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[–] 44 points 1 month ago (1 child)
  • [–] 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    One is a telephoto that’s not really on focus; the other is a crisp portriat. The original tweeter is just looking to stir up controversy where there already is plenty of things to talk about.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I'm all about the inherent weirdness of his disappearance.

    However, It's an attrocious shot with bad contrast, cropping and lighting and on another angles and expression. I still see more similarities than differences.

    This is seeking something there isn't

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Cloning is not yet perfect, and they only had three months to finish this one.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    The Pedo-in-Chief hates disabled people being in his presence so this isn't going to go over as well as the fuckhead Republicans think it will. He finds wheelchairs gross (which is funny coming from someone who looks like a sack of spoiled mayo and diarrhea).

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    Age and poor health is the difference.

    (Someone needs to answer seriously, because too many people fall for this shit.)

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    People don't seem to realize that camera lens and lighting can vastly change the color, depth, and shape of your image. Most of the time if you see some differences in between two pictures of the same person it's because they were taken with different lenses or under different lighting.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Some focal length comparisons:

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Technically focal length doesn't matter directly, only indirectly, because the phenomenon is almost entirely defined by the distance from the camera and the subject. If you have a 50mm lens and take the photo as far away as the 200mm lens, the person will look roughly the same when cropped down to the same apparent size (minus the loss of resolution from cropping and a smaller effective sensor size).

    If you slap on a 200mm lens on a camera within 2 meters of your subject, though, you might not be able to focus, and if you can you wouldn't be able to fit their entire face in frame.

    But that also means our eyes, with our fixed focal lengths, can experience the same thing, by just moving closer or further away from a subject. Our visual cortex automatically adjusts a lot of things, but get up close and see someone's ears or hair shrink in relative terms compared to their nose, or get far away and see their nose get back to a normal ratio to their eyes or ears.

    Side note, this is a big reason why I don't care for selfies. I don't like the distortion.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This is true, but not very helpful: the comparison is about varying focal length while keeping the share of the image occupied by the subject the same.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yes, but I bring it up for the specific example of using our own eyes to achieve this effect, rather than relying on a camera. We don't have a choice to change the focal length of our own eyes, or even crop the image, but the effect is still there.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    If that is him, he’s clearly brain dead.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    I think brain dead would require a ventilator since there would be no mental ability for basic functions to keep alive. It would be better to say seriously brain damaged, extremely diminished capacity or even the “ lights are on, nobody’s home” phrase you used later on. I hate to be pedantic but we thought he might be really brain dead the last 2-3 months when no one saw him.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I mean, dudes mouth was just hanging open. There’s no one home.

    They wheeled him to senate, but said video wasn’t allowed (gee I wonder why), and he didn’t vote.

    https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mvjjxfgswk2g

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Seriously... name any service that you would trust a man this age and in this condition to perform for you besides helping you find a book at your local library (and even that is a stretch). We have a terribly broken political system.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    It’s called make up Lisa. You should know this!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Embalming fluid works wonders at smoothing out wrinkles.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    It's not hard to find an old ass looking turtle mofo.

    It took the US government 3 months or whatever.

    I can sell you a better version for pennies on the dollar (but he won't behave like a worthless piece of shit, tho)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The Creature from Walter Reed!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    What about human taxidermy? What if he was taxidermied after his death, so his place can be uphold in the senate?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Why do Americans insist on having old, decrepit, decaying people as their leaders?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Why do we insist? Our propaganda seems to have worked on everyone, not just us.

    Our administration is more corrupt than the day is long, we didn't choose this, in spite of the rhetoric having been spewed the last many years.

    We were forced here, by design, over a long period of time. We're in the shitshow end game.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    This new Five Nights at Freddy's character is creepy AF.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Testing a humanoid Ai bot with a mask?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Its wild that IRL, he is now less well animated than he is in the Aamon video.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=TgO_CTtEC8w

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (4 children)

    Who moves like that? First eyes then head follows? I can't think of anyone other than the Terminator

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