The problem is 100% crappy people. However, there are things you can do photographically to "help". If you're willing to spend the time to learn the "art" of photography, there are tricks to enhancing some aspects while playing down others.

For example, wide-angle lenses will distort faces in unappealing ways. For 35mm cameras, 70mm is the recommended lens for portraits for that reason. There are secrets to posing, lighting and dress that help make more flattering pictures.

Tailors have to (used to?) deal with similar problems with people. There are tricks to make a suit more flattering for a person, but there are no perfect solutions.

If you want to keep taking pictures professionally, you'll probably want to learn how to dress, pose and light people for the most flattering effect. You'll also want to take social training to learn how to use spoken and body language to help sway/calm/reassure people. You might also find an assistant who is really good socially do to the posing. That will let you stay behind the camera and focus on the technical aspects, if that is the part that appeals to you.

The Bookseller.com makes it hard for me to empathize when I need to “Register to read for free”.

I’m tired of having to surrender my time, effort and personal information to read someone else’s propagandas. If you want me to read your propaganda, you can at least pay for it.

This isn’t even the first time someone went to the hospital with an explosive round stuck in their asshole.

Just wait until OP figures out that all of us humans are just tubes!

Replace "dig a hole" with "live in mom's basement" and this describes another common species as well.

Sam Altman is a CEO. What you've written is his job description. Hype the stock, take the fall. Only in his case, the "fall" will be to having to cry himself to sleep on top of millions of dollars each night.

He's not going to be charged with a crime because this is how American big business operates these days. He doing the task he was hired for. If anyone threatened him, 10,000 "millionaire defenders" will pour out of their trailers and blame Obama instead.

Did they ever fix the phantom braking issue? I haven't used their "cruise control" (Autopilot) for years because I'm tired of it randomly deciding to come to a complete stop in the middle of the interstate. Damned if I'm going to pay for it.

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Good news everyone! The US Northeast will have record low gas prices... all we have to do now is to figure out how to keep the region's air temperature above 70F year-round!

He even cowrote a book with Gene Kim called Vibe Coding. Well, I say “wrote” — they used a chatbot for “draft generation and draft ranking”. They vibed the book text.

So how does one “vibe code” a book? Input a prompt and the LLM expands it into a book using statistically likely words?

Why not save everyone the trouble and just publish the “vibe code” prompt?

When people post

BoThSiDeSaReThEsAmE!!!

This is what they’re referring to.