xkcd.com/695/

It does sociopathic promises to do better and apologies *so* well though.

Snorkelling in the Outer Hebrides - no photos though! Great shot.

They don't need to from a business point of view; the products sell themselves. They can get more favourable conditions, but it's marginal gains. Highly polluting industries 'must' push against regulation to stay in business; the payback from preventing or slowing change is potentially existential.

A bot doesn't care if you block them so I fear the time spent is not actually helping clean-up the wider ecosystem sadly. I do tend to assume all social media sites stating active users are over-estimating by *at least* 30%. I'd like them to do more but suspect it is an under-resoucred arms race.

Also, many of your photos are of Scotland - which has excellent tourist footfall. People might not think 'I want a classic print from Scotland' in the abstract - they might well do though while visiting and sitting in a coffee shop or going to a local craft store or gallery and seeing something.

I think this is good advice for market numbers. The market for cards and calenders is bigger (if less valuable). I know people who buy/gift these every year. I know very few people with photographic prints. (I have some myself but they are my photos - not great but remind me of mountains visited).

Possibly 'the Ancient of Days'? I wouldn't have thought of it but as soon as I read your comment, that's what I thought of.

Shards of Honor in the Vorkosigan series for this purpose perhaps? (Also generally, that one and Barrayar are my absolute favourites in the series)