Phone cameras tend to ramp up the saturation.

It gives the photo a more vibrant look, which many people prefer, at the expense of color accuracy.

But generally with artistic photography, you’re going more for a style than for accuracy, so I wouldn’t say it’s always a bad thing (though sometimes it is).

Tell me you’ve never worked on a farm without telling me that you’ve never worked on a farm.

The thumbnail photo is extreme, yes. But white farm workers still get sunburns.

In this example I would have committed both crimes.

It’s copyright infringement for me to republish and profit from your work without your consent (while that work is not in the public domain).

It’s plagiarism for me to pass that work off as my own.

So it was a bad example.

Let’s say you write a novel. It’s really really good. But no one reads it because no one ever hears about it.

Later, I stumble upon your novel and recognize how great it is. Then I republish it verbatim, except with my name as the author. I am much better at business and marketing than you, so it goes viral. I receive millions in sales, am tapped to produce a movie version, and win a Pulitzer for it.

Is that fair? Or should you have some rights in all of this since it was your copy?

Or surveillance.

It’s all “privacy, privacy, privacy” when it comes to private companies. But the EU themselves wants all of that data to create a surveillance state.

Not that the US government doesn’t pull the same shit, but it does feel less hypocritical when they do it, because they’re not even pretending to be concerned with privacy.

As an American looking in, Corbyn has always been the face of UK’s Labour Party.

Why was he ousted? The article says something about an antisemitism statement, but surely that’s not the whole of it.

I think we can Weekend at Bernie’s him until he passes. Then we get Kamala, which is not bad.

I think a lot of the federal government can run on its own as long as there are competent people in the cabinet.

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I’m visiting with the fam for the 4th. My grandparents keep CNN on 24/7.

CNN has been running “Biden should step down” as their main lead, all week. Every show has at least one segment on it.

They’re saying stuff like “70% of democrat voters think he is not fit” or something like that (dunno what their polling data and methodology are though.)

I expect that these 24/7 news networks can apply a lot of pressure to drive a story like this.

Edit: I may have misquoted those polls. Which I think shows how bad CNN’s reporting is. They just said something very different came out of a Reuter’s poll.

Great photo. Actually, is this a photo?

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With a headline like that, I thought he died…

It’s honestly wild that the core feature of Bartender (hiding icons in the menu bar) isn’t builtin to macOS.

When they’re publishing papers about your cesspool in Science, you know you done fucked up.

That seems to contradict the article:

Special prosecutor Kari T. Morissey argued that “the actor has responsibility for the firearms once it is in their hands.”

The prosecutor is explicitly arguing that he has responsibility because he was holding the gun.

The number of electoral votes and the number of reps is based on population and is decided by the census.

So if this happens, at the latest, the votes would get fixed in 2031. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this is part of the deal. Obviously those switching to Idaho want to bring their votes with them.

We are sooo not members of the ICC.

Like, the US has a law on the books allowing the president to unilaterally order an invasion of the Netherlands if the ICC tries to prosecute an American.

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I think my current lowest is 17%

I was about to say “damn that’s high,” but then I realized I didn’t know what my lowest was. Turns out it’s 27%.

So yeah. I’m glad I never leave a balance.

Now I’m curious.

Are you saying that there are more LGBTQ+ people than there are non-white people?

I’m curious because I would have expected the opposite, but I don’t actually have any numbers to back that up. What percent of people identify as LGBTQ+? And is it uniform across races?