It’s a catchy name and it was among the first examples of the effect in the internet era that amplified the effect many fold. There is no reason for me to know about Streisand’s house and there is no reason for me to know about this painting. I have only know about them because the internet exists.
Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian....
I never understood those. It’s always camera trickery and mirrors. At least with the stage performances there are real people in the room with a full field of vision.
When he says camera trickery he means that he doesn’t edit anything. when I say camera trickery I mean that the camera must be at a certain angle for the trick to work. If he has a mirror for example and the camera moves a step to the right, the mirror is suddenly not aligned properly to my field of view and the illusion doesn’t work.
The hobbits in Lord of the Rings is an excellent example. Nothing is edited in the shots but it relies on a very specific focal length in the camera and carefully planned forced perspective. It’s impressive and a technical feat but it not “magic” like card tricks are magic.
On the sexual assault thing. There are more cases of prison guards sexually assaulting and raping prisoners than there are trans people. There are more cases of female prisoners assaulting other female prisoners than trans women assaulting female prisoners. The regularity of rape in mens prisons are so laughably common that its become a cultural cornerstone.
Trans women might rape other women in jail, yes. Rape is a problem, but if you definitely want to ensure that rape will occur you put the trans women in mens prisons.
JK Rowling and the TERF Brigade does not care about rape in prisons. They care about trans women and want them to be raped or murdered in mens prisons. Pretending that they want anything else is dishonest.
The pieces of corn in the pile of shit is technically still food but we flush it all the same.
If we treat rape as a general problem in prisons we will solve the trans women problem as a side effect because will have made the prison a safer space for everyone. Singling out trans women rapes as a unique and unnatural problem is just bigotry and we don’t accept bigoted framings of other societal problems.
Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
Yes, It would be less mental because I am suggesting that the person doesn’t necessarily mean it literally. You see sometime people say things that isn’t true for dramatic effect.
In announcing changes to the school lunches programme, David Seymour said kids would no longer be served ‘woke’ foods. To clear up any confusion, The Spinoff has compiled a guide to the wokeness levels of some common food items.
This might sound like a criticism but I promise that its not. I really like how the wings are just behind the angel no matter how the rings are oriented. They work like the halo that is always behind the persons head no matter how they turn their head.
I also like that it’s a chain rather than the normal ball off rings. It feels original.
Their target audience are the most gullible tech evangelists in the world that think AI is magic. If there was a limit to the lies those people are willing to believe, they wouldn’t be buying the thing to begin with.
The biggest problem with growing a beard is that it only looks good after a certain amount of time. When people grow beards it’s usually when they are on vacation because it is nice not having to shave and you dont have to look professional with a crazy half grown beard.
A couple of years ago the word took an extended vacation and a lot of people took the opportunity to grow a beard.
And it doesn’t answer all questions about the object. Why is the object polyhedral if you only use one side to do the knitting. If it’s a mundane item, why did they make it stupidly complex when a simpler shape would do. It also ignores why the wholes are different sizes when the size of the holes doesn’t affect the knitting.
It took them decades to thoroughly and methodically rule out other explanations to make sure their initial estimation is accurate.
Archeologists are highly educated professionals that spends a lot of time and effort into research. I don’t know why you want to portray them as bumbling idiots that make shit up when they dont know.
They dont put 101 years old in their database they write in 1923.
When they made the booking program they had such limited memory for their computer that they just stored 23 and removed the 19.
The assumption was that the companies would continually update and redo their systems to fix this flaw as computers got more powerful.
Turns out that late stage capitalism is unable to make the small investments to keep up with infrastructure improvements so here we are with planes that fall apart and booking systems running on floppy disks.
They would say that at this stage. They are still working on getting the law overturned by courts and threat of shutdown mobilizes people against the law in a way that selling it wouldn’t.
When the time comes to shut down they will probably do some paper work fuckery that technically makes it an Irish company but doesn’t change the people in the company.
Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition (www.cnn.com)
Magician David Copperfield Accused of Grooming, Groping, and Drugging Women (www.rollingstone.com)
Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian....
Billionaire hasn't heard of Streisand effect (www.betootaadvocate.com)
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JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Switzerland’s Nemo is first nonbinary singer to win Eurovision Song Contest (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
A definitive list of woke and non-woke foods (thespinoff.co.nz)
In announcing changes to the school lunches programme, David Seymour said kids would no longer be served ‘woke’ foods. To clear up any confusion, The Spinoff has compiled a guide to the wokeness levels of some common food items.
Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’ (www.huffpost.com)
“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” the president told CNN’s Erin Burnett....
Cabin [OC] (lemmy.world)
Minolta Hi-Matic AF2 | Kodak Ultramax 400
I love biblically accurate angels, so I drew a wounded angel! (OC) (lemm.ee)
Had to upload this in .jpg form because Lemm.ee kept saying it’s too large, I hope the quality isn’t eaten too much!...
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)
Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play....
Trump Media: Donald Trump just got another $1.8 billion worth of stock | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Why are many men growing beards again ? (lemmy.ml)
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling (www.pcgamer.com)
Internet Horrified at AI App for Cloning Dead Family Members (futurism.com)
Mystery of ancient Roman dodecahedron baffling experts as it goes on display in UK (www.independent.co.uk)
A mysterious Roman object unearthed in an amateur dig has baffled experts as it goes on display in Britain for the first time....
American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby (www.bbc.com)
A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby because of an error with an airline’s booking system....
ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)