This post made me listen to Four. No post has ever made me listen to the Barenaked Ladies.

I like it. With the current rise of popularized fascist politics and extreme polarization, I feel like anything that leans toward nuance rather than essentialism is probably a good thing. The change to species also makes it a lot less awkward listening to D&D players talk about the game without saying things that come off as incredibly racist to anyone who doesn’t know the context.

I did find a video, but it’s from a different angle and is itself suspicious. I edited it into the last reply.

You’ve got that backward.

https://sports.inquirer.net/367910/trump-tees-it-up-with-hall-of-fame-golfers-player-sorenstam

https://sports.inquirer.net/files/2019/09/trump-golf.jpeg

This is the 2019 image. It’s even in the url.

I managed to find a video from a different angle that Fox released, but you can’t really see his face. When he stops to talk, someone moves directly between his face and the camera, which then focuses on her face while zooming, and she stays still until he moves again. When half of his head is visible above the car, the camera doesn’t refocus and you can’t really make his face out, so it literally could just be anyone.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/president-trump-spotted-leaving-golf-213841602.html

Not to say it certainly isn’t him, but it’s not exactly substantial proof.

Imagine portraying Homelander judging anything as an argument for agreeing with him.

To be fair, the proportions on the Suburban with the plate ending on 002 are weirdly different. Look at the distance between the recess where the plate goes and the tail light. There’s also some weirdness with the top of he hatch. It could be something to do with the angle (or a different model of Suburban), but it could also easily be an image generator’s shitty job of trying to maintain a source image and losing the proportions.

Obviously that’s not any kind of certainty, but I’d be interested to see the source video that the more recent image was taken from.

Actually, there’s a lot of weirdness with this image. Where’s the Suburban’s tailpipe? Why is the “Suburban” text in the second SUV straight-on rather than at an angle? Did the stairs move? What’s going on with the lady in front with knees at two different heights? Why does the guy next to her look like he intentionally twisted up his pant legs as much as possible? Whose head is that poking up from behind it looking like they’re standing behind an object with no depth whatsoever? What’s with the inverted and blurred reflection of the guy standing behind the first SUV in the same pose as the first image? Why does the guy standing next to Trump have his hand cupped behind his back like he’s doing sleight of hand? Why is the Chevy logo on the front car smaller and not centered over the license plate?

Maybe it’s just a case of looking at an image for AI generation markers and finding a bunch of things that are actually more normal than they seem, but it certainly does make me wonder.

If that’s meant to be the DNC, okay.

If that’s meant to be people who made an argument for coalition politics and not straight up forfeiting an election to the worst presidential candidate anyone could find lying around to stuff into a diaper and a suit and put behind a podium… that’s not really the same thing.

Gavin Newsom is not, at the moment, running for president. He’s not sitting opposite some extreme right-winger serving as a disappointing but necessary defensive line between us and things getting much worse. He’s an asshole who happens to be a Democrat and is the current governor of a state where he’s actively making things worse. He, like Harris, would clearly be leaning toward the right to try to win center votes.

The reasonable strategic move to make for anyone who wants the government in the US to shift to the left is to make it clear that while his humiliating Trump is useful, he is not a viable candidate. Supporting him now would be backing a lame horse that’s literally still in the stable during a time where we should be finding the healthiest, fastest horse we possibly can. That is not the same as if he were in an election right now and were the only way to prevent a Trump from getting into office.

I’m trans. I hope Newsom falls off a cliff. But if he had been running against Trump instead of Harris I would have held my nose and checked the box, because strategy isn’t about throwing a fit until you get the scenario you want, it’s about doing what you can with the hand you’ve got.

Right now what we can do is toss his ass away and draw another card from the deck before we end up being forced to play him.

I mean, I pay for Nebula but honestly I don’t even use it most of the time. The content is pretty limited, even if I do like a lot of it. I still end up on Youtube instead, just because that’s where everyone posts.

There probably is some sort of middle-ground to be found. Maybe a niche website that takes certain kind of content and an audience specifically geared toward it, or one that’s more community-oriented and takes steps to weed out the huge amount of AI content that’s on Youtube at this point. I haven’t really seen that actually work, yet, though. Maybe something like a Nebula or a Dropout but with better access for the average user who wants to post their own content would be a decent solution.

I haven’t really seen Peertube do that, though.

To be fair, when it comes to youtube the engagement on alternatives doesn’t exactly seem very robust. Somebody linked a peertube the other day saying it was a great one with a lot of content, and the vast majority of videos I saw on the front page had 0 views, with a handful having views in the single digits. That’s not really a viable alternative for a site with hundreds of millions of potential viewers.

You can use 0patch to continue to get security updates.

That ICQ icon though.

Those must be about McCain before his presidential run.

We’ve been together for a long time…

But picture this: not being together.

I challenge you to find me a circular fry made from potato.

Where the hell are the Cajun fries?

8, 5, 4, 2, 1, 7, 3, 6

Adding Cajun seasoning to 4, 2, 1, or 7 would raise it above the other 3 and make me unsure about whether to raise it above 5.

For real. Imagine not turning out to vote and then being shocked that nobody goes out of their way to cater their platform to you.

This is me. Literally any time a day I could be just getting up or just going to sleep or in the middle of my day or in the middle of my sleep.

I hear pancaked!

Trains not planes is a much more reasonable and practical way to get people behind building more railways than planes not cars. We can talk planes not cars once some of the initial infrastructure is in place, but I think focusing on replacing something people hate (flying) rather than replacing something they like (driving) is probably a good place to start.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the context of the image. Are you agreeing with the people in the image or saying they’re in denial by acting as though ICE should be held to the law?