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  • I didn’t say no one can leave the country, I said that it doesn’t allow people to escape. Obviously pre-approved people are going to be allowed to leave (more likely in the upper classes, no doubt). But I guess it’s on brand to change my words to slot into the strawman the US has built.

    Lying by omission is still lying. Even if everything to come out of the NK government is 100% true, it can still be dishonest if they cut away all the parts that make them look bad, and it is still propaganda. That is what comes of heavily controlled tours and journalism, not open bald-faced lies.

    I doubt any of the unredacted portions of the Epstein files are deliberately falsified, but you don’t see me saying that their release was an honest move.



  • westerners are famous for being fully aware

    it isn’t hard to point out western propaganda

    Pick one. I’m also sure the next thing you’re going to say is that you are fully aware.

    It sounds like you are saying that by pointing this out when it is happening it isn’t fair because the US is also bad, so their enemies also deserve to be called bad, even by the US, even when it is easily proven to be a lie?

    Not what I’m saying at all. The examples you gave are ridiculous and I’ve never heard anyone claim those. I’m talking basic shit like North Korea not allowing people to escape the country, and visits there being heavily chaperoned, so the only coverage is either directly from the North Korean government or from controlled journalism (or western propaganda). But I still see government “news” posted on hexbear and y’all treat it like 100% truth.

    But when it’s pointed out that “hey maybe the governments you look up to aren’t being totally honest either” we get shit like

    westerners are famous for being fully aware






  • Honestly, it doesn’t look like AI to me. Funnily enough I think it’s exactly what the other reply said and it’s just badly photoshopped text on an existing image. But I do think their reasons for thinking it’s real are pretty terrible, and I still think the things I listed are sus, as they don’t look like typical artifacting to me.

    In particular the detail on the ceiling in the background is quite clear and the spacing between the lights is consistent, and most other details seem to check out (the guy’s watch and clothes, people and stands in the background, veins on their hands, etc).

    As a whole I would say it looks a bit uncanny just because of their poses and facial expressions, plus the weird design of the sign.


  • From left to right:

    1. The pattern on the tie is nonsensical and quite noisy

    2. The edge of the sign above and below the man’s arm is discontinuous. It’s parallel but it “breaks”

    3. The man’s ring is constricting the fuck out of his finger, and is also slightly offset from the finger’s position and angle

    4. Same as 2 but horizontally





  • smoker@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldPC Master Race
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    3 months ago

    Ah yes, all the benefits of having the privilege to pay $10 a month to play online, only have enough storage space for like 5 games with no expansion options, barred access to the vast majority of games, and limited options for voice chat and input devices.

    But I guess if you’re like 12 and all you play is 2k/madden/fifa/maybe COD and your parents are paying for it then it’s probably fine.



  • smoker@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzFight me
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    4 months ago

    The heat isn’t transmitted via photons, it’s transmitted via convection. The air acts as a medium to transmit the heat energy outward. The heating element itself emits photons because it gets hot enough where the atoms within vibrate at a frequency which reaches the visible spectrum of light. That’s why cooler elements glow red (lower frequency) and hotter elements glow blue (higher frequency). Most of the heat energy is not contained in the photons, you need an output on the level of the sun to achieve that. With regards to the sun, all of the energy is carried by radiation anyway, because convective currents can’t travel in the vacuum of space.