Wow that must be a US thing then, NHS in the UK definitely doesn’t send unqualified midwives into the field!

Aren’t midwives, like, experts in childbirth tho?

I looked at how much my 128GB DDR4 costs and holy shit £900. Timed my build well I feel with the 3080Ti.

Jesus christ if you image search it there is a slop avalanche with like a dozen variants with him wearing different clothes and slightly different houses etc. All reposted woth slightly different wording.

Gaming. It has completely replaced flatscreen gaming for me. Playing FPS on a screen feels so ridiculous to me now.

I recently lost out on some work (big retouching job) due to AI, when the client came back to me to fix the huge mess, it turned out the job had just been farmed out to India by the ‘AI’ company. They weren’t even using a recent Photoshop version so were actually using less ‘AI’ than any pro retoucher would.

Shooting weddings is uniquely draining, physically and mentally. 16 hours on your feet carrying weighty kit, putting your body in awkward positions to get the right angle, needing to stay hyper alert so you don’t miss the perfect shot, constantly thinking ahead, all with the added pressure to not fuck things up. I’ve done some really gruelling location work with even longer days but weddings are always the hardest.

I do retouching work. Recently lost a client to an ‘AI’ retouching firm. When the client came back to me to fix loads of stuff and I looked at the output, it became apparent that the work had actually just been outsourced to India and there was no magic AI solution.

Gen AI is an amazing tool but not a one click solution like so many are claiming.

Wildlife photography really is mostly about the equipment though. And waiting/being in the right place obviously. But I can tell you from experience, a novice can absolutely produce pictures like this with the right equipment.

Cheap phone from 2019 is better than medium format film wat?! Better than 35mm film?! I dont see it.

Yeah from my experience mothers-to-be assume they’re being asked to be induced as a standard procedure so the hospital can organise their schedule better. Not because of a particular medical necessity.

Maybe lemon tek method might help. Or just find some DMT or 2-CB, which have been by far the strongest visuals for me.

Isn’t going overdue super common and not necessarily anything to worry about, saying your baby WILL die if you go overdue seems wild to me.

My neighbour has this exact sticker on his Merc.

You can make them into patties and fry them up, surprisingly good.

Deflagration-to-detonation transitions are pretty cool but my all-time favorite would be acoustic strobes.

Add a Ligne Roset Togo orange sofa cluster and it’s perfect.

Just a heads up in case you haven’t updated firmware on your 980. I wasn’t aware of the problem and lost my c drive a few months back.

Hold up so theyre banning flippers and portapacks etc?

Drum of Swedish Ammonium Perchlorate.