u/zaxo666

We've devolved into fortune cookie wisdom.

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Lots of cheap, zero education needed psychology in here.

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I don't see anything *"dark"* about r/DarkPsychology101

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I'm not sure what the moderators are up to, but there is certainly a place on Reddit for basic psychology. Not here.

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As a community we should be policing this sub so we get the good information from dark/manipulative psychology, not the motivational poster type psychology.

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Capiche?

I bought the first two books from Audible, and I'll buy a few more. However, as you know it's expensive to complete this series.

Besides Amazon, where else could I find these audiobooks? Feel free to PM me.

Maybe this belongs in r/nostupidquestions , but I've got a brand new 50mm lens that goes on to my f-mount so damn rough. I've got an ancient 300mm that slides right on, an 85mm that goes on like butter, I got a 35mm that feels like I'm grating metal together.

Why is this??

Why do these lenses fluctuate in terms of how they twist onto the body?

Mind you, these are all Nikon proprietary lenses, not third party.

This is a first for me - walking out.

I don't normally eat fast food, but I wasn't able to get breakfast this morning so I hit a McDonald's.

I ordered two Egg McMuffins, not the meals, just the sandwiches and was charged US $12.

Of course I didn't pay *that*...that's stupid money.

I did the math based upon my salary and that would be 22.69% of my hourly wage.

So McDonald's wants nearly a quarter of my hourly wage for what used to be, *and granted I don't come here often*, what I thought was a $3 sandwich.

I was prepared to pay about $6 or 11% of my hourly wage. That's sorta reasonable for fast food (for me, results will vary).

Anyway I canceled my order...after all I'm hungry not stupid.

But I'm still hungry. So I look at their cheaper food items and there's no eggs in any of their offerings! No good source of protein.

It's all dry looking sausage and biscuit, and some pasty looking burrito thing.

I didn't order anything, but as I'm leaving I take a look around at the folks sitting at McDonald's... *I'm not making judgments against pensioners or day laborers*, though I feel like I probably make better money, six figures, then folks eating there. I suddenly felt very concerned about the state of the economy.

I know that's quite an epiphany for an early Sunday morning, not where I thought my brain was going...but several factors colliding at once opened my eyes.

I've never walked out of a restaurant before.

Not my first choice, but I went to a gas-food station nearby and bought two hard-boiled eggs, a croissant and a coffee for $3.50. I'm sure I got better calories/energy for my dollar.

My takeaway and my complaint, please for the love of God stop giving these companies money, they hate us and they think we're stupid...and they're right.

Folks are paying for this...and I don't think many folks can really afford it, their target audience certainly can't. (And their broad target audience isn't soccer moms or happy athletes shown in their commercials).

Edit: What the hell type of sub is this? Why are so many folks defending inflation in here? And why is there such a high level of snarkiness?

Like HAL from Stanley Kubrick's *2001: A Space Odyssey* I'd like to find a book with that vibe.

A murderous AI would be a fun read as long as it's a quality book, that said any dark AI personalities or a meddling AI, something like that.

To expand on that something like the *Murderbot* series would work too, but without the comedy. (I do love Murderbot). An android working on humans who goes bad sounds like fun.

Thanks for any recommendations, gang

​I’m looking for opinions.

I’ve spent decades in the industry, from the film and news trenches to high-end ad campaigns, modeling and magazine work... however I’ve hit a solid brick wall. And it won't move.

I can’t bring myself to edit anymore.

It’s reached the point where I don’t even want to power up the workstation. I get anxious if there are photos on my memory cards (it means I still have to do editing).

My training was built on shooting SOOC and trusting my eye. I never needed "post" back then... I used my brain to get the shot, and the clients were happy. I got paid.

Then digital changed the game, and while the Adobe era was exciting at first, the novelty wore off.

So am I actually losing anything vital by ditching RAW and going back to my SOOC roots?

This past month I've powered up my older Nikons and tested .jpg results on some digital and mirrorless bodies. I used my home studio, backyard and folks who like me for testing out various lighting, shadows and highlights, WB, color science, gradients...

To my absolute surprise, my older DSLRs shoot great .jpgs, especially the D750 and to a lesser degree the D850, the D780 is good too. *(The D600 is actually the most pleasing output, but with the best glass available I can't make that thing shoot handheld in low light - consistently. So it's out).*

Unfortunately, my newish Z8 looks like crap as a .jpg outputter and the Z6iii isn't much better... I'm not testing film, I have work to do.

So now my other conundrum is I'm looking at going backwards technologically in other areas as well, camera bodies. Namely DSLRs. (If the shit hits the fan I know those D-bodies will give me professional output immediately).

Has anyone done this, and I don't mean as a hobby. I mean have you made the jump with paying clients, ad agencies and such?

I know clients can't tell the difference between DSLR and mirrorless, but that's because post-processing mostly cleans it all up the same.

To avoid ever having to edit again with the exception of cropping, is this doable?

Can I show up on Monday to a product shoot with my D750 or D850, some strobes and other gear and just shoot .jpgs as proofs?

I could have them back to the client in an hour. And I could probably raise my rates with that type of turnaround time.

I could just hand my clients the memory card. I'd use a dual slot body to keep a card of .jpegs for myself and the client can keep the other card, and I can just fuck off away until they need me again.

Is this crazy though? Am I losing it? I'm good at SOOC, I've just never considered it professionally, at least not since the news days, but that's a different animal.

All in all, I really don't want to sit down in front of a computer anymore, I mean deeply in my soul I'm done with computer time. I just need to know if I'm killing my career along the way...

One of the founders of Google who used to be a liberal is now part of the MAGA movement, many other billionaires too.

Why?

What changed with the Trump administration this time around? It's not just tech bros either, it's the Wall Street and media types too.