anyways, pretty common. The shirt looks great.

^ same, how is that still visible? Ha.

Droopy ass is why I sold my SS pair. I like to think I’m actually not that picky on fits. But it only got worse with a few wears. Hip flare? Whatever. Diaper butt - who cares, these are jeans. Little bit of camel toe bunching in the front. Meh, whatever. But the SS droopy ass was something else, the fabric was just so drapey and the rise so high and elastic, and that was sizing down one from my 13.7 oz pair. Oh well.

Contrast enhancement looks to be quite common last time I checked - which admittedly was some years ago. As for Ai being all marketing fluff, agree there’s a hype machine reminiscent of the crypto/NFT boom. It’s gross. but LLMs are also rapidly changing many things in a lot of fields. To personalize it, if AI helps in leading to more specialized and targeted treatments that can eliminate the rest of my son’s brain tumor - which is possible - I will absolutely sing its praises. It was already modern tech development that played a large role in why he’s still alive today. Or if it leads to something similar for someone else, same thing. And it very well may. AI generative imagery is also based on the theft of artists from everywhere is rapidly leading to an internet full of even shittier (and nonsensical) ads while killing many parts of the photography industry, where I started my career and still participate some. So my feelings are complicated but if I had to choose I’d take advances in healthcare which are real and which techno detractors have not yet answered to in a satisfactory way. For an anti Kingsnorthian sort of take I think it’s worth a read. Personally sort of fall in between this writer who is too high on it and Kingsnorth who writes with the same sort of comprehensive blinders he had when he was an environmental writer. Though I’m still a fan. https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-peculiar-persistence-of-the-ai

A few things - the resolution is so high you need to handhold shutter speeds 3x or 4x the focal length to get reliably sharp images, which in real use mitigates the high iso performance. It’s just too much resolution for a camera designed for a sort of quick handheld shooting. The pixel binning feature doesn’t meaningfully reduce the visibility of camera shake, it’s not the same as a native lower resolution sensor. Leicas are always finicky but the firmware bugs in the m11 series are notorious at this point, cameras bricking and freezing is not uncommon. Magenta cast in the raw files as default (and color in general) is not to my preference. There are benefits - the internal storage, usb charging, lighter body - as I said a lot of people love them. In the end for me it’s a value proposition - it’s just not worth it - I like the native output from the m10 series better and I don’t feel like my large prints suffer from lack of fine detail, and I have a Hasselblad for when I think resolution is really important.

I used to use a pair of m6s, regrettably sold all my 35mm stuff in 2014-2015 as film just wasn’t viable for me anymore (the developing and scanning or printing was not accessible or cost effective and the quality argument became irrefutably lost to digital). Where I am now, strangely it feels viable again, good home scanning is way easier, and my local shop has an old m6 for a decent price, I’m tempted. But the m10d is in effect really no different, minus the advance - just the output is. If you do decide to try a digital M I’d advise to skip the m11 series, but plenty of people love them.

The SE page is the true bane of this forum user experience for me. Nothing to do with SE, just how the site operates.

Since I’m here I’ll share my Leica m10-d. This is, for my purposes, the best digital camera ever made. I could go on about why but I won’t. Maybe tied with the m10 monochrome (which I also use). I got this awhile back for a great deal and it had barely any shutter actuations on it. A gem of a find. It’s always laying around the house somewhere because I tend to use it every day or close to it. There are newer cameras with better specs etc but they’re not better cameras.