What about the photographic society judges who describe one photo after another as "nice", or worse still, "quite nice". Many of them are near, or over, retirement age and should have a much wider vocabulary.

No. I have no issue with that. Indeed I have done it myself, albeit from another photo of the same person.

There are clearly grey areas. Many Hoggers' photos I see have had the colours enriched and look totally false. They may like that, but they should declare what they have done. If they don't they risk all other work they exhibit not being fully believed.

The simple question to ask is whether that photo fairly represents that group of people/scene/animal/ insect/bird etc. If it doesn't I believe the photographer should explain that it has been manipulated to a level that now makes it art rather than factual photography.

AI just takes this whole concern to a much higher level.

What is your final image? Is it what you saw and what was actually there when you squeezed the shutter button?
Photography is the art of CAPTURING an image. Art is about CREATING an image.
Presenting a photo that is not real is dishonest and fake.

It's great for parents with young children. All our young granddaughters have it in their bedrooms. You put them to bed, turn on the machine, and leave the room. They are asleep almost immediately and they don't hear any adult/dog noises around the houses. Brilliant.

I always wear flightsocks for long haul flights. 20 years ago it was highly recommended but that advice seems to have gone quiet in the UK. The tightness of the socks is meant to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis.

https://www.healthline.com/health/compression-socks-for-flying

Adobe transferred to a subscription system because 90%+ of amateur users were using illegal copies. In the UK you could pay £600+ for the Adobe suite plus £150 every year or two for updates. £10pm, plus regular online checking of their software, brought the illegal users back inline and ensured that Adobe were properly rewarded for their products.

I never fail to be amazed that large numbers of Hoggers moan about paying a modest £$10 per month for their hobby. How much did you spend on film pre digital? What does all your kit cost and how much duplication do you have? Cut out the GAS and pay for good software. Yes you may prefer Adobe competitors but where else can you get the quality and depth of Adobe CC regularly updated at no extra charge?

Finally do you wish to master your hobby and enjoy the rewards of your hard work and expertise or do you wish to claim the credit
for what some AI programme has created?

Interesting to read your comments on British cars. It has been very sad to see so many brands either disappear or be bought out by foreign competitors. The power of the unions in the 60s and 70s bore much of the blame with constant strikes and resistance to any change.
Talking about the Rootes Group my father had Hillman Minxes and then in 1968, when I was starting to drive, Rootes won the London to Sydney Rally in a Hillman Hunter crewed by Andrew Cowan, Colin Malkin and Brian Coyle. That started me on my driving passion.
I had Hillman Imps, and Avengers, a Sunbeam Imp Sport and then Chrysler Alpines, and a Talbot Horizon before Peugeot bought them all out. Currently I’ve got a Peugeot 508SW which I love.
Back in the days when you could, the answer was to do your own servicing and keep the cars away from the dealers. Torquing down the head always needed great care, even on a steel block, but idiot mechanics got the Imps a dreadful reputation by twisting their aluminium block and head by not tightening down slowly and evenly. Total idiots. You then got cylinder head gaskets blowing. Water pumps could also be an issue.
When cared for properly however I would always have chosen an Imp over a Mini.
If any of you are visiting the UK, I would strongly recommend booking a tour of The Morgan Factory. It's brilliant to see them still manufacturing each car by hand. They are based in Malvern, which is very central in England, just an hour's drive from Stratford-upon-Avon.
On brand numbers our JD Power annual quality survey still covers 24 volume brands and there must be another 8/10 that are too low volume to get an adequate sized sample to make the survey reliable. One near constant is that BMW comes bottom and Audi just 1/2 positions better. Shows the power of marketing, particularly when targeting status orientated customers who either don't study reliability or don't care because they are company cars. There must be another survey due soon as during Covid they didn't happen, I assume because new registrations fell so much.
Fond memories of days tinkering with cars. Now with all the electronics and sensors you have to leave it to the much improved dealerships. To be honest, the days of me wanting to lie underneath the car struggling to undo bolts etc. are long gone.

Lots of good advice already. I use a Canon 5D Mk3, generally with my 24-105L lens,for normal landscape, portraiture etc. (16-35L when I need wide angle) and a Canon 70D with my 70-300L for wildlife, distant landscape etc. I tend to carry both, effectively giving me the equivalent of 24-480mm without changing lenses.
I am thinking of updating the EOS 70D to a Mirrorless EOS R7 where the cost would, for me, yield more benefit for BIF etc. For landscape, which is my preferred subject matter, I don't currently feel the cost of updating the 5D Mk3 to the R5 would be worthwhile, as great as it may be.

Lots of varied advice here. Personally I always set up the camera to expose for the windows and then bounced flash off the ceiling to balance the interior. Lots of UK estate agents don't bother about the windows but to me the view is an important element in choosing a property.

Easy to correct in post processing.

A different issue but I recently had a problem with my 10 year old 9500 Mk2. Apparently they ceased producing spares in 2017 and had now run out of stock. By way of compensation they offered me 20% discount on my replacement imagePROGRAF 300.

I did real estate photography for 11 years after I retired from my main career.
I used a full frame body with a 12-24mm zoom. If you squeeze into the corner of a room 14mm will allow you to get in the whole room except for the corner you're standing in. Elevation also minimises the amount of straightening the verticals needed in post processing. On a cropped sensor you'll struggle to get a rectilinear lens to equal this. As far as I know 10mm is the widest available so 15/16mm equivalent, dependant on body brand.

Sorry to contradict you but the Canon Pixma Pro 200 uses dye ink. It is the ImagePROGRAF Pro 300 which uses pigment. I have the latter and would recommend it although it does use small cartridges. Those in the 1000 are much bigger. I actually refill using OctoInkjet inks in the UK.

Yes the built in GPS is fantastic with live updates covering traffic conditions, accidents etc. However the car's cameras also read the road signs so it's hard to be sure what comes from the GPS and what's from the cameras.

Interesting to hear your comment on cornering lights. In the UK a lot of modern cars have them, including mine and my wife's. They work off the steering rather than the indicators which Longshadow has mentioned.