This seems like a dangerous statement. See physiognomy.

As a professional classical musician… You’re painfully right. It’s a struggle to find work, increasingly. And the few professional ensembles that hold auditions get so many applicants that the enormous competition basically results in a succession of rejections eating away at your confidence year after year, even though I am by most definitions a “virtuoso”.

I actually tried to get a secondary subject for another instrument back at the conservatoire, but my main subject teacher nixed my application for it. Saying I had to concentrate all my attention to the instrument they were teaching me. The same teacher, by the way, also discouraged me from doing too much work next to the conservatoire study. Same reason. While having a network is basically the only way left to get work in this field anymore and your student years are the main period to do so.

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@Hatchepsut@piefed.social @zoloftt@lemmy.world Yup, that’s what’s happening here!

I like Mbin, though I’m still figuring out parts of it. It’s a sort weird hybrid of Mastodon and Lemmy and I’m not quite sure how the boosting and mentioning stuff works—that is, how they function. Do people need to follow me to see my boosts? Why does it @ people when I reply to them? Do I need to keep those for the OC to see my reply? But 🤷

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While Hegseth seems a piece of trash human in general, that’s at least genuinely a good move.

@schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works I was going to say—that may be true for pop music, but for classical music that just doesn’t work. You can’t be a top class violinist and also master another instrument, if you want any semblance of a social life left over.

@Hatchepsut@piefed.social I feel out of the loop. What is this referring to?

@foobaz@lemmy.world Love this!

That is… a very American assumption.

@Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio I don’t know what a smoker is, but I presume it… gives off smoke?

If said wife is asthmatic I can imagine how it could bother her. Smoke does seriously affect people with lung diseases.

Of course, that doesn’t give anyone the right to demand anything. But it may help understand where they’re coming from 🤷

@exdor@programming.dev Ah, yes, the actual filing of the report wasn’t the issue, it was seeing if a similar report already existed. Because if possible I always try to avoid more work for the developers!

@exdor@programming.dev Yeah… I was looking into that, but having a hard time navigating the bug tracker and seeing if someone else already reported it. Then I ran out of time and had to do something else 😅 Maybe I can try again soon.

Halloween isn’t a thing here (though commercials are certainly trying to make it a thing), so I’m spending the weekend doing mundane stuff. Working on some assignments, making dinner…

I don’t completely understand his rules, I think. He spent years in Mexico between stints? How’d he get back there? Where’d he leave his stuff?

Oh well.

The latest update broke the new/edit widget dialog for me 🙁

Ahhh, here I was thinking the partner of mom saw this message come in, grabbed her phone and sent this. Implicating that the sender had been somehow harrassing her before, or something.

Which didn’t make a whole lot of sense, but there you are.

You’re absolutely right! I forgot that for a second. Thanks, you’ve seriously given me some more positivity.

Of course, the issue is that the majority are the people who don’t care about politics and are easily swayed by whoever shouts the loudest. Apathy is the biggest opponent of a healthy society, I suppose.

Really!? Wow, I had given up on that, somehow. That’s amazing.

A delay of what feels like the inevitable rise of fascism, but hopefully that’s not the case!

Is that quoted part meant to be a better title? Because I’d say that’s way too long.

That’s a slow way to fill a bird bath… Must be nice enough there to want to take your time.

Definitely with you there. But then all religions are cults.