#modeling fees

[zebrastudio79]

Discover the inside scoop on modeling techniques at Zebra Studio, the best modeling academy in Kolkata

 Are you aspiring to carve a successful path in the world of modeling right here in Kolkata? Look no further than Zebra Studio, the premier Modelling Academy in the city. Boasting state-of-the-art facilities and seasoned instructors, we take pride in offering top-notch Modeling Classes in Kolkata designed to catapult your modeling career to new heights. Our academy is committed to equipping aspiring models with the essential skills and techniques needed to thrive in the industry. Read on to discover what distinguishes Zebra Studio as the go-to choice among modeling schools in Kolkata.

The Exceptional Training Programmes at Zebra Studio

Zebra Studio proudly holds the distinction of being the premier institute for aspiring models in Kolkata. Our outstanding training programs are meticulously crafted to furnish aspiring models with the essential skills and techniques required for success in the industry. With competitive modeling course fees, our experienced professionals are dedicated to providing personalized attention and guidance to each student. At Zebra Studio, we take pride in our position as the foremost modeling institute in Kolkata, committed to delivering the highest quality training for aspiring models.

The Team of Experienced Professionals at Zebra Studio

Zebra Studio boasts a team of seasoned professionals who take immense pride in delivering top-notch training to aspiring models. Our instructors bring years of industry experience to the table and are genuinely passionate about nurturing the success of our students. Recognized as the premier institute for aspiring models in Kolkata, we provide competitive modeling course fees without compromising on the quality of our training. When you choose to be a part of Zebra Studio, you can be confident that you are gaining expertise from industry experts at the forefront of the modeling scene in Kolkata.

Zebra Studio's Customized Approach to Model Training

Zebra Studio recognizes that every aspiring model possesses distinct goals and aspirations. This acknowledgment fuels our pride in adopting a customized approach to model training. As the premier institute for aspiring models in Kolkata, we specialize in tailoring our courses to align with each student's individual needs and preferences. Whether your focus is on mastering catwalk techniques or refining your posing skills, our experienced professionals are dedicated to providing personalized guidance and support. Additionally, our competitive modeling course fees ensure that you can access top-quality training without exceeding your budget. Join Zebra Studio, the forefront modeling institute in Kolkata, and commence your journey toward success with confidence.

Opportunities for International Exposure at Zebra Studio

Zebra Studio stands out by not only delivering high-caliber training to aspiring models in Kolkata but also by presenting avenues for international exposure. Leveraging our extensive network of industry connections, we facilitate opportunities for our students to connect with renowned international modeling agencies and events. This strategic exposure creates pathways to international modeling contracts, offering aspiring models the prospect to showcase their talent on a global stage. At Zebra Studio, our commitment is to empower our students with every opportunity for success, whether it be in the local scene or on the international stage.

The Inspirational Success Stories from Zebra Studio

Zebra Studio proudly boasts a multitude of success stories that stand as compelling inspiration for aspiring models. Our students have traversed remarkable paths in the industry, securing prestigious modeling contracts and gracing the runways of high-profile fashion shows. They've been prominently featured in esteemed magazines and collaborated with renowned designers. These success narratives serve as living proof that with the appropriate training and guidance, anyone can transform their aspirations of becoming a successful model into reality. Choose to be a part of Zebra Studio, and let your success story become the next celebrated chapter in our legacy.

The Vibrant Modelling Community at Zebra Studio

Zebra Studio has cultivated a vibrant and supportive modeling community where individuals from diverse backgrounds converge with a shared passion for the industry, fostering a dynamic and inspiring atmosphere. Through collaborative projects, engaging fashion shows, and networking events, our students have invaluable opportunities to connect with like-minded individuals, forging lifelong friendships. Embrace the sense of camaraderie at Zebra Studio and immerse yourself in a community of aspiring models who will uplift and motivate you on your journey to success.

The Ethical Practices at Zebra Studio

Zebra Studio is unwavering in its commitment to maintaining the utmost ethical standards within the modeling industry. Our paramount focus is on the well-being and safety of our models, ensuring they receive respect and professionalism consistently. We have stringent policies in place against discrimination, harassment, and exploitation, dedicating ourselves to cultivating a positive and inclusive environment for everyone involved. By becoming a part of Zebra Studio, you can have confidence that you are affiliated with a modeling academy that places a premium on integrity and ethics above all else.

[ghostzzy]

paralegal school ethics class be like

question: should this lawyer break the law or not break the law

my answer: i think he should not break the law because the law says he shouldn't

professor feedback: well. yes. but tell me about legal fees and mediation and cite the specific model rule. 80%

[sopuu]

What do you use to animate? Also do you use premium medibang?

i used to use adobe animate but my licence expired recently so i’m looking to try toon boom/sb pro!

and i just use regular medibang (i didn’t even know premium was a thing??)

[keitheaverage]

Did I miss something in the fine print or did T*rget somehow prematurely cancel my yearly Sh!pt membership after I didn't auto-subscribe to Circle 360 after the free trial??? I got a post-membership survey email two days ago and when I checked the service website it said I didn't have the membership anymore. I haven't even had it for a full calendar year and it's screwing me over so bad.

I know I'm aging when I start making impassioned posts/rants about my grocery store shopping habits, but with groceries here being expensive enough as is, the last thing I want rn is for it to become segmented and complicated like how streaming services are now: where I have to buy all the parts separately instead of getting all the exact same stuff bundled together for a reasonable price.

[thepictoblr]

why would u pay to go to a concert when u can just listen to music for free on ur electronics, this economy shit is easy yall are dumb as fuck

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"it has an LCD and an app!" that will be so fun in 7 years when everything still works except the dead screen and the abandoned software.

"smart appliances" fuck u i want them dumb as a brick and incidentally as sturdy and enduring

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[sketchonista]

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[doodlemancy]

Hey, so, Patreon is lying to you about Apple forcing their hand.

Patreon is getting rid of 1st-of-the-month/per-creation billing, claiming a new decision by Apple has forced their hand. This will hurt a lot of creatives, and their excuse is bullshit. Allow me to explain.

In 2018, Patreon tried to impose a new ill-considered fee structure on everyone that would have cost creators a lot of smaller pledges. They ended up apologizing for this profusely; they have now deleted this apology from their website and unfortunately I was unable to find it on the Internet Archive. This was shameful, but to their credit they backed off quickly when things got ugly.

Back in 2021, Patreon discussed plans to force all creators into a rolling bill structure and get rid of first-of-the-month/pay-up-front billing. The community once again very decisively shouted them down, and they had to walk it back again. This whole fiasco damaged the already shaky trust between Patreon creators and staff.

This week, Patreon announced that, along with extra fees, Apple's policies were supposedly forcing them to move everyone over to the rolling fee structure that they first tried to get us to agree to in 2021. Patreon will tell you they are not happy about this. As a person who spent a long time watching Patreon make terrible decisions, I can tell you-- they are probably very happy about this, because it's exactly the smokescreen they needed to do what they've been trying to do for years, which is pull ALL Patreon creators away from 1st-of-the-month and per-creation billing.

The spin in the news I've seen so far is "Apple bullies Patreon, boo hoo hoo poor Patreon". This is very obviously not what's happening. Mind you: Apple does suck, and they are doing something bad here. Fuck apple. But Patreon and Apple are BOTH the asshole in this situation; Everyone Sucks Here. Patreon has options: they can make the iOS app a reader app and do billing through the browser to avoid the restrictions and the extra fees (Netflix and Amazon, notably, both do this), or they can allow creators to opt-out of iOS billing if they want to use billing models that don't work with it.

It seems most likely to me that the Apple situation is a real fire that Patreon has chosen to use as a convenient smokescreen to do what they've been wanting to do since at least 2021, and maybe since 2018.

What do we do?:

They have a feedback form specifically about this.

They also have a creator discord.

And they have lots of social media pages where they probably really, really hope that this doesn't blow up again, because they never learn. The incidents I've described here aren't the only two other times Patreon has pissed off their creators. They know if they don't contain the noise it'll be harder to get away with it, so make some noise. They've done a lot of work to spin this cleverly so you'll have sympathy for them and they won't get the kind of backlash they know they deserve.

Please don't misuse these links and make threats or spam or something. All you have to do is give well-reasoned feedback. Patreon hates feedback. Make sure they get a nice heaping helping of their least favorite vegetable.

[mantomhive]

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[theviridianbunny-moved]

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Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs

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A lawsuit filed in February accuses Tesla of remotely altering odometer values on failure-prone cars, in a bid to push these lemons beyond the 50,000 mile warranty limit:

https://www.thestreet.com/automotive/tesla-accused-of-using-sneaky-tactic-to-dodge-car-repairs

The suit was filed by a California driver who bought a used Tesla with 36,772 miles on it. The car's suspension kept failing, necessitating multiple servicings, and that was when the plaintiff noticed that the odometer readings for his identical daily drive were going up by ever-larger increments. This wasn't exactly subtle: he was driving 20 miles per day, but the odometer was clocking 72.35 miles/day. Still, how many of us monitor our daily odometer readings?

In short order, his car's odometer had rolled over the 50k mark and Tesla informed him that they would no longer perform warranty service on his lemon. Right after this happened, the new mileage clocked by his odometer returned to normal. This isn't the only Tesla owner who's noticed this behavior: Tesla subreddits are full of similar complaints:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1ca92nk/is_tesla_inflating_odometer_to_show_more_range/

This isn't Tesla's first dieselgate scandal. In the summer of 2023, the company was caught lying to drivers about its cars' range:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

Drivers noticed that they were getting far fewer miles out of their batteries than Tesla had advertised. Naturally, they contacted the company for service on their faulty cars. Tesla then set up an entire fake service operation in Nevada that these calls would be diverted to, called the "diversion team." Drivers with range complaints were put through to the "diverters" who would claim to run "remote diagnostics" on their cars and then assure them the cars were fine. They even installed a special xylophone in the diversion team office that diverters would ring every time they successfully deceived a driver.

These customers were then put in an invisible Tesla service jail. Their Tesla apps were silently altered so that they could no longer book service for their cars for any reason – instead, they'd have to leave a message and wait several days for a callback. The diversion center racked up 2,000 calls/week and diverters were under strict instructions to keep calls under five minutes. Eventually, these diverters were told that they should stop actually performing remote diagnostics on the cars of callers – instead, they'd just pretend to have run the diagnostics and claim no problems were found (so if your car had a potentially dangerous fault, they would falsely claim that it was safe to drive).

Most modern cars have some kind of internet connection, but Tesla goes much further. By design, its cars receive "over-the-air" updates, including updates that are adverse to drivers' interests. For example, if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee that entitles you to use your battery's whole charge, Tesla will send a wireless internet command to your car to restrict your driving to only half of your battery's charge.

This means that your Tesla is designed to follow instructions that you don't want it to follow, and, by design, those instructions can fundamentally alter your car's operating characteristics. For example, if you miss a payment on your Tesla, it can lock its doors and immobilize itself, then, when the repo man arrives, it will honk its horn, flash its lights, back out of its parking spot, and unlock itself so that it can be driven away:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

Some of the ways that your Tesla can be wirelessly downgraded (like disabling your battery) are disclosed at the time of purchase. Others (like locking you out and summoning a repo man) are secret. But whether disclosed or secret, both kinds of downgrade depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a computer that you own, that is in your possession, can be relied upon to follow orders from the internet even when you don't want it to. This is weird enough when we're talking about a set-top box that won't let you record a TV show – but when we're talking about a computer that you put your body into and race down the road at 80mph inside of, it's frankly terrifying.

Obviously, most people would prefer to have the final say over how their computers work. I mean, maybe you trust the manufacturer's instructions and give your computer blanket permission to obey them, but if the manufacturer (or a hacker pretending to be the manufacturer, or a government who is issuing orders to the manufacturer) starts to do things that are harmful to you (or just piss you off), you want to be able to say to your computer, "OK, from now on, you take orders from me, not them."

In a state of nature, this is how computers work. To make a computer ignore its owner in favor of internet randos, the manufacturer has to build in a bunch of software countermeasures to stop you from reconfiguring or installing software of your choosing on it. And sure, that software might be able to withstand the attempts of normies like you and me to bypass it, but given that we'd all rather have the final say over how our computers work, someone is gonna figure out how to get around that software. I mean, show me a 10-foot fence and I'll show you an 11-foot ladder, right?

To stop that from happening, Congress passed the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Despite the word "copyright" appearing in the name of the law, it's not really about defending copyright, it's about defending business models. Under Section 1201 of the DMCA, helping someone bypass a software lock is a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine (for a first offense). That's true whether or not any copyright infringement takes place.

So if you want to modify your Tesla – say, to prevent the company from cheating your odometer – you have to get around a software lock, and that's a felony. Indeed, if any manufacturer puts a software lock on its product, then any changes that require disabling or bypassing that lock become illegal. That's why you can't just buy reliable third-party printer ink – reverse-engineering the "is this an original HP ink cartridge?" program is a literal crime, even though using non-HP ink in your printer is absolutely not a copyright violation. Jay Freeman calls this effect "felony contempt of business model."

Thus we arrive at this juncture, where every time you use a product or device or service, it might behave in a way that is totally unlike the last time you used it. This is true whether you own, lease or merely interact with a product. The changes can be obvious, or they can be subtle to the point of invisibility. And while manufacturers can confine their "updates" to things that make the product better (for example, patching security vulnerabilities), there's nothing to stop them from using this uninspectable, non-countermandable veto over your devices' functionality to do things that harm you – like fucking with your odometer.

Or, you know, bricking your car. The defunct EV maker Fisker – who boasted that it made "software-based cars" – went bankrupt last year and bricked the entire fleet of unsold cars:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/10/software-based-car/#based

I call this ability to modify the underlying functionality of a product or service for every user, every time they use it, "twiddling," and it's a major contributor to enshittification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

Enshittification's observable symptoms follow a predictable pattern: first, a company makes things good for its users, while finding ways to lock them in. Then, once it knows the users can't easily leave, the company makes things worse for end-users in order to deliver value to business customers. Once these businesses are locked in, the company siphons value away from them, too, until the product or service is a pile of shit, that we still can't leave:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/#franklinite

Twiddling is key to enshittification: it's the method by which value is shifted from end-users to business customers, and from business customers to the platform. Twiddling is the "switch" in enshittification's series of minute, continuous bait-and-switches. The fact that DMCA 1201 makes it a crime to investigate systems with digital locks makes the modern computerized device a twiddler's playground. Sure, a driver might claim that their odometer is showing bad readings, but they can't dump their car's software and identify the code that is changing the odometer.

This is what I mean by "demon-haunted computers": a computer is "demon-haunted" if it is designed to detect when it is under scrutiny, and, when it senses a hostile observer, it changes its behavior to the innocuous, publicly claimed factory defaults:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/18/descartes-delenda-est/#self-destruct-sequence-initiated

But as soon as the observer goes away, the computer returns to its nefarious ways. This is exactly what happened with Dieselgate, when VW used software that detected the test-suite run by government emissions inspectors, and changed the engine's characteristics when it was under their observation. But once the car was back on the road, it once again began emitting toxic gas at levels that killed killed dozens of people and sickened thousands more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/upshot/how-many-deaths-did-volkswagens-deception-cause-in-us.html

Cars are among the most demon-haunted products we use on a daily basis. They are designed from the chassis up to do things that are harmful to their owners, from stealing our location data so it can be sold to data-brokers, to immobilizing themselves if you miss a payment, to downgrading themselves if you stop paying for a "subscription," to ratting out your driving habits to your insurer:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

These are the "legitimate" ways that cars are computers that ignore their owners' orders in favor of instructions they get from the internet. But once a manufacturer arrogates that power to itself, it is confronted with a tempting smorgasbord of enshittificatory gambits to defraud you, control you, and gaslight you. Now, perhaps you could wield this power wisely, because you are in possession of the normal human ration of moral consideration for others, to say nothing of a sense of shame and a sense of honor.

But while corporations are (legally) people, they are decidedly not human. They are artificial lifeforms, "intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic" (as HG Wells said of the marauding aliens in War of the Worlds):

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/#a-superior-moral-justification-for-selfishness

These alien invaders are busily xenoforming the planet, rendering it unfit for human habitation. Laws that ban reverse-engineering are a devastating weapon that corporations get to use in their bid to subjugate and devour the human race.

The US isn't the only country with a law like Section 1201 of the DMCA. Over the past 25 years, the US Trade Representative has arm-twisted nearly every country in the world into passing laws that are nearly identical to America's own disastrous DMCA. Why did countries agree to pass these laws? Well, because they had to, or the US would impose tariffs on them:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/03/friedmanite/#oil-crisis-two-point-oh

The Trump tariffs change everything, including this thing. There is no reason for America's (former) trading partners to continue to enforce the laws it passed to protect Big Tech's right to twiddle their citizens. That goes double for Tesla: rather than merely complaining about Musk's Nazi salutes, countries targeted by the regime he serves could retaliate against him, in a devastating fashion. By abolishing their anticircuvmention laws, countries around the world would legalize jailbreaking Teslas, allowing mechanics to unlock all the subscription features and software upgrades for every Tesla driver, as well as offering their own software mods. Not only would this tank Tesla stock and force Musk to pay back the loans he collateralized with his shares (loans he used to buy Twitter and the US predidency), it would also abolish sleazy gimmicks like hacking drivers' odometers to get out of paying for warranty service:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite

Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Model_S_Indoors.jpg

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

[ecl1pse]

so thankful to my dad for once upon time dating a future dentist in high school so we never have to pay for basic dental insurance 🙏