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[OC] Carrion crow (corrected, was Rook).

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There's rooks, crows and jackdaws around here, and it gets pretty easy to tell them apart. Rooks are slightly bigger than crows and have a thicker, bigger beak (often with the lighter bit near the head). Jackdaws are slightly smaller than crows, and they have this silver-grey top and back of the head

Anyway, I'm pretty sure I shot a took, here. I'll see if I can confirm with a colleague, who is a massive birder, but I'm already pretty confident.

Edit: my confidence was, alas, unfounded, my photo was of a carrion crow.

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business is business

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No, "AI" can't "take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional". It can maybe make it look less shit, to an untrained eye.

Getting decent shots taken by someone who knows what they're doing (regardless of gear, even) is absolutely not the same thing. And that's before you get to all the environmental and ethics issues around it, so it certainly isn't "free".

I mean, you do you, and if auto-tweaked snapshots serve your purpose, more power to you. But don't think for a second that you've made a photographer superfluous. You weren't her (or any photographer's) target group to begin with.

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Hot potato, marriage edition

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She puts money in trust to retire well and make sure her daughter is well taken care of.

If 260M isn't going to let you and the rest of your family retire in absolute comfort, you have some really expensive hobbies. That's a ridiculous amount of money.

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I have this one, too! Well, actually, I have two of them, as I also wanted one on my desk at work.

I have the shrimp in an office chair, too. Twice.