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[–] [email protected] 157 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That guy’s vote is getting counted. Is yours?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Yes, but thanks to the electoral college it doesn't mean much. State hasn't gone red since 88, and we're on the higher side of population:EC ratio.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Depends on how much fuckery my state will undergo.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who was buddies with Epstein? Not Biden.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

dude has more pictures with Epstein than I have with my brother

[–] [email protected] 58 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine that year for a story headlined “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Trump tells it like it is"

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

c/conservative over there making fun of beta males in an ad.

The alphas:

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (6 children)

Does anyone actually care if they are called a "beta male"? It's such an incel insult... And it's used by very prominent Republicans on TV.

It's kind of hilarious. Like, tell me your an incel without telling me you're an incell, Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

And a lot of the people they call 'beta males' are probably having a more active sex life than they are. I'm as unmanly as you get- I don't like sports, I'm not into action movies or guns or knives or anything related to those things, people being loud and raucous make me highly anxious, I'm into all sorts of esoteric stuff when it comes to music and TV and film, I love nerd discussions and I cry when I'm sad. I may possibly even "cry liberal tears" in their worldview.

And yet I've also been happily married for over 24 years.

So I guess I'm cool with being a beta male.

Edit: I forgot to add that I don't like beer in my list of 'ways I'm a beta male.'

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago

Conservatism is a mental disease.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

More projection. Better hide his tag.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Someone hates the bureau of land management.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

And garden tools. Seems like they just hate land in all forms.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Really into this, but is the license plate bluriness due to JPEG compression or AI? Genuine question

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

On another post where a web comic showed similar artifacts, I also asked the same question - and concluded that the comic's resolution was "enhanced", either by the phone itself (when they saved it from their source) or by a (re)poster. So I think that here it's the same thing - AI """enhancement""".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Is this an Android thing?

Context: Am iOS user taking photos in RAW and sometimes ProRes

Edit: Maybe instead of downvoting you could explain how wrong I am. I’ve never seen this outside AI so I’m genuinely asking where these photos are coming from.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

That doesn't make sense, RAW is a file format and has nothing to do with AI enhancement. Also, RAW files are not uploadable to websites (they are, but they would look shitty), RAW is a file format that allows a greater range of adjustments at a later point for professionals (like using Lightroom).

ProRes is apparently (I googled it) a VIDEO format.

There might be phones that have shitty AI resolution enhancement built into their camera app, but most likely that's not the case here. This image just went through an AI upscaler, which is a website or an app that works on Android and iOS, but it has nothing to do with the vendor

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

From what I recall, Apple has a "pseudo" RAW format called ProRAW that isn't really RAW but just has less processing.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Compression. I saw very similar "smoothing" on a zoomed in photo I took recently at home as the city sign in the background shows.

Edit: these are a bunch of turkeys that were about 50 feet away but once I zoomed into the picture the texture seemed really off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This looks like an oil painting I'd see at an AirBnB cabin

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

It's kind of both. A lot of modern Samsung phones do this really weird "AI Enhancement" shit to improve the look of zoomed in shots. I remember testing it out at Best Buy, taking pictures of some Blu-rays on the other side of the store with the 20x zoom option. The original photo was pretty much what you'd expect, it looked like a low-res super cropped pic, but then it applied the "AI Enhancement" and did it's best to fill in the text and price labels, and wound up looking exactly like a bunch of garbled AI text.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah let's ignore the fact the other guy is a rapist and wanted to fuck his daughter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

And was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

I really think its great how stupid people these days advertise the fact so you know to avoid them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What a fucking mental midget.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

From a purely practical perspective, why would you want to reduce your back window visibility in such a way anyways?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Seems that it would be better to spend the money on fixing his taillight instead of a custom sticker.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

They love their little acronyms and anagrams it's quite weird. Also "numerlogy" aka summing and dividing the alphabetical values of words to conveniently make it spell 666 or w.e other codes they have

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't really like the phrase "this is their whole identity". Really is just uncharitable to any person for being passionate about something.

By the same logic just as many people could be uncharitably described as "being queer is their whole identity", just because they are very vocal about it.

Disregarding that: What an absolute weirdo.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Their mind simply is too small for thinking.

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