Yggstyle @ yggstyle @lemmy.world

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So am I.

preface: next bit will be cold and kind of awful but probable... It doesn't thrill me but again, reality likely won't (shouldn't) surprise anyone.

The event will be out of the public eye and forgotten for the next new hot tragedy that social media is pushing. Assuming schools allow any form of protests at all by then - a new wave of kids will be all grown up and looking to make their mark on society... Our current events will be, at best, a footnote reference.

For example: what ever did happen to those Uyghurs...? (~10 years ago)

For a change to happen it would need to be happening now. For it to be meaningful: it would require other countries to physically step in to do something about it. They aren't. Yes the American government is providing basically satan with a blank check and infinite ammo (I've not checked to see if he said thank you.) But those shipments aren't being teleported there. Other countries could absolutely act to stop this... but it would require becoming involved. (see my "just don't want trouble" statement above)

In the end: it's probable that Israel will succeed in effectively wiping out a large swath of the population and we will see yet another generation of children who will seek retribution through acts of terror ... and feel justified in doing so. The cycle continues.

It is unthinkable what is going on there. It's unthinkable what has occurred in past genocide's. It's uncomfortable and ugly and painful. So we tuck it away as something bad which we acknowledge... but only just enough to differentiate ourselves from 'those monsters' and let the moment pass. Do we deeply document our own wrongdoings and painful memories? Do we teach and discuss how to prevent such terrible things? Rarely. Because it's uncomfortable. And so history repeats.

... th ... the Palestinians man.

I can't imagine someone finding out their government killed thousands of people just being okay with that.

Unfortunately, this is reality... and reality kinda sucks.

Pick a country. They probably participated in a genocide at some point. Here's a question: if your country willingly participated in the elimination of a group of people ... you going to be in a hurry to try to stop them?

Very few people do.

Reality is most will avoid the conflict as it doesn't directly effect them ... and "they don't want any trouble." You needn't look far or very hard to find out how quickly being a dissenting voice can become collateral damage.

Now I need to be clear: I'm not saying fall in line and keep your head down... but I'm also not so foolish as to think that history will fondly remember the names of those who didn't.

You seem confused. In 10 to 20 years those who might be questioned about such an event will have only, at best, a passing knowledge of Palestine or any other Middle Eastern historical events. It won't be taught in schools. Those who seek out such historical knowledge will find a scarce few sources... with likely either deeply softened facts or "non credible" origins.

You'd be hard pressed to find an American student today that could detail much, if any, history involving the native Americans who happen to still exist and continue to live amongst them. History is written, in blood, by the victor... and unfortunately: genocide's "feature" is that it typically eliminates the wronged party who would draw attention to its existence.

Anyone know how to turn the US off and on again to verify we can roll back? I wanna say we might have some corrupted sectors...

I have this questionable material for use in my honey traps.

Calling player 2....

Dispatched spiritually. Much faster and the angels don't cost our government a dime! Check mate socialists!

Initially I did as well - but we are fast approaching a point where simply ignoring this further will be unacceptable.

I feel that sometime soon we may be called to do more than be a voice of reason. Americans are being tested right now. Will you quietly look away because you fear discomfort as your freedoms are stripped away? As your neighbors are assailed?

I'm not fond of the sting of teargas and pepper spray... but it's probably about time to develop a taste for it again. Find a group, know your community, and stop hiding.

Oh, and if you see a Nazi? Punch it.

All threats. Foreign and domestic.

Scared? The journalists shouldn't be. They'll never have to write about it.

Every major news organization is owned by a small handful of people playing for the same team. Internet exposure? Maybe for a few minutes before your site is delisted/deranked and/or taken down by a barrage of nonsense DCMA takedown notices that are effective immediately (with no evidence) but to reverse them you need to painstakingly disprove each: to both your provider and the claimant.

Time to accept that we're juuuust at the tipping point of freedom of speech and expression. Slip a bit more and we're sliding right into an identical situation as seen in China, North Korea, and Russia. Remind me... who does the head apricot idolize? Neat.

No, see it's like a chameleon: it's for blending into their surroundings. Their natural habitat is most likely... uh ... a faux leather seat from the 60s? Or some old slightly off color wood paneling. Get them in their hunting ground and all you will see is a telltale shimmer against the backdrop...

Tragically we have a dried apricot ceding power to the highest bidder. There isn't much for other countries to do directly unless they are paying for "sock puppet time" or getting in a pissing match with a clown that makes a juggalo look smart.

This is more about controlling (collateral) damage: in this case megacorps "kissing the ring" via stupid shit like Google is doing presently. Countries can fuck with corporations far easier than we can (guess who paid for sock puppet time...)

Google is clearly attempting to make themselves more "saleable" to the ruling party by dropping things like month names or renaming universally accepted names of global features. Right now their -baseline- is where we are at currently. A lawsuit does next to nothing. It's an operating cost. A country threatening to blacklist their service will hit them cleanly in the only thing that matters: their shareholders. Our biggest corporations have time and again rolled over for this tactic. They may have elevated themselves to a godlike status within the states but they are vulnerable outside our shores.

Don't sue- just threaten to block some of googles services in your country and they'll come around real quick. Hit em where it hurts. Google isn't hurting for lawyers.

Sure. There are absolutely people in that photo who have a normal skin tone. If the saturation were being brutally jacked up to make RFK look orange then they too would be off color completely (most likely beet red.) The point I was getting at is this doesn't take much modification (even to fairly benign levels like my example shows) to land him firmly in the topic's question.

Yes - the observation is being made because it's funny; but if we're being honest - the pictures don't really need all that much assistance to make OPs point, though.

I touched on this above but did a very quick modification on mobile and only adjusted black levels. Not warmth, hue, saturation etc. The man is, unquestionably, of the "fake tan / orange" variety - and the woman, while more "natural," is effectively leather. I left our head dried apricot in charge out of the picture because he is easily the worst one in the image. The painting is catching some bad light - but it's still a bit too washed out regardless.

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Black levels eyeballed:

While I won't disagree that someone upped the saturation on the above photo slightly - and slightly is the key here: it easily could have been auto corrected to that level on a simple photo editor automatically. I wouldn't be comfortable with malice being the underlying reason for what appears to be an attempt to make the photo look less washed out - which your example appears to be.

The problem is a lot of these people are positively off of an actual human color. Spray / fake tan or years of sun exposure and subsequent damage. Take your pick. Either way: correcting color without intentionally distorting the spectrum to make them look 'normal' is not kind to most of the people in the original photo... and not drastically far off from what it appears to be.

Disclaimer: I'm not looking at this at the office where I have a display that has been properly calibrated - but I'm reasonably certain of my assessment.

It might be worth looking into what the affected serial # range is. From what I've seen / read (anecdotal) batteries are under the most stress when fast charging: you could reduce risk using lower wattage chargers in all likelihood... but I'd definitely explore all your options.

This is purely conjecture on my part but if I were a gambling man I'd say that this is an attempt to insulate a potential issue with a bad batch of cells. A bad battery charge that forces you onto another phone is probably better than a repeat of the Samsung battery issue. In essence it's a sneaky recall without the bad press.

I can't really come up with another reason that they'd be doing that.

...That are built into the generation pipeline in a way that pads numbers instead of augmenting real frames. It's dogshit.

40 series Nvidia was still humoring the raster crowd. 50 they are literally providing tools to tell you what your "real" frame rate should be. It's the same thing companies got burned at the stake for gaming benchmarks. This is what happens when you don't have enough competition. The industry leader starts selling bullshit quality dives off a cliff.