The difference between a pro and a hobbyist is the money, not the experience.

I wish I could get a Van Gogh for only a few thousand.

Then it sounds like the $1,500 is justified as your wife isn’t being cheap.

Why doesn’t your wife learn how to do it, then?

It kind of is, but she’s making her argument poorly.

If you want a professional photography shoot, there is a minimal expectation on equipment above whatever your phone can do. That equipment costs significant money to own.

There is also the money to pay for someone’s time for the shoot, which she argues for poorly. Even though photography is a hobby, selling services is a commitment of time to reach a certain minimum standard. That time is worth something.

This feels like someone who is having a crisis as the job they thought they would be doing isn’t the job they are actually doing. There is an internal assumed competence and reality doesn’t match that at all.

It depends on the bank. All my banks want everything to be digital and pushes everything to be handled online. This includes signing.

I’d question what bank you have.

I don’t know, in part because I don’t know what your job is. You seem to be processing a lot of emotions based on not being a good personality fit with the coworkers of your job, but I don’t know what your actually doing outside of some form of skilled labor.

What’s transcribing the speech to text?

Talk to people, like in person?

Yoshi.

I like Yoshi.

If you start to bring up parallel universes, there may be a parallel universe where Petra Parker goes to shitty school.

The animated Spider-Man movies has Miles go through an internal crisis where he tries to flunk out of one of these schools. Maybe Petra does the same or maybe chooses/doesn’t take the test to get in.

You can also have an alternate world where Petra gets excluded for some reason. Maybe the NYC bankruptcy goes worse and these schools vanish or a mayor puts a fee to them which Petra can’t pay for.

I don’t think people have done the numbers, in part because he isn’t in “everything”, just overexposed.

The problem is that the schedule for release usually isn’t under the actor’s control and you can have several major projects with large marketing efforts one after another.

If you don’t like the actor and frequently watch media that includes movie or television promotion, that actor will be on constantly since they are promoting several major projects in a row.

The magnet schools in New York City were founded well before school rankings were published, with most of them founded before 1950.

I’ve met several students from these schools and they’ve mostly spoke about these high schools with praise. They got to go to a school with intellectual peers instead of being an outlier.

The USA doesn’t have a system of magnet schools. Some parts of the country, including New York City, do.

New York City’s school district has several high schools that you have to a test to get into that high school or have an artistic portfolio. These tests are very competitive and the high schools are geared to help funnel the brightest of New York City’s youth into college. There is no tuition to get in and these high schools are seen as a gateway to the best colleges in the world.

Most school districts in the USA don’t have these public magnet schools.

Do you feel externally validated right now?

I’ve seen a lot of cases where people are using the toilet as a urinal. That seems to be where most of the piss is coming from.

That said, if someone can’t use a urinal and needs to use a toilet, I don’t know why they aren’t sitting down on the toilet. I can’t think of a condition which in which you can’t use a urinal but you can stand and pee onto a toilet seat.

Music companies have a revenue sharing deal with YouTube. Does it have one with lbry?

Some try for things in their lifetime. A major issue is generally Congress.

The problem is that a lot of large places don’t want to accept cash. It is easy for small places to use cash because the owner is likely running the register. When you get to mega corporations, it is easier and cheaper for them to pay the credit card fees.